Made industrials for Holly Farms Poultry, Archway Cookies, National Wildlife Federation, educational films and TV films

Made first film, "Dizzy Gillespie" (for TV)

First independently produced film, "God Respects Us When We Work but Loves Us When We Dance" (20 mins; on first Los Angeles "love-in")

Founded Flower Films

First feature-length film, "A Poem is a Naked Person" (72 mins; unreleased; on country-rock performer Leon Russell)

Received Guggenheim Fellowship

Subject of retrospective at Museum of Modern Art, New York

Subject of retrospective at National Film Theatre, London

Subject of retrospective at Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City

Louis B Mayer filmmaker-in-residence, Dartmouth; directing fellow, Sundance Institute

Subject of retrospective at Cinematheque-Francaise, Paris

Outstanding filmmaker-in-residence, San Diego State University

Subject of retrospective at Independent Film Week, Augsberg, West Germany

Began teaching film at University of California, Berkeley