Alongside, he worked as a documentary films writer for the National Educational Television’s The Great American Dream Machine.

In addition, he wrote and produced television and radio pieces for the Odyssey House, a treatment facility for drug addicts.

He also had a short story titled Steve published as a part of the 1972 Bobbs-Merrill Company anthology, Survival Prose.

He became a Director of and Instructor for The Educational Broadcasting Corporation’s Television Training Workshop in Film and Videotape Production program for minority students at WNET.

He had produced, written and directed more than twenty full-length documentary films as well numerous public and cultural affairs broadcasts, special reports and magazine pieces.

[5][6] Kotuk and Ara Chekmayan, the film's co-producer and co-writer, faced some challenges in trying to gain permission to shoot at certain locations.

The New York State Office of Mental Health denied them access to film at South Beach Psychiatric Center on Staten Island.

[9] A couple of months after his death, Travis, a documentary film he directed and produced, won a George Foster Peabody Award.

Best Health Awareness Documentary, New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (1998) Christopher Award (1999) - Writing