Exclusive: Action megastar Keanu Reeves has partnered with Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens to co-produce a documentary on the life story of Benny “The Jet” Urquidez, the iconic athlete who introduced mixed martial arts to the world.
Titled The Jet, the film is currently in production under the direction of Emmy-nominated sports documentary editor turned filmmaker Jennifer Tiexiera. Its financiers are Chris Quintos Cathcart and Tyler Boehm of the newly formed Unapologetic Projects, a company dedicated to working with underrepresented creators. Maura Anderson and Zak Kilberg of Stevens’ recently launched production company Highly Flammable will also serve as producers along with John Scalise and his Faya Project. Nancy Weisler, Brian Maya and Chris Quintos Cathcart & Tyler Boehm of Unapologetic serve as executive producers on the project slated for release in 2025.
Nicknamed for his explosive spinning back kick, Sensei Benny “The Jet” Urquidez had a profound impact on martial arts in mainstream culture,...
Titled The Jet, the film is currently in production under the direction of Emmy-nominated sports documentary editor turned filmmaker Jennifer Tiexiera. Its financiers are Chris Quintos Cathcart and Tyler Boehm of the newly formed Unapologetic Projects, a company dedicated to working with underrepresented creators. Maura Anderson and Zak Kilberg of Stevens’ recently launched production company Highly Flammable will also serve as producers along with John Scalise and his Faya Project. Nancy Weisler, Brian Maya and Chris Quintos Cathcart & Tyler Boehm of Unapologetic serve as executive producers on the project slated for release in 2025.
Nicknamed for his explosive spinning back kick, Sensei Benny “The Jet” Urquidez had a profound impact on martial arts in mainstream culture,...
- 3/28/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Sharon Acker, the Canadian actress who portrayed Lee Marvin’s unfaithful wife in the 1967 neo-noir classic Point Blank and the right-hand woman Della Street opposite Monte Markham on a rebooted Perry Mason in the 1970s, has died. She was 87.
Acker died March 16 in a retirement home in her native Toronto, her daughter Kim Everest, a casting director, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Star Trek fans know Acker for her January 1969 turn as Odona, a desperate woman from an overpopulated planet, on the third-season episode “The Mark of Gideon.”
She also starred on a 1976-77 CBS adaptation of Executive Suite, playing the wife of Mitchell Ryan‘s Dan Walling. (Acker and Ryan assumed the parts performed by William Holden and June Allyson in the 1954 MGM film directed by Robert Wise.)
In John Boorman’s Point Blank, Acker’s character takes up with John Vernon’s Mal Reese after he shoots Walker (Marvin...
Acker died March 16 in a retirement home in her native Toronto, her daughter Kim Everest, a casting director, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Star Trek fans know Acker for her January 1969 turn as Odona, a desperate woman from an overpopulated planet, on the third-season episode “The Mark of Gideon.”
She also starred on a 1976-77 CBS adaptation of Executive Suite, playing the wife of Mitchell Ryan‘s Dan Walling. (Acker and Ryan assumed the parts performed by William Holden and June Allyson in the 1954 MGM film directed by Robert Wise.)
In John Boorman’s Point Blank, Acker’s character takes up with John Vernon’s Mal Reese after he shoots Walker (Marvin...
- 4/1/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Last Thursday, a stone’s throw from the former headquarters of Larry Flynt’s Hustler empire, a trove of thirsty teenage influencers, A-listers such as Dustin Hoffman and rock stars including Muse’s Matt Bellamy were queueing up to walk the red carpet at a movie premiere.
This wasn’t, however, the latest Marvel launch or an Oscar-bait opening. It was the re-release of a 13-year-old music documentary about a previously relatively unknown heavy metal band from Canada.
Anvil!: The Story of Anvil, a tale of hope and heavy metal, has been having quite the encore.
The film, directed by Sacha Gervasi, has been re-released by Utopia for a new generation of kids that seem willing to get in the pit for its heartwarming message: never give up.
‘Railway Children,’ Anvil, Abigail Disney & ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ – Specialty Preview
“It’s chaotic magic,” Gervasi tells Deadline the morning...
This wasn’t, however, the latest Marvel launch or an Oscar-bait opening. It was the re-release of a 13-year-old music documentary about a previously relatively unknown heavy metal band from Canada.
Anvil!: The Story of Anvil, a tale of hope and heavy metal, has been having quite the encore.
The film, directed by Sacha Gervasi, has been re-released by Utopia for a new generation of kids that seem willing to get in the pit for its heartwarming message: never give up.
