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I write on film and about people doing interesting
things. Subjects that interest me are film, modern
culture, youth culture, political/social/environmental
issues, sexuality, and spirituality.
I enjoy writing profiles and spotlights on interesting,
provocative, brave people who are doing interesting,
curious, brave things. I’ve had the opportunity
to write on Tania Katan for The Advocate; her book
My One Night Stand With Cancer is an atypical (and
surprisingly hilarious) memoir about her two-time
battle with breast cancer. I wrote in the Bamboo Brother
(AKA Blair LeMire) for Whole Life Times -- he’s
on a mission to help the planet by spreading the love
(and seed) of bamboo. Other work in Whole Life Times
includes a piece on the Spiritual Cinema Circle and
reviews of indie documentaries.
Past interviews with Don Roos (Happy Endings) and Noah
Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) are up on the Nerve.com
site. An interview with the filmmakers from What The
Bleep Do We Know is on the Salon.com site. I’ve
enjoyed writing for Mediarights.org and having the
opportunity to cover social issue documentaries. Coverage
of documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival and
interviews with filmmakers Hank Rogerson (Shakespeare
Behind Bars), Jenni Olson (Joy of Life), Mark Becker
(Romantico), Carlos Peinado (Waterbuster), Ricki Stern
(The Trials of Daryl Hunt), Shelby Knox (subject of
The Education of Shelby Knox), and others are on their
site.
Recent interviews include Adrian Grenier, Evan
Ross, and documentary master Frederick Wiseman for DOX Magazine,
the European Documentary Magazine. Also in DOX this summer is an
interview with filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar and Nicolas Kristof
from Sundance, about Metzgar's documentary "Reporter" which features Kristof and
the catastrophe of war-ravaged Congo.
I started out writing on Youth Media. My first published
piece was for The Independent Film and Video Monthly.
It was called Toxic Avengers, and it was about a group
of inspiring (and brave) high school students (and
their teacher) who produced a series of documentaries
investigating illegal toxic waste dumping near their
hometown of Middetown, New York. Actually, now that
I think about it, my first piece that found its way
into "print" was an interview with filmmakers Woody
and Steina Vasulka. It was published in an upstart
rag called Stet that some of us upstart (at the time)
college kids put together at Dartmouth, where the
Vasulkas were Artists-in-Residence, teaching us film
students all sorts of wild ways to make video art
by distorting television signals and the like.
Other journalism work, including film festival coverage,
has appeared on IndieWIRE, Huffington Post, Nerve.com, International Documentary,
Tikkun (Reviews of Trembling Before G-d and The Believer),
The Miami Herald, DOX, Hawaiian Airlines Magazine (Hana Hou!),
BlackBook, Out Magazine, Biscayne Times,the Dartmouth Alumni
Magazine, and the Australian Bamboo Society Newsletter.
I’ve written a few feature scripts and was
once hired to do a rewrite on a "B-Movie"
that was (as the story goes) to be directed by Menachem
Golan. The film never got off the ground, but chatting
with Golan about the script and all of its B-Movie
elements was enlightening and fun. I never expected
to work in that genre, learned a lot and enjoyed it.
I’ve written my share of poetry and prose and
have a novel or two in me down the line.
I’m always interested in great assignments;
please contact me if you have writing or editing needs.
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