Wisconsin Inmate In Mass Incarceration Film Wins Release After Denied Parole 7 Times
by A.A. Cristi - August 17, 2018 Baron 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 Afr... 
Museum Of The Bible Will Screen Award-Winning Film 'Far East Deep South'
by Stephi Wild - July 28, 2022 Museum of the Bible will host a screening of “Far East Deep South” on Saturday, August 6 at 1:30 p.m. EDT in the museum's World Stage Theater. ... 
Latino Public Broadcasting Launches Web Series STORYBORED USA Today
by Tori Hartshorn - January 25, 2018 Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), the WORLD Channel and KQED today announced the launch of Storybored USA, a new web series designed to empower diverse youth and millennials to tell their stories through creative arts and media. The ten-part series launches today at www.youtube.com/worldchannel with... 
WORLD Channel Celebrates Pride Month With Slate Of Films Spotlighting LGBTQ Community
by A.A. Cristi - May 29, 2020 WORLD Channel will commemorate Pride Month with 25 films that examine the complex fight for LGBTQ acceptance and acknowledgment. Documenting stories from the Stonewall uprising in 1969 to the challenges faced by present-day transgender siblings navigating puberty, school and dating, the curation of ... 
FOR THE LOVE OF RUTLAND Premieres On AMERICA REFRAMED
by A.A. Cristi - February 21, 2022 America ReFramed, the Peabody Award-winning documentary series coproduced by WORLD Channel and American Documentary (AmDoc), takes viewers to scenic New England where a battle rages over refugee resettlement in Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's For the Love of Rutland. ... 
Actor Chris Cooper Shows Viewers What INTELLIGENT LIVES Can Teach Us All
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 04, 2019 This October, America ReFramed, the public television series from American Documentary, Inc. and WORLD Channel, introduces audiences to three young Americans helping to change misconceptions about people living with intellectual disability and integrate classrooms and workplaces across America with ... 
Catapult Film Fund Announces Megan Gelstein & Theresa Navarro as Co-Directors
by Michael Major - October 27, 2022 Catapult Film Fund announces Megan Gelstein and Theresa Navarro as the organization’s first Co-Directors. They will share executive responsibilities for the San Francisco-based nonprofit, known for its early-stage support of artful documentary films like The Territory, Crip Camp, and Academy Award-w... 
World Channel Celebrates Juneteenth With 19 Films
by Michael Major - June 14, 2022 Selections from its curated playlist by noted filmmakers including Stanley Nelson, Ken Burns, Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, Sam Pollard and Yoruba Richen run all month on a variety of platforms, including WORLD Channel, WorldChannel.org, WORLD Channel’s YouTube Channel and Facebook page, PBS Pas... 
Economic Loss and Community Renewal In America's Heartland Explored This Month On WORLD Channel's AMERICA REFRAMED
by A.A. Cristi - March 02, 2021 This March, America ReFramed takes viewers to Ohio with two documentaries examining the challenges, perseverance and new reality of the American working class. Examining the immediate and long-reaching effects of industrial towns forever altered when their industries leave, the films, Bring It Home ... 
La Jolla Playhouse Launches 2020 POP Tour, Developed In Partnership With National Disability Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - January 31, 2020 La Jolla Playhouse is pleased to launch its 2020 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour production: Emily Driver's Great Race through Time and Space, by A.A. Brenner and Gregg Mozgala, directed by National Disability Theatre (NDT) Co-Executive Directors and Playhouse Artists-in-Residence Talleri A....
FOR THE LOVE OF RUTLAND Premieres On AMERICA REFRAMED
by A.A. Cristi - February 21, 2022 America ReFramed, the Peabody Award-winning documentary series coproduced by WORLD Channel and American Documentary (AmDoc), takes viewers to scenic New England where a battle rages over refugee resettlement in Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's For the Love of Rutland. ... 
Epix Sets Premiere Date for BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY Docuseries
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 08, 2020 Premium television network EPIX® announced today that four-part docuseries By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem will premiere on November 8, 2020 at 10 PM ET/PT.... 
