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Killing the Colorado
About - A Discovery Channel feature film about climate change; 3 vignettes from powerhouse documentarians explore the causes and consequences of America’s water disaster-in-the-making, based on the award-winning ProPublica journalism
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Read award-winning ProPublica journalism series
Companies: Discovery Channel, ProPublica; Directors: Barbara Kopple, Jesse Moss, Alan & Susan Raymond; Also Produced by: David Cassidy, Barbara Kopple; Executive Producers: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, John Hoffman; Journalist: Abrahm Lustgarten
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FutureWork “The Fall of Kodak”
About - A short film explores the fallout to the middle class workers of Rochester New York after photography giant Kodak collapsed, contrasted with the simultaneous rise of digital photo giant Instagram in San Francisco, part of a web series that looks at the future of American jobs from two Oscar-winners, released by Time and Fortune
FutureWork “A Year Up”
About - A short film about Bed Stuy Brooklyn security guard Christopher Hilliard’s career journey with the help of Year Up, part of a web series that looks at the future of American jobs from two Oscar-winners released by Time and Fortune
Credits - Companies: Cabin Creek Films, WorkingNation, Time, Fortune; Director: Barbara Kopple; Also Produced by: David Cassidy, Barbara Kopple; Featuring: David Autor, Gerald Chertavian, Jonas Prising, Carl Van Horn, Steven Sassan, Enrico Moretti, Helena Price, Sara Horowitz; Executive Producers: Art Bilger, Joan Lynch; Partners/Participants: LinkedIn, Manpower, Toyota, Uber, Upwork, Cornell, Stanford, MIT, Rutgers, UC Berkeley
Read Barbara Kopple’s making-of story in Fortune magazine, co-written by Ray Nowosielski
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
2017 Prime Time Emmy Award Nominated 3rd Season of
Vice on HBO “Sweet Home Alabama / Haitian Money Pit”
About - Thomas Morton goes to Alabama in 2014 to investigate the fallout from their protoTrumpian “self deportation” law targeting Latino communities, for one of 12 episodes of VICE on HBO’s Emmy nominated 3rd season
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Credits - Companies: VICE; Also Produced by: Andy Capper, Alex Braverman, Vikram Gandhi; Executive Producers: Bill Maher, Shane Smith, Eddy Moretti, BJ Levin
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2015 Webby Award Winning
We the Economy “Your Tax Dollars at Work”
About - Most of the areas of government spending we all debate ad nauseum tend to be a fairly inconsequential portion of the total pie, as explored in this short film entry in the Webby-winning online series We the Economy, featuring PlanetMoney’s Adam Davidson, Slate’s Mike Pesca and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings’ memorable cover of “Money”
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Watch Morgan Spurlock’s Webby Acceptance Speech
Credits - Companies: Cinelan, Vulcan Productions; Segment Director: Barbara Kopple; Segment Also Produced by: David Cassidy, Barbara Kopple; Series Producers: Robin Garvick, Danny Walton; Featuring: Mike Pesca, Adam Davidson, music by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings; Executive Producers: Morgan Spurlock, Paul Allen, Jody Gottlieb. Jeremy Chilnick, Damon Smith
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Plunder: The Crime of Our Time
About - The late great Danny Schechter “the News Dissector” predicted the 2008 financial crisis in his prior book and documentary; as the house of cards comes down, he documents the moment and finds that Wall Street’s profits had been built on a foundation of criminal activity.
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Read Danny Schechter’s Companion Book
Credits - Companies: Globalvision; Director: Danny Schechter; Additional Producers: Danny Schechter; Executive Producers: Rory O’Connor, Anant Singh
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Coming Soon: The Last Strike
When 11,000+ professional air traffic controllers went on strike, newly elected conservative darling President Ronald Reagan fired them all, delivering a blow to the labor movement that is only just now recovering
Credits - Companies: Kindling Group, Hyperobject Industries, in association with True Stories; Directed & Produced by: Danny Alpert; Producers: TBA; Executive Producers: Adam McKay, TBA