Last week "My Daddy's Name is Donor" was released. This report, which was put together by the Institute for American Values, shines a very harsh light on the whole system of egg and sperm donation - specifically, from the point of view of the children conceived by the process. Alana, whom I have known and worked with for the last year,...
Last weekend we worked on a trailer for a show using the T2i. While there are serious drawbacks to using DSLR's in terms of ergonomics and sound, the picture quality is just short of unbelievable....
About 10 years ago, after making several narrative feature films, we decided to give documentary filmmaking a try. Now we're pretty sick of documentary filmmaking and want to jump back into narrative. Through the making of Donor 67, we met Alana Sveta. We are currently working with her on the script called "Adam and Eva". In the meantime we are...
I read a terrifying Flannery O'Connor story last night. Then I had a nightmare, except I was awake. In "A View From The Woods", a doting grandfather (of only one of his nine grand kids- the rest have too much of his son-in laws blood in them), who happens to be a spiteful father and even meaner father in-law, sees his...
It was a tough week for F. We signed her up for a week of explorer's camp that took her all over the city to parks and museums. It sounded like a great program, but her anxiety has come back and her fear of the subway was overwhelming. It started on Sunday. We were at the playground, killing a little time...
After well over six years of shooting, and two solid years of editing, our latest film project, Battle of Brooklyn, is starting to become a movie. Over the next three months we hope to finish post production and premier it at a major film festival. The film chronicles the efforts of community activists struggling to save their homes, and their community,...
I was woken out of a sound slumber by a 4 ft, 7 year old telling that I was supposed to go downstairs and turn on the TV for her. It was still dark....
We've been very busy the last few weeks - mostly focusing on Battle of Brooklyn - but also working on tv projects. It's interesting because tv and reality are so separate. I have spent years working on the donor film off and on- a lot of it is mental. Reading, thinking, processing and trying to figure out how to put...
In a new report sperm and eggs grown from stem cells....
So, I have done the EFT thing a few times now and while i don't know that it's having any major effect I have to say I think I'm a bit more relaxed. In fact, my wife was a bit frustrated last night after dinner as she thought that I was kind of tuning out- but in retrospect realized that...
I mentioned my craniosacral massage to my friend Gus the other night and he told me that he had been regularly going to acupuncture. It got him interested in the mechanics of it all so he started researching on the internet and stumbled across EFT or emotion free therapy. I'm not going to go into the details - but it involves...
Today I rode my bike uptown to cash in a gift certificate for a massage. I figured that a good deep massage on my hip would help loosen it up once and for all. I was a little late so I biked furiously through the crazy traffic. It was in the low 70's and beautiful out. When I arrived on...