The End of Summer: A Documentary Film
Project in current development, in partnership with Alison Palmer Bourke.
For the past 50 years, surfing has been the last word in cool. But there's a very real chance that surfing may be too successful for its own good. As difficult as it is to imagine, coastal development, rampant pollution and global warming threaten to destroy the oceans and the lifestyle surrounding it -- IN OUR LIFETIME. The surfing industry has sounded the alarm, but with the situation worsening by the day, a handful of environmental warriors have taken it in their hands to save the oceans and surfing itself before it is too late. The End of Summer is their story.
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Talk Talk: A New Type of Talk Show
Project in current development, in partnership with Alison Palmer Bourke.
If you take the in-depth discussions of Charlie Rose – and you mix them with the diversity of Larry King Live – and you add the
interactivity of Inside the Actors studio [With a Live Studio Audience] – and the intimacy of MTV's "Unplugged" - and one of the most
influential and forward thinking authors of our time, Malcolm Gladwell - Then you have a new type of Talk Show. "Talk Talk."
A single Guest for the half hour. The most important and innovative people living today. A carefully selected audience gets to ask questions in an open forum.
A visual tribute for each guest is produced. Our host will lead us through each episode. Our show skews younger, is more progressive and modern than a typical talk show today.
The J.D. Salinger Project
The J.D. Salinger Project is a coming of age documentary film that explores the impact, influence and the worlds fascination with the work of a writer whose words - [set a generation on its side] - and forever changed the way we see adolescence.
His most well known - and many would say, most controversial - novel, "Catcher in the Rye", has never fallen from its literary cult status since its initial publication in 1951, and for years has been required reading in schools that span the globe. "Catcher" , initially banned reading schools has inspired and continues to inspire people from noted filmmakers, to singers, composers, and novelists and students around the globe.
More than forty years after his last publication, Salinger remains a top selling author and quiet references to his work continue to infiltrate pop culture and our social sensibilities. Beginning with James Dean's portrayal of a sensitive, rebellious teenager in "Rebel Without a Cause" in 1955 to striking resemblance's of the Glass family characters in Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums" in 2001, the legacy of Salinger seems ubiquitous.
Salinger has been a notorious recluse since the mid-50s, keeping out of the public's eye, refusing to give interviews, and disallowing the rights of his stories to be sold or reproduced in any other form. Shot in a progressive documentary style, HiDef, intercut with photography, stock and archival footage, film and news clips, on-camera-explorations, and transitional graphics, the J.D. Salinger Project is a film with the accessibility of "Crumb", the drive of "The Kid Stays in the Picture ",the cultural and artistic relevance of "The Fog of War", and the social intimacy of "My Architect". Each chapter will reflect a certain aspect of his work as seen through the eyes of those who have embraced it, and have integrated his sensibility into their own. We as filmmakers would like to make a film that the author, who's now in his eighties, could appreciate.
Madonna Re:Vision
Madonna Re:Vision is a collaborative work in progress between writer Neil Feineman, Art Director Bill Douglas and producer Steve Reiss to create the definitive art book about uber entertainer Madonna as a music video artist and entrepreneur and how she used the medium of the music video to re-invent herself through more than twenty albums and over twenty years of performing. This book is currently in development.
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