Films
Painted Nails – trailer
newest project in production - a documentary by Dianne Griffin and Erica Jordan - translation and guidance by Nhung Pham
The world is at our fingertips in Painted Nails — a Vietnamese immigrant story of exotic nail art, pampered clients, and the serious health risks that lurk beneath the brightly painted surface. The nail industry is an economic steppingstone for a generation of Vietnamese immigrant women. Yet, for these women, the promise of the American Dream has its price. Painted Nails will explore the benefits and the dangers both workers and clients face.
Blueberry Galette
What’s that in the sky above Apple’s WWDC at the Moscone Center in San Francisco? It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…OK, actually, yes, it is a plane. Six to be exact, with a message about TabCo! Who are we? What are we? We’re not telling, but you can find out more at www.whoistabco.com. Viral Ad Campaign
FEESA Feed Educate Employ South Africa
FEESA a 501 c(3) overarching goal is to vastly improve the quality of life for South Africa’s suffering masses and to make a difference that will be felt for generations to come. It is their strong belief that the only way the poverty stricken country can climb out of its hole is through a commitment to education.
Vietnam – One in a series of eight
Nature has blessed Vietnam with a bountiful harvest of soaring mountains, a killer coastline and radiant rice fields. Inland, peasant women in conical hats still tend to their fields, children ride buffalos along country paths and minority people scratch out a living from impossible gradients. Made in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program
Cambodia – One in a series of eight
These set of videos were created to assist with a strategy that aims to reduce poverty by targeting economically-depressed areas, managing the adverse social impacts that tourism can have, particularly the exploitation of women and children and protecting and promoting both the natural and cultural heritages of the region. The strategy could help raise more than a million people out of extreme poverty by 2015. It is an ambitious plan that, happy to say, was approved by all six governments. These videos are not travelogues but demonstrate how travel and tourism has as much potential to improve nature and humankind as it does to destroy it and that there a lot of people around the world trying to make it happen.
Thailand – One in a series of eight
Nepal
Draped along the greatest heights of the Himalaya, Nepal is where the ice-cold of the mountains meets the steamy heat of the Indian plains. It’s a land of yaks and yetis, stupas and Sherpas and some of the best trekking on earth. The Himalaya’s most sophisticated urban cultures took shape here, in the three great minikingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley -In Conjunction with the United Nations Development, Pacific Asian Travel Association, American Express.
Nepal – World Heritage Sites
White Hotel -trailer
They set out to make a documentary about AIDS, never expecting to become a part of the story….
When Two women with a video camera follow an American HIV research team to Eritrea, Africa, they are catapulted into a land of joy and repression of promiscuity and sexual mutilation. Captivated, they are drawn into circumstances which quickly shatter the filmmakers objectivity and turns their journalistic inquiry into an intimate investigation of their own capacities to love suffer and forgive.
This documentary has a universal appeal, combining as it does the visual character of an ancient country, the scars of war, the despair of disease, the elation of freedom. the moments of love, the struggle for forgiveness, the pain of death and the beauty of life. Distributed – Jane Balfour Films – London England
Commercial Work
The Prankster
Hilarious, heartfelt, and magical, The Prankster is an exciting new high school comedy, destined to be the next teen classic. Distributed – The Strand – 2010