‘Railway Children,’ Anvil, Abigail Disney & ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ – Specialty Preview
“It’s chaotic magic,” Gervasi tells Deadline the morning...
- 9/26/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Grindstone Entertainment Group, a division of Lionsgate, has acquired the North American rights to the upcoming World War II action-thriller “Wolf Hound.” The movie will see a multi-platform release this summer.
“Wolf Hound” marks the feature film directorial debut of Michael B. Chait and boasts a screenplay by co-producer Timothy Ritchey and a story by Chait. Emmy Award-winning commercial producer Sue Witham produced the movie along with Chait for his production company Tmu Pictures.
The film is inspired by the real-life Nazi special operations unit Kg 200 that shot down, repaired and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses. “Wolf Hound” takes place in 1944 Nazi-occupied France and stars James Maslow (“Big Time Rush”) as Captain David Holden, a Jewish American fighter pilot, and Trevor Donovan (“90210”) as Nazi ace Major Erich Roth. Ambushed behind enemy lines, Holden must rescue a captured B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crew, evade the enemy stalking him at every...
“Wolf Hound” marks the feature film directorial debut of Michael B. Chait and boasts a screenplay by co-producer Timothy Ritchey and a story by Chait. Emmy Award-winning commercial producer Sue Witham produced the movie along with Chait for his production company Tmu Pictures.
The film is inspired by the real-life Nazi special operations unit Kg 200 that shot down, repaired and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses. “Wolf Hound” takes place in 1944 Nazi-occupied France and stars James Maslow (“Big Time Rush”) as Captain David Holden, a Jewish American fighter pilot, and Trevor Donovan (“90210”) as Nazi ace Major Erich Roth. Ambushed behind enemy lines, Holden must rescue a captured B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crew, evade the enemy stalking him at every...
- 1/10/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Michael Apted, the director of Coal Miner’s Daughter, the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough and the Up documentary series, has died at the age of 79. Apted’s reps the Gersh Agency confirmed the filmmaker’s death to Variety, though a date or cause of death was not revealed.
“Director Michael Apted will always be remembered for the groundbreaking documentary Up series,” the Academy tweeted Friday. “A past president of the Directors Guild and Academy Governor, he also made many acclaimed feature films, from Coal Miner’s...
“Director Michael Apted will always be remembered for the groundbreaking documentary Up series,” the Academy tweeted Friday. “A past president of the Directors Guild and Academy Governor, he also made many acclaimed feature films, from Coal Miner’s...
- 1/8/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Without having seen the entirety of the Up series, which revisits the same subjects chosen from various walks of British life in 1964 at age seven, the latest installment, 63 Up, proves to be at times a moving sociological experiment with little surprise as it documents the lives of eleven ordinary British subjects it has followed for the past 56 years. Inspired by Francis Xavier’s quote, “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man,” the experiment continued every seven years under the direction of Michael Apted since the second installment, who also has come of age as a filmmaker and interviewer in due time.
His mistakes in past films are called out by more than one subject and many express discomfort with the process of participating in the documentary. Only one subject from the previous installment 2012’s 56 Up (Suzy) did not return while Lynn,...
His mistakes in past films are called out by more than one subject and many express discomfort with the process of participating in the documentary. Only one subject from the previous installment 2012’s 56 Up (Suzy) did not return while Lynn,...
- 12/1/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
63 Up director Michael Apted will be doing a Q&a with Anne-Katrin Titze at Film Forum in New York on November 29 following the 6:20pm screening. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second instalment of my in-depth conversation with Michael Apted at BritBox in New York, he talked about his family, going to school in London after the Second World War “a city that was building itself again”, the impact of seeing Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries by chance as a teenager, the Up happenstance with director Paul Almond, Granada TV, Mike Newell (Cormac Newell) and Coronation Street, being authentic “whether it's James Bond (The World Is Not Enough) or whatever”, and feeling like an 'unstoppable' filmmaker.
Tony - 63 Up
Michael Apted and Martin Scorsese earlier this month received Visionaries Tribute Lifetime Achievement honours from Doc NYC and the 63 Up director was given the Critics Choice Documentary Landmark Award for his Up series of TV documentaries.
In the second instalment of my in-depth conversation with Michael Apted at BritBox in New York, he talked about his family, going to school in London after the Second World War “a city that was building itself again”, the impact of seeing Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries by chance as a teenager, the Up happenstance with director Paul Almond, Granada TV, Mike Newell (Cormac Newell) and Coronation Street, being authentic “whether it's James Bond (The World Is Not Enough) or whatever”, and feeling like an 'unstoppable' filmmaker.
