Filmography and Awards Judith Dwan Hallet

Short video presented at the National Academy Arts and Sciences Chesapeake Bay Chapter 2008 EMMY Awards presented to Judith Dwan Hallet for outstanding contributions to the profession

A five minute tribute to Judy Hallet as an inductee into the Silver Circle in 2008 from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (EMMY) for her outstanding contribution to the profession in the past 25 years. A collage of several of her films over the years with colleagues commenting on her work.

Discovering Tunisian Cuisine

with Judith Dwan Hallet 2020

A short video 1 made for Sarah Lawrence College Alumni

19 minutes

In our first video of Judy making the transition from documentary filmmaker to cookbook author, she demonstrates three simple salads following recipes from her and her colleagues recent cookbook Discovering Tunisian Cuisine shot in her own kitchen using a small Leica D-LUX 7 Camera.

Discovering Tunisian Cuisine

with Judith Dwan Hallet 2020

A short video 2

17 minutes

In our second video, Judy demonstrates how to prepare three Tunisian salads from her cookbook, Discovering Tunisian Cuisine. This second video shows you how to prepare the traditional Tunisian brik a l’oeuf.  Judy’s husband, cameraman, architect and teacher, also participates as he demonstrates how the process of making the brik relates to the ancient architectural geometric problems encountered when you place the circular celestial dome of the heavens over the square or cube that symbolically represents the earth.

Discovering Tunisian Cuisine

With Judith Dwan Hallet 2020

A short video 3

18 minutes

In this third video Judy demonstrates how to prepare from her cookbook, Discovering Tunisian Cuisine a traditional Tunisian Potato Stew with Lamb. This is a warm winter stew that can be made with chicken instead of lamb.

Discovering Tunisian Cuisine

with Judith Dwan Hallet 2021

A short video 4

20 minutes

In the fourth video of Judy in the Kitchen preparing recipes from Discovering Tunisian Cuisine, Judy is joined by Hella, a ‘real’ Tunisian who imports Tunisian olive oil from her grandfather’s farm. The two of them fill the kitchen with great stories and laughter as the traditional Tunisian spinach tagine is made and eaten by the tiny crew of four including the chefs by the end of the evening.

Tale of the Tongs 2014

A film by JUdith Dwan Hallet and Stanley Hallet 66 minutes

In 2013, architect Travis Price and his students from The Catholic University of America designed an architectural installation on the island of Inishturk in Ireland. The studio, Spirit of Place, explores the connection between culture, landscape and the unique history of its inhabitants bringing back meaning into modern architecture – a new architecture of the 21st century. Over nine days, the students build a memorial on this remote, sparsely populated island, interweaving the construction with profiles of the people who live on Inishturk. Tale of the Tongs presents an insight into this emerging cultural landscape of modern architecture. 

A film by Judith and Stanley Hallet. Camera/Editor:  Stanley Hallet

Produced for County Mayo, Ireland & The Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning, Washington DC

Awards:   Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, 2014. Chesapeake Film Festival 2016, 2019

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

THE FORCE BEHIND THE VEIL:  WOMEN LEADERS OF YEMEN 2003  

10 minute HD Video

The film profiles two courageous women in Yemen trying their best to make a difference at the grass roots level. Amatarrahman Johhaf is the director of Queen Arwa Girls School in Taiz as well as an elected member of the local council in Taiz.  Salamah Ba Husein is a Bedouin woman living outside of the small town of El Abr working with the Bedouins in her district.  She too is on the local council.  Both Amatarrahman and Salamah are trying to improve the lives of women in their country at the local level bringing educational and economic opportunities to both men and women.

The film also profiles Robin Madrid, the director of the Yemen program for the National Democratic Institute in 2005. Her goal is to assist, as best she can, the country and in particular its women maneuver down a road towards a more democratic government.  Despite the poverty and major obstacles facing their people. Amatarrahman and Salamah believe they can and will make a difference.  If only the Yemeni government and its governing officials have the same willingness, vision and desire to eradicate poverty and illiteracy in their country. These women want to make a difference.  The question is whether the government also has the desire to do the same.

