Projects

Mehboob and the Garland of Math (2012) Documentary Film, 25 minutes After six years of elementary school, Mehboob still has not learned to read, write

Dibocor’s Salt (2008) I made this film with former Newsday correspondent, Samson Mulugeta for the Canadian NGO, Micronutrient Initiative, now called Nutrion International. We shot

The Yurt In 1999, I built a yurt in northern Cape Breton. Actually, my little round cabin bares little resemblance to the nomadic tents from

After graduating from University, I moved to New York City for a year and became immersed in a world of community gardens and squatters. And

Together with Tsepo Thafeng and Jerry Ramaboa, I founded the first free-to-air, community television station in Soweto. Against all odds, we managed to obtain a

Math Rocks! is a Math Education App for iPad for elementary-level students and teachers. It teaches kids number sense, presenting a model of our number

The book, 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa (2006) is a powerful piece of nonfiction, written by my partner, Stephanie Nolen, telling the individual stories

Mamphela Ramphele, despite being an inspiring South African in her own right, has always carried with her the legacy of Steve Biko. They were lovers,

The Ringmaster was a reality TV series that I made together with Michael Lee and Manu Padayachee for SABC in South Africa. Our idea was

SA/X is a comic mock-documentary, set in Johannesburg ten years after the end of apartheid. It celebrates a city both tattered and triumphant, and an