AMERICA REFRAMED Closes Out Season Seven With Premiere of SURVIVING HOME
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 31, 2019 America ReFramed, the award-winning series from WORLD Channel and American Documentary, Inc. dedicated to showcasing stories from America's changing landscape, is honoring veterans this November with the broadcast premiere of Surviving Home by Matthew Moul and Jillian Moul. Through gripping intervie... 
Stanley Nelson Film On Madam C.J. Walker Helps Launch WORLD Channel YouTube Initiative
by A.A. Cristi - March 31, 2020 WORLD Channel, the award-winning public television broadcaster and content producer behind series including America ReFramed and Stories from the Stage, has a new initiative to expand the distribution of some original content to its YouTube channel beginning this month.... 
BUSY INSIDE Documentary Premieres March 16
by Sarah Jae Leiber - February 18, 2021 Karen Marshall is a respected therapist who treats patients with DID—the condition of having multiple personalities often resulting from child abuse.... 
Explore Black Activism And The Heart Of American Democracy This Month On WORLD Channel
by A.A. Cristi - January 11, 2021 Black activism, so often the driving, unsung force of American democracy, yet many times the first voice silenced, is in the spotlight this month on WORLD Channel. ... 
FAR EAST DEEP SOUTH Premieres on WORLD Channel May 4
by Sarah Jae Leiber - March 29, 2021 A retired Air Force reservist, Charles was left behind in China as a baby and is reluctant to discuss his family’s complicated past with his sons, Baldwin and Edwin.... 
BY WATER Announced as Winner of the BlackStar Pitch; WORLD Channel Awards Co-Production Deal to Iyabo Kwayana
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 01, 2020 WORLD Channel, the award-winning multimedia platform and content producer, has partnered with BlackStar Film Festival, for the second annual BlackStar Pitch.... 
AMERICA REFRAMED Returns to World Channel This May
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 21, 2020 America ReFramed, the award-winning documentary series dedicated to showcasing independent documentary films highlighting the mosaic of life and cultures in contemporary America, returns for its eighth season at 8 p.m. EST on Tuesday, May 5, on WORLD Channel.... 
AFROPOP: THE ULTIMATE CULTURAL EXCHANGE Celebrates 10th Anniversary
by Tori Hartshorn - February 05, 2018 AFROPOP: THE ULTIMATE CULTURAL EXCHANGE Celebrates 10th Anniversary... 
The 41st Annual Telly Awards Honors Winners Sony Music, Partizan, HBO Latin America, ESPN Films & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 01, 2020 a??a??a??a??a??a??a?? The Telly Awards, the world's largest honor for video and television content across all screens, has announced this year's winners, including Jeff Buckley's 'Sky Blue Skin' music video from Sony Music Entertainment, Partizan's Hewlett Packard 'Print the Holidays' Christmas comm... 
Celebrate PRIDE With WORLD Channel This June
by A.A. Cristi - May 26, 2021 WORLD Channel will honor LGBTQ+ Pride Month this June with the premiere of America ReFramed: Jack & Yaya, as well as additional Pride-themed programming. ... 
SFFILM Announces 2022 Golden Gate Award Winners
by Marissa Tomeo - April 30, 2022 The Festival made its long-awaited return on April 21, inviting audiences back into the theaters with a program filled with unique stories and perspectives from around the world and the Bay Area....
BY WATER Announced as Winner of the BlackStar Pitch; WORLD Channel Awards Co-Production Deal to Iyabo Kwayana
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 01, 2020 WORLD Channel, the award-winning multimedia platform and content producer, has partnered with BlackStar Film Festival, for the second annual BlackStar Pitch.... 
POV to Broadcast Sundance Favorites 306 HOLLYWOOD and MINDING THE GAP for 31st Season
by Tori Hartshorn - June 20, 2018 POV recently acquired the U.S. broadcast rights for306 Hollywood by Elan and Jonathan Bogarín. The film will join POV's early 2019 schedule with AmDoc/POV Co-production Minding the Gap by Bing Liu, which announced last week a Hulu Originals acquisition for an August 2018 theatrical and streaming re... |
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