(2007 – HBO, 52’)
Cracked Not Broken tells the story of Lisa, who was raised in the right upper-class neighborhood. Went to all of the right private schools. Had the support of a loving family and friends. But something went terribly wrong. Now 37, this highly intelligent woman is a crack addict who prostitutes herself to support her lifestyle. In this absolutely riveting film dives headfirst into the incredibly stressful world of the crack addict. Ninety percent of the film occurs in real time and was captured in what could be considered a single shot. The film is absolutely unique in form and content. Part of the multiple award-winning HBO Addiction Project, it has been broadcast and screened at film festivals around the world to glowing reviews – including a highly publicized appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.  The film can currently be seen on several OTT platforms and has over 5,000,000 views.

Work

Yearbook

(2024) (TVO Original, 6×30) Political Blind Date The series follows the meaningful and nostalgic journey back to people's youth as they attempt to reconnect with key people from [...]

Political Blind Date

(2017 - present) (TVO, 24x30) – This hit original documentary series and format seeks to see what happens when you send two politicians from opposite ends of the spectrum out on “blind dates” based around an issue they disagree on.

Intervention Canada

(2011 - present) – (A&E and Blue Ant Media, 67x1) Based on the Emmy Award winning A&E series Intervention, this documentary series seeks to intervene and help those trapped in a deadly cycle of addiction.

Margin of Error

(2020 – TVO, 60’) feature documentary in post-production that follows Ottawa-based company Advanced Symbolics, Inc. which uses an artificial intelligence algorithm they call “Polly” to scrape social media platforms and predict election outcomes more accurately than traditional pollsters.

Cracked Not Broken

(2007 – HBO, 52’) this feature documentary is a searing portrait of a crack addicted prostitute from the “right side of town”.

Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop

(2006- Sundance Channel, 80’ and 52’) feature documentary for Sundance Channel, tackles the subject of the assault of big box corporate America on independent business, through the eyes of Emmy Award winning former NBC foreign correspondent Hanson Hosein and his journalist wife Heather Hughes.

Pure Intentions

(2012 - CBC/Doc Channel, 70’) – feature documentary which looks at the challenges encountered by a high profile first world philanthropist as he tries to deal with the reality of post apartheid education in South Africa.

Black Nation

(2009 – SVT and The Swedish Film Institute, 80’ and 52’) theatrical feature documentary takes a hard look at the state of black manhood in America, through the prism of the streets of Detroit past and present and that city’s controversial Church of the Black Madonna.