Tony - 63 Up
Michael Apted and Martin Scorsese earlier this month received Visionaries Tribute Lifetime Achievement honours from Doc NYC and the 63 Up director was given the Critics Choice Documentary Landmark Award for his Up series of TV documentaries.
- 11/24/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"The sooner you understand who you are, the sooner you understand what you can do. It's taken me 60 years for me to understand who I am..." BritBox has unveiled a trailer for the latest entry in the landmark documentary series (known as the Up series) following the same people as they grow up. 63 Up is the latest in the series, directed by Michael Apted, which first started with Seven Up in 1964 (which was directed by Paul Almond). Apted has been revisiting the same exact people, the same children, even seven years since they were first born. To get an updated on them and see where life has taken them. This new film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival this year, and is playing at the New York Film Festival next, before hitting theaters in NY & La later this fall. Even though they're 63 years into this, it's still as intriguing and relevant as ever,...
- 9/13/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ivanhoe Pictures, which produced “Crazy Rich Asians,” has partnered with Jeffrey Sharp and Sharp Independent Pictures to finance and co-produce “The Baccarat Queen” about Chinese gambler Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun.
The project is inspired by Michael Kaplan’s article “The Baccarat Machine,” published in Cigar Aficionado, about Sun amassing millions of dollars of winnings by teaming with “King of Poker” Phil Ivey and using a technique known as edge sorting — recognizing the use of playing cards in which the edges on either side are unevenly cut by fractions of an inch.
Ivanhoe plans to develop a predominately English-language film featuring Asian characters. Ivanhoe and Sharp will produce.
“‘The Baccarat Queen’ is a truly captivating story that will feature a diverse international cast, a goal that Ivanhoe continues to pursue as global storytellers,” Ivanhoe Pictures president John Penotti said. “We are thrilled to partner with Sharp as we tell this exciting,...
The project is inspired by Michael Kaplan’s article “The Baccarat Machine,” published in Cigar Aficionado, about Sun amassing millions of dollars of winnings by teaming with “King of Poker” Phil Ivey and using a technique known as edge sorting — recognizing the use of playing cards in which the edges on either side are unevenly cut by fractions of an inch.
Ivanhoe plans to develop a predominately English-language film featuring Asian characters. Ivanhoe and Sharp will produce.
“‘The Baccarat Queen’ is a truly captivating story that will feature a diverse international cast, a goal that Ivanhoe continues to pursue as global storytellers,” Ivanhoe Pictures president John Penotti said. “We are thrilled to partner with Sharp as we tell this exciting,...
- 2/14/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In 1964, director Michael Apted had a job as a researcher on Seven Up!, Paul Almond's groundbreaking television documentary in which 7-year-old British children, from all social and economic backgrounds, are interviewed about their lives. Apted had no idea at the time, but he would spend the next 55 years of his life with those children, and that documentary project.
Seven years after the original film, Apted caught up with the original participants for 7 Plus Seven, which he directed. Since then, the British filmmaker has dropped in every seven years. He's watched his subjects grow up and grow ...
Seven years after the original film, Apted caught up with the original participants for 7 Plus Seven, which he directed. Since then, the British filmmaker has dropped in every seven years. He's watched his subjects grow up and grow ...
- 10/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 1964, director Michael Apted had a job as a researcher on Seven Up!, Paul Almond's groundbreaking television documentary in which 7-year-old British children, from all social and economic backgrounds, are interviewed about their lives. Apted had no idea at the time, but he would spend the next 55 years of his life with those children, and that documentary project.
Seven years after the original film, Apted caught up with the original participants for 7 Plus Seven, which he directed. Since then, the British filmmaker has dropped in every seven years. He's watched his subjects grow up and grow ...
Seven years after the original film, Apted caught up with the original participants for 7 Plus Seven, which he directed. Since then, the British filmmaker has dropped in every seven years. He's watched his subjects grow up and grow ...
- 10/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: What’s the best documentary series you’ve seen on TV? Opening this up to past series, current ones, and those that you may have seen screeners for that are coming up soon.
Liz Shannon Miller (@lizlet), IndieWire
While we debate whether or not it technically counts as a TV show (certainly that Oscar it won would suggest otherwise), “O.J.: Made in America” was without question a seminal work, and one which owed a lot to its episodic structure while proving to be an addictive binge. Documentaries aren’t exactly my favorite genre, but “Made in America” was as gripping as any scripted series — and we have definitive proof of this,...
