Mar 13 2008
Bio
Michael Tiranoff has edited over 340 medical documentaries for projects funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NYU Graduate School of Medicine, and Genzyme, to create a video database of behavioral components of syndromes and diseases, including Autism Spectrum Disorders. These documentaries range in length, from short observation diagnostic videos, to therapy sessions, to hour-long explorations of families with children having rare and difficult to diagnose conditions. A 55 minute documentary, “Diagnosing MPS-1”, for which he was the senior editor, was used for Continuing Medical Education (CME) by the New York University Graduate School of Medicine.
In addition, he was Assistant Director of a 16mm feature length film, “Milt & Honi,” which features jazz bassist, Milt Hinton and jazz tap dancer, Charles “Honi” Coles, and was narrated by Gregory Hines. Other documentaries edited include “Tap N Blues”, a feature length documentary which was presented at the 2005 Dance on Camera Festival in New York City, “Brooklyn in 24 Hours” which was presented at the Inauguration of Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz in 2002, and “The Hebrew Alphabet from Antiquity to the Computer.” The film, “Arabbin’”, which he directed as well as well as edited, was a finalist at the 1978 American Film Festival in New York City, and presented at the Conference on Southern Folklore in Columbia, South Carolina. In 2002, Arabbin’ was presented at the Maryland Film Symposium, and it was recently featured at the Theatre Project in Baltimore.