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E! NEWS to Move to New York, Become a Morning Show
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 06, 2019 E! unveiled today its expanded entertainment news programming slate that will include multiple new hours of original weekday content, debuting in 2020. With current franchises plus new formats, E!'s weekday schedule will include eight original entertainment news and commentary series.... 
POV Shorts Launches on amdoc.org and PBS
by Tori Hartshorn - October 04, 2018 POV Shorts, American Documentary's newest broadcast series, launches this week on PBS and streaming on amdoc.org. The series is one of the first on public television dedicated to independent short-form documentaries. ... 
Missi Pyle and Sally Jo Fifer to Participate in 'State of the Union' Panel at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 25, 2018 The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (HSDFF), presented by Mountain Valley Spring Water, announced today that actress and HSDFF Honorary Chair Missi Pyle and Sally Jo Fifer, producer and CEO of ITVS and recipient of the 2018 “HSDFF Impact Award” will participate in a panel titled “State of the ... 
PBS to Premiere 306 HOLLYWOOD
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 11, 2019 Embark on a magical-realist journey with filmmakers Elan and Jonathan Bogarín as they undertake an excavation of their late grandmother's home. In their search for her story, 306 Hollywood turns into an epic tale—with plenty of humor, fantasy and drama—of what remains after life ends.... 
BWW Review: ACQUANETTA at Fisher Center At Bard. Director Daniel Fish (OKLAHOMA!) Startles Again
by Dan Dwyer - July 18, 2019 'I know you want everything to be clear and simple' is the last chorus of the fabulous chamber opera, 'Acquanetta', about the voluptuous, B-movie actress who had a sunstorm of celebrity in the 1940s. Indeed, the narrative structure 'Acquanetta' is rather uncomplicated based on a single scene in the ... 
POV on PBS to Premiere BISBEE 17
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 20, 2019 Bisbee, Arizona, was one of the largest copper mining centers in America until it became a virtual ghost town in 1975 when its two massive mines were closed. Forty years later, Bisbee is a community of eccentrics, immigrants, hippies, bikers and drifters, attempting to reckon with a dark and violent... 
New York Women in Film & Television Appoints Cynthia López as New Executive Director
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 14, 2018 New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), the largest member chapter within its worldwide network, has named Cynthia López, an Emmy, Peabody and duPont-Columbia Award-winning media strategist, and former Commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, as its new Exec... 
Coming of Age in the Shadow of a Decade-long Mud Tsunami in GRIT Premiering This Monday, Sept. 9 on PBS Television Series
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 03, 2019 When she was six years old, Dian heard a deep rumble and turned to see a tsunami of mud barreling towards her village. She remembers her mother scooping her up to save her from the boiling mud. Her neighbors ran for their lives. Sixteen villages, including Dian's, were wiped away.... 
POV Shorts Film, A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN, is Nominated for the Best Documentary Short Oscar
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 22, 2019 Marshall Curry's A Night at the Garden, which premiered on the PBS documentary series POV Shorts and pov.org on has been nominated for the Best Documentary Short Subject prize for the 91st Academy Awards.... 
Film Independent Presents Hollywood Chinese: Why Stop At The Doc? With Arthur Dong
by Stephi Wild - November 26, 2019 Film Independent is presenting Hollywood Chinese: Why Stop at the Doc? on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at Film Independent HQ, 5670 Wilshire Blvd., 9th Fl., Los Angeles, CA 90036.Tickets are free and the event is open to the general public. Click here to register for the event. Validated parking in the... 
PICK OF THE VINE opens January 10 at Little Fish Theatre
by Julie Musbach - December 13, 2018 Harvested from over 800 short plays submitted from around the world, Little Fish Theatre uncorks its 17th season of Pick of the Vine on January 10. The audience and critic favorite is a perfectly blended bouquet of nine short plays where audiences will experience Magic Moments, featuring a mix of ne... 
