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Juliet Jones
In August of 2002 I celebrated with friends as we found out Juliet and her husband Richard had successfully conceived their first child. In September, the joy took a 180 degree turn as we learned she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of breast cancer. I started following Juliet with a camera in November and through December when she gave birth and underwent a full mastectomy of the left breast. "I want my daughter to have a record of this," Juliet said. "It may be morbid to think about, but I don't know how long I'll be able to be with her. I want her to be able to see what her mother was like." Learn more about Juliet and follow her progress on www.julietjones.net.

After more than a year of post production, which entailed cutting 36 hours of footage down to a 46-minute documentary film, I finally have a version that's ready to send out to festivals and television stations. I've encoded the parts of the film into mp4 files which can be viewed using Quicktime or Real Player. Below are the segments:

Opening Scene - 4.5 meg

Part One - 26.7 meg

Part Two - 75 meg

Part Three - 29.8 meg

Part Four - 38.8 meg

Part Five/Closing Scene - 30.3 meg

To order a copy of the DVD, please visit Juliet's website at www.julietjones.net.

Made in Queens

While a student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Dawn Weiner, Nicole Still and I shot, produced and edited a film about Mirkala Cristal, a Puerto drag queen who celebrated a year of consistent, successful performances at Manhattan's legendary gay bar The Stonewall. Gaining intimate access to Mirkala's life as Steve, we showed how a normal gay Queens resident changes himself into an award-winning femal impersonator. The film won the John M. Patterson Documentary Television Award. To view the transformation scene in mp4 format, please click below. You will need either Quicktime or Real Player.

The Transformation - 36.5 meg

The fiction

In August of 1998, the principle shooting for the acclaimed independent film "Mexican Standoff" started. Six short weeks later about 85 percent of the footage was in the can. At the time, neither writer/director Robert Saiz Holguin nor executive producer Joseph Van Harken (me) knew it would be nearly two years until its completion. Many hard times and challenges faced us in those long two years, but finally over Thanksgiving in 2000, we "four walled" a theater in El Paso, Texas for the worldwide premiere. Since then the film has gone on to be in festivals on both coasts of the united states in New York City and San Francisco. Please see below for clips:

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