Phthalo Productions & Periscope
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develop curriculum and produce media for educators and organizations dedicated to helping others thrive. I do everything: research, report, write, film, photograph, edit and design. However, nothing beats collaborating with people who care deeply about what they do.
Philms
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specialize in educational, political and promotional videos. From pre-production to post-production, we’re a one-stop shop. You can check out a sampling of my promotional films, my instructional videos, as well as the trailers of my narrative and documentary work.
Periscope
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eriscope is a topic-based current-event curriculum for middle and high school students. Through an introductory essay framing a topic; findings from speeches, statements, journalism, and quantitative studies; and guiding questions aimed at fostering critical thinking, media literacy, and a probing consideration of differing perspectives, Periscope helps students and teachers explore issues of importance in all their rich and challenging complexity. Periscope is available for licensing.
Photography
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t’s people that interest me, people’s faces. I specialize in documentary-style portrait photography, often in conjunction with our video projects.
Writing
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or many years, I was a magazine and newspaper journalist, writing long-form news features and essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and many other publications—plus the book Slaphappy.
Misc.
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‘ve written and directed two narrative features, a web series, documentaries, and various shorts. Phthalo Productions is a division of Fancy Man Films.