Developed as a thesis project at NYU, SAVE THE PLANET, imagined a utopian group home in Bushwick, NY. Collaborating with homeless youth I met while living in Manhattan's Covenant House and inspired by the terrain of his Brooklyn neighborhood, I wrote a short screenplay about a diverse, makeshift family undergoing a change as they prepare for the departure of their surrogate father.
  • Storyboard
    Storyboard
    A storyboard for SAVE THE PLANET (1998).
  • Storyboard
    Storyboard
    A storyboard for SAVE THE PLANET (1998).
  • Dad
    Dad
    Gordon Porterfield in SAVE THE PLANET (1998).
  • Self-portrait
    Self-portrait
    Matt Porterfield in SAVE THE PLANET (1998).
  • Beth
    Beth
    S. 4th btw Hooper and Hughes.
  • Tall Tales
    Tall Tales
    Gordon Porterfield in SAVE THE PLANET (1998).
  • Jonas
    Jonas
    Jonas Jonnasson in SAVE THE PLANET (1998).
  • Mirror
    Mirror
    Toussaint Lockett in SAVE THE PLANET (1998).
  • Eagle
    Eagle
    Gordon Porterfield, in SAVE THE PLANET (1998).
  • Toussaint
    Toussaint
    Toussaint Lockett in SAVE THE PLANET (1998).