Brian Beker

Biography

Brian Beker wrote and directed Lines of Fire, the award-winning behind-the-lines documentary about revolution and heroin trafficking in Burma. It is in the permanent film collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Brian has published in The New York Times and elsewhere, conducted clandestine war zone investigation for Greenpeace, and recently directed the aviation documentary AERO. He owned and operated an open-cockpit biplane ride company based at Santa Monica Airport that made a lot of people happy. These days he is focused on making Roo happy while working on The Dog in the Clouds, a memoir about his white Labrador Orville, who appeared in the midnight storm clouds over Kathmandu two years before he was born on the Colorado prairie.

Videos

Roo's Dream
Everything starts to go great for Roo, the rescued Golden Retriever in Notes from a Dog Rescue in Progress—in her dreams....

Books

Notes from a Dog Rescue in Progress
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 10,510. Language: English. Published: April 9, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Home & Garden » Pets & livestock » Dogs
Three years in the top ten in all Amazon dog categories: the true story of a traumatized Golden Retriever puppy left to die in a high-kill shelter. Moments before she is led away to be euthanized, she is paired with a foster parent who, in spite of having no special skills with dogs, helps her come back to life.

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