Longshot Productions
An award-winning independent documentary film company, we offer full production services including planning, budgeting, shooting, editing, finishing, and DVD authoring. Specializing in advocacy/awareness work, social issues, and health-related subject matter.
Films, Videos & Experience include:
Ten Days, Ten Years: Slovenia’s War for Independence, 2003
An independently produced, written, filmed, and edited 75-minute documentary film chronicling Slovenia’s successful break from communist Yugoslavia. Grand Prize Winner in the student film category at the 2003 Northampton Independent Film Festival.
Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip, 2003
Post-Production Intern on the Ken Burns film documenting America’s first transcontinental road trip. Broadcast nationwide on PBS. Produced by Florentine Films/American Documentaries Inc.
Ohio: 200 Years, 2004
Associate Producer and Assistant Editor for a one-hour film broadcast on Ohio Public Television to commemorate the state’s bicentennial. Emmy Award Winner for Regional Programming. Produced by Florentine Films/Hott Productions.
Mind Games: A Love Story, 2005
A 56-minute documentary film about the life and death of a surgeon diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (A.L.S.). Winner of the Director's Award at the 2006 Hearts & Minds Film Festival. Official selection in the 2006 Green Mountain Film Festival, 2006 Vermont International Film Festival, and 2006 Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival. Broadcast on Vermont Public Television and distributed by the A.L.S. Association.
Bone Builders, 2006
A ten-minute promotional DVD produced for a Vermont-wide non-profit, volunteer organization offering exercise programs to seniors with osteoporosis.
Impressions of Vermont: A Portrait of the Artist, C. James Frazier, 2008
A 15-minute retrospective about Vermont impressionist painter C. James Frazier supported by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Heart Savants (in production)
A 90-minute documentary film adaptation of the groundbreaking works of noted autism author, William Stillman, which will seek to redefine the autistic experience through extraordinary accounts of spiritual giftedness.
Iron Horse: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (in production)
A biographical portrait of one of the greatest baseball players of all time. The film will explore how Gehrig’s remarkable career ended with the graceful and heroic acceptance of his fate to the disease that would later bear his name.