Photo Flash: POSE Star Billy Porter Hosts DIVERSITY X DESIGN, A Benefit for DIFFAAugust 27, 2018On Saturday night in Los Angeles, Billy Porter ("POSE," "American Horror Story: Apocalypse") hosted DIVERSITY x DESIGN, an Emmy season soiree celebrating diversity, inclusion and representation on television. Presented by BOOM Events, the evening benefitted DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS, the national non-profit organization that raises awareness and grants funds to organizations that provide treatment, direct care services, preventive education programs and advocacy for individuals impacted by HIV/AIDS.
More Than 1,100 Animal Shelters Join With NBC And Telemundo Stations To Host Clear The SheltersAugust 24, 2018NBC and Telemundo stations located in more than 70 cities in the U.S. and in Puerto Rico are joining with over 1,100 animal shelters and rescues to present the fourth annual Clear the Shelters pet adoption campaign this August. Launched earlier this month and culminating tomorrow with “Clear the Shelters Day,” local shelters and rescues will reduce or waive their pet adoption fees tomorrow to help families adopt a pet. Visitcleartheshelters.com to access a list of participating shelters and a real-time pet adoption tracker. Since 2015, more than 150,000 pets have been adopted through Clear the Shelters.
VIDEO: Off-Broadway Play THE BENCH to Head to Los Angeles!August 21, 2018The Off-Broadway hit play, The Bench starring Robert Galinsky, directed by Jay O. Sanders, is taking the show on the road to play LA's Hudson Guild Theater (6539 Santa Monica Blvd, LA, CA 90038) for a limited six-week run beginning October 4 - November 9, 2018). Tickets are $25 and can be purchased by visiting www.plays411.com/thebench.
ADVENTURES IN NEW AMERICA - New Podcast From Night Vale PresentsAugust 20, 2018Premiering on September 28, ADVENTURES IN NEW AMERICA is the first sci-fi, Afrofuturistic, political-satire buddy comedy, serialized for New Americans in a new and desperate time. The podcast follows the escapades of two mismatched African American best friends: a depressed man with cancer and a sociopathic criminal mastermind. Together, they embark on a supernatural Afrofuturistic adventure in a desperate attempt to survive the wilds of New New York.
ALL THE CREATURES WERE STIRRING Out On VOD, Digital And DVD December 4, 2018August 17, 2018RLJE Films has acquired all North American rights to the upcoming horror film All the Creatures Were Stirring. Written and directed by David Ian McKendry (The Dump) and Rebekah McKendry (The Barista), known for their amazing work at Fangoria and Blumhouse, the film stars Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians, "Fresh Off the Boat"), Amanda Fuller ("Orange is the New Black"), Jonathan Kite ("2 Broke Girls"), Jocelin Donahue (Insidious: Chapter 2) and Graham Skipper (The Mind's Eye). RLJE plans to release the film on VOD, Digital and DVD on December 4, 2018.
Wisconsin Inmate In Mass Incarceration Film Wins Release After Denied Parole 7 TimesAugust 17, 2018Baron Walker, featured in the award-winning documentary MILWAUKEE 53206, has received parole and was released today in Milwaukee, after serving more than 22 years in a Wisconsin prison, Odyssey Impact announced today. Walker grew up in zip code 53206, which incarcerates the highest proportion of African American males in the nation – up to 62% have been imprisoned by age 34. His plight and more are explored in the thought-provoking film by <>—the production company affiliated with Odyssey Impact—which uses personal stories to take an intimate look at the crisis of mass incarceration and the devastating toll on families and communities. For the past year, Odyssey Impact has conducted a social justice impact campaign around the film, holding hundreds of screenings with an array of partners in order to engage with various communities and inspire social change.