I like telling stories about people crossing boundaries. The journey across cultures, geographies, dimensions, social classes, or social norms always requires characters and audiences to arrive a new perspective on the world and themselves.

My feature fiction film, Escape to White Mountain narrates the interaction between the white and Apache worlds of central Arizona. The film, which plays in part in the Apache language screened and/or won awards at the Arizona International Film & Video Festival, the Dallas Video Festival, the Two Rivers Native Film & Video Festival, the American Indian Film & Video Festival, the North Carolina Film/Video Festival, the Big Muddy Film/Video Festival, the Southwest Film Festival, the Broadcast Education Association Juried Faculty Competition, the World-Fest Houston Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival. Escape to White Mountain was represented by Forefront Films (Harold Warren and Megan O’Neil now of Atom Films) who secured domestic home video distribution and a wide-spread foreign television release.

My half-hour film, MOLT! suggests that anyone can love another person regardless of gender. MOLT! screened at the Wingspan Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, the Mass. Ave. Film Festival, Austin Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, North Carolina Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, Baltimore Queer Film & Video Festival, the Arizona International Film & Video Festival, and the Atlanta Image Film & Video Festival. The film also played on WGBH in Boston. I’ve also made many short experimental films that have played at festivals throughout the US as well as arts, public affairs, and educational media.

As a screenwriter I have completed four feature scripts: Family of Helios, a fictional documentary about four decades on an American commune; Collecting the Rent, a comedy about a band of misfits living in a transient hotel in the Boston combat zone; The Universe Next Door, a science-fiction drama about loss and renewal set in the desert southwest; and The Curse of Sarah Good, a thriller set on the 300 year anniversary of the Salem witch hysteria.

My work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Commission for the Arts, the Arizona Humanities Council, the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, Kultur Films, and the DeGrazia Foundation. I’m also the winner of the $25,000 Arizona Artist Award in 1991.

I served as Chair of the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College for four years and one year as director of Emerson’s film program. I have also taught at the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Arizona.

I have published about filmmaking and film teaching in the Independent Film and Video Monthly and in the Journal of Film and Video.

I received both a BS in Speech and MFA in Film and Video (1980) from Northwestern University where I studied with Michelle Citron and Chuck Klienhans.