Joan Weidman

Filmes

Crack House
Producer
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge the killing of his brother by a rival gang. In the course of getting even, Rick is arrested, leaving Melissa without anyone to protect her. She falls in with a crack dealer and quickly becomes addicted to the drug. When she gets sold to a drug kingpin by a minor dealer to pay off a debt, only Rick can save her.
Hit List
Production Manager
A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
Psicose Para Matar
Associate Producer
Uma líder de torcida chamada Alison tem pesadelos sobre as finais em todo o estado e participa de um acampamento de treinamento de verão com suas colegas de equipe. Quando várias mortes começam a ocorrer no acampamento, os pesadelos de Alison tornam-se confusos e brutais, e ela começa a acreditar que pode ser a responsável pelo caos.
O Vale Assassino
Production Manager
Num lugar paradisí­aco, onde há muitos séculos viviam os vikings, vive hoje um estranho ser. Às vezes, parece um urso, outras, uma espécie de lobisomem. Apesar do aviso, um grupo de jovens resolve passar a noite no local.
Music Lessons: The Kodaly Method in the American Classroom
Director of Photography
Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály believed that music could be taught to children as readily as reading. The method he developed uses a child's own natural instrument, the voice. Beginning with simple musical intervals, the child progresses from folk tunes and children's songs to the complex notes and rhythms of composed music--from Bye baby bunting to Bach. [The film] is a look at the Kodály method of music training in public elementary schools in San Jose, California, and West Hartford, Connecticut. Ordinary children are shown in the film, but they exhibit extraordinary self-confidence, discipline, concentration, and an eagerness to learn. There is no such thing as failure in a Kodály classroom; in fact, the children are able to correct their mistakes themselves. Moreover, the children will bring much of 'how' they learn in their music lessons--counting and problem-solving, left-to-right progression, following directions--to their study of reading, writing and arithmetic.
Pumping Iron: O Homem dos Músculos de Aço
Sound
Este filme documentando é comumente referido como "A Idade do Ouro" do fisiculturismo, uma época na qual massa e tamanho importavam menos, e a simetria e definição do corpo era preferida. O documentário segue duas principais competições, o Mr. Universo da IFBB (para amadores) e o Mr. Olympia (para profissionais) em Pretória, África do Sul. Embora o documentário foque em Arnold Schwarzenegger, muitos outros fisiculturistas notáveis fazem aparições, incluindo Lou Ferrigno, Franco Columbu, Mike Mentzer, Robby Robinson, Mike Katz, Albert Beckles, Ken Waller, Frank Zane, Paul Grant, Ed Corney, Serge Nubret e Danny Padilla, todos campeões talentosos em suas categorias.
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
Cinematography
Documentary on mainland Chinese life. Directed, produced, written, and narrated by Shirley MacLaine, the film follows her First American Women’s Friendship Delegation to China. The delegation consisted of all women, including a four-woman film crew.
Girls at 12
Director of Photography
The camera goes to live among a group of 12‐year‐old girls in a middle‐class New England neighborhood. It accompanies them to school, goes to their slumber parties, listens to their gossip about their largely incorporeal boy friends, buys clothes with them and interviews them, their teachers and their parents.
Girls at 12
Co-Director
The camera goes to live among a group of 12‐year‐old girls in a middle‐class New England neighborhood. It accompanies them to school, goes to their slumber parties, listens to their gossip about their largely incorporeal boy friends, buys clothes with them and interviews them, their teachers and their parents.