Tim is an accomplished independent documentary filmmaker/editor with 13 Best Documentary Awards and one Telly award. He received an MFA in film from Miami Univ. of Art and Design. He has a BA in Visual Communications and an AA in Liberal Arts. In 2005 Tim was invited by the Thai government to return to post tsunami Thailand and document the recovery efforts to promote the suffering tourism industry.

He has 16 years experience in the field of television and documentary filmmaking and for 10 years he taught production and animation at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. He is President of RTC Productions, a Florida 501©3 non-profit and Director for The Dandelion Project, a Texas 501©3.

Tim has filmed and volunteered in humanitarian, animal, and environmental projects around the globe and was featured on the 2005 Discovery Channel documentary, “America’s Tsunami; Are we next?”

Tim recently spent 5 months aboard the Sea Shepherd ship documenting the Antarctic whale wars in the Southern ocean and received the Haskell Wexler Best Cinematography award for “At the Edge of the World.”

PRODUCING, DIRECTING, and EDITING:

• Guwahati Uncut (Human Condition short doco – 2010)
• At the Edge of the World: Sea Shepherd (Antarctica Campaign Doc. – 2007)
• The Elephant Lady (Elephant short doco – 2006)
• Rising Above the Wave (Post Tsunami Doc. – 2005)
• Slave to Entertainment (Orca Documentary – 2003)

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:

• Tsunami Volunteer Search and Rescue on Koh Phi Phi Thailand (12/04)
• Tsunami Volunteer rebuilding (06/05)
• Hurricane Katrina Animal Rescue – Animal rescue assignments in Flooded St.
• Bernhard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Rescued, transported, and placed over fifty animals. (10-11/05)
• Wildlife Care Center, Fort Lauderdale FL – on call, wildlife rescue (02/94 – present)
• Camp Olympiad, Ft. Lauderdale FL – Event Chaperone for mentally disabled adults (04/96 – 06/98)
• American Red Cross – Hurricane relief / rescue training – provided care and relief for displaced families after Hurricane Andrew. (08/92 – 10/92)
• BTCV – British Conservation, Wallingford England – Reconditioned 700-year-old stone footpaths in the Peak district (stone pitching). (07/00)