This week’s question: What’s the best documentary series you’ve seen on TV? Opening this up to past series, current ones, and those that you may have seen screeners for that are coming up soon.
Liz Shannon Miller (@lizlet), IndieWire
While we debate whether or not it technically counts as a TV show (certainly that Oscar it won would suggest otherwise), “O.J.: Made in America” was without question a seminal work, and one which owed a lot to its episodic structure while proving to be an addictive binge. Documentaries aren’t exactly my favorite genre, but “Made in America” was as gripping as any scripted series — and we have definitive proof of this,...
- 9/19/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Paul Almond (1931-2015) - Director. For Granada Television, he directed the classic documentary Seven Up! (pictured above), which spawned the rest of the Up series. He also directed Captive Hearts and a 1961 version of Macbeth starring Sean Connery. He died on April 9. (Lat) Richard Corliss (1944-2015) - Film Critic. He was the critic for Time magazine for the past 35 years. He also can be seen in the documentaries Life...
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- 5/5/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Canadian filmmaker Paul Almond has died, aged 83.
The director was behind the ground-breaking and long-running Seven Up! documentary, which focused on a group of 14 British 7-year-olds.
The 1964 special has continued every seven years since as the Up series. Almond co-created the project, before Michael Apted took over the series.
Almond died on Thursday (April 9) in California of complications relating to a recent heart attack, his son Matthew said.
The filmmaker came up with the idea for Seven Up! with Granada producer Tim Hewat while discussing the class system in a pub.
Hewat is said to have remarked: "Give me a child until he is 7 and I will give you the man," allegedly originated by St Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits.
Originally intended as a one-off, researcher Apted later revisited the children every seven years. Its most recent version 56 Up aired in 2012.
Almond also wrote and directed a trilogy of films called Isabel,...
The director was behind the ground-breaking and long-running Seven Up! documentary, which focused on a group of 14 British 7-year-olds.
The 1964 special has continued every seven years since as the Up series. Almond co-created the project, before Michael Apted took over the series.
Almond died on Thursday (April 9) in California of complications relating to a recent heart attack, his son Matthew said.
The filmmaker came up with the idea for Seven Up! with Granada producer Tim Hewat while discussing the class system in a pub.
Hewat is said to have remarked: "Give me a child until he is 7 and I will give you the man," allegedly originated by St Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits.
Originally intended as a one-off, researcher Apted later revisited the children every seven years. Its most recent version 56 Up aired in 2012.
Almond also wrote and directed a trilogy of films called Isabel,...
- 4/15/2015
- Digital Spy
Canadian director Paul Almond died in Beverly Hills following complications from a recent heart attack, his son said, according to a The New York Times report Tuesday. He was 83. Almond was best known for directing “Seven Up!” in 1964. The television film that examined the lives of a group of British children became the basis of the documentary series that has since followed them into middle age. Although “Seven Up!” is most closely associated with Michael Apted, who directed all but the inaugural installment, Almond helped conceive the film, which first aired in the U.K. on ITV and featured interviews...
- 4/15/2015
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
When Granada Television debuted the documentary special Seven Up! as an episode of World in Action on May 5, 1964, the primary point was to show a brief look at youth of varied social backgrounds around the UK. It was a study of sorts, but as original director Paul Almond told me last year, “All I wanted to do was to find out what little boys and little girls of different classes thought about. I didn’t have any intention other than trying to find out what in fact were the differences.” The show itself plainly states that the idea is to show viewers “the shop steward and the executive” of tomorrow, specifically that of the turn of the next century. Perhaps one follow-up in the year 2000 would have sufficed to update us on where those kids wound up. Instead, by that year there’d already been five installments, produced and released at seven-year intervals, and...
- 5/5/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 2, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95 (56 Up); $79.95 (The Up Series)
Studio: First Run Features
56 Up is the latest installment in Michael Apted’s documentary series chronicling the lives of a group of people every 7 years.
Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, The Up Series, currently highlighted by its latest entry, 2012’s 56 Up, has explored the Jesuit maxim “Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man.”
The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, renowned director Michael Apted (Firstborn), a researcher for the original Seven Up (which was directed by Paul Almond) has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their lives.
From cab driver Tony to schoolmates Jackie, Lynn and Susan and the heart-breaking Neil, the group turns 56 and the...
Price: DVD $29.95 (56 Up); $79.95 (The Up Series)
Studio: First Run Features
56 Up is the latest installment in Michael Apted’s documentary series chronicling the lives of a group of people every 7 years.
Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, The Up Series, currently highlighted by its latest entry, 2012’s 56 Up, has explored the Jesuit maxim “Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man.”
