Just Curious Media 2019-
Creating highly entertaining & immersive podcasts for its audiences. Let's Talk - Cobra Kai has a rapidly growing fan base as it explores the hit series, Cobra Kai. Let's Talk - Movies truly helps listeners decide what movies to see. That's A Crime expands into the vastly popular true crime genre with a fresh approach.
Podcasts
"I launched Just Curious Media due to my fascination with audio content and the sheer intimacy it provides to the listener."
A true movie lovers podcast celebrating great films worth revisiting or seeing for the first time.
Connell Creations 2000-2018
Produced 10 award-winning documentaries. Holy Rollers was featured on NPR’s This American Life & The Colbert Show and was distributed by Warner Bros. GLOW premiered at Hot Docs, won Comic-Con Film Festival and was broadcast on MTV/LOGO. It was also the basis of GLOW, the Netflix series.
Documentaries
Chronicles the rise & fall of the first all-female wrestling show through the stories of those who lived it.
Follows the rise of the largest & most well-funded blackjack team in America, made up entirely of churchgoing Christians.
Spotlights 10 career movie extras, the indispensable background actors in films, trying to make it in Hollywood.
Explores the rise & fall of Showbiz Pizza Place, it's animatronic rock band and the origins of Chuck E. Cheese's.
A retrospective look at the storied career of character actor Dabney Coleman (9 to 5, WarGames, Boardwalk Empire).
"I was inspired to produce entertaining & character-driven documentaries and was fortunate they resonated with audiences, distributors, & critics alike."
United Film Festival 2002-2014
Created a cutting-edge annual film festival series in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Tulsa, New York, & London. Established a rich tradition of screening independent feature films, documentaries, and short films as well as select classic films honoring cast & crew.
Events
Honoring legendary director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London).
Honoring actor Dabney Coleman (9 to 5, Tootsie, Boardwalk Empire) & director Mark Rydell (The Rose, On Golden Pond, The River).
Honoring the late Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (Deliverance, The Deer Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
"I created United Film Festival to discover new & exciting independent films, from all genres, as well as celebrate classic films with those that made them.”