Director: Judith Dwan Hallet.  Producer & Writer: Jeanine Butler.  Camera: Reuben Aaronson.   Sound: Dick Kane. Fixer: Sabri Saleem.  Editors:  Bill Gaff and Doug Lyle 

Produced for The National Democratic Institute, Washington DC.

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

JOHN KLUGE.  THE WILL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE  2003

21 minute HD video

Profile on philanthropist, John Kluge.

Producer/Director/Writer: Judith Dwan Hallet.  Camera:  Erich Roland. Editor:  Robert Zakin.   Sound:  Leonard Schmitz. Associate Producer:  Kalindi Corens.  Managing Producer:  John Butler. Production Assistant:  Jong Soo Hallet.  Sound Design & Mix:  Skip SoRelle. 

Composer:  Cottrell-Mangum Music.  Actor as young John Kluge:  Christian Huet.  

Narrator: James Earl Jones.  Produced for The Library of Congress.

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

STEALING TIME: THE NEW SCIENCE OF AGING. TURNING BACK THE CLOCK.  1999

1 hour Film Preview 4:23

The film explores the biological aspects of aging and what we can do about it through profiles on major scientists in the US studying the aging process.

Producer/Director/Writer:  Judith Dwan Hallet.  Camera:  Erich Roland. Editor:  Robert Zakin.Associate Producer:  Malvina Martin.  Production Assistant in California:  James Dwan.  Series Producer:  Greg Diefenbach.  Executive Producers: Ron Devillier & Brian Donegan.  John Rubin & Anne Tarrant.   

Produced for Rubin/Tarrant Films and Devillier/Donegan Productions. Aired on PBS.

Awards:  CINE Film & Video Festival: CINE Golden Eagle, 2000

Chris Award:  Bronze, 2000   The 33rd WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. Gold Award, 2000 Peer Awards:  Best Cinematography.  Best Editing . 1999 Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Bronze Plaque

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

AMERICAN BUFFALO: SPIRIT OF A NATION, BATTLING BACK.  1998

1 hour film Preview 5:06

The return of buffalo to Native American Reservations and to Yellowstone National Park

Producer/Director/Writer: Judith Dwan Hallet.  Camera: Erich Roland & Reuben Aaronson. Wildlife Camera: Franz Camenzind.  Ass. Camera:  Rich Confalone & Jim Bell. Additional Photography:  Bob Landis. Sound:  Stanley Hallet & Dick Kane.  Associate Producer:  Malvina Martin. Editor: Sam Green. Composer: Fred Karns. Series Producer: Greg Diefenbach. Executive Producers: Chris Palmer, Ron Devillier, Brian Donegan and Fred Kaufman. Narrator for American Buffalo Battling Back version: Henry Strozier. Narrator for American Buffalo: Spirit of a Nation version: Keith Carradine.   

Produced for The National Wildlife Federation, Devillier & Donegan Productions and WNET for their series, “Nature”. Aired on PBS

Awards:  Environmental Film Festival, Washington DC, 1999.      Malibu International Film Festival.  Best documentary, 1999. International Film and Video Festival:  Silver Screen Award. Hot Springs Film Festival. Selected for festival. International Wildlife Film Festival. Selected for festival. CINE Film & Video Festival.  CINE Golden Eagle, 1999. CINE 2000 Masters’ Series Award:  Best of Festival, 2000. Univ. of Nebraska’s Center for Great Plains Studies Symposium.

Special Screenings: Sarah Lawrence College; Inter-Tribal Bison Annual Meeting. George Washington University. American University.  The Catholic University of America. College of the Atlantic.  National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. United States Congress

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

MOBY-DICK 1996

1 hour film Preview 6:12

The novel, Moby-Dick, its major themes interwoven with the life of Herman Melville. 

Producer/Director/Writer:  Judith Dwan Hallet.   Camera: Reuben Aaronson.   Sound:  Dick Kane.  Assistant Camera:  Rich Confalone.  Editor: Robert Zakin. Associate Producer:  Trish Mitchell.  Production Assistant in California:  James Dwan.  

Series Producer:  Dale Minor.  Composer: Fred Karns.   Narrator: Donald Sutherland. 

Produced for Cronkite Ward TV for Discovery Communications, “Great Book Series” on TLC. 

 Awards:  The Houston International Film Festival: Gold Award, 1997 . CINE Film & Video Festival. CINE Golden Eagle, 1997. Washington Film/Video Peer Awards: Best Film of Festival, 1997 .  Washington Film/Video Peer Awards: Best Director, 1997

Emmy for The Best TV Series: The Great Books, 1997 

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

LORDS OF THE GARDEN. TREE HOUSE PEOPLE.  CANNIBAL JUSTICE.  1994

1 hour film 

Deep in the rainforests of Papua on the Indonesian side of the island of New Guinea live the Korowai. A group of people so isolated that only a few years ago they practiced cannibalism based on their criminal justice system. These elusive people have lived here for thousands of years with virtually no contact with the outside world. They survive using the materials afforded them by their surroundings and incredibly, build tree houses perched up to 45 feet in the air without using nails or hardware. Armed with a camera crew and his curiosity, Smithsonian anthropologist Paul Taylor, documents for the the first time, the life of the Korowai. He follows the construction of a tree house and delves into their culture and extraordinary tribal laws. In classic Smithsonian style, Taylor's expedition combines pure scientific suspense with high adventure.            

Producer/Director: Judith Dwan Hallet. Writers: Michael Olmert & Judith Hallet.  Co-Director/ Camera: Reuben Aaronson.  Sound/Associate Producer: Dick Kane.  Editor: Sam Green.  Composer: Fred Karns.  Executive Producers for Smithsonian Institute:  Karen Loveland & Paul Johnson. Executive Producers for Hearst Entertainment: Jeff Schon & Austin Hearst.  

Executive Producer for A&E:  Michael Casio.   Produced for Smithsonian Institution/Hearst Entertainment/Tele Images, France.  

Narrator for Lords of the Garden version:  Henry Strozier.  Narrator for Tree House People Cannibal Justice version:  Eric Conger.  Aired on Arts & Entertainment. 

Awards: CINE Film & Video Festival. CINE Golden Eagle: 1995 . Outstanding Documentary of the CINE Film & Video Festival: 1995 . Houston International Film & Video Festival: Gold Award, 1995. The Jules Verne Film Festival, France: Best of Festival, 1995.  National Educational Media Network: Bronze Apple, 1995

Environmental Film Festival, Washington D.C. College of the Atlantic, Maine, 1995 Screenings:  Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. George Washington University.  Catholic University of America Screening.  College of the Atlantic. 

 For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

GAUCHOS 1991

26 minute film Preview 4:14

The film profiles the lives of three Gaucho families living in three parts of Argentina: Patagonia, Salta and Corrientes. In Patagonia, we meet Jimmy Holliday whose great-grandparents emigrated from Scotland to Argentina in 1885.  Ever since the family has carried on the Gaucho tradition in Argentina. 

 In Salta, a mountainous region in central Argentina, we meet Rudecindo Campos whose father is also a gaucho.  Rudecindo loves everything about the gaucho way of life:  working in leather, riding horses, being outdoors, being at one with nature but he realizes that this way of life is slowly vanishing and that his children probably won't grow up to be gauchos.  

 In the far north of Argentina we meet the quintessential gaucho, 80-year old Don Ansola.  He and his sons raise their cattle in the marshlands in the province of Corrientes. 

Producer/Director: Judith Dwan Hallet. Camera: Reuben Aaronson.   Sound: Guillarmo Palacios. Assistant Camera: Jim McQuillan.   Production Manager: Diego Rueda.  Editor: Christine Jameson. Writer: Michael Olmart.  Associate Producer: John Bredar.  Composer: Fred Karns.

Aired on TBS.

 Award: Emmy nomination for cinematography, 1991

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JANE GOODALL

MY LIFE WITH THE CHIMPANZEES 1990

1 hour film

In the summer of 1960, 26 year old Jane Goodall set out for Africa.  Her mission was to find and observe an elusive tribe of chimpanzees.  Today, Jane has grown from a stranger to the chimp's local friend and strongest ally.  Her lifelong dedication to the study of chimpanzees has helped to identify them as man's closest relative.  In The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall, Jane shares her personal story of the triumphs and trials that come with leading a life in the wild.  Jane also speaks fondly about her relationship with her favorite family of chimps that she calls the "F" troop.

