Filmography & Awards
With the help of a team of tireless volunteers, in a week's time I wrote and directed the creation of this 12 minute video honoring the life of the now late, great, and Fort Worth-born performing artist, Stephen Bruton. The video was produced for a November 13, 2009 Lone Star International Film Festival event where Kris Kristofferson personally accepted the first annual Bruton Award for excellence in the performing arts.
Abamedia’s feature film, World Without Waves provides a provocative look at love, lust, self-deception and redemption. Originally titled “Artist Against Electricity”, the film weaves stunning original art and music into this story of a New York TV executive fleeing to a solitary haven in the wilderness, only to find himself enveloped in a different, dangerous energy. Film and soundtrack available for purchase online
View trailer and clips from the movie on vimeo
A critically-acclaimed four-part series produced by InVision Productions with Abamedia in association with Devillier Donegan Enterprises and PBS. Through archival footage and eloquent interviews, the 60-minute episodes explore the Soviet viewpoint on atomic espionage, the space race, propaganda, & sports diplomacy. Working title was Secrets From the Russian Archives. Includes a companion book by George Feiffer.
See full episodes on vimeo!
Propaganda Wars
Secret Victories of the KGB
Secret Soviet Moon Mission
Soviet sports Wars
- IDA
Distinguished Achievement Award, Best Limited Series. 2000
A 60 minute episode for The History Channel's "History Undercover" series tells the compelling story of the American companies and individuals who helped achieve Stalin's Five Year-Plans.
Made in Russia
A series of fast-paced, 60 second looks at young Russian achievers for StoryFirst Communications/CTC.
Everybody's
Talking
A ground-breaking co-production with ABC News of the first Russian TV newsmagazine: twenty-three 30-minute episodes of a television current affairs series broadcast by the number one channel in the former Soviet Union, Ostankino/ORT, to a potential viewing audience of 280 million 1994-95
Fodor's Travel
Films
Not just travelogues, the Fodor’s films told the stories of countries around the world through the views and voices of native journalists, politicians, scholars and everyday people. These cultural documentaries were broadcast on PBS, Australian Television, Hungarian Television, and Korean Television,and made available in video stores, bookstores, libraries and educational institutions throughout the English-speaking world. 1986-92.
- Fodor's
Alaska
- Fodor's
Australia
- Fodor's
Hungary
- Fodor's
Singapore
- Fodor's
Hawaii
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- Fodor's
Germany
- Fodor's
Bangkok
- Fodor's
Italy
- Fodor's
Mexico
- Fodor's
Switzerland
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- Fodor's
France
- Fodor's
Spain
- Fodor's
Greece
- Fodor's
Great Britain
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Lili
A docudrama on the adventurous life of pianist Lili Kraus co-produced with Hungarian and Austrian television. 1984. Ms. Kraus was born in Hungary, and studied with legendary musicians like Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. Her international concert career took her around the world, and while on an Asian tour in 1942 she was captured and interned by the Japanese army until the end of the war. 1984
- Best
of Category - San Francisco International Film Festival
- Gold
Award - Houston International Film Festival
- Silver
Award - International Film and Television Festival of New York
- Certificate
of Merit - Chicago International Film Festival
- Best
of Texas Award - Texas Public Relations Association
A PBS documentary revealing Philip Johnson's design concepts and thoughts behind his premier “sculpture”: a four-acre creation with three dramatic water features, and a plaza with concrete step mountains in the center of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. 1984
- Gold
Award - International Film and Television Festival of New York
- Silver
Cindy - Information Film Producers of America
- Best
of Category - San Francisco International Film Festival
- Silver
Award - Houston International Film Festival
A profile of the founder of the Pilobolus Dance Theater for Hearst/ABC ARTS (A&E) which includes dramatic footage of Moses Pendleton’s pioneering masterpieces of human form and design in dance. 1982
- CINE Golden Eagle - Council on International Non-Theatrical Events
- Silver
Boomerang - Melbourne Television and Film Festival, Australia
- Bronze
Hugo - Chicago International Film Festival
- Grand
Prize for Script - Festival International Du Film D’Art, Paris,
France
- Gold
Cindy - Information Film Producers of America
- Best
Documentary - USA Film Festival, Dallas, Texas
- Special
Jury Award - US Film and Video Competition, (now known as Sundance)
- Honorable
Mention (2nd Place) - San Francisco International Film
Festival
- Percey
Award (Best Dramatic Feature) - Santa Fe Winter Film Exposition
- Gold
Star Award - Dance Film and Video Festival
Santa Fe Chamber
Music Festival
Featuring
Aaron Copland, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts for PBS
and A&E.
- Best
of Show - Best Documentary - New Mexico Film and Video Awards
Milepost 407:
A West Texas Story
A look
at Abilene, Texas and the oil that created it. Broadcast on PBS. 1982
- Jury
Award - Chicago International Film Festival
- Finalist
Award - American Film Festival
Artist and Athlete:
The Pursuit of Perfection, & Olympic Overture
Prime-time
special on the 1980 Winter Olympics for A&E. 1982
- Cablecasting
Excellence - ACE Nominations, Los Angeles (for Artist and Athlete)
1981 Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition
What happens in an international piano competition – the music, of course, but also the true-life drama of pianists seeking what could be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to pursue a concert career. A three-part series for A&E and a 90-minute, live, prime-time special for PBS. 1981
Six short films featuring Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Working with Moses Pendleton, fantastic yet child-friendly sculptural dance pieces created for "Sesame Street," Children's Television Workshop, 1981
Gymnast
A program
highlighting the world's finest women gymnasts. 1980
- IQ
World Fellowship Award - International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers
- CINE
Golden Eagle - Council on International Non-Theatrical Events
- Bronze
Award - International Film and Television Festival of New York
- Certificate
of Merit - Chicago International Film Festival
- Special
Jury Award - Bronze - Hemisfilm International Festival, San Antonio,
Texas
- Finalist
Award - Information Film Producers of America
- Special
Award - Addy Awards, Fort Worth, Texas
A Portrait of
Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne
Produced
for "Live from Lincoln Center" on PBS. 1980.
Anatomy of a
Baseball Trade
A behind-the-scenes
look at the New York Mets commissioned by HBO as part of its "Sports
Magazine" series. 1980
Lexo: Alexander
Toradze, Pianist
Broadcast
on PBS and Soviet television, funded by Coca Cola. 1979
Futures
1979
- Gold
Cindy - Information Film Producers of America
- Silver
Award - International Film and Television Festival of New York
- Jury
Award - Chicago International Film Festival
- Best
Texas Directed Production of the Year - USA Film Festival, Dallas,
Texas
1978,
broadcast on PBS and funded by Tandy Corporation.
- Gold
Cindy - Information Film Producers of America
- Bronze
Award - International Film and Television Festival of New York
- Best
of Show - Addy Awards, Fort Worth, Texas
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