I wrote, directed, and edited award-winning short film “Stereopsis.” Recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Short Film Grant. “Stereopsis” received an NYU faculty commendation, First Run Film Festival’s Audience Award, USA Film Festival honors, and Museum of the Moving Image honors. 

SYNOPSIS
Stereopsis written Three-year-old Jake is kidnapped by his grandparents and great aunt, who don’t believe that he is safe in his father’s care. Five years pass and Jake, more mature now, wants to know why his father has not returned for him. He fills the void with fantasy, drawing upon some 1930s encyclopedias and an old stereoscope. The characters in the stereoscope cards occupy his world, offering friendship and advice in his search for his father. When Jake attempts to turn a photograph of his father into a stereoscope card, he hopes to conjure his dad out of the card and into his life; instead, a detail in the picture provides a clue as to his father’s whereabouts, providing an opportunity to reunite Jake with his dad and end his grandparents’ flight. Starring Broadway veterans Larry Pine (“The Ice Storm,” “Dead Man Walking”) and Angela Pietropinto (“Welcome to the Dollhouse,” “Goodfellas”).

STEREOPSIS DEFINITION
from Wikipedia
Stereopsis (from stereo- meaning “solid”, and opsis meaning view or sight) is the process in visual perception leading to the sensation of depth from the two slightly different projections of the world ont the retinas of the two eyes.

THE STEREOSPCOPE
from Random House
An optical instrument through which two pictures of the same object, taken from slightly different points of view, are viewed, one by each eye, producing the effect of a single picture of the object, with the appearance of relief.