I am an independent filmmaker, writer, and photographer, holding a day job as a web developer in the financial sector.
From 1970 to 1974 I studied photography and film at the Philadelphia College of Art (now known as the University of the Arts, after merging with the then Philadelphia Academy of Performing Arts).
Just a few years prior, David Lynch attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Art a few blocks away. I finds it’s no coincidence that I see filmmaking as an art and am greatly inspired by David Lynch.
Unlike David Lynch, I did not secure a place in filmmaking (go figure) and moved on to eventually join the Air Force in what seemed like a 180-degree turn from my past convictions against the Vietnam War. But it was peacetime and I needed work like most people who join the military. Besides it an adventure for me and I enjoyed seeing the world as a flight engineer, until the Gulf War happened. I moved on to graduate school in Communication at the University of Delaware (1991 – 1994), which to a computer-programming career and then employment in Los Angeles in 2000. There I fell in love again with filmmaking. I took on studio extra work and student and short film roles as an actor. I started writing screenplays and then began producing and directing my own short dramatic and documentary films. I realized film was my passion and that you don’t choose your passion. It chooses you.
With the presidency of George Bush and then the 2008 election between McCain and Obama, I became very interested in politics and took on a grass roots blogging stint with the Huffington Post. My involvements lead me to make documentary clips for my own blogs and eventually a feature called Got Healthcare?. I had also started a feature endeavor for an anti-war film in early 2009. There was a hard drive crash and loss of all my edited work, plus the anti-war movement fizzled out with the health care activism.
