Filmography & Awards
Freelance Editing
Conferences & Presentations
Education & Professional Experience
FILMOGRAPHY & AWARDS
What REALLY Killed Kevin Morrissey [ OurBullyPulpit.com ]
“the documentary doesn’t appear to take sides against the man whom many of Mr. Morrissey’s former colleagues and his sister labeled as the bully: his boss, Ted Genoways.” - Documentary Delves Into a Suicide and Allegations of Workplace Bullying at a Literary Review, Chronicle of Education: Article 8/8/2011
“…it’s really important to me to struggle and obsess about my true intentions for what I want a film to accomplish from the start– not a ‘pitch’ description, but the true core of what this film can hope to bring to the public dialogue.” - The Bully Pulpit: Documentary Delves Explores VQR Tragedy, The Hook: Article 8/12/2011
THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW: NoJobIsWorthThis.com
[Murder by Proxy] is following the lead of New York independent filmmaker Beverly Peterson, a former bullying victim who devoted herself to telling others’ stories. Her ongoing Web series, There Oughta Be a Law, debuted to raves at the 2008 International Association on Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace conference in Cardiff, Wales. “It was like my Sundance,” Peterson says. Businessweek 10/28/10
(link to site)
First launched May 2009 and Ongoing
Web-documentary using the Internet and social media to seek solutions for workplace bullying.
- 2010 Chicken & Egg New Media Grant Award
- 2010 International Conference on Workplace Bullying & Harassment (Cardiff, Wales)
- 2010 Women and Film Festival: Unlocked Images – Family, Warriors and Art
- 2009 (Screening) Women, Gender, and Sexuality CCSU
- NY1
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Winning Workplaces “Valuable Resource for Curbing Workplace Harassment” 3/17/2010
GRACIAS VIDA (2012 Work-In-Progress)
a documentary about indigenous journalists who risk their lives to report on their communities.
- Encuentro: A Guatemalan National Conference For Journalists
- News Article: March 2010, The Montclarion
- 2010 Screening: National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
- 2010 Global Education Travel Grant Award (MSU)
WEST BROADWAY: GROUND ZERO, NY
20 minute Documentary completed 2002
“Spanning a three-month period, this touching video diary lets the viewer see and feel what it was like to live two blocks north of the wreckage.” – Walker Art Center
- 2002 Library of Congress 9/11 Commemoration & archive
- Walker Art Museum, MN “Women With Vision”
- The Warhol Museum
- The Kitchen (Art Gallery)
- Wisconsin International Film Festival
- Broadcasts: WNET (PBS) “REEL NY”; Sundance Channel
- Collections: Selected for the Library of Congress 9/11 Archive
(more information about 71 WEST BROADWAY: Ground Zero, NY)
INVISIBLE REVOLUTION
R – Rated for language
One Hour Documentary completed 2000.
“The racist groups come off as so ridiculous, one would be inclined to think Peterson rigged it that way on purpose.” – Eric Snyder
- 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection
- 2001 American Library Assn – Top 10 Videos for Young Adults
- Wexner Center
- Northwest film Festival
- BMA (Brooklyn Museum of Art)
- Weatherspoon Gallery
- 2000 Museum of Modern Art (NYC),”Documentary Fortnight”
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival
- Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival
- 2002 CBC “Passionate Eye” (Canada)
- Sundance Channel
- Portions of this documentary were featured on ABC’s Good Morning America, 20/20, NBC’s Dateline, HBO’s America Undercover
(more information about Invisible Revolution)
THE ANDRE SHOW
42 minute Documentary completed 1997. Educ’al Distr: Fanlight Prods.
“This unsentimental study follows Andre, aged 10, and his mother, Vilma, both of whom are dying from AIDS. When Vilma becomes too ill to cope, Beverly adopts the boy and encourages him and his friends to use the camera.” – Filmmaker Magazine
- 2007 World AIDS Conference, Toronto
- 1999 Best Documentary, Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Silver Sprire, 1998 San Francisco Int’l FF
- Juror’s Choice, Charlotte Film and Video Festival
- Bronze Apple, 1998 Nat’l Educational Media Network
- Sydney International Film Festival
- Taos Talking Pictures Festival
- Mill Valley FF
- Women in the Director’s Chair
- Exit Art (Soho Gallery)
- Broadcast – PBS 1998
- Collections – Museum of Broadcast Radio & Television, Chicago
(more information about The Andre Show)
