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MyType2: A Web Community for Teens Living with Type 2 Diabetes
There are more than 160 million people on the planet living with type 2 diabetes. Every year, more teens join this group. Visit PBS' MyType2 website to watch real teens living with type 2 diabetes, learn tips from experts, ask questions, and share your stories with a community that can relate.
Produced at WGBH-Boston; edited by Jessie Beers-Altman.
Produced at WGBH-Boston; edited by Jessie Beers-Altman.
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The Spirit of a Runner (2009)
Documentary - 28 minutes - color
A veteran ultramarathoner tackles the Everest of distance racing in this documentary film about the world's longest certified footrace. Filmmaker Jessie Beers-Altman turns the cameras on distance runner Suprabha Beckjord as she takes on the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race for an unprecedented 12th year in a row. Hailed by her peers as “the greatest super-long distance runner in history,” Beckjord has made an annual tradition of running the race – which takes place around a half mile-long loop in Queens, NY – as a tribute to Bengali spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy. A disciple of Chinmoy for nearly thirty years, Beckjord faces a new challenge as she confronts the journey for the first time since his death. A portrait of inspiration, The Spirit of a Runner challenges our definition of possibility as it explores the enduring capacity of the human heart and the unfaltering power of self-transcendence.
Interviews from the 2007 Battered Mothers Custody Conference (BMCC)
Documentary - 14 minutes - color
A preview to a follow-up of Garland Waller’s 1998 exposé documentary, Small Justice, which portrayed the pattern of family courts granting custody of abused children to their abusers, this film has been used by the Battered Mothers Custody Conference to increase awareness on the issue and encourage changes in legislation.
Andy (2007)
Documentary - 10 minutes - color
Co-directed and co-produced with filmmaker Stacey Palmer
A Boston-based stand-up comedian bares it all in this documentary short about standing out and being different. Andy profiles Andy Ofiesh, nude stand-up comic and founder of Boston's Naked Comedy Showcase. Produced in the Boston University Graduate Film Production Program, Andy sheds both clothes and conventions as it explores the eccentricities of a true anti-conformist.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Boston Underground Film Festival 2009
Redstone Film Festival East 2008
A Boston-based stand-up comedian bares it all in this documentary short about standing out and being different. Andy profiles Andy Ofiesh, nude stand-up comic and founder of Boston's Naked Comedy Showcase. Produced in the Boston University Graduate Film Production Program, Andy sheds both clothes and conventions as it explores the eccentricities of a true anti-conformist.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Boston Underground Film Festival 2009
Redstone Film Festival East 2008
A Tradition of Sound (2007)
Narrative short - 7 minutes - 16mm color film
Reuning & Son Violins is considered one of the premiere stringed instrument shops in the country. Its luthiers repair and restore instruments that are hundreds of years old, delicately preserving the ancient craft of violinmaking. A Tradition of Sound delivers audiences to this modern-day workshop, and explores what the workers say makes their craft "a different type of work."
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Dead Center Film Festival 2009
Redstone Film Festival West 2008
Redstone Film Festival East 2008
AWARDS
3rd place (Redstone Film Festival West 2008)
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Dead Center Film Festival 2009
Redstone Film Festival West 2008
Redstone Film Festival East 2008
AWARDS
3rd place (Redstone Film Festival West 2008)
The Dinner Date (2006)
Narrative short - 8 minutes - 16mm b&w film
A young woman gets more than she bargained for when she tries to prepare an anniversary dinner for her sweetie.
The Thiel Family Portrait (2005)
Documentary - 8 minutes - color
Produced for WPSU's Pennsylvania Inside Out, this news piece tells the story of a remarkable family and their 16 children.