Two fantastic offerings this spring.

This spring will bring to the air two projects that I am extremely proud of "A Celebration of Peace Through Music" premiering Easter Sunday April 5th on PBS and "Living With Lincoln" Monday April 13th on HBO.

A Celebration of Peace Through Music is a concert film by my longtime friend and collaborator Sir Gilbert Levine. I was fortunate enough not only to do the creative editing and color correction  on the concert and the numerous short pieces shot around the world, but to have attended the concert itself. The music performed is sublime and the message of spirt in music profound.

Living With Lincoln is an extraordinarily beautiful documentary by Peter Kunhardt (my first client in New York 27 years ago) and Brian Oakes along with Peter's sons George and Teddy.  It is an intimately personal look at a family's own history and it's passion about a great man of world history.  You will love the look, the sound, the heart of this film.

So, as if we weren't already looking forward to Spring, here are two more reasons.

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 Wins the Oscar for short documentary!

I am thrilled and honored to have worked on this wonderful film. Congratulations to Ellen and Dana and Geof and Gladys and Jacqui. 

This is my ninth nominated film and second win. I am very fortunate to work with some very talented people.

Through a Lens Darkly, winner of the Image Award for Best Theatrical Documentary from the NAACP will have its broadcast premiere on PBS Monday February 16th

Through a Lens Darkly, the wonderful, award-winning documentary by Thomas Allen Harris will now make its broadcast premiere on PBS. After its success at Sundance last year the film has been touring non-stop around the country and around the world. Do yourself a favor and watch the film and spread the word. Color correction and online editing by yours truly.

Sundance

Today is the fourth day here. Having a great time. The world premiere of Larry Kramer in Love and Anger was fantastic. Larry himself was live on a Skype call for the Q&A after the film. Went to the after-party of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, dj spinning by Erykah Badu. Saw two great short docs, Abandoned Goods and It's Me Hillary. Today I'll see my friends at Chicken and Egg Pictures and HBO. Hope to get back to New York before the snow storm.

Hot January

It's been a very busy January. Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 is nominated for an Academy Award. Larry Kramer in Love and Anger screens at the Sundance Festival Friday afternoon and I'll be there cheering it along. Next week I hope to put the final touches on a remarkable concert film for PBS with Sir Gilbert Levine, scheduled to air nationwide on Easter Sunday.  Can't wait to see what happens in February.

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 receives Academy Award nomination

I am proud to have been part of the team on Crisis Hotline. Producer Dana Perry and I have worked together on several really great projects and the HBO editorial staffers Geof Bartz and Gladys Mae Murphy have been collaborators on many more. Congratulations to all involved! 

She's Beautiful When She's Angry opens in theaters.

I attended an opening night screening of SBWSA last night at the Landmark Sunshine theater in New York. I'm so happy to see the enthusiam the film is generating. Watching the film again, I realized how much I as man benefitted from the women's rights movement. I am thankful to have come of age at a time woman had the hard-won advantages the movement achieved. It helped form the strong women I knew then and know now.

Do yourself a favor and go see this film in the theater. Here is a link for information on screenings nationwide, http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/findascreening.

Here is a review from Variety.

http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-shes-beautiful-when-shes-angry-1201372161/

Jean Carlomusto's documentary about Larry Kramer, produced for HBO, is headed to the Sundance Festival

Larry Kramer In Love and Anger, the wonderful new documentary about the always fascinating AIDS activist, has been selected for the US documentary competition at Sundance 2015. I am very proud to have worked on the film and am thrilled to be headed back to the festival to support it.

I am privileged to work on some great projects for HBO, the only problem is I can't talk about them until they are made public by the Network. Well the cat is now out of the bag. A great team has put together a really moving, important documentary here. Look for its broadcast in 2015.

Here is a link to the festival's announcement.

http://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/john-cooper-and-trevor-groth-break-down-the-2015-sundance-film-festival-program 

Thank You America with Robin Roberts on Thanksgiving evening.

Robin Roberts launches her first television special from her production company, Rockin Robin Productions. I had the pleasure of color correcting the show, which I know is going to be a huge success! Thanks Robin. Good luck.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/11/thank-you-america-with-robin-roberts-airs-thursday-november-27th/

She's Beautiful When She's Angry screens nationwide.

SBWSA qualified for Academy Award consideration and can be seen nationwide. In New York the DOCNYC screening is this Sunday at 2:15. The film will be running at Landmark theaters in New York, San Francisco, Berkeley and Washington D.C..

For a more complete listing of locations and dates go to:

http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/seethefilm/

Films added to HBOGO

Four of my works have been added to HBO's streaming service HBOGO; Prison Terminal, Alan Alda: A YoungArts Masterclass, John Guare: A YoungArts Masterclass and Joshua Bell: A YoungArts Masterclass. This brings to 21 the number of my projects available now on HBOGO.  

She's Beautiful When She's Angry set to play at the DOC NYC festival

http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com

SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.   SHE’S BEAUTIFUL takes us from the founding of NOW, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Conspiracy from Hell!).  Artfully combining dramatizations, performance and archival imagery, the film recounts the stories of women who fought for their own equality, and in the process created a world-wide revolution. 

SHE’S BEAUTIFUL does not try to romanticize the early movement, but dramatizes it in its exhilarating, quarrelsome, sometimes heart-wrenching glory.   The film does not shy away from the controversies over race, sexual preference and leadership that arose in the women’s movement.  SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY captures the spirit of the time --- thrilling, scandalous, and often hilarious.

That story still resonates today for women who are facing new challenges around reproductive rights and sexual violence, as the film shows present-day activists creating their generation's own version of feminism. SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY is a film about activists, made to inspire women and men to work for feminism and human rights.