Director
Freedom Machines is an unprecedented look at disability in the age of technology, presenting intimate stories of people ages 8-93, whose talents and independence are being unleashed by access to modern, enabling technologies. Nearly twenty years after the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, the film reflects on the gaps between its promise and the realities for our largest minority group - 54,000,000 American with disabilities. Whether mainstream tools or extraordinary inventions such as stair climbing wheelchairs, Freedom Machines reveals the power of technology to change lives.
Executive Producer
Heart of the Sea is an hour-long documentary about Hawaiian legend Rell “Kapolioka'ehukai” Sunn who died in January 1998 of breast cancer at the age of 47. Known worldwide as a pioneer of women’s professional surfing, in the Islands Rell Sunn achieved the stature of an icon — not only for her physical power, grace and luminous beauty, but for her leadership in a community that loved her as much as she loved it. Named one of Hawai’i’s most influential women of the 20th century by ABC television, Sunn - whose Hawaiian name means Heart of the Sea - was eulogized in the New York Times for having “captured the heart of Hawai’i during a 14-year battle with cancer.”
Producer
En los años 20, Berlín se había convertido en un paraíso homosexual, donde gays y lesbianas vivían relativamente al descubierto dentro de una subcultura de artistas e intelectuales. Con la llegada al poder de los Nazis, todo cambió. Entre 1933 y 1945 100.000 hombres fueron arrestados por ser homosexuales, bajo el cargo de sodomía, según el artículo 175 del Código Penal alemán de 1871. En 1997 los directores Robert Epstein y Jeffrey Friedman fueron a Amsterdam para la presentación de su película "El Celuloide Oculto". Allí conocieron al Doctor Klaus Müller, un historiador Alemán y Director del Proyecto Europeo del Museo Memorial del holocausto de los Estados Unidos, y se propusieron sacar esta historia oculta a la atención internacional. Narrada por Rupert Everett.
Producer
The narrator/filmmaker is Peter Adair (Word is Out) and the disease is the HIV virus. Adair has asked 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories. Alternately irreverent, candid and soulful, this stirring film is not about being sick; it is about being true to the emotional complexity of being mortal.
Cinematography
The narrator/filmmaker is Peter Adair (Word is Out) and the disease is the HIV virus. Adair has asked 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories. Alternately irreverent, candid and soulful, this stirring film is not about being sick; it is about being true to the emotional complexity of being mortal.
