Release Date: October 2010

This quirky documentary film stems from the point of view that a filmmaker from Missouri travels with a crew from north to south in the Arkansas Delta with a fresh pair of eyes and discovers the humor, hardship, music & art that lies along the Mississippi River, largely ignored by the American people. Racism and the Elaine Massacre of 1919 are examined, a filmmaker is shot at, great food is consumed and multilevel generational poverty is examined in a system designed to keep people from working. Featuring cameos with Governor Mike Beebe, William Bowen, Senator David Pryor, Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame Chair Buddy Sutton, and Warren Stephens as well as a multitude of Delta residents and an amazing musical soundtrack, Woke Up This Morning in the Arkansas Delta is a fascinating and often disturbing examination of American Culture that has both been embraced and unfortunately ignored. Running time 88 minutes.

Release Date: October 2010

Kansas City Murder Factory is a documentary film that explores the murder epidemic in the urban core of Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City Murder Factory is an unscripted experimental documentary told from the perspective of the victim. In the film both observational and traditional forms of filmmaking collide to expose Kansas City’s most taboo topic: Murder.
This truly inspirational film shows the many hurdles and struggles of the victim’s families as they fight to get justice from a system, which manufactures injustice.
The film also presents the many challenges of organizations and individuals trying to decrease violent crime in Kansas City, includes compelling commentaries from Kansas City’s top spoken word artists

"WELCOME TO REAL INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING!"

When I was young in the late 1950s

and early '60s, my family would frequently attend screenings of films at neighborhood theatres and sometime head for the drive-in with a packed carload. Movies were an entertaining ritual, a time for the family to let go and be together. Then in 1962, my grandmother took me to see Jason and the Argonauts and everything changed. I wanted to make movies. So I do.

Independent Filmmaking--independent of what? The truth is, what Hollywood studios call independent film is not independent film. Most film projects are "green lighted" by corporate executives who have very little knowledge about film as anything other than a commodity. Hired guns are generally recruited in connection with the project (actors, directors, producers) in order to insure a high-end festival slot, a theatrical run, or a lucrative DVD deal with large distributors. Sorry, but that’s not independent.

I believe the true independent filmmaker should finance, produce, and market their own product, and that is what I do. It is not anyone's responsibility but my own to see to it that my work gets screened, so I work hard at it. For those of you who do not like my work, that's fine--I do it for me, not you.

I am most grateful to my parents for giving me the genetic code that continually invigorates my work. I do not make films to make money, I make films because I cannot not make films. It's a vocation that I find both therapeutic and educational, for both audiences and me.