Anything You Lose
Writer Director Producer Funded in part by NYSCA, pro bono by Cardozo School of Law
A cinema vérité experience spanning seven years, Anything You Lose is a journey through the maze of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and into the depths of silence of infertility.
The film was created to uplift the majority of Assisted Reproductive technologies patients– those who do not succeed; give them voice, dignity and a way forward.
Full Length DocumentaryFirst Screened 2019, Fertility Festival, Barbican Theater London, UK
Miss GULAG
Writer ProducerFunded in part by The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, The Ford Foundation
Through the prism of a beauty pageant staged by female inmates of a Siberian prison camp emerges a complex narrative of the lives of the first generation of women to come of age in Post-Soviet Russia.
I was inspired to create Miss GULAG because of a friendship I developed with a young man who was on parole in the U.S. at the time. I was fascinated by the mixed reaction stirred when reflecting on his early life and limited life choices, his tolerance for high risk and uncertainty. The incarcerated women I chose to portray all shared this same insatiable desire to live and to overcome impossible conditions.
Full Length DocumentaryPremiered 2007, Berlin Film Festival, Germany Available on Amazon Prime