My artistic calling began on the Lower East Side of New York City, where as a teenager in the late 1960s I joined the Henry Street Settlement's Movie Club, picked up a 16 mm camera, and never put it down. Two films from those early years, Young Braves and America's Best, have screened around the world and are now preserved at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. That foundation carried me through 28 award-winning years at ABC News and Sports, and ultimately into a second chapter as a documentary filmmaker, with five full-length films and several shorts: Imaginary Distance, James&Hugo and Me, The Art of Edward Ching, Duet, and Cornelia Street Cafe in Exile, each an intimate portrait of artists and the creative lives that define them. Along the way, I have assembled a growing collection of artworks by the very artists I have had the privilege of profiling. More recently, I have been curating and hosting short films by New York Metropolitan Filmmakers at New Plaza Cinema, and I have been writing a monthly film column for The Village View. As always, I mentor and educate future filmmakers. 

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