Films in Progress:

• 1812: A Hot and Unnatural War, a two-hour film about a war that should never have happened -- yet almost broke apart the United States. For WNED and WETA (Florentine Films/Hott Productions). Scripting and Production funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• The Latino-Americans, an eight-hour series for WETA (Exec. Producer Jeff Bieber, Series Producer Adriana Bosch) about 300 years of Latino history in the U.S.
• Enterprising Women, a two-hour film about women in business throughout American history, produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Mock.
• The Conservatives, a two-hour film about the rise and evolution of Conservative thought in postwar America, produced by Emmy- and DuPont-award-winning filmmakers Bill Cran and Vicki Barker for WETA.
• Have You Heard from Johannesburg?, a six-part, 8 ½ hour documentary series by Clarity Films, about the worldwide effort to bring down apartheid.

Kudos have come in for Through Deaf Eyes, a two-hour Chowder-scripted film (Florentine Films/Hott Productions). The film has received both a 2008 DuPont/Columbia award (the documentary equivalent of a Pulitzer) and the 2008 Erik Barnouw Prize, awarded by the Organization of American Historians, for the best U.S. history film of the year.

Apartheid and the Club of the West, by Clarity Films, was chosen Documentary of the Year by the National Film Board at the Vancouver Festival.

Feature Film

• Goodbye Porkpie Hat – spec script under construction. Contact Chowder if interested in reading a draft.