FILMOGRAPHY
Over the years I have been privileged to have participated in the production of a variety of films and videos made for an array of clients and audiences. The budgets have ranged from near zero to millions but every project received my full energy and creativity. Here are some examples.
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Documentaries
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Here. Us. Now.
(Promotional Trailer)
Mr. K
(Promotional Trailer)
Imagine It!
(Promotional Trailer)
A quick peek into the feature length documentary I directed for the Kauffman Foundation entitled, "Here. Us. Now."
This is one of my favorite projects and not just because I won an Emmy for my work. It was truly a privilege to have had the opportunity to direct this feature-length documentary. I was able to tell a fabulous story, work with a wonderful client, crew and cast, spend time in Kansas City, travel around the US and film the President in the White House.
A film school professor once told me, "Every film is an experimental film. It's never been done before." Well, this self-funded documentary proved to be just that, an experiment. The project was our contribution to the Kauffman Foundation's "E-Week" which celebrated entrepreneurship across the US and in this case, around the world. Working closely with Stanford University, we interviewed a number of Silicon Valley's luminaries and followed students as they set out to complete their challenge of creating value form a simple package of post-it notes. Sounds crazy but the results are amazing. The one-hour film premiered a year later at Stanford to a full house of 1200 people and marks the beginning of my continuing journey to create an online educational video thought library designed to inspire creativity, imagination and hope for humanity's future.
Here. Us. Now.
(Promotional Trailer)
A quick peek into the feature length documentary I directed for the Kauffman Foundation entitled, "Here. Us. Now."
Mr. K
(Promotional Trailer)
This is one of my favorite projects and not just because I won an Emmy for my work. It was truly a privilege to have had the opportunity to direct this feature-length documentary. I was able to tell a fabulous story, work with a wonderful client, crew and cast, spend time in Kansas City, travel around the US and film the President in the White House.
Imagine It!
(Promotional Trailer)
A film school professor once told me, "Every film is an experimental film. It's never been done before." Well, this self-funded documentary proved to be just that, an experiment. The project was our contribution to the Kauffman Foundation's "E-Week" which celebrated entrepreneurship across the US and in this case, around the world. Working closely with Stanford University, we interviewed a number of Silicon Valley's luminaries and followed students as they set out to complete their challenge of creating value form a simple package of post-it notes. Sounds crazy but the results are amazing. The one-hour film premiered a year later at Stanford to a full house of 1200 people and marks the beginning of my continuing journey to create an online educational video thought library designed to inspire creativity, imagination and hope for humanity's future.
Imagine it2: Grand Challenges
(Promotional Trailer)
For Love of Liberty
(Excerpt, Show Open)
The New Testament
(Promotional Trailer)
With the success of the first "imagine it!" film, we ventured to make a bigger, better film. The goal of this second film was to promote the importance of including imagination and creativity in education as it applies not just to the arts but to STEM education as well. We like to think it's exponentially better so it's not Imagine It "2", it's Imagine It "squared". Like the first Imagine it! film, this film was self-funded and was created in part to continue building the Imagine It Video Thought Library. We traveled across the country gathering scores of interviews with scholars, inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, futurists, authors, astronauts, entertainers and other brilliant and insightful people to continue our mission to inspire people to "imagine the world a better place, and then engage in making that happen".
I co-produced this epic documentary that we spent 10 years making. That's a long time but it's a story that is well worth telling and it won Best Documentary at the 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards. This clip is the introduction to the film.
My business partner and I funded, directed, and produced the research, development and interviews for this epic project. The film unfortunately was never completed but we made one heck of a trailer.
Imagine it2: Grand Challenges
(Promotional Trailer)
With the success of the first "imagine it!" film, we ventured to make a bigger, better film. The goal of this second film was to promote the importance of including imagination and creativity in education as it applies not just to the arts but to STEM education as well. We like to think it's exponentially better so it's not Imagine It "2", it's Imagine It "squared". Like the first Imagine it! film, this film was self-funded and was created in part to continue building the Imagine It Video Thought Library. We traveled across the country gathering scores of interviews with scholars, inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, futurists, authors, astronauts, entertainers and other brilliant and insightful people to continue our mission to inspire people to "imagine the world a better place, and then engage in making that happen".
For Love of Liberty
(Excerpt, Show Open)
I co-produced this epic documentary that we spent 10 years making. That's a long time but it's a story that is well worth telling and it won Best Documentary at the 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards. This clip is the introduction to the film.
The New Testament
(Promotional Trailer)
My business partner and I funded, directed, and produced the research, development and interviews for this epic project. The film unfortunately was never completed but we made one heck of a trailer.
