Films
° There Is My Home
DirectorThere Is My Home features Hawa Ibrahim and Batula Ismail, two women trying to support their families as farmers in Maine. Born and raised in the Jubba River Valley of Somalia, both learned to farm at a young age from their parents. When civil war broke out in 1991, their villages were repeatedly raided for food. Thousands of friends, family and fellow villagers were brutally killed. Hawa and Batula fled and eventually reached safety in refugee camps in Kenya. In 2004, they were resettled in Dallas and Baltimore respectively. But they struggled to adapt to city life. In 2004 they learned of a place called Lewiston, Maine — a small northern city close to farmland. That's where this story begins.
° Rwanda Reporting
Producer & DirectorFourteen years after Rwandan radio and newspapers fueled a genocide in which over half a million people were killed in only 90 days, a group of Rwandan journalism students and their Canadian professors debate the role of the press as they cover under-reported stories, form friendships and challenge international news outlets to publish stories about Rwanda today. (in production)
° Rebuilding Hope
ProducerThree "Lost Boys" return home after civil war forced them to flee South Sudan as young children. This is the documentary of their journey of discovery and their efforts to provide health and education to their communities. (in production)
°Telling it like it is
Consulting ProducerA film about the painter Bill Utermohlen - Alzheimer's & Art. (in production)
° The Jewish Americans (PBS)
Co-ProducerAirdate: Wednesdays, January 9-23, 2008, 9:00-11 pm
This six-hour documentary follows 350 years of Jewish-American history, from the first settlement in the 17th century to the present, and explores the experience of immigration and assimilation.