Filmography (a selection of my work)
A Circus Like No Other
Women Between Worlds
- New Roots
A fifty minute documentary by Exsul van Helden about the challenges faced by female immigrants and refugees who have come to the United States and find themselves living between cultures. Women from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic groups share their experiences and feelings about assimilation, values, child-rearing, and being foreign-born in contemporary American society.
- Circus Flora
Presents a slice-of-life view of a community of performers, who try to integrate their personal goals, artistic economic and social.
- Women Between Worlds Part 1
Concerns the challenges faced by women who have immigrated to the U.S. and find themselves between cultures. In English and Spanish.
- Our Children with Down Syndrome
Portrays the experience of parents of Down Syndrome children, Award Superfest L.A. Superfest Award (Media Festival on Disabilities). The film was exhibited at the third Inter-American Congress on Mental Retardation in Buenos Aires,
Argentina
- Johns Hopkins Shock Trauma
About the Trauma Service for Children, ITVA Award
- NOH Master with American Students
Introducing of Japanese Theatre to students of the Baltimore School Of The Arts, and focusing how the performer and students find tools to communicate.
- When Cultures Meet
In Five Senses, seven programs for cable TV, focusing what people from different cultures share.
- Locust Point
Dramatized documentary about immigration from Europe to U.S.A. via Baltimore Maryland,for National Public Television.
- Around the studio
About the French painter, Gerard Sighicelli, filmed in the Provence, France.
- Students Mobilized against Drugs
Educational film for adolescents.
- The Man Behind The Dance
Paul Taylor, the choreographer.
- Pets on Wheels
A documentary illustrating the therapeutic value of pets in nursing homes.
- Meals on Wheels
A documentary about Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, Inc.
- Care of the Terminally Ill and Nursing Home Mental Health Services
How to take care of our aging population.
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