Joel Shapiro

Películas

River Runs Red
Producer
Cuando el hijo de un juez es asesinado por dos policías y el sistema les deja libres, un detective veterano descubre unos archivos incriminatorios. El detective y el juez aunarán fuerzas con otro padre afligido para conseguir justicia.
Bestia de carga
Producer
Sean Haggerty sólo tiene una hora para entregar su carga ilegal. Una hora para convencer a un cartel, a un sicario y a la DEA de que todo está bien. Una hora para asegurarse de que su mujer sobrevive. Y debe hacerlo desde la cabina de mando de su avioneta Cessna.
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Cinematography
Los poemas de algunos de los mejores escritores de todos los tiempos cobran vida a través de la animación lírica y las lecturas de algunos de los artistas más respetados de la actualidad.
Una Familia Es Una Familia, Es La Familia
Director of Photography
What is a family? Rosie O'Donnell looks at the many answers to this question in this documentary that features original songs and thoughtful kids musing on love and family. The show provides a less than moving portrait of the remarkable diversity of so called families today, including same-sex parents, mixed-heritage families, and stories of adoption. Animated songs and musical performances by kids and families spice up the festivities along with performances and recordings by artists including Ziggy Marley, Bonnie Raitt, Doris Day, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Frank Sinatra, Rosie O'Donnell and They Might Be Giants.
Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood
Director of Photography
To escape Hitler's regime, thousands of intellectuals and radicals fled Europe for the United States in the 1930s; this documentary focuses on the prominent figures who moved to Hollywood and made contributions to American music, art and culture. Well-known exiles profiled here include Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Salka Viertel, Thomas Mann and many others.
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
Cinematography
"A delightful documentary about Anderson, in which we get to know the man as well as his music, through interviews with colleagues and family members, as well as footage of Anderson himself and musicians ranging from Arthur Fiedler to Judy Garland... There doesn't seem to be a place for what used to be considered mainstream music any more... and America is the poorer for it. That's why I'm so glad for the release of Once Upon a Sleigh Ride." Leonard Maltin, June 9, 2001 Written by Leonard Maltin
Kids Are Punny
Director of Photography
This HBO special, based on Rosie O'Donnell's book of the same name, uses animated and live action segments to explore the vital role that humour plays in our lives.
Bill T. Jones: Still/Here
Cinematography
Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform their feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance performed later in the program. For this documentary, Jones demonstrates the movements of his own life story: his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane’s untimely death from AIDS, and Jones’s own HIV-positive status.
Children of Darkness
Camera Operator
A significant number of American children and teenagers - from all social backgrounds - suffer from mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism and emotional problems, leading them to isolation from society while treating their issues in mental health facilities. But there's no end in sight for those young individuals when they face obstacles and mistreatment in inadequate places under the supervision of careless and inexperienced professionals. The documentary follows some of those public mental institutions and another private center dealing with troubled kids and reveals what's wrong with their procedures, and the irreparable harm they cause in those patients.