FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES
32 SOUNDS (2023, 98 min)
Premiered at Sundance Film Festival as a live performance. Cinema Eye Honors nomination for Outstanding Editing and Outstanding Direction, and winner of Outstanding Feature, Score, and Sound Design. Nominated for year's best awards by the National Board of Review, Critics’ Choice Awards, and HPA. [official site]
RIOTSVILLE, U.S.A. (2022, 91 min)
Premiered at Sundance Film Festival. International premiere at CPH:DOX. Winner of the International Documentary Association's News VideoSource Award, Independent Spirit Awards nominee for Best Documentary, Critics’ Choice Award nominee for Best Archival Documentary and Best Narration, and Cinema Eye Honors nominee for Outstanding Editing. [official site]
DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (2020, 93 min)
Premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Winner of Sundance Special Jury Prize for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling. Awarded an Emmy for Best Directing, and nominated for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. Nominated for an ACE Eddie and an Independent Spirit Award, and won Best Editing and Best Writing from the IDA. Winner of Best Direction award from the Cinema Eye Honors, and Best Documentary and Best Director from the Critic's Choice Awards. Named the year's top documentary in Indiewire's Critic's Poll for 2020. Distributed by The Criterion Collection and Netflix. [Criterion and Netflix]
THE HOTTEST AUGUST (2019, 94 min)
Named a Best Documentary of 2019 by Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Variety, Slate, Vox, Vulture, Slant, Hyperallergic, Indiewire, The Boston Globe, Filmmaker Magazine, and Sight & Sound. New York Times Critic’s Pick, broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens, and distributed by Grasshopper Films. [official site]
CAMERAPERSON (2016, 102 min)
Premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Winner of Cinema Eye Honors’ Outstanding Feature, Editing, and Cinematography Awards, the International Documentary Association (IDA) Best Editing award, and the National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression award. Winner of Best Documentary grand jury awards at San Francisco International, Sheffield, Camden, Montclair, DOXA, Traverse City and Sarasota film festivals. Selected as the closing night film for New Directors/New Films and nominated for the Gotham Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, four Critics’ Choice awards, as well as the IDA’s Best Feature. Named Vox Magazine's top documentary of the decade. Distributed theatrically by Janus Films and on video by The Criterion Collection. [official site]
LET THE FIRE BURN (2013, 93 min)
Winner of Best Editing awards from Tribeca Film Festival, IDA, RIDM (Montreal), and Cinema Eye Honors. Winner of Independent Spirit “Truer Than Fiction” Award, nominated for Best Documentary of 2013 by the Gotham Awards, Indiewire Critic’s Poll, and the IDA. Funded by Sundance Institute. Distributed theatrically by Zeitgeist, and broadcast on Independent Lens. [official site]
VERY SEMI-SERIOUS (2015, 83 min)
Winner of an Emmy for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Long Form Editing. Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, won Golden Gate Award for best Bay Area doc at SFIFF, funded by Sundance Institute, and broadcast on HBO. [official site]
KUMU HINA (2014, 75 min)
Winner of the Independent Lens Audience Award, GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary, Best Documentary at Frameline Film Festival, and the Independent Lens Audience Award. Funded by ITVS and the Sundance Institute. Broadcast on PBS. [official site]
OUT IN THE SILENCE (2009, 66 min)
Selected for Human Rights Watch Int’l Festival, Tribeca Documentary Series. Award-winner at Rhode Island Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Hardacre Film Festival. Funded by Sundance Institute. Winner of Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy for Outstanding Documentary. Broadcast nationwide on PBS. [official site]
WAR CHILD (2008, 93 min)
Premiered at Berlin International Film Festival. Winner of Audience Award at Tribeca Film Festival, IDA/ABCNEWS Award, Best Film at Bologna Human Rights Nights, Bergen Int’l Film Festival, and Heartland Film Festival. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation. [official site]
CINE MANIFEST (2006, 86 min)
Premiered at Mill Valley Film Festival. Winner of Ruth Landfield Award at Fargo Film Festival. Nominated for Maysles Award at Denver Int’l Film Festival. Screened at Cine Manifest retrospective at Anthology Film Archives and BAMPFA.
OTHER WORK
BUZKASHI BOYS (2012, fiction, 27 min)
Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short film. Winner of Best Short, Savannah Film Festival, Mallorca, Raindance, Evolution, and LA Shortsfest. [official site]
32 SOUNDS (2022, live performance with video)
Premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Touring the U.S. and internationally. [official site]
PROJECT X (2017, 10 min)
Directed by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke and starring Michelle Williams and Rami Malek. Festival premiere at Sundance. Commissioned for Field of Vision/The Intercept. [official site]
THE ABOVE (2015, 8 min)
Premiered at New York Film Festival. IDA Best Short Award Nominee. Commissioned for Field of Vision/The Intercept. [official site]
A PLACE IN THE MIDDLE (2014, 25 min)
Selected for Berlin International Film Festival. [official site]
DAN RATHER REPORTS (2009-2010, series)
Nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Editing - Quick Turnaround. [wikipedia]
MISSISSIPI RISING (2005, series)
Directed by Penelope Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization, Wayne’s World) featuring Whoopi Goldberg. Broadcast on MSNBC.