About Us

As a student at Friends World College in Mexico, I was introduced to the Mexican Muralist movement’s rich political and visual language. I then spent 5 months hitchhiking in Central and South America ending up in Cuba where I studied with the renown Cuban documentary filmmaker, Santiago Alverez .  These two experiences have had an everlasting impact on my development as an artist and filmmaker.

When I returned to New York City in 1972, I joined the Newsreel Film Collective, a production and distribution company founded in 1967 in response to the political turmoil that surrounded the Vietnam war, Civil Rights and Women’s Movements. It was during this time that I made my first film, MY COUNTRY OCCUPIED with Heather (Archibald) Lewis.

My day job was an assembly-line worker at Maxwell House Coffee in Hoboken, NJ.  During this time, I was accepted into the federally funded Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program, which employed 10,000 artists across the United States to work in non-profit organizations. As a CETA artist I was hired by Downtown Community Television Center in NYC to teach and make films.  It was here that I produced  Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Labor Struggle in the Post Office with Erik Lewis and Dan Gordon.  Since then, I’ve produced many critically acclaimed documentary films that have consistently been at the forefront of social issues looking at racism, police violence, women’s rights, conditions for workers and labor organizing, violence, and discrimination against LGBT people.