Producer/ Director: Judith Dwan Hallet.   Camera: John Davey.  Sound:  David John.   Assistant Camera: Lawrence Dodds. Additional Camera:  Gary Steele.  Editor: Christine Jameson.  Writers: Patrick Prentice & Lynn McDevitt.  Associate Producer: Cynthia Moses.  Composer: Fred Karns.  Narrator: Jack Lemmon.

Aired on TBS.

Awards:  CINE Film & Video Festival. CINE Golden Eagle, 1990.  Columbus International Film Festival: Chris, 1990. Lillian Gish Award: Best Woman Director of the Year, 1990.  National Educational Film & Video Festival: Silver Apple, 1991. International Film and TV Festival of New York: Finalist, 1990. Ohio State Award: Achievement of Merit, 1991. 12th Annual Ace Nomination: Directing a Documentary, 1990

Screening at Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 1990

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

EL DORADO GOLD   1988

26 minute film

30,000 miners risk their lives looking for gold in the remote rainforests of Eastern Venezuela.  To separate the gold, the miners used mercury, a highly toxic heavy metal, causing mercury poisoning in their brains, kidneys and lungs.  Using bulldozers to rip out trees to dig hug pits in the ground, the fragile rainforest is being destroyed for this insatiable lust for gold.  We meet a father whose dream is to make enough money so he can take his family far away from the gold mines where he and his wife can life in a proper house and his children can get a good education.

Producer/Directors:  Judith Dwan Hallet and Wolfgang Bayer.   Camera: Wolfgang Bayer. Assistant Camera: Chip Houseman. Production Manager: Alejandro Parisca.   Editor: Christine Jameson.  Writer: Michael Olmart. 

Aired on TBS.

Award:  The Houston International Film Festival:  Gold Award, 1989

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

THE PAINTED TRUCK  1972

28 minute film

An Afghan truck gets repainted & takes a trip to Bamiyan in the Hindu Kush. 

In Afghanistan everyone paints their trucks, and these gaily-decorated vehicles are seen everywhere, carrying goods, animals and people.  In this lively, colorful film, full of humor and the infectious music of Afghanistan, the people themselves speak about their life and their work.  Made in 1972, the film has become a cult film among Afghans living in the United States who have never seen their country in a time of peace.  The documentary offers a glimpse at what it was like when Afghanistan was a far away, exotic kingdom in the Hindu Kush. It was a time before the overthrow its king in 1973, and long before the Russian invasion, the American intervention, and the Taliban.

A film by Judith & Stanley Hallet & Sebastian Schroeder.

Awards:  Special Screenings: Museum of Man, Paris, France.  Asia House, New York.  Middle East Institutes: New York & Washington D.C.  University of California at Berkeley.  Stanford University. Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches: Afghanistan, Paris.  University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. Blue Mouse Theater, Salt Lake City, one week engagement. Locavore Film Series at Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse, 2018 and the Chesapeake Film Festival, 2019. 

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com

The Nomads of Badakshan  1972

26.5 minute film

Filmed1971 in Afghanistan by Judy and Stanley Hallet, while Stanley was on a Fulbright mission to the Department of Architecture at the University of Afghanistan in Kabul, it follows a group of nomads for three days as they move their animals from their summer camp to their winter camp. The film takes place in the province of Badakshan in Northern Afghanistan a few years before the Russian invasion, civil war, the Taliban and the eventual presence of American troops. Made with a limited budget of  $5000, a few rolls of 16mm film requiring a shooting ratio of 4 to 1, every foot of film was edited to the fullest advantage.

 Originally intended as a teaching tool, the film evolves to become a more intimate story of a simple family led by a relatively successful nomad, who proudly lists a grandmother, a single wife, many animals, three sons, and for a moment, forgets to mention his two beautiful daughters.

For further information email judy.hallet@gmail.com