New York is the city that never sleeps, and with so many events and activities each week across all five boroughs, it can be hard to know what’s actually worthwhile. Here are the events New York City actors should have on their radars this week. BroadwayCon brings the theater community together.For the third year in a row, BroadwayCon convenes in New York City bringing stars and fans together to celebrate all things theater. Beginning Jan. 26 and ongoing through the 28 at the Javits Center, attendees can attend panel presentations, autograph and photograph sessions with performers, karaoke, as well as various booths for vendors of all sorts. The lineup of guests includes Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephanie J. Block, Laura Benanti, Anthony Rapp, and dozens of others. (Full-day passes start at $90) Kick off Black History Month.The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture will celebrate Black History Month for the entirety of February.
- 1/26/2018
- backstage.com
All the vitals via press release below; click Here for ticket info: The 4th Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival at the Maysles Cinema, NYC Dates: Friday September 28th - Saturday, September 29th And Friday, October 5th - Saturday, October 6th Theme: We Want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. Lineup follows below: Friday, September 28th 7:00pm; The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till; Dir. Keith Beauchamp, 2005, 70 min Emmett Till who was visiting family in the Delta had the great misfortune of finding...
- 9/21/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Composer Moby and documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson are the first speakers confirmed for the 2008 South by Southwest Film Conference & Festival, set to take place March 7-15 in Austin.
Moby will participate in a session entitled "A Conversation with Moby", hosted and moderated by Doreen Ringer-Ross of BMI. The session, scheduled for March 11, will look at the musician's relationship with cinema, from composing original scores (Southland Tales) to contributing and licensing his music for film and TV projects (The Bourne Ultimatum, Heat). In addition, it will include a look at "moby gratis," the musician's new endeavor to offer some of his music free of charge to independent filmmakers.
Nelson, who directed Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple and The Murder of Emmett Till, will discuss his work, focusing on historical documentaries.
SXSW also announced the creation of Global Doc Days, an initiative formed to shine a brighter spotlight on documentary films produced worldwide. International film organizations will be invited to showcase some of their latest in nonfiction filmmaking.
Moby will participate in a session entitled "A Conversation with Moby", hosted and moderated by Doreen Ringer-Ross of BMI. The session, scheduled for March 11, will look at the musician's relationship with cinema, from composing original scores (Southland Tales) to contributing and licensing his music for film and TV projects (The Bourne Ultimatum, Heat). In addition, it will include a look at "moby gratis," the musician's new endeavor to offer some of his music free of charge to independent filmmakers.
Nelson, who directed Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple and The Murder of Emmett Till, will discuss his work, focusing on historical documentaries.
SXSW also announced the creation of Global Doc Days, an initiative formed to shine a brighter spotlight on documentary films produced worldwide. International film organizations will be invited to showcase some of their latest in nonfiction filmmaking.
Producers Frederick Zollo and Thomas Levine are set to bring to the big screen the story of Emmett Till, the black teenager from Chicago who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. They are teaming on a narrative feature with director Keith Beauchamp, whose ThinkFilm documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till is in theaters. Till's killing by a group of white Southerners is widely recognized as the impetus of the civil rights movement. The men were acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury after less than an hour of deliberation. Four months later, they boasted about the crime in an interview with Look magazine but were never brought to justice because of laws against double jeopardy. Beauchamp's longtime manager Steven Laitmon will co-produce.
- 1/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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