Below are samples of stories I wrote, directed and post produced. I pride myself on finding the best actors for the role and I’ve worked with some very talented people, many of whom are moving on to great success. I am a very economic director. Of all these segments I only went into overtime once – and it was less than an hour. I also like to point out that I am very very creative on finding locations (NJ for France, Florida for NY, Florida for Nigeria, Baltimore for everywhere). I once shot a prison on the P2 parking garage at AMW (see Sarah below). Enjoy.

First, a little shootout to get started.

The Pink Panthers

The Pink Panthers are a group of international jewel thieves who operate throughout the world. For this story we needed to create the illusion we were in Serbia, Lichtenstein, France and Dubai. We needed some strong actors so we cast out of New York and filmed around a four block area of Morristown, New Jersey.  My cinematographer was Rick Lopez.

Lester

When you want actors to portray cops be sure you hire real cops and then surround them with great actors. Geoffrey George was my cinematographer.

Doreen

We filmed in an actual dance club in Baltimore which was fitted with a fogger system. This was extremely helpful for time and money. We also hired two dancers to work as background actors and to “consultant” our principals.  Great acting all around. Geoffrey George was my cinematographer.

Lizz

This was knee-knocker shoot because we locked this location down the night before filming. Just like cops, when you need a jazz band, hire a jazz band. Chrisdine King did an excellent job portraying Lizz. Geoffrey George was my cinematographer.

Princess Doe

Sometimes being lucky is better than being good. I found a cemetery, which was directly across the street from a diner/ice cream shop, which was next door to a house with three entrances and an interior which has not been changed since 1980. Throw in some great acting along and camerawork by Rick Lopez and Elliott Klayman, and wallah, you have nice period piece.

Mike and Barbie

To show the body or not show the body. We were nearly an hour behind on the shooting scene and it was our first scene of the day. To save time I decided to not show Barbie lying on the ground and only focus on the face of her co-worker.

Tobechi Onwuhara

This is another segment I shot with Rick Lopez, cinematographer. We needed to shoot for New York, Nigeria and Florida. We filmed the whole thing in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale. The interiors of JFK airport is a cruise ship terminal in Ft. Lauderdale. I had a second unit film the exteriors of JFK up in New York.

Ronnell

This is a fun story with a nice little twist. I’ve done some shootouts but this one was tough scene because we had seven people in a small apartment and the actors had to share a lot of “looks”.

 

 

Tommy

This was a very cool story to do. We shot all the interiors in Maryland and exteriors in Pennsylvania. Rick Lopez and Elliott Klayman worked their magic on the cameras.

The Enforcer

Ah, beating up children is so much fun. Actually the kids had a blast with this one. Even some of the extra kids wanted to be in the beating scenes. I shot this segment in Jacksonville, Florida to look like Arkansas. Outside of New York and Los Angeles, Florida has some very talented actors.

Nathan

The goal of telling a good AMW story was to catch the bad guy. But sometimes the bad guy was caught before the segment aired. While we were waiting for the graphics department to finish up some inserts, Lumbard was picked up in Burma. The segment never aired on AMW which was a shame because I thought we did a great job with this. We shot this in Florida and Maryland. Matthew Woolfe was the cinematographer for everything except the bridge, which was shot in Maryland with Elliott Klayman as DP.

Wahhab

I shot all the establishing shots in Chinatown, Queens and Long Island but the all the actors was filmed in Silver Spring, Maryland. Elliott Klayman was my DP.

Sarah

This is one of my all-time favorite re-enactments. Jenna Griffiths and Jon Lieberman had produced the story and on the Monday before the show our bosses asked if I could do some re-enactment for the story. I pre-produced, casted on Tuesday, shot on Wednesday and edited Thursday/Friday and the segment aired on Saturday. But the great part about the segment is I filmed the prison scene on the P2 section of our parking garage, the drug house is actually my house dolled up. And my buddy Brian, who has no acting experience, played the shooter. He served in the Army so I knew he could handle a gun. Elliott Klayman was my DP.