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Michael I Niman Ph.D.
State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College
Professor, Communication Department (Journalism & Critical Media Studies)
Affiliated Faculty, Women & Gender Studies
Arts & Humanities Graduate Faculty
Contact Information
Expertise
Journalism / Critical Media Studies
Nonhierarchical Groups / Acephalous Societies
Investigative Reporting
Central American Studies
Alternative Media
Nonviolent Conflict Resolution Strategies
Volkswagen Mechanics
Courses/Seminars
Mass Media and Society - COM 450
Persuasion and Propaganda - SPC 309
Race Class & Gender in Media - SPC 333
Alternative Media - COM 389
Investigative Reporting - COM 390
Visual Communication - COM 215
Foundations of Inquiry / Lies My Teacher Told Me - BSC 101
Honors & Awards
State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Awarded in 2012)
SUNY Buffalo State Campus Life Faculty Appreciation Award (2013)
SUNY Buffalo State 2008 Students Award for the Promotion of Respect for Equity and Diversity.
SUNY Buffalo State 2005 United Student Government Instructor of the Year Award
SUNY Buffalo State 2004 United Student Government Instructor of the Year Award
SUNY Buffalo State 2004 Students Award for the Promotion of Respect for Diversity and Individual Differences
Magazine Story (What Bush Didn’t Want You To Know About Iraq. In The Humanist) selected by PROJECT CENSORED as #3 on its list of Top 25 overlooked or censored news stories of 2002-2003
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Books
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People of the Rainbow; A Nomadic Utopia (2nd Edition)
(2011)
Link
Getting a Grip '05: A weekly look at the media and America in the 21st Century
(2005)
Link
Getting a Grip '04: A weekly look at the media and America in the 21st Century
(2004)
Link
Getting a Grip 2003: A weekly look at the media and America in the 21st Century
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Coldtype
(2003)
People of the Rainbow; A Nomadic Utopia
(1997)
Chapters in Books
Link
The Shanti Sena “Peace Center” and the Non-Policing of an Anarchist Temporary Autonomous Zone: Rainbow Family Peacekeeping Strategies
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Rethinking Policing and Justice Exploring Alternatives to Law Enforcement
(2011)
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Die Zombie Newspapers Die: The Dailies Really Died a Generation Ago, and Now Their Corpses are Following Suit
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Censored 2010
(2010)
PDF
The Political Tsunami: Not all Death and Destruction is Natural
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Tsunami Communication: Interpersonal/Intercultural, Mass Media, and Philanthropic Responses; Historical, Technical, Ethical and Development Communication
(2010)
PDF
You Can’t Be Nonviolent Without Violence: The Rainbow Family’s Nonkilling Nomadic Utopia and its Survival of Persistent State Violence
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NonKilling Societies
(2010)
PDF
Racism and New York’s Anti-Indian Casino Movement
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Shoot the Indian: Media, Misperception & Native Truth
(2007)
Academic Articles
Link
Cover Photo & Text
,
Democratic Communique
(2012)
PDF
The Shanti Sena “Peace Center” and the Non-Policing of an Anarchist Temporary Autonomous Zone: Rainbow Family Peacekeeping Strategies
,
Contemporary Justice Review
(2011)
Link
Ararat
,
Encyclopedia of New York State
(2005)
Book Review of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain.
(with Laura J. McClusky Ph.D.),
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
(2003)
Branding Cuba: La Vida Nike
,
Democratic Communique
(2002)
Popular Press
Link
Sequester This! A story of sabotage and theft
,
ArtVoice
(2013)
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You've Got No Mail: The corporate hit job on the Postal Service continues
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ArtVoice
(2013)
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Crazy for Guns
,
ArtVoice
(2013)
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Thirteen Safe Bets for 2013
,
Truthout
(2013)
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If You're Reading This, the World Hasn't Ended - Yet
,
Truthout
(2012)
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Obama Was Re-Elected: Now What?
,
Truthout
(2012)
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The Dirty Dozen: The top 12 election issues nobody is talking about
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ArtVoice
(2012)
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What the Presidential Debates Say About Us
,
ArtVoice
(2012)
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Where's Our Outrage: Media Ignore Republican Disdain for Basic Human Rights
,
ArtVoice (and Truthout)
(2012)
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Occupy the Truth: Challenging the Corporate Media’s Premature Post-Mortem on the Occupy Movement
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ArtVoice
(2012)
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Romney in Jerusalem: You knew this was gonna be bad, but racist and anti-Semitic?
,
ArtVoice
(2012)
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The Republican Depression
,
ArtVoice
(2012)
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Bully Politics
,
ArtVoice
(2012)
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6 Scary Extreme Energy Sources Being Tapped to Fuel the Post Peak Oil Economy
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Alternet
(2012)
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Legalizing Sexual Harrassment & Legislating Rape: Republican Statehouses Declare War on Women
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ArtVoice
(2012)
Link
The Republican Implosion Myth: How Republicans Are Winning
,
Truthout / ArtVoice
(2012)
PDF
Going Anti-Postal: What Kind of Nation Won't Fund a Post Office
,
The Humanist
(2012)
PDF
Ron Paul + Potheads = Racist Dopes
,
ArtVoice
(2012)
PDF
This'll Kill Ya: Pepper Spray and the Modern Lexicon of "Less Than Lethal" Oppression.
,
Coldtype
(2012)
Link
Pepper Spray and the Modern Lexicon of "Less Than Lethal" Oppression
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ArtVoice
(2011)
Link
The War on Occupy
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ArtVoice
(2011)
PDF
I didn’t mourn Steve Jobs
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Coldtype
(2011)
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The War on Occupy: How the media is abetting the government crackdown on the 99 percent
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ArtVoice
(2011)
Link
#OCCUPY YOUR DREAMS
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Truthout
(2011)
Link
London's Burning
,
Truthout
(2011)
Link
Been to a Nursing Home Lately?
,
Truthout
(2011)
Link
Unionize Everybody!
,
The Humanist
(2011)
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Nuclear Fallout: El Diablo, Godzilla, and the Greens
,
ArtVoice
(2011)
PDF
I Am The Enemy: A Unionized Public Employee Speaks Out
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ColdType (Canada)
(2011)
PDF
I'm Okay, You're Criminally Insane: Life in a Neurotic Fear State
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ColdType
(2011)
PDF
Tax the Rich
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Coldtype
(2011)
Link
Wikileaks and the End of Democracy
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ArtVoice
(2010)
Link
Dancing With "Pygmies," Flirting With Nuclear War
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ArtVoice
(2010)
Link
Learning to Love Big Brother
,
ArtVoice
(2010)
Link
Reform, Change, Deregulation, and Other Post-Cognitive Political Memes
,
ArtVoice
(2010)
Link
Show Me Your Heroes
,
ArtVoice
(2010)
PDF
We're Marching Toward Intolerance
,
ColdType (Canada)
(2010)
PDF
BP's Dumb Investors Demand Their Dividends
,
ColdType (Canada)
(2010)
That Illegal Look
,
The Humanist
(2010)
Link
It's As Natural As Water: BP platform bombed by eco-terrorists still leaking clean oil
,
ArtVoice
(2010)
PDF
It's Enouch to Make You Die Laughing
,
ColdType (Canada)
(2010)
PDF
The Politics of Snow
,
ColdType (Canada)
(2010)
Link
The Copulation Bomb!
,
ArtVoice
(2010)
Link
Taxachusetts Mayhem
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ArtVoice
(2010)
Link
Naked Pumpkins, Sex Offenders, and Terrorists
,
The Humanist
(2010)
Link
The Doomsday Lobby
,
ArtVoice
(2009)
PDF
The War on Twitter
,
ColdType (Canada)
(2009)
Link
Ghost of Bush: How Dubya's Court Can Undo Democracy
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ArtVoice
(2009)
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Felony Charge for Cutting in Line While Black in Missouri
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Progressive Populist
(2009)
PDF
Cash for Clunkers?
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ColdType (Canada)
(2009)
Link
The Truth
,
The Humanist
(2009)
Link
Pirates, Bankers and Libertarians
,
ArtVoice
(2009)
Link
Don't Drink the Electric Car Kool Aid
,
ArtVoice
(2009)
PDF
Reboot America: Lessons from Post-Consumerist Cuba
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ColdType (Canada)
(2009)
Link
The Plane Crash and the Pundit
,
ArtVoice
(2009)
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Reboot America: Lessons from Post-Consumerist Cuba (Reprint)
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World War 4 Report
(2009)
Link
CONSUMPTION: Bail out the planet, not the bankers
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ArtVoice
(2009)
PDF
Truth and Lies
,
ColdType (Canada)
(2009)
PDF
Why they want to kill the motor industry
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ColdType (Canada)
(2009)
Link
Ponzi Capitalism
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ArtVoice
(2008)
Link
NO YOU CAN'T: Gazans, gays, and ghosts
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ArtVoice
(2008)
PDF
The Era of Greed is Over
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ColdType (Canada)
(2008)
Link
State of Stupidity: NY Can't Afford its Drug Prisons
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ArtVoice
(2008)
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Class Warfare
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ArtVoice
(2008)
Link
Chumps & Champs: Socializing Risk for Casino Capitalists
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ArtVoice
(2008)
Link
Nation of Idiots: Beavis and Butthead's Grandfather Runs for President
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ArtVoice
(2008)
PDF
Weirdos Riot, Media Gets it Wrong
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ColdType (Canada)
(2008)
Link
Reflections on Dandelions
,
ArtVoice
(2008)
PDF
FOOD FIGHT: From Haiti to Laos, People are Starving – But they Refuse to do it Quietly
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ColdType (Canada)
(2008)
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Food Fight
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ArtVoice
(2008)
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Never Apologize to Goons and Thugs: CNN's Jack Cafferty has China's Number
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ArtVoice
(2008)
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Hillary W. Bush's War
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ArtVoice
(2008)
Link
935 Lies
,
ArtVoice
(2008)
PDF
Finishing in the Money (an early look at the 2008 presidential election)
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ColdType (Canada)
(2008)
Link
Plastic Poison: China's Neutering Toys
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ArtVoice
(2007)
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Shopping at the End of the World
,
ArtVoice
(2007)
PDF
Zeitgeist Shift: Too Little Too Late
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Coldtype
(2007)
Link
Dreaming About Revolutions in an Age of Sweatshops
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ArtVoice
(2007)
Link
It's Burma, Damn It!
,
ArtVoice
(2007)
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Carbon Culture Partying Like There's No Tomorrow
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ArtVoice
(2007)
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Global Warming Is Just a Symptom
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ArtVoice
(2007)
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Know Nukes
,
ArtVoice
(2007)
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Bottled Insanity: The Problem With Fiji Water
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ArtVoice
(2007)
Link
My Shopping Orgy
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ArtVoice
(2006)
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Drinking the Mercury: We Just Can't Help Ourselves
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ArtVoice
(2006)
Presentations
PDF
Journalism in a PR World
,
Harvard Law School Project on Law and Mind Sciences. Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, & Law.
(2013)
“Efficacy and Staying Power of Leaderless Groups.”
,
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library "Ring of Knowledge Series"
(2012)
“Sacred Economies of the Past. Present Economic Problems.”
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Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. "School of Everything."
(2012)
Misogynist Images in Advertising
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Buffalo State College Women and Gender Studies Research Symposium
(2012)
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Closing Keynote Address: “Naming the Crisis: Contextualizing Disaster.”
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37th Annual Conference of the Eastern Community College Social Sciences Association
(2011)
Link
Steamable Video of "Naming the Crisis: Contextualizing Disaster"
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37th Annual Conference of the Eastern Community College Social Sciences Association
(2011)
Cops Gone Wild: A Forensic Sociological Deconstruction of a Police Riot.
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New York State Sociological Association Annual Conference
(2010)
When Cops Go Wild: A Case Study in the Communication of Fear and its Role in Provoking Police Riots
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Union for Democratic Communication International Conference
(2010)
We Love You - Film Contextualization and Manuscript Reading
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Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
(2010)
The Future of Capitalism (Invited Plenary Panal Participant)
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Fourth Cross-Border Post Keynesian Conference
(2009)
Link
NPR Radio Documentary Interview - Peace Lessons of the Rainbow Gatherings
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KUNM Radio
(2009)
Watching the Police: An Investigative Journalism Class Fills the Gap Left By Local Media.
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Union for Democratic Communication International Conference,
(2009)
From Ethnography to Documentary: Can Anarchism Fit in a Box?
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Honoring the Life and Work of John Mohawk: 4th Annual Storytellers of the Americas Conference, University at Buffalo
(2009)
Liberating Time and Space: The Rainbow Utopia
,
New York State Sociological Association Annual Conference
(2008)
Filming Utopia: The Challenges of Visual Ethnography.
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Filming Utopia: The Challenges of Visual Ethnography.
(2008)
Dancing on the Razor’s Edge: Buffalo's Experiment With Progressive Commercial Media
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Union for Democratic Communication International Conference
(2007)
The Rainbow TAZ: Actualizing Utopia, if But for a Moment or Two
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Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction international conference
(2007)
Graffiti: Mass Media for the Masses
,
Wells College Activism in the Academy Symposium
(2007)
At War With Oneself: Trauma, Propaganda, Racism and War
(with Brian Machelski),
Wells College - College-wide speaker sponsored by the Departments of Sociology/Anthropology, Women’s Studies, Public Affairs and Religious Studies
(2006)
Emerging Racism in New York’s Anti-Casino Movement
,
New York State Sociological Association Annual Conference
(2006)
Link
War Propaganda and the Language of Fascism
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Chautauqua Institute
(2006)
Unnatural Disasters: The Media Provides No Context or Depth in its Disaster Reporting.
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New York State Sociological Association Annual Conference
(2005)
We’re Number 31: The New Repression of the American Press.
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Union for Democratic Communication International Conference
(2005)
Cornell University Hope Not Hate Town Hall on US-Islamic Relations.
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Cornell University History Department, the Cornell University Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Cornell University chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy
(2004)
Alternative Press Post 9/11: Media Repression/Media Freedom.
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Wells College Activism in the Academy Symposium
(2004)
Reporting Reality in Unreal Times: The Challenges of Post 9-11 Journalism
,
International Conference on War and the Media - University at Buffalo
(2004)
The Media and Foreign Policy
,
Buffalo Niagara World Connect Great Decisions discussion series.
(2004)
Propaganda and Persuasion in the Popular Press
,
American Constitution Society University at Buffalo Chapter
(2003)
Branding Cuba
,
Union for Democratic Communication International Conference
(2001)
Ethnography in a Nomadic Utopia, Reports from the Rainbow Front
,
Society for Utopian Studies Annual Meeting
(2001)
Ethnicity in Buffalo on the Brink of the New Millennium: What We Learned From the N.E.H. Buffalo Conversations on American Pluralism and Identity
,
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
(2000)
Other
Fat Kids (short documentary)
(with Jonathan Kalafer) (2010)
Link
We Love You
(with Jonathan Kalafer and Steve Kalafer) (2009)
Link
2004 The Under-Reported Stories: Michael Niman
(with Snowshoe Films) (2005)