Insecure: The End

Feature length doc co-edited by Cami Starkman. Watch the doc here: https://www.hbo.com/movies/insecure-the-end

Insecure: The End (2021) | Official Trailer | HBO

Director: James Bland

Producer: Deniese Davis

Production Co: Citizen Jones

Tending The Wild: Feature Doc

EMMY WINNER FOR BEST CULTURE/HISTORY DOCUMENTARY

Watch full doc on KCET LINK

Tending the Wild (Series Trailer)

Documentary series and feature length special for KCET in association with The Autry Museum>

Director: Christine Yuan

Tending the Wild shines light on the traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous peoples across California. It explores how California's Native peoples have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia, in the process developing a deep understanding of plant and animal life. This series examines how humans are an important part of the balance of nature, and how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to tend their environment. Co-produced by KCETLink Media Group and the Autry Museum, this six-part multimedia series and one-hour documentary special are presented in association with California Continued, a groundbreaking exhibition opening October 9 at the Autry.

Watch series here

Tending the Wild: Complete Broadcast Special

Searching For Soul Food

Searching for Soul Food | Official Trailer | Hulu

Food / lifestyle documentary series.

Emmy nominee for single camera editing.

MOCA: Beyond The Museum Walls

This Emmy-nominated hour long documentary explores the programming of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, investigating new programming and curatorial approaches that are redefining what it means to be a 21st century museum. This episode features three new programs by The Underground Museum, Wolvesmouth, and Public Fiction.

Director: Christine Yuan

Watch the full episode HERE

"MOCA: Beyond the Museum Walls" Teaser

Red Bull MAVENS: Okayplayer's Ginny Suss

Women's March Curator Ginny Suss Amplifies Voices Through Music | MAVENS

Ginny Suss is a producer. She produces concerts, movies and shows all highlighting the talents of worthy individuals. She is the consummate champion of others, eternally behind-the-scenes. Until now. This episode of MAVENS brings Ginny center-stage to discuss her role as The Roots tour manager, producing headlining acts all over the world, and most recently, curating the music for the historic 2017 Women’s March on Washington. MAVENS is a Red Bull series that spotlights inspiring people breaking down barriers and building communities. It uncovers the journeys, struggles, and triumphs of passionate underdogs paving new roads in music, media, sports, tech, business, art, and more

Tending The Wild: KEEPING THE RIVER

Tending the Wild Keeping the River

Director: Christine Yuan

A Cultrual Collaboration between KCET and The Autry.

Salmon once swam in every major river in California and they provided and continue to provide an invaluable resource for Native peoples. In some areas like the Klamath River Basin, salmon are at the center of the world and integral to the environmental and cultural survival of the Yurok, Karuk, and Hupa peoples. But modernization forever altered watersheds across the state by concretizing rivers, siphoning water for agricultural production, and building dams to facilitate hydroelectric power. The effects on fish populations have been devastating and many Native groups have protested against these threats to their way of life. In this video, we explore how the Yurok, Karuk, and Hupa peoples have maintained their close relationship with salmon, how they have fought civil rights battles to secure tribal fishing rights, and how they have mobilized against the environmental degradation of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers resulting from dams, large scale agriculture, and the marijuana industry.

Tending The Wild: DECOLONIZING THE DIET

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Tending The Wild: LIVING DESERT

Tending the Wild Living Desert

Tending The Wild: CULTURAL BURNING

Director: Christine Yuan

For thousands of years, California Indians used fire as a tool for managing natural resources. Throughout the state, Native peoples conducted cultural burns on a wide range of plants. Their fire regimes created diverse habitat mosaics that sustained meadows, coastal prairies, and grasslands. The careful application of fire increased fruit and seed production, caused new growth that was better suited for making baskets, and reduced the fuel load that could be burned by naturally occurring wildfires. But starting with the Spanish conquest and continuing today in the form of Forest Service and CalFire policies, fire suppression has drastically limited cultural burning. As a result, the forest has become incredibly dense and we are now facing a situation in the Sierra Nevada where drought is causing many trees to die. This massive tree mortality has brought the forest to a tipping point, where large scale wildfires threaten to alter the Sierra forests permanently. In this video, we explore how cultural burning is being practiced today and what lessons it holds for the future of the forest. We visit the area just south of Yosemite National Park where two tribes are working to bring fire back to the land, the North Fork Mono Tribe and the Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians.

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Tending The Wild: GATHERING MEDICINE

Tending the Wild Gathering Medicine

Tending The Wild: WEAVING COMMUNITY

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Verizon x Bese: Connected

Connected: Bringing equality to NYC's monuments through technology

Ally Bank: Moguls In The Making

Moguls in the Making

Production Co: Soul Pancake

Client: Ally Bank

Verizon x Bese: Disrupting Education

Connected: Disrupting Education Through Technology

Story of a Dancer

Los Angeles Ballet, Story of a Dancer

Promotional spot for Los Angeles Ballet

Director: Annakate Chappell

Fuji Film | Aion BTS

FUJI_AION_DOC

Director: Kevin DeCastro

Client: Fuji Film

Her Too

Her Too - to see their stories in full go to www.helphouseher.org.

Director: Sonja Phillips

7 women tell their stories, from childhood dreams and goals, to where they are now.

As It Lays

Seasons 1 and 2 edited by Cami Starkman

Watch As It Lays here

As It Lays is a series of televisual portraits of iconic and influential Angelenos. It was created by its host, LA-based artist Alex Israel.

Between July, 2011 and February, 2012, the first thirty As It Lays video portraits were shot at Freeway Studios, in the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, CA, and on location at various subjects’ homes and offices throughout the Greater Los Angeles area.

As It Lays premiered at Reena Spaulings Fine Art in New York City, in an exhibition that was held from March 11 through April 8, 2012. Beginning in March 11, 2012 and over the course of two months, the first thirty individual video portraits were released online at www.asitlays.com.