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After being selected as a regional finalist for a Student Academy Award for his first 16mm film "Interstates" Peter was accepted into the graduate film program at NYU, where his work garnered several honors, including a Graduate Teaching Assistantship, a Warner Bros. Production Award, and a nomination for the American Society of Cinematographers Greg Toland Heritage Award. Peter was also awarded a $25,000 development grant from IFP/North and the Minnesota Independent Film Fund as co-writer of the feature film screenplay Ice Nine, now in development. Peter taught a four-week workshop on documentary filmmaking at the distinguished International Film & Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine, and a six-week course in cinematography at the Kochi University of Technology in Japan. He has served as director of photography on dozens of films including documentaries, television series, shorts, national spots, and more than ten features. His work has been featured on networks which include PBS, ABC, A&E, ESPN, HGTV, Showtime, The Sundance Channel, STARZ, and in theatrical distribution. Peter brings an invaluable distinction to the projects he shoots since he is also a writer, producer, and director. His debut feature, KAATERSKILL FALLS (co-directed with Josh Apter), on which he also served as director of photography, received the Critic’s Jury Prize for Best Feature at the IFP/West Los Angeles Film Festival, and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. It aired 18 months on The Sundance Channel and was released by Wellspring Media on DVD and video. In addition to his current position as Filmmaker in Residence at The Ross Institute, he is currently developing and shooting a number of projects, documentary and narrative, for screens large and small.