Oak Drive Video Productions

Educational Projects:

Griphoist in Action: Trail Work on Hazard Trees (2014) (produced for the Friends of the North Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail)

Take Five (2013) (produced for the Centennial Celebration of The Garden Club of America)

Double Vision, Scrambled Voice Clinical Presentations of Myasthenia Gravis (2003) (about a neuromuscular disease — distributed to med students and other health care professionals)

Worth it? You bet! (2002)  (importance of reading to young children, made for local public schools)

¿Vale la pena?  ¡Por supuesto que si! (2005) (reading project above, redone with Spanish voice over)

Local and International Community Projects:

3 Arts Review: The First 75 Years (2011) (a review of work by members of the 3 Arts group in Durham, NC — visual artists, writers, and musicians)

For Rachel (2010) editor (tribute to a high school senior)

In His Hands (2009) (the story of a school in the community of San Mateo, San Pedro, Belize)

Tales from Leasburg  (Audio CD 2008) editor (a collection of stories from parishioners over 80 at a Methodist church in Leasburg, North Carolina)

What Not to Wear (2007) editor (about the government ban on women wearing head scarves in Turkey)

In the Pocket (2007 and 2004) (high school jazz group)

Never Too Late (2006) (for our local literacy center, about the programs they offer)

Books, Blocks, and Belikins (2004) (service project in Belize)

Volleyball for Kaitlin (2002) (a girl who wants to play volleyball in college)

Cane Creek Harvest (first version 2001, reedited 2002) (last harvest of a farmer making molasses)

1307 Mason Farm Road (2001) (tribute to a home that is going to be torn down)

Duke University Projects:

A Conversation with Sergei Kovalev, (Russian human rights activist and politician, co-founder of the human rights organization ‘Memorial’, taped in Moscow, Russia, 2009)

A Conversation with Grigory Yavlinsky (Russian economist and politician, instrumental in the transition of the USSR into a free-market economy, leader of the Yabloko political party, taped in Moscow, Russia, 2009)

A Conversation with Dr. Vladimir Mau (Russian political scientist and economist, Rector of the Academy of the National Economy, Moscow, Russia, 2009)

 A Conversation with Sergei Shatalov (Russian economist, Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, Principal author of the Russian Tax Code, taped in Moscow, Russia, 2009)

 A Conversation with Yegor Gaidar (Russian economist and politician, Director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition, Architect of market reforms in the early 1990s, Former Minister of Economics and Finance, former Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Prime Minister under President Boris Yeltsin, taped in Moscow, Russia, 2009)

 A Conversation with Yevgeny Yasin (Former Russian Minister for the Economy under Boris Yeltsin, Academic Supervisor at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, 2009)

A Conversation with Anatoly Chubais (Russian economist, politician, and business manager, one of the architects and the manager of Russia’s mass privatization program in the 1990s, former Chairman of United Energy System, and current Director of Rusnano, Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, taped in Moscow, Russia, 2009)

 A Conversation with Arkady Dvorkovich (Russian economist, Aide to President Medvedev on economic development and trade, taped in Moscow, Russia, 2009)

 A Conversation with Ludmilla Alexeyeva (Russian human rights activist and historian, Co-founder and the current Chairperson of the Moscow Helsinki Group, taped in Moscow, Russia, 2009),

A Conversation with Dmitry Vasiliev (Russian Economist, first Chairman of Russia’s Federal Commission for the Securities Market, Co-founder Institute of Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, founding member of Russia’s Investors Protection Association, taped in Moscow, Russia, 2009)

Projects advisor for Duke course on Islam and the Media (spring 2010 and 2011)

Personal projects:

Final Cut Nightmare (2010) (excerpt of Nightmares of a Videographer)

Images and Reflections (2007) (personal family history)

Nightmares of a Videographer (2003) personal piece

Roller Coaster Design Portfolio (2000) (a resume in video)

Martha Heine Tapestry Weaver (first version 1999, reedited 2000, 2001) (about a  tapestry weaver who is dying of cancer)

Swing Dance and Yellow Galoshes (1998)  (a high school graduation speech put to images)

Smitty’s Place (1998) (about a barber)

SPLASH (1997) (water balloon fight between two teenagers)

Projects for course work:

Poet Son (2006) (about an African American spoken word artist, final project for a Certificate from Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University)

Producer for a schizophrenia story on PBS, North Carolina Now (11/99 UNC course)