Films

A 60 minute film, produced by Andreas Gutzeit of Story House Productions for the PBS series Secrets of the Dead — the brutal and tragic story of a young girl who arrived in Jamestown during the Starving Time.   The story now is in her bones, which tell of a gruesome fate called survival cannibalism. You can… Continue reading Jamestown’s Dark Winter

RISING VOICES/HÓTȞAŊIŊPI, a 60-minute film by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, was a production of Florentine Films/Hott Productions, Inc. in association with The Language Conservancy. Rising Voices/Hótȟaŋiŋpi. Five years in the making, this multi-platform project tells the story of a powerful threat to a Native culture. This threat is an insidious, impersonal villain – one… Continue reading Rising Voices/Hóthaninpi

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America, a 60 minute film by Florentine Films/Hott Productions, was produced and directed by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey.   Funders included the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation, HSBC, the Tiffany & Co. Foundation, the C.E. & S. Foundation, the Peter C. Cornell Trust and Mass Humanities.… Continue reading Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

A feature documentary by Oscar winner Freida Mock has garnered good reviews in the New York Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, Hollywood Reporter, and more: Anita Hill steps back into spotlight as subject of new documentary film – Boston Globe Alone Then, Supported Today – ‘Anita’ revisits the Clarence Thomas Hearings – NY Times ‘Anita’… Continue reading ANITA: a Doc film by Freida Mock, co-written by Chowder, opens to good reviews

Great Reviews for The Latino Americans, a six-hour PBS series — 200 years of Latino history in the U.S. Chowder was the Consulting Producer for the series, which in this case meant that he developed and structured the series, found almost of the historical characters, and wrote scripts for five of the six hours. [Below: General… Continue reading The Latino Americans

[blockquote cite=”Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York; Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice“]Best Documentary of the year.[/blockquote] This seven-part series chronicles the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.[blockquote cite=”Anderson Tepper, Vanity Fair”]A STAGGERING, PANORAMIC FILM-HISTORY of… Continue reading Have You Heard From Johannesburg

A two-hour film about a war that should never have happened – yet almost broke the United States apart. For WNED and WETA (Florentine Films/Hott Productions). Scripting and Production funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. For two and a half years, Americans fought Against the British, Canadian colonists, and native nations. In the… Continue reading The War of 1812

Through Deaf Eyes, a two-hour documentary about the history of deaf people in America, was written for WETA and Florentine Films/Hott Productions, and funded by the Public Broadcasting System, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The film has been broadcast nationally on PBS. PBS writes: Through Deaf Eyes is… Continue reading Through Deaf Eyes

Beyond Hubble, a one-hour documentary for National Geographic, explores the bizarre world of outer space revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Co-written by Dana Berry.

John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature, a one-hour documentary about the painter and American icon for the PBS series American Masters (WNET) and Florentine Films/Hott Productions. Production supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. National PBS Broadcast.