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FILMS (AVAILABLE ON DVD OR CASSETTE)

The Sunlight Experiment - 2004
Credits: writer, director, camera
The building of a solar community
Everyone Hates My Dog - 2002
Credits: writer, dir, edit, camera
Interviews with neighbors about my dog, Tasmania, who has no people skills.
 
That Five Star Feeling - 1999
Credits: writer, dir, producer, camera, lyricist
Awards: Women in the Directors Chair, Chicago,1999.
An inspiring philosophy of how to live the good life from an 83 year old painter who lived in London for 30 years and has returned to the US full of humor and opinions and her delicious art.
 
Oregon Jews - 1993
Credits: Prod, Dir, Writer, videographer
Showings: Broadcast OPB, March 1994.
Awards: Cindy Award,1994, US International Film and Video,1994
The history of Jews from Columbus to the Eastern European ghettos to Oregon’s high society.
 
In the Footsteps of Columbus - 1992
Credits: Prod, Dir, videographer
For Neva Shalom... Jewish life in Oregon.
 
Pioneer Women - 1991
Credits: Prod, Dir, Videographer
For Clackamas Historical Society. Aired on A&E Channel. The trials of pioneer women from their own moving and sometimes angry diaries.
 
Pacific Rim International Symposium - 1990
Oregon Historical Society.
 
Rocky Road - 1987
Credits: Writer, Director, Producer
Awards: Houston International Gold special jury 1988, Columbus International 1987, Hawaiian Film Festival 1987, Silver Cindy,1987
KOIN-TV Special. The true story of Billy Rancher’s short life. A beautiful, talented young man on the verge of super rock and roll stardom.
 
A Place I used to Know - 1986
Credits: Producer
NW Film Center: A Grant High Senior class in Oregon who are mostly minorities, interview displaced Jewish elders in a moving documentary about living together.
 
The Healing Touch - l984
Credits: Videographer, Co-producer
Rogers CableTV. Reike and other hands on techniques.
 
International Adlerian Society - 1982
Credits: Director, Camera
Filmed in Europe.2 hrs.
 
As If by Magic - 1982
Credits: Producer, Director, Camera, Writer
Awards: Cine Golden Eagle, 1982, Bumbershoot,1982
A puppet-maker lovingly builds the characters for the opera “Carmen” by Bizet and then puts on the opera with the help of the characters she created. Arias by The Portland Opera.
 
Happy Feet - 1981
Credits: Producer, Director, Writer, Camera
The story of a one woman and her very unusual Jewish family.
 
Oregon Woodcarvers - 1981
Credits: Producer. Director, Writer, Camera
Showings: American Film Festival, 1982, Artquake, 1981, Midwest Film Festival, 1981, NW Film Study Center, NW Motion Picture Seminar, Athens Film Festival
Four very different wood carvers in Oregon show their techniques and share their philosophies of art.
 
Heart of the Valley - 1975
Credits: Prod, Dir, Writer, Edit, Camera
The history of the Willamette Valley, Oregon, the characters and some unusual stories from the people who built the towns.
 
Nothing Comes Easy - 1974, Gotta Start Somewhere - 1973
Credits: Producer/Director/Writer/Edit/Camera)
Oregon State Documentaries of media programs for youth at risk
 
Fulltilt Finale - 1970
Credits: Prod, Dir, Edit, Camera - Karl Krogstad
Three friends solve a crime in early Seattle.
 

SCREENPLAYS

The Last Seduction of Mata Hari
Awards: Oregon Film Board Award, Willamette Writers Kay Snow Award.
Based on the life story of the most famous woman spy in the history of the world. She was the woman who introduced the strip tease to Europe through her erotic dance and became the lover of the era’s most famous men. Set against the backdrop of WW1, it is the story of personal and international betrayal.
Savage Queen
A comedy about an anthropologist who finds a Neanderthal woman, the last of her tribe and the poor hairy woman is desperate for human contact When the Neanderthal follows the scientist back to the modern world, the most unpredictable things happen between the two women. When the Neanderthal is discovered by the anthropologist’s lover and head of the department, she is loses her job, her lover, her credibility. In the end, the Neanderthal breaks loose from the forces that cage her and finds love and fame with the scientist’s brother who has a rock band. The anthropologist triumphs as well with a new love and the friendship with the Neanderthal that she has come to cherish.
 
