Month: January 2008

INDEPENDENT LENS | Banished | PBS

I produced this trailer for “Banished” for the nationally televised series Independent Lens on PBS, which is produced by the Independent Television Service (ITVS). From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American communities, forcing thousands of black families to flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain mostly white.…

INDEPENDENT LENS | Mapping Stem Cell Research Terra Incognita

I produced this trailer for “Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita” for the nationally televised series Independent Lens on PBS, which is produced by the Independent Television Service (ITVS). Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to stem cell research when his daughter is paralyzed from the waist down. MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: Terra Incognita brings the…

INDEPENDENT LENS | Iron Ladies Of Liberia | PBS

I produced this trailer for Iron Ladies of Liberia for the nationally televised series Independent Lens on PBS, which is produced by the Independent Television Service (ITVS). With unprecedented access, this intimate documentary goes behind the scenes with Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, president of Liberia. The film explores the challenges facing the new president…