A coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great grandfather's escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
Anticipated Release 2025. To learn more please visit https://www.remainingnativedocumentary.com/.
Directed by Paige Bethmann
Produced by Paige Bethmann & Jessica Epstein
Edited by Stephanie Khoury
Teaser edited by Stephanie Khoury
OUR TURN TO TALK is a documentary film focused on teenagers who say they’re the generation to put an end to mental health stigma. To do it, they’re telling their own stories – raw and unfiltered. From skyrocketing rates of anxiety and depression to the impacts of racial and intergenerational trauma, these teens share their struggles and triumphs and carry a powerful message: Storytelling saves lives. (70 min)
OUR TURN TO TALK is co-produced by WETA and Principle Pictures and features storytellers from This Is My Brave, an organization that uses performing arts to fight stigma around mental health challenges and addiction.
Inspired by This is My Brave, founded by Jennifer Marshall.
Coming Fall 2022
DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY: Beth Murphy & Patrice Howard
WRITTEN BY: Beth Murphy, Patrice Howard, Stephanie Khoury
EDITOR: Stephanie Khoury
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ben Kolak
Join the national tour of the official portraits of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, though our new film from the Smithsonian Channel. Picturing the Obamas features artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, curators at five museums on the route, everyday people finding hope in these works of art, and even cameos from the Obamas themselves.
Picturing the Obamas is a two-part docuspecial produced by Field Studio or Produced by Field Studio for the Smithsonian Channel, a division of Paramount Media Networks and MTV Entertainment Studios. Airing on the Smithsonian Channel and streaming on smithsonianchannel.com.
Picturing the Obamas | September 10, 2022 | 88 minutes
YouTube Originals presents Vox’s Glad You Asked, an ensemble-led exploration of topics driven by our curiosity about the world around us. For this series I edited two episodes, Is Racism Making People Sick and Do I Want Kids?
Is Racism Making People Sick - After the events of 2020, we are no strangers to stress and anxiety. But for Black and brown Americans, that stress was nothing new. Racial health gaps have always existed, and socioeconomics and racism within the medical system have long kept equal healthcare out of reach. But what kind of toll does the experience of racism itself have on your body? Glad You Asked host Christophe Haubursin wants to know.
Do I Want Kids? - Glad You Asked host Cleo Abram is pretty sure she wants kids, but doesn’t feel like she has enough information to truly understand the impact of that decision. She’s not alone - even though the majority of American women do decide to have children, the number of births in the United States has been creeping downward, and women are having kids later and later in life. But while no one but you can answer if you want to have kids, join Cleo as she gathers more data and perspective on what it means to be a parent.
The History You Didn't Learn is a series from TIME that sheds light on past events that may have been omitted, misleading, or just downright wrong in our history education in school. This episode takes a look at the life of Helen Keller and her accomplishments as an activist that are often left out of her narrative.
Role: Editor
Sheila & Joe is a love story that unfolds behind bars. This story is told through hundreds of letters shared by Sheila Rule, a former New York Times correspondent, and Joe Robinson, a man serving 20 years in prison. Despite a 20 year age difference, and undeterred by the physical barriers of prison, their love has unstoppable momentum. Intimate and nuanced, this short film visits the space between compassion and passion, revealing a man who transcends his crime and a woman who dares to break the rules.
Sheila and Joe placed 2nd at Pictures of Year in the Documentary Daily Life category and was an official selection of Woodstock Film Festival’s Short Films Big Stories program in February 2021.
Produced by Talking Eyes Media.
Editor & Motion Graphics: Stephanie Khoury
Director: Julie Winokur
Director of Photography: Ed Kashi
Gloves Off premiered on BET network in June 2020. To watch the film please click here.
Gloves Off follows the story of Tiara Brown, an undefeated boxing champion and the first black woman named Washington, D.C.’s Police Officer of the Year. The young officer suits up and protects her community by day, then laces up and defends her perfect boxing record by night. As Tiara excels in two worlds where she has often been ignored, she fights not only for herself, but for everyone like her.
Directed By: Nadine Natour & Ugonna Okpalaoka
Editor: Stephanie Khoury
The film was a part of the Queen Collective, which is a program developed in partnership with Procter & Gamble, Queen Latifah, and Tribeca Studios – aims to accelerate gender and racial equality behind the camera by opening doors to the next generation of multicultural women directors through mentorship, production support, and distribution opportunities. To learn more about the film visit: https://tribecafilm.com/films/gloves-off-2020
In The Future of America’s Past Ed Ayers, award-winning historian and co-host of the hit podcast BackStory, as he travels to places that define the most misunderstood parts of America’s past.
Editor, School Interrupted (PBS, March 2020) In the rural district of Prince Edward County, Virginia, young people staged a strike in 1951—an effort that culminated in the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board that outlawed segregated schools. Ed meets participants of that strike, as well as a museum educator, author, and librarian. He learns about the resilience of local black families when segregationists closed public schools for five years.
Editor, Transcontinental (PBS, March 2020) High in the Utah desert in 1869, a ceremonial golden spike marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. On the 150th anniversary of this feat, Ed speaks with a National Park Service ranger, a poet, a descendant of a Chinese American railroad builder, and a Native American tribal leader. Together, they paint a portrait of technological triumph—and its human and environmental costs.
This trailer is based on the photo book Abandoned Moments by photojournalist Ed Kashi.
If the decisive moment reflects reality in tune with the photographer’s intuition, flawlessly combining composition and timing, then the abandoned moment is the consequence of a fractional instant of surrender. This collection, made over a 40-year period by renowned photographer Ed Kashi, reveals imprecise glimpses of transitory events filled with frenetic energy - the chaos of everyday life. Embodying photography’s intrinsic power, they preserve moments that can never occur again in exactly the same time and space.
