Category: documentaries
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‘Road to the Bee’ special premieres May 26 on ION, Bounce in advance of Scripps National Spelling Bee
“Road to the Bee” – a new, exclusive, one-hour original special documenting what it is like to prepare for and compete in the iconic Scripps National Spelling Bee – will premiere at 8 p.m. ET Thursday, May 26 on ION and Bounce. It comes just days before the 2022 Bee begins. Accomplished actor, director, educator and…
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The Center for Contemporary Sciences (CCS) Hails Documentary Produced by Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara
The upcoming film, The End of Medicine, addresses what our public health agencies ignore: the root causes of pandemics and how to prevent the next one. Contributions by CCS’s Dr. Aysha Akhtar, who served as a scientific advisor, are featured in the powerful production. WASHINGTON /PRNewswire/ — Amid a global pandemic that has killed millions, one crucial question…
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Honey, I Shrunk the Fear!
Celebrate the Streaming Launch of Kalliope’s From Fear to Freedom at Alice+Olivia Manhasset. Shop, Snack and Celebrate. MANHASSET, N.Y. /PRNewswire/ — It’s happening. Kalliope Barlis’ recent TEDx Talk about overcoming fear has nearly 2 million views, and now her award-winning film is soon to be released on streaming platforms. To celebrate, the boutique store alice+olivia, located at the Americana Manhasset, is hosting…
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“How I got my sister pregnant with the blessing of her husband, the pastor”
Memoir Release: LOVE & GENETICS – A True Story of Adoption, Surrogacy, and the Meaning of Family PORTLAND, Ore. — When a family secret comes to light, lives are changed forever in this honest, beautiful, and sometimes painful memoir. Mark MacDonald and Rachel Elliott are two full siblings who never knew about the other until adulthood, as Mark was…
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NAACP AUSTIN ANNOUNCES SXSW LAUNCH OF ‘HEALTH EQUITY FIRST’ CAMPAIGN USA – English
New Campaign Raising Awareness about Health Inequities and Misspending by Texas’ Publicly-Funded Hospital Districts at SXSW Panel on Ending Racism in Healthcare AUSTIN, Texas, March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The NAACP Austin today announced the launch of Health Equity First, a new issue-education campaign aimed at raising awareness about misspending by publicly-funded hospital districts and the impact…
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NEW EPISODE OF EARTH WITH JOHN HOLDEN AIRS MARCH 2022
The docu-series EARTH with John Holden airs Sunday, March 6 at 5:00 pm ET on Fox Business News; Sunday, March 13 and Sunday, March 20 at 3:30 pm ET on Bloomberg TV; and Sunday, March 20 at 10:00 am ET on BNN Bloomberg Canada. EARTH with John Holden is also available on the streaming platforms Vimeo, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and YouTube. In this episode, viewers learn how Emperador uses both modern and ancient practices…
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“Killer” Whales May Have Killed Off Megalodon
Were organized, pack-hunting Orcas responsible for driving the giant prehistoric shark Megalodon to extinction?BUCKINGHAM, PA, US, February 27, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Otodus megalodon was a Miocene mackerel shark that hunted whales. It was one of the largest and most powerful marine predators of all time – a super-predator capable of swallowing a hippo. It’s also…
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Finch Fortress Films will produce upcoming film, SEEDS of CHANGE
Finch Fortress Films is excited to support SEEDS OF CHANGE, which is an upcoming short film about a 63 year-old man living in a former “sundown town” in rural Indiana, and is forced to face his racist beliefs when his 6 year-old biracial granddaughter comes to live with him. Through his eyes, we see the deleterious…
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MasterClass Announces Award-Winning HBO Veteran Len Amato as Chief Content Officer
Former president of HBO Films, Miniseries and Cinemax will lead content strategy and innovation SAN FRANCISCO — MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best across a wide range of subjects, today announced the appointment of 13-year HBO veteran Len Amato as chief content officer. In this role, Amato will head up the content organization…
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Blue Sky Metropolis
BLUE SKY METROPOLIS is a historical documentary produced in partnership with the Emmy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jones (Johnny Carson: King of Late Night and the Peabody Award®-winning Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times) as part of the PBS “Summer of Space” to commemorate the semicentennial moon landing anniversary. BLUE SKY METROPOLIS is a 21st century story that looks at the past, present and…