Damian Panetta's Reel

Indie feature film / director of photography and editor

Historical documentary I produced, directed and wrote for PBS.

MSNBC DOCUMENTARIES - producer, writer, director of photography, post supervisor

Ed Stiles, a scruffy octogenarian, is the last man standing in a remarkable ghost town in California’s Muir Woods. It’s not on any map, and entrance is forbidden. Called Druid Heights, it was a place where radical hedonism and deep spirituality coexisted. A charismatic, saxophone-playing playboy presided over wild parties and a cast of eccentric storybook characters – the influencers of the 60’s and 70’s counterculture. Jack Kerouac wrote about them in The Dharma Bums.  It was...