PBS to Premiere LINDY LOU, JUROR JUMBER 2 Documentary July 16
by Macon Prickett - June 28, 2018 If you kill a murderer, do you become a murderer as well? Lindy Lou Wells Isonhood asks her granddaughter this question, while explaining the role she played on a capital jury. Although Lindy voted for Bobby Wilcher, a convicted murderer, to receive a death sentence, she found that the views she had... 
Documentary THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING Debuts 11/12 on HBO
by Tori Hartshorn - October 22, 2018 Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Gerhard Richter sell at auction for tens of millions of dollars. A solid gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan is installed in the Guggenheim Museum for all to see and use. Today, art is spectacle, big bucks and front-page news.... 
PBS Series Launches POV SPARK
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 16, 2019 POV, the award-winning documentary series of PBS, takes on the world of interactive media with the launch of POV Spark. Making emerging technologies and interactive projects accessible to audiences beyond expensive headsets and exclusive festivals, POV Spark will produce and fund interactive projec... 
PBS's POV Series Presents the Documentary SURVIVORS
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 24, 2018 The 2014 Ebola outbreak is remembered as one of the most widely feared epidemics in recent memory. As the virus spread through West Africa, hysterical media reports outside the region fanned the flames of anxiety. However, according to Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, the “role that locals pla... 
NJPAC Presents Comedian Chris Distefano
by A.A. Cristi - February 03, 2020 New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Chris Distefano on Saturday, April, 18, 2020 at 10:00 p.m. ... 
Shakespeare's Globe Announces Full Casting For ROMEO & JULIET
by A.A. Cristi - March 13, 2020 Shakespeare's Globe has announced full casting for Romeo & Juliet, directed by Ola Ince, designed by Jacob Hughes, which will open the 2020 Summer Season on Tuesday 14 April.... 
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... 
Freeform Announces Cast for LAST SUMMER
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 13, 2019 Freeform has announced the cast for “Last Summer,” its pilot from eOne and executive produced by Bert V. Royal (“Easy A,” “Recovery Road”), with Iron Ocean Productions' Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple (“The Sinner,” “Limetown”), and Max Winkler (“Jungleland,” “Flower”). Royal also penned the script... 
Bill Posley & Director Oren Rudavsky To Be Guests On Tom Needham's SOUNDS OF FILM
by A.A. Cristi - April 09, 2019 Bill Posley and director Oren Rudavsky are Tom Needham's featured guests this Thursday on WUSB's THE SOUNDS OF FILM.... 
POV on PBS to Premiere Documentary CALL HER GANDA
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 18, 2019 When 26-year old Filipina transgender woman Jennifer Laude, is found dead with her head plunged into a motel room toilet, the perpetrator is quickly identified as 19 year-old U.S. marine Joseph Scott Pemberton. A military recruit in an unfamiliar land, Pemberton was on “liberty leave” when he solici... 
PBS's Documentary Series POV Presents VOICES OF THE SEA
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 08, 2018 Torn between finally fulfilling her dreams and caring for her husband and children, a young mother weighs the hope and promise of leaving Cuba against the heartbreaking pain of separation. Ostensibly, this film is a love story: between husband and wife and man and country. This lyrical portrait of c... 
Freeform Orders LAST SUMMER Pilot from eOne
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 25, 2019 Freeform has picked up the one-hour drama 'Last Summer' to pilot, it was announced today by Lauren Corrao, executive vice president, Original Programming and Development.... 
PBS Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with Special Programs
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 22, 2019 To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month, PBS will offer a range of new programming celebrating Latinx heritage and culture this September and October, culminating in the broadcast of the 32nd ANNUAL HISPANIC HERITAGE AWARDS.... 
THE RADICAL FILM FAIR Comes To Brooklyn September 15
by A.A. Cristi - August 20, 2019 The Radical Film Fair, a new, free film fair organized by Kickstarter and The Eyeslicer, will come to Kickstarter's Brooklyn headquarters on Sunday, September 15 from 1-5PM. ... |
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