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SOMA GIRLS on PBS/WGBH Boston

I am thrilled to announce that my first film, SOMA GIRLS-a collaboration with my producing partner, Nandini Sikand-will air on PBS stations nationwide. Specifically, it will air in my hometown of Boston, on WGBH, at 4:30pm, March 18, 2012. The film will have subsequent airings over the next three years …

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POVme

Elite teenage speedbike racers Tanya Markham and Macky Martin show us how they prepare for and race their kevlar-covered recumbent bikes at the annual speed bike competition in Battle Mountain, NV.

Amazigh Poetry Project

The Amazigh Poetry Project (working title) is a film about Soumia Aietelhaj, a young Moroccan woman, who is in search of the language, songs and poetry of her lost culture, the Amazigh (better known as Berber in the West). Soumia will travel throughout Morocco recording songs, poems and stories from …

Lou Barlow of The New Folk Implosion

Indy rock legend Lou Barlow, of seminal bands Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh, talks about how he got started in music and tries to figure out what “indy rock” really means… For the NoisePop Music Festival in San Francisco.

Mardi Gras Indians

“The Mardi Gras Indians go back to the beginning… to slavery…” says Golden Eagles Big Chief, Monk Boudreaux. In this video we visit with Monk and with David Montana, Second Chief of the Yellow Pocahontas as they put the finishing touches on the elaborate 100+ pound costumes they will wear all day as they march, dance and sing on Mardi Gras, continuing a tradition that has survived for over on hundred years.

Oxygen Sports

Dubbed “the Robin Hood girl” by a cabbie during trials for the Olympics in New York City, USA archer Kathy Loesch shows us how to draw and shoot without breaking a sweat. Oxygen Sports.

Sarah Susanka, Author “The Not So Big House”

Renowned architect and author Sarah Susanka, of The Not So Big House book series, talks about the nature of Home.

Courtney Gillen

Self-taught jeweler/folk artist, Courtney Gillen describes her process and lets us in on why she began making jewelry.

Trombone Shorty

New Orleans native and musical prodigy, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews takes us on a tour of Treme, the oldest Black neighborhood in America, where we meet some colorful characters and wonder about the future of the music scene in The Big Easy after Hurricane Katrina.

Uddami

Uddami is a computer school for underprivileged young people in Kolkata, India. Alison Saracena and her husband Bryan teach so that those of a lower caste or class can side-step the standard social obstacles of their situations and work to bring themselves out of poverty by getting a good job.