"COTILLION '65"
22 minutes 35 mm color
Santa Clarita Film Festival, Best Comedy Short Film, March 2000
Carlsbad Film Festival, Best Short Film and Audience Choice Award

A Film starring Kate Linder, Guy Lewis and Robert Cresante.

The story of a thirteen year-old-boy who falls in love with his dance
teacher only to learn some harsh truths about love and illusion.

DIRECTED and CO-WRITTEN by JUDY CHAIKIN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - NANCY KISSOCK
PRODUCERS - NANCY KISSOCK and JASON GOURSON & JEFF SMITH
CO-WRITER - GREGORY BURNS
CINEMATOGRAPHER - DAVID A. ARMSTRONG
EDITOR - DAVID FRAME
Music by Michael Andreas and Alberto dal Pino
Set Design - Douglas Ridgeway
Art Direction - John Natsoulas
Costumes - Courtney Fowles

"LEGACY OF THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST"
One Hour Documentary film.
Emmy Nominee 1989
Winner Cine Gold Eagle Award

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: JUDY CHAIKIN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: LOREN STEPHENS
EDITOR AND CO-WRITER: EVE GOLDBERG
FILM SCORE COMPOSER: MICHAEL ANDREAS

This one-hour film, narrated by Actor BURT LANCASTER, explores the lingering effects of The Hollywood Blacklist, which occurred in the late forties and early fifties as part of the Anti-Communist witch hunts that terrorized the nation. This film is seen through the eyes of the wives and children of the now deceased Hollywood figures whose careers were destroyed when studio bosses, along with guild and union officials capitulated to the will of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

"LOS PASTORES (THE SHEPHERDS PLAY)"
A thirty minute Christmas Special. PBS, December 1997.
PREMIERED AT THE TAOS FILM FESTIVAL, 1998

PRODUCER: LOREN STEPHENS
WRITER/DIRECTOR: JUDY CHAIKIN
CINEMATOGRAPHER: DAVID AUBREY
EDITOR: ED ABROMS

This documentary film looks at the how the residents of New Mexico's mountain towns celebrate Christmas by performing the historical "morality" play, "LOS PASTORES." The film follows a troupe of townspeople from TAOS on their journey through New Mexico and Colorado as they go from church to church in an old yellow school bus, performing the story of the Shepherds journey to see the Christ Child. This community endeavor was developed by two liturgical scholars, Arsenio Cordoba and Larry Torres, in an effort to revive and restore the religious practices and traditions of their forefathers.

This documentary was selected by the Smithsonian Institute for its 1999 exhibition on art and lifestyles in New Mexico.

"SOMETHING INSIDE ME HAS DIED"
Music Video 5 min.

1985 Black and White avant garde music video of the Los Angeles, Gothic Punk Band
"KOMMUNITY FK".

DIRECTOR/WRITER: JUDY CHAIKIN
PRODUCER: VICKY LOWY
CINEMATOGRAPHER: BRIAN COOKE
EDITOR: OZZIE ZORNIZER

This dramatic "German expressionist-style" video became an underground classic in the early days of the MTV Basement Tapes and was played extensively in the video clubs across the country.

We also have a comprehensive library of stock footage of the 1947 hearings of The House Committee on Un-American Activities. Footage includes stars such as Gary Cooper, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor and Adolph Menjou and studio bosses, Jack Warner, Louis B. Mayer and Walt Disney.

Also represented are the Hollywood Ten, including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr.