- Recent Events...

For the last four years I have worked as a film programmer and freelance producer of film festivals and screening events. Events I have produced include:

Scene: Brooklyn is a film and media arts program presented by the Brooklyn Arts Council. The event features work by Brooklyn filmmakers of all disciplines, and I am proud to be managing the festival and heading up the programming department. Four programs of documentaries, narrative shorts and artist films with a Brooklyn perspective will be screening at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO Brooklyn on May 4th, and 5th. May 6th is our Brooklyn filmmakers panel and closing reception featuring some of Brooklyn's most respected filmmakers including Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo, Chop Shop), Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water), Cruz Angeles (Don't Let Me Drown), Ryan Fleck and Anna Bowden (Half Nelson, Sugar). 2009 is the first year of a new focus for the Arts Council who have been presenting films in Brooklyn for over fourty years.

Package Deals is a multidisciplinary music and film screening series bringing the best in film, art and music videos from selected cities and places around the world to New York City. Following a program's premiere, it then evolves into a "Touring Package," which travels to international art house theaters and film festivals in the months to come. Each part of the series showcases feature films, shorts, music videos, and more from the world's most vibrant creative communities.

In addition to Package Deals' regular screenings and tour events, we have partnered with the Icelandic Tourism Board and Iceland Naturally to program and produce the film festival component of their touring Icelandic Culture Week, which brings Icelandic cuisine, music, art and films to major cities across North America.

To date, Package Deals has explored Iceland, Sweden and the Scandinavian and North American music scenes through their short film and music video programs. Support and guidance has been provided by institutions such as the Consulate General of Sweden in New York, The Tank, The Icelandic Tourism Board, Scandinavia House, The American Scandinavian Foundation, the Icelandic Film Center, The Center For Icelandic Art and companies such as Reyka Vodka and Svedka Vodka.

Recent screenings include - Scandinavia House, New York USA, Museek Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia, Australian Cinematheque - Brisbane, Australia, Indie Lisboa Film Festival - Lisbon, Portugal, CPH: DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival) - Denmark, Visonic Festival- Belfast N. Ireland, E Street Landmark Theater - Washington DC, Videotage - Hong Kong, Croatia Film Clubs Association - Zagreb Croatia, Dallas Video Festival - Texas, Roxy Bar and Screen - London UK, Antimatter Festival - Victoria Canada, Ashdod Music and Film Festival - Ashdod Israel, Duchess Gallery - Chicago IL.

For more info and full screening history see our website.

Package Deals Press:
Soma Magazine.
GrandLife Article
Daily Serving Interview

CMJ FilmFest 2006 (click here for details) and 2005 -

CMJ FilmFest 2006 featured an opening night advance presentation of Borat, at the Walter Reade Theater, with a special appearance by Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat. Closing the festival was the World Premier of Lord Don't Slow Me Down a documentary that takes a look at life on the road with Oasis. Oasis front man Noel Gallagher was in attendance to take questions from the audience.

Special programs for 2006 included Northern Transmissions, music videos from Scandinavia at Scandinavia House, and Chuck Statler - Before MTV, at MoMA, presented by the MoMA Department of Film and Media.

The 2006 line up also included Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, The Vice Guide to Travel, Perfume: Story of a Murderer, Hillary Swank in Freedom Writers, My Morning Jacket live in Okonokos, Wild Tigers I Have Known, THINKFilm's ode to everyones favorite dirty word F*ck, Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction, and more.

Highlights from the 2005 program - Walk The Line, A History of Violence with a Q&A session with director David Cronenberg, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, New York Doll with a Q&A by Director Greg Whitley, and Brick with an appearance by director Rian Johnson, and stars Joseph Gordon Levitt and Nora Zehetner.

The Gorgeous Undertow was a new British Indie night that existed from 2005 to 2006 and was hosted by yours truly, along with Hamish Roberston and Andi Teran. The Gorgeous Undertow DJ's hosted parties at venues such as Rothko, The Delancey, The Royal Oak, The Manor, Capones and Rififi.