Disposable Film Festival
Warhol, 1976 Being an artist in America is strange. There’s that whole idea that we’re living in the greatest country on earth, yet we’re the only industrialized nation that considers health care a...
View ArticleCuratorial Tornado
Photo by Ben Filio/Courtesy of the Sprout Fund The tornado has just dropped me off at my apartment with a mountain of gorgeous prints. Curating an art show is not unlike producing a film series; both...
View ArticleMan Enduring Pleasantness
Man Enduring Pleasantness Adam Grossi has a talent for distilling the tensions and anxieties unique to American life in a single image. I was lucky to interview the Chicago-based artist and yoga...
View ArticleEverything Will Probably Be Fine
“Everything Will Probably Be Fine” is a documentary short I directed about my friend, Jenn Gooch. She’s an NPR and USA Today-recognized musician and conceptual artist, who recently struggled with...
View ArticleHealthy Democracy
In this 3 minute short, a grassroots documentary series (Healthy Artists!) unites a community for health care equality. If the message resonates with you, please take a moment to VOTE for the video...
View ArticleNY Poet, Yogini, Genre-Bender
Claire Donato is an award-winning 26-year-old poet/novelist and yogini living in Brooklyn, NY. Her debut novel Burial was recently named among the “Best Summer Reads 2013” by Publishers Weekly. The...
View ArticleVideo “Street Doctor” on HuffPo
A Still from “Street Doctor” Check out our short video “Street Doctor” on Huffington Post. HuffPo writer Emily Thomas interviewed Dr. Jim Withers and I for the piece. We touch on everything from...
View ArticleFaces of MLK Day 2014
Today is MLK Day 2014 and sadly some inequalities haven’t changed. While the CEO of the “non-profit” institution UPMC makes $6million/year, so many UPMC workers start at $10/hr and struggle to...
View ArticleStorytelling Interview on Reality Sandwich
Bird Beard by Gabe Felice “No matter what kind of storytelling you do, you don’t want to lose character to plot…” Just talked to Reality Sandwich about creating documentaries, enjoying the Pittsburgh...
View ArticleHealthy Artists in The New York Times
“A subtext in the ‘Healthy Artists’ films, and in Ms. Sokolow’s wider advocacy, is a challenge to the notion that artists must suffer outside the basic economic protections of society.” -Ben Sisario...
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