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Filmmaker Laura Gabbert and I completed work on our 6-part television series "The Power of Film" featuring legendary UCLA film professor Howard Suber. We are thrilled that it's being released by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) starting Jan. 4 through Feb. 8, 2024! The series, which I also helped edit interweaves amazing scenes from the most memorable and popular American films along with Suber’s brilliant teachings about how and why they work. Laura and I were both students and TA's for Howard Suber back when we were grad students at UCLA film school. Check it out and please spread the word!

Last summer, I started making a film called "Louder Than Guns." It's about gun violence and gun rights in America featuring Ketch Secor, his band Old Crow Medicine Show and Public Radio's David Greene (host of "Left, Right & Center"). Through the power of music and the seemingly unpopular notion of actually listening to all sides of this incendiary issue, we've been filming a series of powerful and sometimes healing conversations about how to create safer communities and a better future for this country. The project was inspired by this op-ed piece in the NYTimes by Ketch Secor after Nashville's Covenant School shooting in March, 2023.

In June 2023, Netflix debuted "Arnold" a three-part documentary series about the many incredible lives of Arnold Schwarzenegger (bodybuilder, movie star, California Governor), which I helped executive produce this last year alongside Allen Hughes.

In other news, I was truly honored that my feature documentary "Scratch" began screening on the Criterion Channel recently, in honor of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.