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 ... 
POV Acquires Award Winning Documentary Features ON HER SHOULDERS and THE SILENCE OF OTHERS for Broadcast in 2019 and Beyond
by Macon Prickett - June 06, 2018 The PBS television series POV, the longest-running independent documentary series on American television, has acquired two of the year's top award-winning and critically-acclaimed documentary feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival earlier th... 
Pacific Opera Victoria To Present Puccini's La Boheme
by Alan Henry - January 31, 2018 A cast of exciting and familiar voices returns to Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) for Puccini's La Boheme, a bittersweet tale of young, impoverished artists experiencing friendship, love and loss. La Boheme is presented February 15 to 25, 2018, at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, in Victoria, B... 
Pacific Opera Victoria Presents A Baroque Masterwork, Handel's RINALDO
by A.A. Cristi - March 12, 2018 Pacific Opera Victoria presents Rinaldo, an exotic story of adventure and danger, heroism and love, April 19 through 29, 2018, at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, in Victoria.... 
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. ... 
2018 New York International Children's Film Festival Girl's POV Picks
by Macon Prickett - February 08, 2018 Since 1999, the New York International Children's Film Festival has been highlighting stories of empowering girls breaking the mold in our Girls' POV programs. This year is no exception. Check out all of this year's lineup of films featuring young female protagonists.... 
PBS To Present Special Earth Day Themed Programming This April
by Macon Prickett - March 12, 2018 In conjunction with Earth Day on April 22, PBS stations will offer a selection of themed programming with topics ranging from agriculture to meteorology to climate change. Kicking off on Monday, April 16, at 10:00 p.m. ET, INDEPENDENT LENS investigates the disturbing chemical spill in West Virginia... 
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... 
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... 
Gun Violence Documentary QUEST to Debut on PBS June 18
by Macon Prickett - June 04, 2018 For his debut documentary, QUEST, director Jonathan Olshefski spent nearly a decade chronicling the daily triumphs and tragedies of the Raineys, a working class African-American family in North Philadelphia.... 
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... 
Broadway's Marybeth Abel & Christy Ney Will Hold Stage Management Workshop In June!
by Nicole Rosky - March 05, 2018 Broadway Basics is recruiting high school and college students and young professionals for their Stage Management Workshop- a two day intensive June 4-5, 2018 from 10am-3pm for an in-depth day with two Professional Broadway Stage Managers. Upon attending the workshop, students will learn first-hand ... 
BLOWIN' UP Documentary To Premiere At the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival
by Macon Prickett - March 28, 2018 In an experimental courtroom in Queens, a team of rebel heroines work to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted. With intimate camerawork that lingers on details and brings the courtroom to life, BLOWIN' UP celebrates acts of steadfast defiance, even as it reveals the challeng... 
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.... 
Theaterlab Presents David Sauvage's EMPATH
by Julie Musbach - October 15, 2018 After a sold-out run this April, Theaterlab is delighted to bring back EMPATH, a one-man show about emotional superpowers by David Sauvage. The show follows its creator's winding path from self-proclaimed "typical Jewish cynic" through the discovery of his gift for experiencing the emotions of other... 
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... 
ARTS46/4 Presents POV: The Seven Deadly Sins, a Curated Gallery Exhibit and Ekphrastic Event
by A.A. Cristi - May 21, 2018 On Saturday, June 16th, at 6pm, ARTS46/4 presents POV: The Seven Deadly Sins, an ekphrastic event in conjunction with the curated exhibit on display in the on-site art gallery at First Unity Spiritual Campus. The gallery is open on Sundays between 9:30am and 1pm, and can be viewed by arrangement du... 
Award Winning STILL DREAMING Documentary to Premiere on PBS
by Macon Prickett - March 22, 2018 Stretching physical, emotional and mental limits, a group of elderly Broadway actors, musicians and dancers bravely dive into a production of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and find that nothing is what it seems to be. These former Broadway stars, who reside at the Lillian Booth Actors Home just outsid... 
Family, Race, Class and the Triumph of the Human Spirit Examined in QUEST, Airing June 18 on POV
by Macon Prickett - May 17, 2018 For his debut documentary, QUEST, director Jonathan Olshefski spent nearly a decade chronicling the daily triumphs and tragedies of the Raineys, a working class African-American family in North Philadelphia. The father, Christopher “Quest” Rainey, is a local music producer and promoter who hosts a p... 
POV's 'Last Men in Aleppo' Receives Historic Academy Award® Nomination for Best Documentary Feature
by Tori Hartshorn - January 24, 2018 POV's 'Last Men in Aleppo' Receives Historic Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary Feature... 
VIDEO: Will Smith Celebrates 1 Million YouTube Subscribers on Jimmy Fallon
by Robert Diamond - March 24, 2018 The new video gives fans a unique behind-the-scenes look at the Fallon studio and captures the hilarity from all angles. In this video fans also see Will Smith receive his YouTube Gold Award from Jimmy Fallon.... 
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...
Pacific Opera Victoria Presents A Baroque Masterwork, Handel's RINALDO
by A.A. Cristi - March 12, 2018 Pacific Opera Victoria presents Rinaldo, an exotic story of adventure and danger, heroism and love, April 19 through 29, 2018, at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, in Victoria.... 
Academy Award Nominated Film LAST MEN IN ALEPPO Documents Syrian Volunteers' Heroic Work
by Tori Hartshorn - January 23, 2018 Academy Award Nominated Film LAST MEN IN ALEPPO Documents Syrian Volunteers' Heroic Work... 
PBS Series POV Announces 31st Season Including BILL NYE: SCIENCE GUY, DARK MONEY, & More
by Macon Prickett - April 11, 2018 The creative, fighting spirit is alive and well in 2018. The newest slate of documentary films from PBS television series POV arrives this June with a lineup of empowering and moving stories about the strength of art and activism. From scientists setting out to save the planet to hip-hop artists car... |
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