BLOOD ON THE ROOTS is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the legacy of racially-motivated lynchings in the state of Florida.
Nation of Yahweh (Work-In-Progress)
This is a film about the Nation of Yahweh, a group of radical Black Hebrew Israelites who built a thriving religious empire in 1980s Miami while committing tragic acts of murder, rape, and ritualistic terror. We want to know how a religion built on hope could end so tragically, how they avoided accountability for more than a decade, and how an ultimate failure of justice continues effect the people in the communities that lived through their reign. The documentary will focus on the history of the group, the aftermath of their eventual prosecution and attempts to regrow their organization, and the possibility that a similar situation could occur again.
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Time Simply Passes (2018)
Time Simply Passes is a feature-length Documentary film about James Joseph Richardson, an African-American orange picker in rural Florida who was wrongfully convicted of poisoning his seven children to death in 1967. He was given the death sentence, and spent 21 years in prison until he was released in 1989 when his conviction was overturned due to miraculous circumstances. Upon his release, he was a National celebrity, and became the face of the Innocence Movement. Once the fanfare subsided, he was penniless and alone in an unfamiliar world, and given no help from the State that robbed him of the majority of his life, while the true killer of his children stayed free. For the past 26 years, he's been trying again and again to receive recompense from the State of Florida. This is his story. It's a film about race, about Florida, about the evolution of small-town justice, about forgotten moments in history, about corrupt police and politicians, and an evaluation of the concept of restorative compensatory justice. The film relies heavily on archival footage, photographs, and documents, and attempts to piece all the elements together to accurately and completely tell a story more than 47 years in the making. The film is currently available digitally via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Simply-Passes-James-Joseph-Richardson/dp/B078QJLGGL
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2016
WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD - Tallgrass Film Festival 2016
WINNER - Jaipur International Film Festival 2017 - Golden Camel Award for Best Director
WINNER - Docuwest Film Festival 2016 - Best Mid-Length Documentary
WINNER - Full Bloom Film Festival 2015 - Best Feature Documentary
WINNER - Freedom Film Festival 2015 - Best Feature Documentary
WINNER - Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival 2015 - Best Feature Documentary
WINNER - Flagler Film Festival 2016 - Best In Florida
OFFICIAL SELECTION - DOCUTIFF Tirana International Film Festival 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Black Harvest Film Festival 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Festival International du Film black de Montréal 2017
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Fossil Thieves (Work-In-Progress)
FOSSIL THIEVES is a Feature-length Work-In-Progress documentary focusing on the illegal fossil trade and the byzantine patchwork global legal structure that encourages the plundering of the fossil record from collective human memory.
Action Research (2008)
Short documentary on noise and experimental music in Gainesville, Florida, completed May 2008.