Before his involvement in documentary production, Liam studied philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin and New York University. He worked in academic publishing for several years, editing books in philosophy, religion, and classics. He was born in Medak, India, emigrated to Ireland in 1985, and then to the US in 1995.

Punjabi Cab
digital video
19:58 min.

Since 9/11, turban-wearing Sikhs in America have endured harassment and violence because they have been mistaken for our stereotype of a terrorist. Punjabi Cab looks at the lives of Bay Area Sikh taxi drivers working under this threat. We learn how their experience of abuse is tempered by faith, compassion, and pride in their culture.

FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS:

• Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2005

When You're Dead
16mm, color film
6:40 min.

A short study of the way we choose to dispose of our bodies when we die and of what the choice reveals about the way we are remembered.

Watershed
Co-directed by Liam Dalzell and Andy Schocken
digital video
11:20 min.

On the Klamath River, it's not only the fish that are endangered. Amidst another round of the western water wars, Watershed looks at the ways of life along the river that are being threatened with extinction.

FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS:

• American Indian Film Festival, 2003
• Olympia Film Festival, 2003
• Cantor Arts Center, 2003
• Ashland Independent Film Festival
• 1 Reel Film Festival
• Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
• San Francisco Ocean Film Festival

Keeping a Silence
16mm, black and white film
4:14 min.

Keeping a Silence examines how solitude and a sense of community interact in the life of Fr. Daniel, a Benedictine monk in the Immaculate Heart Hermitage near Big Sur, California.