Documentary

Sister Helen (HBO/Cinemax )

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For desperate, repeat substance abusers, genuine hope and much-needed assistance comes in the form of an ill-tempered, stubborn and unyielding 69 year-old Benedictine nun who runs ahome for recovering addicts, much like Vince Lombardi would run a football team. With one exception: Sister Helen Travis is tougher.

Winner – Sundance Film Festival Documentary Directing Award 2002
National Emmy; Director's Guild of America Awards – nominated
Grand Prize: Chicago, Newport, Nashville Film Festivals

Secrets of Mary Magdalene (PBS)

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A one hour special for PBS that questions the biblical version of Mary Magdalene’s role in early Christianity. Shot in Bulgaria, France and the United States.

Seeing Proof

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I went back to Cambodia to make a film about the Khmer Rouge, the brutal regime that killed nearly two million people in the mid 1970s, only to discover that many of the new generation didn’t believe that it happened. I will continue to return to Cambodia to document the upcoming tribunal of the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders.