a portrait gallery

Immy's documentaries range widely in subject, length, and mood. She's done serious, funny, silly, smart, long, short, cable, PBS, quirky and straight. The common demoninator in all her work is the special way she relates to her subjects. In Immy's films, people reveal themselves, we see what they really care about, their passions, how they really think. Immy pays close and sympathetic attention to everyone she films, and spends the time to get to know them. Her portraits are not sentimental, exploitative, cliched, or dumbed down--they're as real and moving as life, featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly. Here, just a few selected clips...

A love triangle, between Bandit, Vicki, and Mr. Red --
a dog, his trainer, and his owner.
from A Little Vicious, Academy Award nominee in documentary (PBS, POV)

High in the Peruvian Andes, in the sacred valley of the Inca,
famed ethnobotanist Wade Davis takes part in an amazing annual event --
an incredibly difficult run, led by a man dressed as a woman.
But first, he has to prepare gift bags of coca leaves for all the runners!
(National Geographic)

A racist serial killer, on death row (Court TV)

The notorious corporate downsizer, Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap -- and his victims.
(cutdown from a Tom Brokaw story for Dateline NBC)