I’m an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor with passion for non-fiction films and video, short or long form.
My current film, Requiem for a River tells the stories of the people and communities along the iconic Rio Grande as they cope with the issues of our times; climate change, environmental exploitation, indigenous rights, water rights, the future of agriculture and border and immigration issues. It is currently in production and will be released in March 2021.
Previous work includes the Ford Foundation funded Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS (2017) co-produced and directed by Harriet Hirshorn. It screened throughout the North America, Europe and Africa, including Hot Docs (Toronto – 2018), DocNYC (New York – 2017), Atlanta International Film Festival (2018), Cleveland International Film Festival (2018), the International AIDS Conference (Durban, South Africa – 2017 and Amsterdam (2018) and Afravih (Bordeaux, France 2018.)
The documentary, Vieques: Worth Every Bit of Struggle, (2005) aired on WGBY Public TV, Russia Today TV, Link TV and won Best Documentary at the New Vision Award and Grand Prize, Ljubljana Biennial, Puerto Rico group exhibit.
The Most Unknowable Thing (2000) was selected as part of The New Documentaries series at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. It was nominated for a International Documentary Association Achievement Award and was awarded Outstanding Documentary Feature in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Washington DC lesbian and gay film festivals.
My collaborations include Abigail Child (Acts and Intermissions, Shape of Error, On the Downlow and Surf and Turf), Soledad O’Brien and SOB Productions (Revisiting Haiti and Heroin, USA), Tania Cypriano (Grandma Has a Video Camera), Diller + Scofidio, Asia Society, 651/Brooklyn Academy of Music, Vanguard Films, Univision, University of Massachusetts and USAID.
I am a longtime instructor at the School of Visual Arts in the MFA Photo, Video and Related Media Department, and a two-time recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.