Nomadic Gher in Western Mongolia
Feature Film & Television Projects
THE LEOPARD IN THE LAND
THE LEOPARD IN THE LAND (2015 feature) documents an artist’s epic traverse of the Altai Mountains of Western Mongolia on camel and horseback while creating large-scale oil paintings of the primeval landscapes he encounters to raise awareness and funding to support snow leopard conservation. It is a pilgrimage that explores why we travel, how we interact with the world around us, and the monumental effect that this has on everything else – including the elusive and enigmatic snow leopard. Available for purchase or rental on Amazon and distributed by Dreamscape Media.
IN HIGH PLACES
IN HIGH PLACES (optioned screenplay) is a synthesis of history, biography and personal experience that tells the epic true story of one man’s journey to the frozen and unexplored slopes of Mt. Everest in 1921.
Disillusioned by a long, brutal war, legendary mountaineer and explorer, George Mallory leads an unlikely team of Britons to face impossible odds, imperial spies and unexpected tragedy to climb Everest without oxygen or modern equipment more than thirty years before Sir Edmund Hillary reached the summit in 1953. Optioned multiple times, cast twice and nearly funded once, In High Places is about the passing of an age, the uncompromising nature of character and the sometimes fearful march of destiny.
THE VOLUNTOURIST
THE VOLUNTOURIST (feature screenplay) tells the story of an American woman who faces a series of Hobson’s choices after founding a charitable trust as a memorial to her young son who died unexpectedly a decade earlier when she was married to a Western guide in Nepal. Just completed this past summer and based on the ex-patriot community I knew well from my expedition days, the timeline spans the period immediately before and after the 2015 earthquake. Part confession, but in a larger sense a meditation on the great inequity we find in the world today The Voluntourist explores our relationship with charity, commerce, opportunity and privilege – and how we deal with the lack of it in others.
ARTHUR GORDON PYM
ARTHUR GORDON PYM (a limited series in nine episodes) is an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's longest, and strangest tale. Widely considered to be the seminal forerunner to the modern detective novel, the screen adaptation reimagines Poe’s novella as a tale of the future where fractured timelines and narrative loops explore the indissoluble marriage between horror and wonder, incomprehension and understanding, narrative and identity.
(painting by Rado Javor)