In search of Dr Seuss
(Promotional Trailer)
CBS: The First 50 Years
(Excerpt, Show Open)
The Warner Bros. Story: 75 Years of Laughter
(Show Open)
This film was nominated for 7 Emmys and I'm proud to say I worked on it from beginning to end as I served as the production manager, assistant director and post production supervisor. We built ever last set, prop and costume from scratch and it was lots of fun having the opportunity to work with so many celebs on a project of this magnitude.
This film was produced for and aired on CBS in celebration of the first fifty years of the Tiffany Network. I was one of the producers of the show.
While we didn’t work on this project from the beginning, my company was hired to complete production of this film. The project had some issues and so TNT hired us to re-write and edit as well as shoot Billy Crystal as the host of the film.
In search of Dr Seuss
(Promotional Trailer)
This film was nominated for 7 Emmys and I'm proud to say I worked on it from beginning to end as I served as the production manager, assistant director and post production supervisor. We built ever last set, prop and costume from scratch and it was lots of fun having the opportunity to work with so many celebs on a project of this magnitude.
CBS: The First 50 Years
(Excerpt, Show Open)
This film was produced for and aired on CBS in celebration of the first fifty years of the Tiffany Network. I was one of the producers of the show.
The Warner Bros. Story: 75 Years of Laughter
(Show Open)
While we didn’t work on this project from the beginning, my company was hired to complete production of this film. The project had some issues and so TNT hired us to re-write and edit as well as shoot Billy Crystal as the host of the film.
MGM: When The Lion Roars
(Show Open)
Sex, Censorship & the Silver Screen
(Excerpt, Show Open)
Playboy 2000 - The Party Continues
(Excerpt, Show Open)
This is the first documentary I ever worked on. I began as the film researcher and then served as Assistant Director on the host shoot with Patrick Stewart. The producer of the film taught me how to produce, as I went on to work with her on “In Search of Dr. Seuss” two years later. The film’s Director, Frank Martin ultimately ended up as my business partner at Eleventh Day Entertainment.
This 6 x 1 hr documentary mini-series was created for Showtime to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the cinema. Some things never change as the battle between art, commerce and the law began with the very first screening of a film which was an innocent shot of two people kissing. This film was my company’s first production and my first producer credit.
My company produced this feature documentary for the Playboy Channel as a celebration of one of the 20th Century's most iconic brands at a time when they are about to enter an entire new millennium.
MGM: When The Lion Roars
(Show Open)
This is the first documentary I ever worked on. I began as the film researcher and then served as Assistant Director on the host shoot with Patrick Stewart. The producer of the film taught me how to produce, as I went on to work with her on “In Search of Dr. Seuss” two years later. The film’s Director, Frank Martin ultimately ended up as my business partner at Eleventh Day Entertainment.
Sex, Censorship & the Silver Screen
(Excerpt, Show Open)
This 6 x 1 hr documentary mini-series was created for Showtime to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the cinema. Some things never change as the battle between art, commerce and the law began with the very first screening of a film which was an innocent shot of two people kissing. This film was my company’s first production and my first producer credit.
Playboy 2000 - The Party Continues
(Excerpt, Show Open)
My company produced this feature documentary for the Playboy Channel as a celebration of one of the 20th Century's most iconic brands at a time when they are about to enter an entire new millennium.
Eleventh Day Entertainment Documentary Demo Reel
(Promotional Trailer)
This documentary film clip compilation was created as a pitch reel for my company, Eleventh Day Entertainment. The films contained in this assembly were either written, directed, produced, and/or supervised by my then business partner Frank Martin and/or myself. Collectively they represent twenty+ million dollars of production and span the history of America and the entertainment industry.
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COMMERCIALS
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Eleventh Day Entertainment Documentary Demo Reel
(Promotional Trailer)
Goldwin Golf,
Guilty
(Commercial)
Got2B, Attitude
(Commercial)
Comedy is fun. I had a great time directing this spot... and I even got to work with Billy casper, a professional golfer I grew up watching on TV with my Grandpa.
I always say a commercial isn't 30 seconds, it's 900 frames...and this one proves it. This spot was different from any other I had ever directed. It involved scoring and pre-recording music, a choreographer, lots of dancing, attitude, compositing and even more hair products. We spent two long weeks building these 900 frames for air on MTV but I think it was worth it.
It was too much fun to have an entire city block, thousands of feet of 35mm film, a water truck, lights, crew, a camera and let's not forget... a pretty woman to shoot until the sun comes up.
COMMERCIALS
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Eleventh Day Entertainment Documentary Demo Reel
(Promotional Trailer)
Comedy is fun. I had a great time directing this spot... and I even got to work with Billy casper, a professional golfer I grew up watching on TV with my Grandpa.
