Clients + past projects

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE/54MIN/NETHERLANDS/2014

Puck Meerburg (15) has been an IT prodigy from the age of seven. He has won several prestigious prizes already, including the Apple Design Award for students. Major IT companies like Microsoft and Google have shown their interest in his capabilities. Nonetheless, Puck is still a child, a minor who just has to go to school. Even though Puck wants to develop his skills rather sooner than later, homework has to be done and the law doesn’t allow everything.

Director: Tessa Boerman
Producer: Suzanne van Voorst, Carolijn Borgdorff
SF Producer: James Q. Chan

World Premiere IDFA

Broadcast: IDTV

Filmed on location at the abandoned historic New Mission Theater (now Alamo Drafthouse) in San Francisco, Bonnie Raitt's official music video (her first since 1998) from her 2013 Grammy Award winning "Slipstream" Albuma. The song is written by the late great Gerry Rafferty.

Director, Editor: Steven Lippman aka FLIP
Producer: Pamela Esterson
Co-producers: James Q. Chan, Brian Benson, Nicholas O'Neill
Director of Photography: Chris Freilich

Filmed on Super 8mm and 16mm film. Thanks to Kodak for their generous assistance.

FEATURE NARRATIVE/84MIN/USA/2010

A renegade artist breaking down barriers in search of love and redemption...a hallucinogenic ride through a prophetic masterpiece that rocked a generation...a work of art put on trial for obscenity... HOWL tells the unlikely story of a poem that sparked the counter-culture.

Directed/Produced/Written by: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Produced by: Christine K. Walker, Elizabeth Redleaf
Director of Photography: Edward Lachman
Editor: Jake Pushinsky
Composer: Carter Burwell
Animation Designer: Eric Drooker
Executive Producer: Gus Van Sant
Associate Producer: James Q. Chan, Kelly Gilpatrick, Peter Hale

Sundance Film Festival Opening Night Film, 2010
Berlinale Film Festival Official Selection
National Board of Review, *WINNER Freedom of Expression Award 2010*

NARRATIVE SHORT/8MIN/USA/2011

Sixteen year-old Emilio braves the consequences of coming-out in his tough Los Angeles barrio.

Directed by: Andres Torres-Vives
Produced by: Nicole Vinnola
Executive Produced by: James Q. Chan and Film Independent

Official Selection:
Frameline 36 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Los Angeles International Film Festival
Vancouver Int'l Queer Film Festival
Mix Mexico 2013
Rio Festival Gay de Cinema
Southwest GLBT FF, New Mexico
Long Beach Q Film Festival
Mezipatra Queer Festival, Czech Republic

Emmy-Award* Winning History Channel 10-part documentary series “Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America” 2006

The original American Bubble. The rumor of gold in 1848 would lead to the largest migration of its kind in history—almost 90,000 gold-seekers—and to the astonishing growth, in just a few years, of a lawless "city of tents" into the metropolis of San Francisco.

Directed by: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Produced by: Michael Ehrenzweig
Associate Producer: James Q. Chan

*Primetime Emmy-Award, Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series

DOCUMENTARY SHORT/28MIN/USA/2012

Following the lives of three bi-national same-sex couples and their 10-year struggles with U.S. Immigration Law, this audience favorite documentary short coincidentally ended its festival run at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco on the exact afternoon that the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act was abolished.

Director/Producer/Editor: Machu Latorre
Executive Producers: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Music: Gary Lutes
Line Producer: James Q. Chan
Poster Design: James DiRito

Official Selection (part’l list):
Provincetown International Film Festival; *WINNER, Jury Award*
Palm Springs LGBT Film Festival *WINNER, Audience Award*
Louisville LGBT Film Festival; *WINNER, Jury Award*
Frameline San Francisco LGBT Film Festival
Hong Kong LGBT Film Festival
Paris International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival