The Film Posse, and its principals, have produced a number of commissioned documentary films for national PBS broadcast. ROOTS OF HEALTH The Film Posse for Linda Harrar Productions
Produced 18-minute segment for an hour-long international documentary exploring the underlying social determinants of health for the World Health Organization and PBS broadcast. Set in Oakland, California, our segment focuses on environmental pollution, racism and green jobs as part of a wider examination of how social policies can affect the health of whole populations. UNNATURAL CAUSES: IS INEQUALITY MAKING US SICK?: WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS The Film Posse for California Newsreel & Vital Pictures
Produced 30-minute episode of this 2009 DuPont-Columbia Award-winning PBS documentary series that investigates the root causes of the United States’ alarming socio-economic and racial inequities in health. When the Bough Breaks explores research from health experts that looks into why the rate of infant mortality is nearly twice as high for African Americans as white Americans.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE:THE GOLD RUSH The Film Posse* for WGBH/Boston & KQED/San Francisco
Produced 2-hour, $1.2 million dollar documentary about the fascinating and extraordinary story of the California gold rush for the award-winning PBS history series American Experience. Combining extensive, large-scale re-enactments with a vibrant presentation of early daguerreotype photography, this film tells the story of a remarkably international event that profoundly changed the American social, political and cultural landscape. 2007 winner of the Organization of American Historians’ Erik Barnouw Award.
Produced 60-minute episode that weaves interviews with historians and soldiers who built the highway, archival footage, never-before-seen home movies of the Alaska Highway and beautiful aerial cinematography to tell how in 1942 a handful of Army battalions battled an unforgiving climate to push a 1,520-mile road across one of the world's harshest landscapes. Praised by The Hollywood Reporter as “dynamic” and “truly great storytelling,” the program was the highest rated episode of American Experience’s 2004-2005 season.
RACE: THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION THE STORY WE TELL The Film Posse* for California Newsreel
The Story We Tell, an hour-long episode in a three-part series, uncovers the history of the concept of race in America, and reveals how this powerful and enduring narrative took hold and became the lens through which we view our world. Using innovative virtual 3-D animation of archival paintings, photographs and documents, the program presents this eye-opening exploration of America’s controversial past with a dynamic and striking visual style.
Produced 60-minute episode that tells the story of Nobel-prize winning math genius John Nash whose career was cut short by a descent into schizophrenia. The film includes a riveting and deeply moving interview with John Nash, and compelling re-enactments that the Fort Worth Star-Telegram says, “give viewers a sense of what a deluded life might feel like.” Variety described A Brilliant Madness as “a wonderful tale of redemption” *completed as Yellow Jersey Films **completed as Diner Media