Goldwin Golf,
Guilty
(Commercial)
I always say a commercial isn't 30 seconds, it's 900 frames...and this one proves it. This spot was different from any other I had ever directed. It involved scoring and pre-recording music, a choreographer, lots of dancing, attitude, compositing and even more hair products. We spent two long weeks building these 900 frames for air on MTV but I think it was worth it.
Got2B, Attitude
(Commercial)
It was too much fun to have an entire city block, thousands of feet of 35mm film, a water truck, lights, crew, a camera and let's not forget... a pretty woman to shoot until the sun comes up.
Citre Shine, Reflections
(Commercial)
Hergesheimer Motorports, We Need to Talk
(Commercial)
Citre Shine,Bottle
(Commercial)
Who has ever heard of shooting a spot for the price of lunch? Well we did it here. I designed, directed, shot, and edited this one all by myself. From hanging out the back of a pickup truck with camera in hand to making a Porsche go 150 mph on a a couple of jack-stands in a parking lot, we did it. I even got my Hitchcock cameo in this one. Porsches are always fun and hey, trade out is a good thing.
This spot was done in the age of animated gas pumps and other computer animated inanimate objects doing all kinds of crazy things. So when my client came to us with a next to nothing budget... we decided to give them a commercial that did just that...next to nothing. (In fact it did absolutely nothing, but the client made us add some text graphics). That said, I think it's pretty funny and it's amazing what you can do with a single photograph and a voiceover. And, it worked well as a contrast to the big budget animated spots of the day.
When making PSA's there's never any money but always plenty of heart. We shot this one in a friend's garage on 16mm film and used my own son to close the spot. It's always fun to see him that young.
Citre Shine, Reflections
(Commercial)
Who has ever heard of shooting a spot for the price of lunch? Well we did it here. I designed, directed, shot, and edited this one all by myself. From hanging out the back of a pickup truck with camera in hand to making a Porsche go 150 mph on a a couple of jack-stands in a parking lot, we did it. I even got my Hitchcock cameo in this one. Porsches are always fun and hey, trade out is a good thing.
Hergesheimer Motorports, We Need to Talk
(Commercial)
This spot was done in the age of animated gas pumps and other computer animated inanimate objects doing all kinds of crazy things. So when my client came to us with a next to nothing budget... we decided to give them a commercial that did just that...next to nothing. (In fact it did absolutely nothing, but the client made us add some text graphics). That said, I think it's pretty funny and it's amazing what you can do with a single photograph and a voiceover. And, it worked well as a contrast to the big budget animated spots of the day.
Citre Shine,Bottle
(Commercial)
When making PSA's there's never any money but always plenty of heart. We shot this one in a friend's garage on 16mm film and used my own son to close the spot. It's always fun to see him that young.
Sonoma County Perintal Outreach, If Only
(Public Service Announcement)
Balance Bar Animated
(Commercials)
When making PSA's there's never any money but always plenty of heart. We shot this one in a friend's garage on 16mm film and used my own son to close the spot. It's always fun to see him that young.
When I received the storyboards for these two 15 second spots I immediately went to find some "old-school" commercial animators. I found some great guys that did a number of the spots I grew up watching.
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Sonoma County Perintal Outreach, If Only
(Public Service Announcement)
When making PSA's there's never any money but always plenty of heart. We shot this one in a friend's garage on 16mm film and used my own son to close the spot. It's always fun to see him that young.
Balance Bar Animated
(Commercials)
When I received the storyboards for these two 15 second spots I immediately went to find some "old-school" commercial animators. I found some great guys that did a number of the spots I grew up watching.
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CORPORATE & EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS
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Why Water?
Design. Build. Bluff.
Logicon
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
CORPORATE & EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS
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Why Water?
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
Design. Build. Bluff.
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
Logicon
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
Just Walkin' The Dogs
JustUs
Roland: What you Need
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
Just Walkin' The Dogs
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
JustUs
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
Roland: What you Need
This is a short documentary I was commissioned to create to generate awareness about the benefits of aquatic therapy.
Eleventh Day Entertainment Communications Reel
Eleventh Day Entertainment Corporate Productions Demo Reel
We created this short piece to introduce all the various types of productions we did at my media production company at the time. It includes documentaries, commercials, and corporate productions. No matter what the type of project, they all had one thing in common – communication. This piece was a collective effort between myself, my partner and our editing team.
This segment of my company’s demo reel focused specifically on our corporate presentations.
Eleventh Day Entertainment Communications Reel
We created this short piece to introduce all the various types of productions we did at my media production company at the time. It includes documentaries, commercials, and corporate productions. No matter what the type of project, they all had one thing in common – communication. This piece was a collective effort between myself, my partner and our editing team.
Eleventh Day Entertainment Corporate Productions Demo Reel
This segment of my company’s demo reel focused specifically on our corporate presentations.