Co-Producer
ROLL RED ROLL
Sunset Park Pictures | PBS/Netflix, 2019
Multiple award-winning feature documentary about the notorious Steubenville high school sexual assault. As residents and activists sought justice and accountability in tragedy, the locals grapple with the boys-will-be-boys bystander attitude behind it. Directed by Nancy Schwartzman.
Peabody Award Nominee
World Premiere : Tribeca Film Festival
Producer
HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO
Gidalya Pictures | HBO , 2015
Character-driven verite feature documentary, telling the story of three young women coming of age on the autism spectrum, as they work with their social skills therapist to prepare to attend a prom. Directed by Alexandra Shiva.
Peabody Award
World Premiere : Sundance Film Festival
Audience Award : Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Adapted to an award-winning Broadway musical, November 2023.
Producer
SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS: THE UP WITH PEOPLE STORY
Storey Vision Films, 2009
Award-winning feature documentary exploring the clean-cut, smile-drenched singing phenomenon Up With People, revealing what can happen when ideology, money and groupthink converge to co-opt youthful idealism. Directed by Lee Storey.
World Premiere : Slamdance Film Festival
Director/Producer
DAUGHTERS OF WISDOM
BTG Productions, 2007
Award-winning documentary filmed in remote Northeastern Tibet. Here, at Kala Rongo Monastery, nearly 300 Buddhist nuns are receiving religious and educational training previously unavailable to them, and playing an unprecedented role in preserving their rich cultural heritage even as they slowly reshape it.
World Premiere : Brooklyn Film Festival
Special Jury Prize : Trento Film Festival
Audience Award & Outstanding Editing Award : Brooklyn Film Festival
And in development...
Director/Producer
THE STRANGEST TOWN IN ALASKA
Cypress Films, 2012
A proposed documentary about the people and peculiarities of Whittier, Alaska. The beautiful natural setting of this small town is no match for its strangeness. The only way in and out of Whittier is a single lane, one-way tunnel that changes direction every half hour, and closes at night, locking everyone in. Most of its 200 residents live in a single 14-story apartment building, where they are snowed in during the long harsh winters. But all live voluntarily in this unlikely community and call it home.
Director/Producer
LOOKING FOR LEPKE
BTG Productions, 2011
A proposed feature documentary about Bari's grandfather's first cousin, the notorious Jewish gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, the head of Murder Incorporated who was executed in the fabled electric chair at Sing Sing Prison. During an LMCC artist's residency on Governors Island, she built a multimedia installation from her research, inspired by the similarly-titled Wallace Steven's poem.