News
April 03, 2023
Andscape, The Walt Disney Company Black-led media platform, will debut a five-part documentary series Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit, streaming exclusively as a Hulu Original on April 19. Directed by Jackson Fager (VICE News, HBO’s Fighting ISIS), the documentary tells the story of a successful high school football program in a community struggling with gun violence.
April 03, 2023
Summoning Sylvia premieres in 21 cities March 31!
May 11, 2021
These three brilliant films I worked on this year screen at Tribeca 2021!
November 02, 2020
Landfall by Cecelia Aldarando is acquired for POV. Chris White, Executive Producer of POV, says, “Cecilia’s masterpiece is both a sharp condemnation of the continued colonial exploitation of Puerto Rico and a warm embrace of the land and her people. Rendered with a singular vision and deep affection, you’ll be swept into solidarity with these native Puerto Ricans who resist and rebuild.”
November 02, 2020
Two Gods, Directed by Zeshawn and Aman Ali, premieres at Hot Docs and is reviewed in the Hollywood Reporter.
August 01, 2020
The gripping and exhaustively researched Down a Dark Stairwell that I graded with director Ursula Liang, premieres at Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center and is reviewed in The Nation here.
July 31, 2020
Two beautiful films I graded recently premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2020, Wake up on Mars, directed by Dea Gjinovci and Landfall, directed by Cecelia Aldarondo.
May 25, 2019
Sunken Treasure has its European Premiere at the Art Kino Croatia, in Rijeka where I did all the underwater production with the support of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka. The screening program, SciFi Geographies had an all-star lineup of Hrvoslava Brkusic, Pia Borg, Cecelia Condit, and Jeanne Liotta.
February 11, 2019
The Unicorn, which I graded with directors Tim Geraghty and Isabelle Dupuis, has its US theatrical premiere at Anthology Film Archives Feb 15 - 21!
An extraordinary, years-in-the-making documentary about outsider musician Peter Grudzien, the one-man musical force behind “The Unicorn,” which has been described as possibly the first openly gay country album, and the “greatest New York LP since the first Velvet Underground or first New York Dolls” by music critic Paul Major. “THE UNICORN is at once an invaluable act of cultural excavation, an unforgettable character study, and a cracked family portrait in the vein of Terry Zwigoff’s CRUMB. But while it may superficially resemble other biographical documentaries, it’s unusually alert to the messy contradictions and intermingling of creative inspiration and mental psychosis that characterize its remarkable subject, his even more unhinged family members, and by extension American culture itself. Ultimately it’s a powerful depiction of a troubled soul for whom music represents a vitally important survival mechanism in the midst of a difficult existence.”,
August 07, 2018
I recently graded this sly and well made piece at Dungeon Beach for broadcast on Hulu. The Department of Reproductive Control is not a real U.S. Government Agency, but all of the policies described in the spot are. It, along with the accompanying DRC site, are part of a new satirical campaign that aims to show what could actually happen if the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under the Trump Administration, is able to make its proposed changes to Title X, “the only federal grant that is solely dedicated to the provision of family-planning funding, with a focus on serving low-income populations.”
May 10, 2018
My new film Sunken Treasure premiered at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival and took home the Gil Omenn Art and Science Award!
November 21, 2017
Lila Yomtoob has taken her short "America 1979" which we graded together and developed it into a television pilot, which was invited to IFP Week's slate of Long-Form Scripted Content. Written and produced by Lila, each season this anthology series follows a different household or community through a different year, re-telling contemporary American history through the eyes of its people.
October 27, 2017
Thanks again to Blackmagic for this extensive interview with me on the color grade for Weediquette Season 3, now up on Mac Directory.
October 27, 2017
Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS premieres at IFC in New York on November 11. DI sessions with Director Harriet Hirshorn done at Dungeon Beach, thanks to Tim Korn.
June 13, 2017
Thanks to Stephanie Hueter at BMD for this interview on the grade for Weediquette, and for featuring me in their press release on Viceland.
June 13, 2017
Black Market with Michael K Williams takes home the award for Documentary-Reality at the Realscreen awards, with Weediquette announced for Non Fiction-Science and Reality
February 02, 2017
No Film School interviewed me recently about the production phase of my upcoming film, Sunken Treasure
January 03, 2017
For the opener of the Late Show with Steven Colbert, Spike Jonze created a short film with Grover from Sesame Street. We graded it to the gray, chilly morning light that greets Steven Colbert as he wakes up, having slept in Central Park, and makes an unexpected friend.
April 08, 2016
VICELAND launched recently, and the first season of shows I graded for them went on air. Working with Niharika Desai, Nick Carew, and Krishna Andavalou has been a rewarding collaboration, and both Gaycation and Weediquette have been renewed for a second season!
November 18, 2015
Good Ol' Boy, directed by Frank Lotito and starring Jason Lee and Anjul Nigam, premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival and starts the festival circuit.
November 17, 2015
"Trouble" directed by Sean Skelton wins Best TV Drama at the 2015 Independent Television Festival! It was great working with Sean on this project.
September 01, 2015
I just wrapped up the grade for the smart new thriller from directing team Janice Erlbaum and Bill Scurry, "We Are All Going to Die", set in a sinister blackout during an Oscar party.
August 12, 2015
I caught a screening last weekend of the absolutely psychedelic 4K restoration of Technicolor extravaganza "Tales of Hoffman" at the beautiful Detroit Institute of Art Film Theater. Wow. So many palettes, tied into the Technicolor environment with absolutely over the top set design.
June 23, 2015
I've been invited by the Museum of Modern Art in Rijeka, Croatia to complete my new film in summer 2016! Production will be in remote caves in Slovenia and sea caves in the Adriatic, stay tuned!
May 23, 2015
America 1979 recently screened at the LA Asian Pacific International Film Festival, and director Lila Yomtoob sat down for an interview here to discuss aspects of the film including the development of the color grade.
April 27, 2015
I had the rare opportunity to visit an incredible private gemstone collection on the upper west side. Gemstones, "frozen light", are the only instances of permanent color in the world, all other color fades. Sadly, the unearthly hues are unreproducible, especially with an iphone. Thanks to Bruce High Quality Foundation.
April 27, 2015
Along with Michael Dwass, I worked with DP Thomas Scott Stanton to grade this indie feature, "Good Ol Boy" at CVLT. It was great hearing from screenwriter Anjul Nigam during the session about some of the inspiration for this story of first love set in 1979 as a family from India arrives in America.
April 27, 2015
Field Visits for Chelsea Manning by Lance Wakeling looked great on DCP at the theatrical premiere at BAM Rose Cinemas. Rhizome commissioned this first-person travelogue, Lance's final video in the trilogy on the physicality of the internet, which maps the locations where Manning was held.
April 27, 2015
The original pilot for Trouble by Sean Skelton, a drama about an A-list starlet whose life is spinning out of control, recently won Best Writing at the New York Television Festival's Independent Pilot Competition.