Bend & Bow accepted to Detroit Docs Film Festival

It appears I will be heading to the Motor City at the end of October as Bend & Bow has been accepted into the Detroit Docs Film Festival. The festival runs from October 29th until November 3rd, and I will find out October 10th exactly when our film will screen.


Dear Filmmaker,

Congratulations! We are glad to inform you that your film, Bend and Bow, has been selected for screening at the 2008 Detroit Docs International Film Festival, October 29th through November 2nd.

This year we received and viewed numerous high quality films from around the world. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to make your outstanding work a part of Detroit Docs ’08.

Shadows of Guilt premieres on the Documentary Channel

My first film, Shadows of Guilt, will have its network premiere this Monday, September 15th at 8 pm on the Documentary Channel ( Channel 197 on Dish Network) and on NYC-TV, with a repeat at 11 pm. It will also re-air on Saturday, the 20th at 5 pm est and then again at 2 am est. DVD copies of the film will be available for sale on the Documentary Channel website www.documentarychannel.com later this year. I hope you enjoy the film and thank you for all of your continue support.

Bend & Bow accepted to Dokufest

The Documentary Challenge Finalists have been accepted into Dokufest in Kosovo. Bend & Bow will screen on the 5th of August, 2008 at the Lumbardhi Indoor Cinema in Prizren, Kosovo. Unfortunately we will not be able to fly out and attend the festival but if you are in the area stop by.

We are going to Hot Docs...

Earlier this week I received great news via email, " Congratulations! You are a finalist for the International Documentary Challenge!" Team Profluence has made it to the finals again with our latest film Bend & Bow. Our film "Bend & Bow" will have its world premiere at HotDocs Canadian International Film Festival on Saturday, April 26th at 9:30 p.m. It will screen with the 13 other International Documentary Challenge finalists, and the Grand Prize winner will be announced at Midnight. All six members of Profluence Productions will be in Toronto, so if you are in the area come by and show your support. Here is the list of the 14 finalists for this years competition:

1. All The Eights, 88
Team: Sholi
City/Country: Sydney, Australia
Genre: Biography/Character Study

2. Ars Magna
Team Juicebox
City/Country: Seattle, WA, USA
Genre: Biography/Character Study

3. The Art of Balance
Team: Surge Media
City/Country: New York, NY, USA
Genre: Sports

4. Beholder
Team: Boss and Coder 34
City/Country: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Genre: First Person

5. Bend & Bow
Team: Profluence Productions
City/Country: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Genre: Experimental

6. Click Whoosh
Team: Reel Grrrls
City/Country: Seattle, WA, USA
Genre: Historical

7. Ghost Bike
Team: Go!
City/Country: Toronto, ON, Canada
Genre: Art

8. I=me2
Team: Year of the Rooster
City/Country: Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
Genre: Experimental

9. Ice Fishing
Team: Rotating Planet
City/Country: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genre: Sports

10. Jetty
Team: Fly On The Wall
City/Country: Portland, OR, USA
Genre: Social Issue/Political

11. Meet The Freegans
Team: Shields Films
City/Country: Portland, OR, USA
Genre: Social Issue/Political

12. Pennywise: The Changing Face of Change
Team: Lucky Shot
City/Country: Silver Spring, MD, USA
Genre: Social Issue/Political

13. Red Light Blues
Team: Abrahami-Netz Productions
City/Country: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Genre: Social Issue/Political

14. Stick and Pound
Team: It Donned On Me
City/Country: Foster City, CA, USA
Genre: Art

The Documentary Channel

Last week I was informed that my film Shadows of Guilt was selected to air on the Documentary Channel later this year. It will be aired in a Doc Block along with nine other short documentaries produced by my classmates from the New School's Graduate Certificate in Documentary Media Studies.

International Documentary Challenge

Team Profluence reunited this year to take part in the International Documentary Challenge. http://www.docchallenge.org/ If you are not familiar with the competition, teams get five days to create a short documentary. This year 122 teams from 16 countries participated. We received our assigned genre and topic Thursday March 6th at 8am and sent our completed film in Monday March 11th at 5pm. I am fortunate to be in an amazing crew and we all really enjoy getting together every year and collaborating. It is an intense production period resulting in sleep deprivation and consumption of mass amounts of coffee, but it is worth it.

The first round of judging finishes at the end of March when the twelve finalists are announced. All of the finalists are screened at Hot Docs in Toronto, Canada, where the second round of judging takes place. Last year our film Blind Faith: A Film About Seeing, made it to the top twelve and won the award for best soundtrack. Agnes Varnum, documentary film's most well known blogger http://agnesvarnum.com/, had this to say about last years competition, "the short docs that resulted from this challenge were lovely to watch and a nice glimpse at future feature makers."

Press Coverage

My hometown newspaper, the Atlantic City Press, recently interviewed me about my career as a filmmaker and my experiences in Brazil. Read the full text of the article here:

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/113/story/92600.html