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the glass fashion show
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Glass is a magical material. It is strong enough to protect us but it can shatter in an instant. It is born of opaque sand, yet manifests transparency like nothing else on the planet. Glass behaves like a solid, looks like a liquid, but is in fact something between the two.
Laura Donefer is an award-winning artist who has been communicating through glass both the beauty and darkness of life, pushing the boundaries of glass as an art material for over 40 years. She has been honored with many awards, acknowledging both her art and her extraordinary contributions to the glass art world. However, her deepest impact may be the inclusive space she has created for other glass artist of all backgrounds, sexual identities, belief systems, ages, and body shapes who have found a home in the amazing happening that is the Glass Fashion Show.
Since creating the first Glass Fashion Show in Toronto in 1989, Donefer has been luring, cajoling, and in the early years begging glass artists to create masterful wearable designs from this very non-traditional fashion material. Over the years the numbers of participating artists, all volunteers, has grown dramatically, along with the size of the audiences and the impact of the shows. To date 14 of Donefer’s Glass Fashion Shows have taken place in North America, and in Italy, and is understood to be an important phenomenon of the studio glass movement of the late twentieth century. Donefer has assured everyone that the next Glass Fashion Show in 2026 will be an over the top blow out, so to speak, and we will be there to capture it.
Our film will document Donefer as she brings this epic Glass Fashion Show to fruition. We will be there as she works collaboratively with the many artists, some in person and others digitally, from the four corners of the world. The culmination of the film will be the fantastical spectacle of the 2026 Glass Fashion Show itself, in all of it’s wild, imaginative, and broad spirit.
the healer’s journey
The Healer’s Journey is a full-length documentary film that offers a rare, intimate view into the early professional identity formation of medical students. Through cinéma vérité storytelling, the film follows a diverse group of students as they navigate the intellectual, emotional, and moral complexities of medical education. It captures the tension between the overwhelming acquisition of biomedical knowledge and its translation to meaningful patient care, while also exploring how assessment structures—class rankings, high-stakes exams, and summative evaluations—can obscure the formative learning process and hinder personal growth.
The Healer’s Journey highlights the internal struggle many students face in reconciling their initial calling to medicine with a culture that often prioritizes performance metrics over purpose. The film reveals the effects of the hidden curriculum, the dissonance between stated values and lived experiences, and the ways in which students strive to maintain empathy, curiosity, and integrity in environments that may inadvertently suppress them.
This project fills a critical gap in medical education by providing a visual and narrative-based tool that fosters reflection, dialogue, and curricular innovation. Unlike traditional academic analysis, film offers an emotionally resonant medium that can catalyze deep conversations among students, educators, and institutional leaders.
Finding Home
Finding Home is a film regarding the power of time in creating art; how, over decades, Deborah Haber’s musical about her family’s flight from Nazi persecution and genocide became a musical about displacement today; Jews, Muslims, Africans, Asians and Europeans. It is the past and the future.
The film began in 2012 with the first reading of Moses Man: A Musical Journey of a Holocaust Survivor (the original title for the musical.) Deborah Haber, (book & lyrics) asked Dave Marshall to do some interviews with her then ninety-year-old mother and Holocaust survivor, Lily Haber, to be used in the musical.
In July 2015, the musical had its first NYC presentation at the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) and at the same time Germany opened their borders to tens of thousands of Syrians who were fleeing war for Europe. Deborah and her composer partner, Casey L. Filiaci, saw the parallels between the issues they explored in their musical and what was happening in front of them in the news. They decided to expand the musical to directly connect present day refugees with the past. For the ensuing decade they worked with scholars from Indiana University’s School of Global and International Studies to explore, research, and authenticate current journeys of displacement with the goal to blend these stories of “Finding Home.” The documentary explores the complex, often frustrating process of making art, and the enormous effort, compromise, and decades of work it takes to get a musical off the ground. It is not a simple path from Jews, during WW2 to Muslims today and yet that is the path these artists’ travel.