5:00 video I created on the largest wetlands environmental restoration project in the world.
Images from a December 2016 Cuba trip to Havana and Vinales
In Dutch Harbor, Alaska, a group of U.S. scientists launch an historic expedition to map the geochemistry of the Arctic Ocean.
One week. 350 miles. Noank, CT, to Penobscot Bay, ME, by way of Martha's Vineyard, Provincetown and Isle of Shoals.
When a group of college students join the Everglades Wilderness Writing Expedition, one has a life-changing experience.
Creative Writing professor and Guggenheim Fellow John Dufresne talks about the often messy process of producing fiction.
Here is a 5:30 piece I produced on the Gogodala people of Papua New Guinea, a tribe of former cannibals who claim to be one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. A longer version of this aired on Miami Public Television.
Half-hour documentary Key West: Bohemia in the Tropics tells the story of how a radical New Deal experiment during the Great Depression turned Key West into a wild party town. Since Bohemia began airing nationwide on PBS stations in June 2011, it has been broadcast more than 1,000 times.
Stories from the Overseas Highway is a rollicking ride along Florida’s only All-American Road. Experience the stunning beauty of the Florida Keys and meet a colorful cast of off-beat characters in this half-hour PBS documentary about an unforgettable road trip down “the highway that goes to sea.” (full TV program)
Escape to Dreamland is my 2008 film on the characters, culture and history we encountered on a trip along one of the loneliest stretches of highway east of the Mississippi. Originally produced for Miami PBS station WLRN, Escape to Dreamland has now aired nationwide more than 500 times. This trip on US Highway 41 takes you through the heart of the Everglades. You’ll meet the Giant & the Half-Girl, a skunk ape researcher, the king of the swampland salesmen and many more outlandish characters. Here’s a :30 film trailer. Music by Deblois.
A Century in the Sun: Henry Flagler & the Making of Modern Florida, is the story of Florida’s stunning transformation from bug-infested backwater into the fourth-largest state in the U.S. The one-hour documentary premiered on Miami PBS station WLRN in January, 2012, and has now aired more than 200 times on PBS stations nationwide. (:30 trailer)
Photos from my 2013 trip to Papua New Guinea to document a research expedition visiting the Gogodala people, who live in the Fly River floodplain of the island nation's Western Province, one of the most remote spots on the planet. Some of the Gogodala believe they are one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.