SANDRA’S WEB: A Mother’s Diary
24 Minute Documentary completed 1996.
“Sandra’s Web, a video keepsake from a homeless woman dying of AIDS to her young daughter” - Sun Sentinel
- 1997 IDA Nomination (Int’l Documentary Assn)
- 1997 Maggie Award (Planned Parenthood)
- Denver Int’l FF
- North Hampton Film Festival
- Long Island FF
- Broadcast – HBO
(more information about Sandra’s Web)
Freelance Editor
ANTONIA PANTOJA: ¡Presente! — Co-Editor
Producer Lillian Jimenez
Feature Length Documentary
- 2009 Broadcast, VOCES (signature PBS series curator: Latino Public
- Broadcasting)
- 2009 HBO NY International Latino Film Festival
- 2007 Museum of Modern Art, “Documentary Fortnight”
- 2006 NALIP official invitation to Producer’s Workshop
- 2005 OFFICIAL SELECTION IFP MARKET
BREAD & ROSES TOO (Work-In-Progress, Editor)
Producer Jane Coleman
Directed by George Stoney & Lora Hays
- 2008 Maine Jewish Film Festival
MAYOR OF THE WESTSIDE – Consulting Editor
- PBS BROADCAST May 2006
BLUE VINYL – Associate Producer
- SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Award Winner 2002
- HBO Premiere
WHOSE PLACE IS THIS ANYWAY? – Collaborator/ Editor
5 minute Experimental video installation completed 2003 created with artist Renate Aller
- 2003 Museum of Labor in Hamburg
- 2003 Hamburg Emigration Museum
WATCH FILM and see more information
ONLY HUMAN – Video Instructor
- 2003 Tribeca Film Festival, Family Program
ANOTHER/BROTHER :Story of a Black Vietnam Veteran – Editor
(Producer: Tami Gold) One hour documentary completed 1998.
NATIONAL TELEVISION PREMIERE: PBS Spring 1999.
- 1998 GOLD HUGO
- 1998 GOLD CINE AWARD
A HEALTHY BABY GIRL – Additional Editor.
(Producer: Judith Helfand) One hour documentary completed 1996.
- NATIONAL TELEVISION PREMIERE: POV (PBS Series) June 1997.
- AWARDS: PEABODY WINNER; Nominated 1997 IDA AWARDS
- FESTIVALS:
- 1997 Sundance Film Festival
- 1996 Margaret Mead FF
Conference Presentations & Professional Presentations
*2011 Encuentro, Guatemalan National Conference for Journalists
*2010 Int’l Workplace Bullying & Harrasment Conference, Wales (upcoming)
*2009 10th Northeast Conference on Character Education (School & Workplace Bullying)
*2009 UUP [Screening & Discussion], Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY
*2008 Women and Film Festival “Body Politics” CCSU & New Britain Museum
*2008 June Baker Higgins Gender Studies Conference “Sexing the Vote: Gender, Sexuality and Politics.” CCSU
*2006 Participant at the NALIP Producers Academy – National Association of Latino Independent Producers
*2005 Co-Presenter, Independent Feature Project, NYC
*2001 Panelist – Independent Feature Project, “The Changing Face of Documentary”
*2001 Participant – Documentary Panel, Sundance Film Festiva
Education/Academic Degrees
*MA, Journalism, Ohio State University
*BFA, Photography, Cooper Union Art School
Professional Experience (partial listing)
2008 – Present MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY, Assistant Professor, Department of Broadcasting
1992 – 2008 CHANGING WORLD PRODUCTIONS, INC, Owner/ Independent Producer & Freelance Editor Independent Films, Industrial productions, Non-Profit Fundraising Videos
2002 – 2008 MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY, SPECIALIST PROFESSOR Screen Studies, Video/Film/TV & University Film Specialist
Executive Director, Two River Film Festival 2006/2007AY
Artist-in-Residence, Jacob Landau Institute 2006/2007AY
2000 — 2001 NEW YORK TIMES TELEVISION – Independent Producer, “Code Blue” Series for TLC, 4 one hour programs
1998 — 2002 HUNTER COLLEGE Film and Media Department, Adjunct Professor









