The Opposite Sex

"The Opposite Sex"(Jamie's Story and Rene's Story) are 2 feature length documentaries, one profiling a male to female and the other a female to male transexual. Both films were shot simultaneously for the months before during and after their sex change surgery. Each film is a powerful close-up look at the impact of gender transition on families, spouses, siblings and friends. In both stories the real journey is the universal search for identity that all people have to go through to find wholeness. The Opposite Sex: Rene's Story premieres on Showtime

Premiered on Showtime, 2005.
Now playing on LOGO TV.

Playing For Real

Pianist Adam Neiman

14 year old violinist, Mayuko Kamio, rehearses with the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester conducting in the background

Playing For Real is a one hour documentary that takes an intimate look at the extraordinary difficulties of creating a career in big time classical music. "Playing For Real" follows two brilliant unknown musicians at the start of their careers. Both artists have won the Young Concert Artists International Audition which offers its winners the most desirable of all prizes: a debut in New York with 3 years of nurturing, grooming and careful hands-on management. Our subjects are Mayuko Kamio, a 14 year old Japanese violinist who is starting her American performing career as she attends both Jr. High School and Juilliard, and Adam Neiman, a 22 year old American pianist who has already played several hundred concerts and as the film closes leaves the YCA nest to join the roster at ICM management. The verite doc is laced with interviews with many stars of the music world who were discovered by the 40-year-old YCA; some of these artists include: Emanuel Ax, Dawn Upshaw, Ruth Laredo, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Michael Tilson Thomas and Gerard Schwartz. "Playing for Real" premiered on WNET/thirteen in NY at on April 3rd and will be seen on many other PBS stations.

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Sound and Fury
Sound and Fury documents one family's struggle over whether or not to provide two deaf children with cochlear implants, devices that can stimulate hearing. As the Artinians of Long Island, New York debate what is the right choice for the two deaf cousins, Heather, 6, and Peter, 1 1/2, viewers are introduced to one of the most controversial issues affecting the deaf community today. Cochlear implants may provide easier access to the hearing world, but what do the devices mean for a person's sense of identity with deaf culture? These are the powerful identity issues explored in the Academy award nominated documentary film. SOUND AND FURY aired on PBS in 2002.
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www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/film/dates.html

Trio Solisti Explores Beethoven
Trio Solisti Explores Beethoven is a half hour program that follows Trio Solisti, as they prepare to record two of Beethoven's masterworks for piano trio, the "Archduke" and the "Ghost." In interviews, violinist Maria Bachmann, pianist Jon Klibonoff and cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach, discuss the challenges of transforming the composer's manuscript into a vibrant performance. The film focuses on the creative process of making chamber music, weaving intimate rehearsal footage together with highlights of a performance of the works before a live audience.

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Twins

For 3 years, this half hour film follows the lives of two profoundly deaf children, each given the Cochlear implant at 12 months. Each child has a hearing twin with whom their language development is compared. This insightful 30-minute documentary provides a dramatic demonstration of the power of the cochlear implant, which has been the cause of much controversy and misunderstanding with the signing Deaf community. By following the lives of the twins and their families, one of which is featured in our film SOUND AND FURY, we witness the astonishing growth in the deaf children's speech and hearing as well as their integration and assimilation into mainstream life.

For more information contact: aronsonfilms@aol.com