When geometry, mood, and possibility unite to unintentionally create something new, the magical and fictional qualities of still photography capture the unplanned essence of existence. In contrast to his journalistic approach of deep personal connection and keen observation, this work is about capturing the untamed energy of a moment with abandon.
Video Editor - Stephanie Khoury
Producer - Julie Winokur
Colorist - Mike Curry
Additional Cinematography - Ed Kashi and Reiley Wooten
Abandoned Moments Book Editions - Jennifer Noel Larsen, Marjorie Steffe, Mallika Vora
Words - Ed Kashi and Alison Nordström
Abandoned Moments Book Published by 2021 Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, Ed Kashi and Alison Nordström
DEATH METAL GRANDMA follows 97 year old Holocaust survivor Inge Ginsberg's final attempt at being recognized as a Death Metal Singer by auditioning for America’s Got Talent. Inge redefines what it means to grow old and reminds us it's never too late to try anything.
DEATH METAL GRANDMA premiered at SWSX in 2018 and recently selected as a New York Times Op-Doc.
For upcoming screenings click here
Past Screenings:
Hot Docs Film Festival - Toronto, Canada
Aspen Shortfest - Aspen, CO
West Chester Jewish Film Festival
For more information please email: deathmetalgrandmamovie@gmail.com
Director: Leah Galant
Producer: Sean Weiner, Christine Wexler, Elizabeth Pauker, Linhan Zhang, Clifford Miu
Screenwriter: Sean Weiner, Leah Galant
Cinematographer: Kervin Marseille
Editor: Stephanie Khoury and Leah Galant
Music: Caleb Oaks
Principal Cast: Inge Ginsberg, Pedro Desilva, Lucia Caruso
Additional Credits: Additional Cinematography: Peter Quandt, Additional Cinematography: Stephanie Khoury, Additional Cinematography: Lucy Adams, Sound Mix: Michael Towndrow, Associate Producer: Matthew Hadley, Artistic Director: Maria Pia Marrella
More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic theory of general relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, according to Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. On July 25, 2019, in the most comprehensive test of general relativity near the monstrous black hole at the center of our galaxy, Ghez and her research team report in the journal Science that Einstein’s theory of general relativity holds up.
Video produced by Talking Eyes Media.
Editor & Producer: Stephanie Khoury
Director: Julie Winokur
CinematographerL Andrew Hida
Colorist: Michael Curry
Post-Production Assistant: Eddie Mostert
Field Assistants: Tiffany Woo & Jessica Sun
PRESS
“Extreme black hole vindicates Einstein (again),” NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
“Relativistic redshift of the star S0-2 orbiting the Galactic center supermassive black hole,” SCIENCE MAGAZINE
Kitty & Ellen is the story of two best friends who happen to be Holocaust survivors. This short documentary interweaves hand drawn puppet animations of their past that mirror the current political climate and the impact of the election.
Directed by Leah Galant
Role: Associate Producer & Additional Cinematography
2017, Official Selection, DOC NYC
2017, Official Selection, CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL
2017, Official Selection Westchester Jewish Film Festival
Newest Americans is an multimedia collaboration of journalists, media-makers, artists, faculty and students telling the stories about immigration and migration from Newark, NJ.
While at Talking Eyes Media, I have edited and assisted in producing several pieces for Newest Americans, including the stories shared below.
American Sueño, Editor & Associate Producer, Episode 3
American Sueño, Editor, Episode 5
American Sueño, is a series follows a Marisol Conde Hernandez and her journey to pursue a Law Student at Rutger’s University-Newark, while also navigating this country without citizenship.
The EndFund is the only private philanthropic initiative solely dedicated to ending the five most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). River blindness (also known as onchocerciasis) is the world's fourth leading cause of preventable blindness and can also cause painful itching and skin lesions. The disease is caused by a parasitic worm, transmitted by the bite of a black fly that lives and breeds in fast-flowing rivers and streams.
These videos were produced by Talking Eyes Media and edited by Stephanie Khoury.
Former Marine Michael Steadman and his partner Gary Bloore start a boxing academy in the Ironbound district of Newark, New Jersey, where they train and mentor young men from the troubled neighborhood.
Edited for Newest Americans
The Sacrifice Zone follows one young crusader as she fights for environmental security before another natural disaster strikes. For a sample of this work, please request via email.
Role: Additional Editing & Additional Motion Graphics, The Sacrifice Zone (30 min, Short Doc)
Role: Editor, The Sacrifice Zone Trailer (3 min)
Director: Julie Winokur
Film by Talking Eyes Media
Luso-Americano is a short film about the largest Portuguese-language newspaper in the United States, and how it keeps a community connected.
Roles: Associate Producer & Visual Editor
Edited for Newest Americans
The Heising-Simons Foundation, based in Los Altos, CA, works with its numerous partners towards sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy, enabling groundbreaking research in science, enhancing the educations of young learners, and supporting human rights of all people.
Talking Eyes Media produced two videos about the first winners of the prize, Jaeah Lee and Valeria Fernández. To learn more about the fellowship, the fellows and their projects visit hsfoundation.org/prize.
In the summer of 2016, the Newark Downtown District commissioned 18 artists to paint the longest mural on the East Coast. Stretching 1.4 miles along a retaining wall in Newark, New Jersey, the “Portraits" mural runs the equivalent length of 25 football fields. With vibrancy and grace, this mural is part of a citywide effort to reclaim public spaces and celebrate the resilience of Newark’s residents. Learn more here: www. gatewaystonewark.com
Interactive Documentary by Talking Eyes Media & Newest Americans.
