LEGACY
Story Producer
From Lakers’ CEO and controlling owner Jeanie Buss and Emmy® Award-winning director Antoine Fuqua, Legacy captures the remarkable rise and unprecedented success of one of the most dominant and iconic franchises in professional sports. Featuring exclusive access to the Buss Family and probing, revealing interviews with players, coaches, and front office execs, this 10-part documentary series chronicles this extraordinary story from the inside – told only by the people who lived it.
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THE ME YOU CAN’T SEE
Co-Story Producer
Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry join forces to guide honest discussions about mental health; featuring illuminating stories from across the globe, giving people the opportunity to seek truth, understanding and a newfound hope for the future.
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JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE
Associate Producer
Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.
*Critics' Choice Documentary Award
*NAACP Image Awards, Outstanding Documentary
*News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Outstanding Historical Documentary Nominee
THE DESERT
Director • Producer • Cinematographer • Editor
After losing a decades long battle to save a low income community’s public hospital, THE DESERT chronicles the aftermath as patients, first responders and care providers adapt to limited options, longer distances and backlogged systems of care.
*Mill Valley Film Festival Official Selection
*Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival Official Selection
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VERNON JORDAN: MAKE IT PLAIN
Associate Producer
VERNON JORDAN: MAKE IT PLAIN explores Vernon Jordan’s rise from the segregated South, his tenure as the head of several civil rights organizations, and his current position as a partner at a corporate law firm and financial behemoth Lazard. Jordan is one of the most influential African American thought leaders in America.
KIDS CAUGHT IN THE CRACKDOWN
Associate Producer
As the detention of migrant children has climbed to record-breaking levels under President Trump, FRONTLINE and The Associated Press investigate what’s going on inside federally-funded shelters — and the lasting impact on children held in U.S. custody. Also in this two-part hour, a report on the sexual exploitation of women and girls in Iraq.
*News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine
THE PUSHOUTS
Associate Producer
"I was in prison before I was even born.” So begins the story of Victor Rios - a high school dropout, gang member, and three time felon by 15. But when a teacher’s quiet persistence, a mentor’s moral conviction, and his best friend’s murder converge, Rios’ path takes an unlikely turn. Two decades later Rios - by then a 36 year-old tenured UC professor, author and national thought leader on the school-to-prison pipeline - gets a call. “Hey Hotshot.” It’s Martín Flores, Rios’ high school mentor, who he hasn’t heard from in 15 years. “I know you’re busy, but I need you to come down to Watts this summer and work with my kids.” It's a make it or break it moment for these youth, Flores - who directs a program serving 16 to 24 olds who haven’t finished high school - warns. “We get them on the right path now, or we lose them to the system.”
*Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Official Selection
*SFFILM Film Festival Official Selection
TRAFFICKED IN AMERICA
Researcher
FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley tell the inside story of Guatemalan teens forced to work against their will on an egg farm in Ohio. This investigation about labor trafficking exposes a criminal network that exploited undocumented minors, companies profiting from forced labor and the U.S. government’s role. The documentary is from the producers of “Rape in the Fields“and “Rape on the Night Shift“– award-winning investigations about sexual abuse in the agricultural and janitorial industries.
THE RETURN
Impact Campaign Coordinator
In 2012, California voters amended the state’s Three Strikes Law - one of the harshest criminal sentencing laws in the nation. The landmark passage of Proposition 36 constituted the first time in history that U.S. citizens voted to shorten sentences of the currently incarcerated. Within days, the reintegration of thousands of “lifers” – men and women once expecting to spend their lives in prison – was underway. THE RETURN weaves together a handful of close-to-the-bone narratives of characters on the front lines of this unprecedented shift: prisoners suddenly freed, families turned upside down, attorneys and judges wrestling with an untested law and reentry providers negotiating unfathomable transitions. Taken together, this constellation of stories yields an illuminating meta-narrative of an unfolding and historic reform, exploring what it can teach a nation reckoning with mass incarceration.
*2016 Tribeca Film Festival-Audience Award for Documentary
*2016 Peabody Awards-George Foster Peabody Award Nominee
*2016 News and Documentary Emmy Awards-Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary Nominee