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My new full length play, Man in Motion was selected for the 2026 edition of the Broadway Bound Theater Festival! We’re off to Broadway… well, a block off Broadway, but read the title: we’re Broadway Bound!! They’ll be announcing timing and ticket sales later in May but MiM will be on stage between August 10th…

Wow. We got into a fantastic new film festival in France. “Lift”, starring Sarah Jayne Rothkopf and Benny Rendell, got into Film Festival Emeak, in Biarritz, France, happening July 3-5, 2026. I need to increase my French practice!!

Thank you, Detroit Indie Film Fest for selecting “Lift” as a semi-finalist in your current award rounds!! Nothing like getting a little love from my home town.

2025 has been a great year. We shot and finished “Lift” in February and finished re-editing and releasing “Catching the Sun” in May. The festival circuit has been good to us, giving each of the films semi-finalist placings and awarding Best Actress to Sarah-Jayne Rothkopf for “Lift” (Brooklyn Short Film Festival) and Best Producer and…

We Won! This past weerkend at the Katonah Classic Stage Film Festival, “Catching the Sun” won Best Drama! Katonah was a fun festival with a mix of youth and local films, films from Canada and Easter Europe, animation, live action and experimental pieces. Great audience. Fantastic festival to be part of. Alan Brooks (writer/director), Lachlan…

This is my friend Zack Alford, who did the music cues for my just-completed film, Lift. Zack is a multi-talented wizard: He has an excellent graphic novel, Prince of the Astral Kingdom. He speaks other languages. He’s a really good cook and he is a great friend. He’s also a great musician, so when he…

Behind anyone who tries to make a movie, there is a person who really made it happen, the guy who always shows up with a bag full of energy, and for me, that person was Constant van Hoeven, aka Mr. Kaleidoscope. When I showed him the script for Lift, his response was, I’ve got the…

This was such a fun exciting film to shoot, and we’re finally on the verge of rolling across the finish line. Starring the luminous Sarah Jayne Rothkopf and the resonant voice of Benny Rendell. Cinematography by Constant van Hoeven, sound by Brion Snyder, edited by David Leonard. Music cues by the great Zack Alford! What…

We shot Catching The Sun a few years ago, but life, budget, time… so many things got in the way of pushing it over the finish line. Last November the planets aligned or maybe the meds adjustment did it, and I found myself looking over the footage, editing, tweaking sound and feeling the injustice of…

Well, that’s a wrap! I never get my act together to post in pre-production, but hey, we shot a film and I’m just so happy to be wallowing in the difficulties of logging, editing and making decisions about all the great footage. The gang at Shein Studios made everything super smooth and fun for us.…