Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: Best Independent Feature, International Wildlife Film Festival; Genesis Award, Outstanding Documentary Feature, U.S. Humane Society; Audience Awards for Best Film, Ashland and Maine Film Festivals.
Dark Circle: New York Film Festival Premiere; National Emmy Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in News and Documentary"; Special Merit Award, Academy Awards Documentary Committee; Grand Prize, Sundance Film Festival
Out of the Way Cafe: Special Jury Prize, Uppsala Film Festival
Quiet Revolution, Nepal: Earthwatch Film Festival Award
Nagasaki Journey: "History's Best on PBS"
Kids by the Bay: Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival
Guggenheim Fellowship: One-year Fellowship in Film
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Director's Internship: With Director Peter Weir (Mosquito Coast)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: Portrait of Mark Bittner, a Bohemian Saint Francis, and his magical relationship with a flock of wild parrots in San Francisco. Nonfiction feature film, 83 minutes, 35mm color. Released theatrically in U.S. by Shadow Distribution in 2005; released on DVD by New Video in 2006. Producer/Director The DVD is available now at the Pelican Media store.
Christmas at the Bait Shop: Short film about Keith Fraser and his egret, heron, and gull friends at the Loch Lomond Bait Shop in San Rafael. Available now at the Pelican Media store. Producer/Director.
Salt-Pond Habitat Restoration: Short introductory film and on-going still photography documentation for a major habitat restoration project in South San Francisco Bay. Producer/Director. The DVD is available now at the Pelican Media store.
Nineteen Arrests, No Convictions: Half-hour portrait documentary of George Farnsworth, a charismatic Italian bar owner who also sets records as a San Francisco Bay open-water swimmer. Producer/Director. World Premiere in February, 2008.
Alameda Wildlife Refuge and Save the Quail Campaign: Short films about the proposed refuge, featuring endangered California least terns and brown pelicans; and California quail, in a Presidio native-plant restoration area. 5 and 3 minutes, 16mm color. Broadcast on KQED. Producer/Director.
Kids by the Bay, San Pablo Baylands, & Partners on the Land: Documentaries on wetlands, wildlife, and habitat restoration in the Bay and Delta, including a Nature Conservancy project at the Cosumnes River. 1999 S.F. Film Festival Golden Gate Award. Writer/Producer/Director.
Nagasaki Journey: International photography exhibit, 128-page book, and half-hour film produced for the fiftieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. Simultaneous gallery openings in New York, San Francisco, and Nagasaki, 1995. Film broadcast on NHK (Japan), BBC (Britain), & PBS. "Some of the most powerful images ever made." Carol Squiers, New York Times. Producer/Director.
Out of the Way Cafe: Hour-long drama about Mae the Waitress and her two suitors, in a cafe that time didn't quite forget. Swedish tv, 1999 PBS broadcast. Writer/Director.
Dark Circle: Nonfiction feature about nuclear weapons and power, told by those directly affected. 1983, updated 1991, re-released 2006. New Yorker Films. Distributed worldwide in seven languages. Broadcast on PBS prime-time network series, "P.O.V." Producer/Director/Writer/Narrator. "Completely riveting," Roger Ebert.
Roger and Me: Nonfiction comedy feature about how General Motors built and destroyed Flint, Michigan. New York Film Festival, Warner Brothers theatrical release, 1991. Camera, Sound, and Editorial Consulting.
Secrets of the Bay and Treasures of the Greenbelt: Companion films on San Francisco Bay Area wildlife and countryside, broadcast on KQED-TV and other PBS stations. 1990 and 1987. Toured the Bay Area with four other Irving-produced environmental films as Calfed-funded Traveling Environmental Film Festival, 1999-2001. Producer/Director/Writer.
After the Storm: Bob Walker and the Art of Environmental Photography: Traveling photography exhibit and film. San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Oakland Musuem of California, other venues. 2000-2002. Curator.
Nagasaki Journey: 128-page hardback photo book published by Pomegranate Artbooks, to accompany the international photo exhibition. Associate Editor. 1995.
Quiet Revolution: Six-part national PBS series on sustainable development in rural areas. Half-hour segments shot in Nepal, Zimbabwe, and Arkansas. 1995, Earthwatch Environmental Film Festival Award. Director.
Running Away: Essay for Sun Magazine about an African guide and a white tourist in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Writer. 1994.
Rio Mazan: British expedition to unexplored cloudforest in Ecuadorian Andes. Still Photographer, 1987.
Earthwatch Magazine: Feature article on maternal/child nutrition project in rural Zimbabwe. Writer/Photographer, 1986.
Mademoiselle Magazine, Weekend Magazine, Montreal Star: Feature writer and photographer; stringer for Time Magazine, 1969-73.
Soapy Lives: Theatrical drama about the infamous Klondike Gold Rush character, Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, playing each summer in Skagway, Alaska, 1973 to present. Writer/Dirctor.
Out of the Way and Trip Without a Ticket: Original oral-history-based dramas produced by Tale Spinners Theatre Company, San Francisco. Director. 1988-89.
M.A. Stanford University, Film and Broadcasting
B.A. Connecticut College, Psychology, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude
Writing Fellowships: MacDowell Colony, UCross Foundation, and Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Squaw Valley Screenwriters' Workshop.
Guest Lecturer: U.C. Berkeley, Connecticut College, Stanford University, New College of California, SF City College, SF State University, Film Arts Foundation.
Nutcase: Year-round San Francisco Bay swimmer.
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Alcatraz Swim Photo courtesy of David Kennedy
