SELECTED WORK
Galapagos: A World Out of Time
Six hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands are one of the last places on earth where nature has been allowed to write its own story.
This documentary, commissioned by a government-registered tourism agency, explores the unique qualities of this Unesco World Heritage site, and what a visitor discovers when they experience nature up close and personal, in a protected sanctuary setting where the wildlife feel secure enough to freely interact with humans.
Shot in the waters and across the rugged landscapes of multiple islands, the film captures the volcanic terrain, the extraordinary wildlife encounters, and the experience of sustainable eco-tourism in one of the world's most protected natural environments.
It is less a travel film than a meditation on coexistence — between conservation and tourism, between the ancient and the living, between a world out of time and the modern travelers who come to witness it.
Alonzo Mourning: One man's game.
As a six-time NBA All-Star, Alonzo Mourning has pursued his charitable work with the same relentless intensity he brought to the court. For years, individual families and entire communities that benefited from his generosity never knew he was behind these charitable programs.
Rooted in his Christian faith and shaped by a troubled childhood, Mourning's commitment to giving back runs deep. He created Zo's Summer Groove, a weekend of basketball, concerts, and events that raised significant funds for the communities he cared about most.
This HBO biography was built around one of those events, and Mourning had no idea it was coming. The film premiered as a surprise at the closing dinner, a fundraiser with six hundred guests. When it ended, Mourning was scheduled to address the audience from the stage but found he couldn't. Overcome with emotion by the film's depiction of his own life story, he was brought to tears and had to step away from the microphone.
Through his Mourning Family Foundation and the Overtown Youth Center in Miami, he has since helped raise more than fifty million dollars to create a better future for children who face the greatest challenges. A portrait of a man who never sought the spotlight, and never asked for a thing in return.
World Business Review
World Business Review was a national TV series broadcast on American Public Television that created a unique forum for the ideas driving global commerce. Each episode brought together three or four senior industry leaders for a substantive, moderated conversation around a single defining challenge, just-in-time manufacturing, the evolution of data mining, the strategic logic of outsourcing, pairing studio discussion with in depth segments shot on location around the world, that showed those solutions in practice, in the real facilities and operations where they were being applied.
The series gave viewers an inside look at how the heads of American industry were addressing business challenges with cutting edge solutions delivered through the voices of the people actually solving them.
As the staff supervising producer and creative director at Multi-Media Productions, I brought this series from concept to completion — assembling the production department, hiring and overseeing the post-production team, and making the creative decisions that defined every aspect of the series, from set design and original music to graphics and scripting. I put the series together and supervised is continuing evolution.
Life Quake
How do you continue to move forward in life when the end is in sight? LifeQuake examines that question through the testimonies of four men who each survived a brush with death and came back forever changed. Their stories are a reminder that tomorrow is guaranteed to no one, and that our most profound life lessons often arrive only when everything is on the line. Frightening in what it reveals about life's fragility, and deeply inspiring in its evidence that the human spirit can find its footing even on the shakiest ground, the film leaves you with a simple but urgent message: the present moment is precious, and not one second of it should be wasted.
This film began with a request. The director of a nonprofit handed over a few hours of amateur cell phone selfies, men speaking candidly about their near death experiences, and said simply, "I don't really know what to do with these, see what you can come up with.” By carefully selecting the most poignant statements and pairing them with visuals and music drawn from my extensive media library, I shaped that raw footage into a finished film that won a National Telly Award.
American Alchemy
When the financial collapse of 2008 dismantled the career paths that a generation of elite graduates had taken for granted, something unexpected emerged in its place. Filmed in Boston in 2011, American Alchemy goes inside the incubators, co-working spaces, and early-stage ventures where a new class of entrepreneurs was choosing to build rather than wait.
Through conversations with dozens of founders, investors, and mentors working across sectors from medical technology to digital business, the film captures the mood of a moment when economic adversity became, for some, the conditions for reinvention. It is a portrait of entrepreneurs that found their footing not despite the crisis, but because of it.
Ultimate Entrepreneur
This biographical documentary chronicles the life of Ted Arison. Born in Tel Aviv to a shipping family, he interrupted his engineering studies to serve in the British Army during World War II and later fought as an officer in Israel's War of Independence. By the time he arrived in Miami, he had already lived several lives. In 1972, he acquired a retired ocean liner for one dollar and launched Carnival Cruise Lines with a conviction that ocean travel shouldn't be the exclusive province of the wealthy. It was an audacious bet that transformed not just his own fortunes but the entire cruise industry. By the time he stepped back, Carnival had become the largest and most profitable cruise operation in the world.
But the film is as much about what Arison built on land as at sea: his role in bringing professional basketball to South Florida as the original owner of the Miami Heat, the YoungArts Foundation and the New World Symphony Orchestra, both cofounded with his wife Lin, and the philanthropic investments he poured into Israel in the final chapter of his life. A story of a man who never stopped founding things, and who understood that legacy is built one institution at a time.