Award-winning Director/Producer/Screenwriter and a veteran of independent film. Selected credits include the dramatic features Northern Lights (Palm D'Or Award at the Cannes International Film Festival), Wildrose (New Directors/New Films Series) and Shimmer (Crystal Heart Award, Heartland Film Festival), the television special Talking Pictures (Regional Emmy), the documentary Sisters (PBS series, Independent Lens) and a new documentary feature, Drums of Passion, slated for release in 2008. He was selected as a directing fellow at the Sundance Institute, has led filmmaking workshops at numerous colleges and universities and has been a frequent panelist at film festivals and seminars in the U.S. and abroad.
