Credits
In Production
Co-Producer/DP
"American Lynching: Strange and Bitter Fruit." Documentary feature for PBS.
Director/DP
"Native Americans in the 21st Century" A 90-minute documentary feature for Native American Public Telecommunications and PBS. National PBS premiere in November 2004.
Writer/Producer/Director
"I Is Not For Indian" Documentary feature for PBSexploring the way Native American culture and history is "taught" in the public schools.
In the Can
Writer/Associate Producer/DP
"Waasa-Inaabidaa: We Look In All Directions" WDSE-TV, PBS Six-part documentary series, and companion web site at www.ojibwe.org, covering 500+ years of history and culture of 19 Ojibwe tribes in three states. National PBS Premiere 2002.
Writer/Director
"Alcatraz Is Not An Island" Documentary feature about the 1969-71 American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island. Sundance Film Fest. Premiered on PBS nationally in November, 2002
Writer/Producer/Director
"Voices for the Land" Environmental documentary for WDSE-TV, PBS, Minnesota. Broadcast premiere Nov. 2000.
Director/DP
"Waswagoning Ojibwe Dance Theater" Marketing and promotional video.
Event Producer/Director
"30th Anniversary of Alcatraz Occupation" A musical and cultural
celebration held on Alcatraz Island. Major press, radio, and TV coverage.
Director of Photography
"Alcatraz Is Not An Island" Documentary feature for PBS. Premeired November, 2002.
"We Hold the Rock" Exhibit video for the National Park Service, Alcatraz Island.
"Great Museums" National PBS series, shot in HDTV, airs Fall, 2003.
"Looks Into the Night" Award winning Native American dramatic short starring Tantoo Cardinal. Premiered on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, (Nationwide) Canada.
"Stay Tuned" Pilot for VH1 music documentary series.
"Don't Be a Target" Nationally broadcast special with Dennis Franz.
"In America" Documentary series on immigration, Produced by
Echo Pictures, for The International Channel.
"Dreggs" Fathom Pictures' ground
breaking live-action interactive CD ROM Game.
DP for hundreds of corporate, broadcast, and cable productions. Drama,
live broadcasts, corporate identity, blue screen. Betacam, DV, Hi Def. Sony
D600, D700 WS, and HD 790A.
DP 2nd Unit
"Today Is A Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George" CBC documentary feature. Premiered on CBC.
"Waasa-Inaabidaa: We Look In All Directions" WDSE-TV, PBS Duluth, Native American documentary.
"America Drinks" The History Channel.
"50x2000" German Television documentary shot in 16x9 digital widescreen.
"History of the Presidio" Documentary video shot in 16x 9 digital widescreen.
"First American's Journal" American
Indian documentary series produced by Native American Television,
Inc. for PBS.
Lighting Director/Cameraman
"Live From the Stratosphere" Live broadcast special for Nasa/Ames:
PBS.
"Silicon Graphics Inc., Town Meeting with Bill Clinton and Al Gore." Multi-camera live satellite broadcast/feed from SGI corporate headquarters.
"NBC Super Bowl XXVII Special with Dick Enberg"
"CBS College Bowl Preview Special"
"NBC Basketball Preview Special with Pat O' Brien"
Over 200 live teleconferences since 1987 for Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Intel and many others.
Awards & Accomplishments
Regional Emmy Awards "Waasa-Inaabidaa: We Look In All Directions" WDSE-TV, (Writer/Associate Producer) 11 nominations, 5 awards, including 2 in best documentary categories.
American Indian Film Festival "Waasa-Inaabidaa: We Look In All Directions" WDSE-TV, (Writer/Associate Producer) Best Documentary Feature, 2002.
American Indian Film Festival (Dir) "Alcatraz Is Not An Island" Best Documentary Feature, 1999.
American Indian Film Festival (DP) "Today Is A Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George" Best Documentary Feature, 1998
National Education Media Net (DP) "We Hold The Rock" Bronze Apple Award, Documentary Short, 1997
National Park Service Award (DP) "We Hold The Rock" Best Exhibit Video, 1997
Twenty First Annual American Indian Film Festival-1996: "Best Dramatic Short Video" for "Looks Into the Night".
Bronze Apple Award, National Educational Media Organization-1998, "We Hold The Rock" Director of Photography.
The National Parks Service Award of Excellence-1998, "We Hold The Rock" Exhibit Video, Director of Photography.
Telly Awards:(Lighting Director)-1995: Breene Kerr Productions/Intel. "Pentium Processor To Go"
New York Festivals Award:(Lighting Director)-1994: Breene Kerr Productions/Intel "In Review" Intel Corp.'s quarterly news magazine show.
Joey Award:Lighting-1992: Claris Corp./Breene Kerr Productions "Filemaker Pro 2.0"
Joey Award:Video News Release (Director of Photography)-1994: Sony Corp./3TV Productions "Sony Play Station"
Joey Award:Consumer Video (Director of Photography)-1994: 3TV Productions "Kim Anh Music Special"
Joey Award:Music Video (Director of Photography)-1994: 3TV Productions "Thanh Lan"
Joey Award:TV Commercial (Gaffer)-1993: Don Quixote Productions "Texas 1"
Joey Award: Non-Profit Sales/Marketing Video (Director of Photography)-1993: Pepper Communications/City of Freemont, CA. "Discover Freemont"
Joey Award: TV Commercial (Gaffer)-1990: Breene Kerr Productions "El Mexicano Cheese"
Productions For
AT&T, Adobe Systems, PBS (Minneapolis and San Francisco), TBS, American Film Institute, Amazing Media, Electronic Arts, Spectrum Holobyte, Lucas Arts, Autodesk, California Curriculum Corp., Novell, Netscape, 3COM, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Synopsis, Bank Of America, Wells Fargo, National Semiconductor, Novell, LSI Logic, Corp., Current Video, Internet Cafe, Computer Chronicles, PCTV, Wired TV., @Home Network, People Soft, Watts- Silverstein, Breene Kerr Productions, National Geographic Explorer, Apple Computer, Golden Gater Pictures (CBS, NBC, ESPN), Golden Gate Parks Association, Pacific Bell, Northern Lights Film & Video, Zenger-Miller, Computer Associates, Greystone Communications, Varian, Inc., The Sci-Fi Channel, Lockheed-Martin, Sun Microsystems, Quartet Productions, Martin-Brinkerhoff & Associates, Schlumberger, Digital Equipment Corp, IBM, Realtime Video, Transvideo, Broadcast Production Group, Ellen Michaels Productions, In-Vision Productions, Cadence, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Good Morning America (ABC), PC Weekly/ZDTV, Yahoo!, Microsoft.
In addition, Jim produced the companion website (www.ojibwe.org) for "Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look In All Directions," a 6 hour PBS documentary series. Jim also taught video production workshops for Native American high school students at the 1997 Native Americas International Film Expo in Santa Fe, NM. He has also been active working behind the scenes for the American Indian Film Institute in San Francisco, CA. He has appeared as a guest speaker at SFSU, USF, ASU, Brown University, Syracuse University, University of Minnesota, KQED Television, and the Banff Television Conference discussing aboriginal filmmaking, and his articles and interviews have appeared in several Bay Area and national publications. Jim is a two-time recipient of PBS's Emerging Filmmaker Fellowships, including the prestigious PBS Producers Academy Workshop at WGBH in Boston.
Demo reel and references available upon request.