Angelo and the Comedian
Based on a true story from 1950s. Angelo, a lonely 18 year old, is forced by his alcoholic father to attend chiropractic school which he hates. He lives in Brooklyn, a geek, in love with the cheerleader and he wants to be a musician. Angelo is hired by a fouled mouthed 70 year old, female stand-up comedian to be her chauffeur. Angelo enters a world he only suspected existed. He’d never been to Manhattan much less driven a car or had to wear a tuxedo. The old woman gives him a tough love course in the survival in the real world of entertainment and life in general. She gives him the courage to break from his father and become his own man.
 
Billy’s Back
Based on the true story of Billy Rancher. A beautiful, brash, self-absorbed young man in a local Oregon band breaks through. Arista signs him and his band, The unreal Gods. He’s on top of the world. He’s in love with an incredible girl, Karen. All the girls wants him which becomes a problem. The guys all want to be him. He’s into the drug scene while he’s writing songs, producing CDs, doing the work of four people. They’re recording their first album with Arista when he contracts testicular cancer. Like Lance Armstrong, he beats it. But Billy is young and into the self destructive party scene. He goes back to that life style and the cancer comes back. He beats it again. With the devotion of his girlfriend, mother and friends, he beats it two more times. Each time, he grows up a little, his songs mature and by the end he has become an incredible man of compassion who knows it’s his time to die.
 

MUSIC VIDEOS

The Paper Man - l985
Credits: Co-producer - Krogstad Studios
starring DEBRA WINGER and KEVIN TIGHE, written by TOM ROBBINS.
Partners in Crime - l985
Credits: Producer - Krogstad Studios
 
 

FEATURE FILMS

3 O’Clock High - 1987
Credits: Second unit director
Amblin Productions- Steven Spielberg
The Marriage Counselor - 1985
Credits: Production manager
Koester Brothers Co.
 
The Peace Feature - 1984
Credits: Production manager
Peter Watkins
 
Shadow Play - 1983-4
Credits: Location scout, prod assist, still photos
Millenium
 
Adventures of Mark Twain - 1983
Credits: Assist sound editor
Will Vinton Studios
 
Sacred Ground - 1982
Credits: Assist sound, editor, still photography
International Entertainment
 
Unhinged - 1981
Credits: Prod. assist
Anivisio Prod
 

ANIMATION

The Boy and The Flower
Boy fights to be his own person.
 
The Computer Said
Awards: Oregon Filmmakers, 1972, A.S.I.F.A. Tournee
The funny workings of an early computer
 
The Friendly Skies
Anti-war film: a general tries to launch a rocket and the forces of nature prevent him.
 
The Scraatch
A real scratch on the film takes over the film as a character and keeps two lovers apart.
 
Weird Arthur
"Another film by Ms. Baross is her cookie dough (and food coloring) animation about first love which takes on grotesque and funny forms." - Seattle Times, 1969
 

TELEVISION

Political PSA
Credits: Prod, Dir, Camera
Starring Lily Tomlin.
Pillars of Portland - l983
Credits: Production Manager, contributing writer
TV Pilot. Channel 6.
 
Coming Attractions - l985
Credits: Producer
PSA for Cubiculo Theater.
 
Great Kids - l985
Credits: Producer
PSA for Channel 2.
 
Lysistrada - l984
Credits: Producer
PSA for Artist Rep. Theater.
 
John Powell - l982
Credits: Writer/Producer
PSA.
 
Jean Auels - l986
Credits: Writer/Producer/Director
PSA for Channel 2.
 
Lutheran Family Services - 1986
Credits: Writer/Producer/Director
PSA.
 
Portland State Agricultural spots
PSA.
 
United Way - 1978
PSA.
 
Film stringer for ABC, NBC, CBS affiliates - 1974-82.
Television News.
 

FILM GRANTS

OSU Bicentennial Committee,1976.
Oregon Art Commission, 1986.
Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1991,92.
Meyer Memorial Trust,1992.
Jackson Foundation, 1992.
 

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