BROADWAY & SWAN
official selection of the 2025 film invasion la film festival
Winner: best artist film at the 2025 Berlin indie film festival
winner: best green/environmental film at the 2025 cine Paris film festival
POSTER FOR BROADWAY & SWAN
Broadway & swan is the story of artists Carlos pinto and John sear’s 2 year journey of triumphs and setbacks as they create and install the first mosaic commissioned by the national Audubon society’s Audubon mural project. A compelling blend of art, science, and the human need to create and connect, broadway & swan is a warning and celebration. A call to action in the face of incipient climate change.
TRAILER FOR BROADWAY & SWAN
FRESH KILL TRAILER
I was tasked with the creation of a new trailer for she lea Cheang’s cult classic tale of corporate malfeasance, fish kill, in celebration of a new criterion collection sponsored print and subsequent us theatrical tour of this 80’s meta-narrative masterpiece.
OF ALL THE GIN JOINTS
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY : 2023 CULVER CITY FILM FESTIVAL
From selling Tacos in a parking lot to a small Mexican food empire, Of All The Gin Joints is a multi-generational saga that tells the story of the Haro family, restauranteurs and film lovers, and how they created a shrine 40 years ago to one of the greatest American movies ever made, Casablanca, that to this day is one of the most popular restaurants in Venice California.
I was the Story Producer, Editor, and creator of Photo Animations for this Culver City Film Festival 2023 Audience Award winner for Best Documentary.
GOODWOMAN
Winner: grand jury prize for best documentary, 2016 FILM INVASION LA
GOODWOMAN Trailer
in the wake of occupy Wall Street, Retired legal secretary Debra Goodman embraces her activist spirit by filming the protest movement’s often brutal encounters with the nypd on the streets of New York and surrounding boroughs, which she then uploads to her YouTube channel. One night, filming an interaction between a homeless friend and the police, Goodman is brutally arrested, disappearing into a corrupt justice system where the rule of law is bought and sold and the only currency is power.
GOODWOMAN: Full length film
THE RED UMBRELLA DIARIES
WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY 2014 CINEKINK FILM FESTIVAL
SAILOR : Profile: THE RED UMBRELLA DIARIES
What's it like to be a sex worker in New York City? From striping to "hooking," in this award winning feature documentary seven NYC sex workers take to the Joe's Pub Stage to speak out on life, love, and the bottom line.
Essence Revealed : PROFILE : THE RED UMBRELLA DIARIES
Produced & Directed by David Kornfield Produced & Edited by Chris Fiore
THE RED UMBRELLA DIARIES: FULL FILM: 7 Sex Workers, 1 Night to Bare All
the ken stones : miami
General trailer for The Ken Stones, a documentary series chronicling the life and times of artist Ken Hiratsuka as he symbolically unites the planet by carving one of his famous “one line” sculptures in every country on Earth.
Promo for The Ken Stones: Miami. Renowned street artists Risk and Ken Hiratsuka photographed by Martha Cooper as they complete their latest projects for Wynwood Walls
After years of laboring in relative obscurity, street artist and stone sculptor Ken Hiratsuka receives a commission to carve a series of stones for Florida outdoor art Mecca Wynwood Walls. as the deadline approaches ken fights the physical ravages of a life spent wielding a hammer on stone as he races against time to make his grand debut at Art Basel Miami. Full film.
BACKSTAGE
Behind the scenes and on stage at jay z’s history making “Hard Knock Life Tour” Featuring performances by Jay Z, DMX, Methodman, Redman, beanie signal, Eve, and Ja Rule. notorious in part for it’s riotous depictions of roc-a-fella boss Damon dash lashing out at def jam management’s efforts to claim credit for he & Jay z’s tour, Backstage enjoyed a profitable release in over 300 theaters during the fall of 2000 and was a staple of late night television on Showtime for years.
BACKSTAGE DMX
Compilation of the legendary rapper's clips from my 2000 documentary of Jay Z's Hard Knock Life Tour, Backstage.
A(DE)SCENT
Elene Cassis first runway show for New York Fashion Week heralds the arrival of a new star in the design world, until one missed detail ruins everything.
TRIP AND GO NAKED
WINNER: EXCELLENCE IN SEXUAL THEATER 2004 ARLENE’S GROCERY PICTURE SHOW
Sunday’s at 2AM in New York’s infamous Pyramid Club in the East Village saw the emergence of the indomitable Mistress Otter’s kinky fetish review, Trip And Go Naked. On stage and behind the scenes, this documentary is rare window on an underground phenomenon celebrating the darkest aspects of Human sexuality.
MOCKSTAR
The Mockers EXPLORATIONS OF power pop never really caught on in the United States. The band’s one hit wonder moment happened in Spain with the cover of a LOS SECRETOS song called Dejame in 2001. Ten years later the aging band takes their existential crisis on tour through Spain, only to discover sometimes age is just a number and getting old comes with it’s own unexpected comforts.
This excerpt from MOCKSTAR features former Child Star Robbie Rist, Cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch and ted’s adopted son on the Mary Tyler Moore show, on guitar and general Harbinger of Mayhem.
PARAMORE : BORN FOR THIS
Paramore, just coming into their own as a breakthrough act, thrash their way through 2007’s Warp Tour in a teen angst fueled drive-by tale of late aughts rock and roll phenomena.
I cut a trailer for my friends at Artists4Peace, featured in the October edition of their ever evolving web presence at artists4peace.org, which is full of great material and well worth a peek.
Ariella Edvy sings You Say To Me
LUCK DRAGON 5 SERIES
They went fishing and were hit with a hydrogen bomb. In 2019 a group of dancers, artists, writers, and musicians from around the world converged at Tokyo’s Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall to commemorate the lives of 23 fishermen irradiated by the 1954 Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test.
In 1954 23 Japanese men went fishing and were hit with a Hydrogen Bomb. This short film is my tribute to those men and contribution to the Lucky Dragon 5 event at Tokyo's Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall honoring the Japanese sailors and fishermen irradiated by the 1954 Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test. Performance by Takemi Kitamura, Costume by Nobuko Tsuruta.
They went fishing and were hit with a Hydrogen Bomb. A short version of Voyage To Hope, my 2019 film documenting a performance by Gloria McLean & Dancers, from the Lucky Dragon 5 event at Tokyo's Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall honoring the 23 Japanese sailors irradiated by the 1954 Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test.
Full performance of Memory To Drift, performed by Mushimaru Fujieda and The Physical Poets, from the Lucky Dragon 5 event at Tokyo's Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall honoring the 23 Japanese sailors irradiated by the 1954 Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test.
The White Dice perform at the Lucky Dragon 5 event at Tokyo's Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall honoring the 23 Japanese sailors irradiated by the 1954 Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test.
Excerpts from Guatemalan Sighs, a suite of dances I shot on New York City's East River for Producer Eddie Deleon. Choreography by Shawn Rawls, Livin Sabio, and Gabriela Alvarez Castaneda. Performed by the Bula Dance Company, Artistic Director, Gabriela Alvarez Castaneda.
Kaoru ikeda performs in ken hiratsuka’s sculpture garden for a billion beautiful days