The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, renowned director Michael Apted (Firstborn), a researcher for the original Seven Up (which was directed by Paul Almond) has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their lives.
From cab driver Tony to schoolmates Jackie, Lynn and Susan and the heart-breaking Neil, the group turns 56 and the...
- 5/22/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Geneviève Bujold is back: Canadian Screen Awards 2013 [See previous post: "Canadian Screen Awards: Oscar-Nominated War Witch Tops."] In addition to War Witch‘s Rachel Mwanza, the Canadian Screen Awards 2013 Best Actress nominees are Evelyne Brochu for Inch’allah, Marilyn Castonguay for L’Affaire Dumont, Suzanne Clément for Laurence Anyways, and Geneviève Bujold for Still Mine. In the Michael McGowan-directed drama based on real-life events, the veteran Bujold plays farmer James Cromwell tough-but-ailing wife whose physical frailty sets in motion the film’s plot: Cromwell’s desire to build a better, more comfortable house for Bujold pits him against government inspector Jonathan Potts. (Photo: Geneviève Bujold, James Cromwell Still Mine.) The Montreal-born Geneviève Bujold is best known for her Hollywood movies: Charles Jarrott’s Best Picture Academy Award nominee Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), which earned Bujold a Best Actress Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn; Mark Robson’s Earthquake, playing Charlton Heston...
- 1/16/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Update: As it turns out, the box set we’re giving away does actually include 49 Up, so now you get seven installments! This week, in the midst of celebrating the theatrical release of 56 Up (see my review), I heard some unfortunate news. Most of the Up series has recently gone out of print in the U.S. This should only be temporary, but at the moment you can’t buy a copy of First Run’s DVD box set that includes Seven Up!, 7 Plus Seven, 21 Up, 28 Up, 35 Up and 42 Up (nor the one that also includes 49 Up). The only installments available, to get separately, are 42 Up and 49 Up. Of course, you can still currently view all of these documentaries by streaming on Netflix or Amazon. However, any true movie fan (let alone documentary lover) needs to physically own this monumental series, through which filmmaker Michael Apted (taking over from original director Paul Almond) has been following the...
- 1/12/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It’s not likely that anyone will be seeing 56 Up without first having seen the rest of the Up series. And those who have seen the other seven installments will have a hard time not watching the latest. In that regard, it’s somewhat review-proof. Fortunately, I can still recommend it by way of recommending the entire Up series as a whole, which these days is not difficult to get your hands (or at least your eyes) on. In anticipation of the Montreal release of the film this weekend, Cinema du Parc has been screening the other films, while here in the U.S., all of them are available to stream via Netflix Watch Instantly. The Up documentaries are as significant and necessary as any film series, and it’s one of the few franchises through which you can see characters grow and change over the course of half a century (Germany’s Children of Golzow documentary...
- 1/6/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Up series will have to go down in history as one of the more touching and ambitious cinematic and televisual experiments of our — or anyone else’s — time. In 1964, director Paul Almond took twenty kids, all age 7, and asked them questions about their lives and hopes and fears for Britain’s Granada Television network. Seven Up!, the original film — inspired by the Jesuit saying “Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man” — was meant to be a stand-alone affair. The idea of sequels came later, which helps to explain why minorities and women were so poorly represented: There were only four girls in that original group, and only one of the subjects was non-white — ironic, since the original film was a more politically pointed affair, made from the point of view that class, particularly in Britain, essentially...
- 1/4/2013
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
The Up Series is one of the most fascinating documentary subjects currently running. Beginning in 1964, the first documentary in the series, 7 Up, spoke to a wide cross-section of British children, all aged 7, about their lives; subsequently, a new documentary has revisited the same group every seven years, chronicling their lives as they’ve grown up, encountered obstacles, and generally made their way through life. With the latest entry in the series, 49 Up, having come in 2005, the time was ripe for another look at the subjects of the documentary, and now news of the next installment, titled 56 Up, has been released; the film will get a limited theatrical run in the Us, following its television premiere in the UK in 2012. Directors Michael Apted and Paul Almond return to helm the project once again, and a trailer has now been released, which can be seen below.
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- 11/27/2012
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
He's a feted Hollywood director, whose career started with a bunch of children in Seven Up! And he is still charting their lives 49 years later in a landmark of documentary broadcasting
They understand longevity at Manchester's ITV Granada, which was Granada Television and is the only survivor of the original four independent TV franchisees awarded in 1954. Not only does it make Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, but this week sees the return of its Up series, which may be the world's longest-running documentary.
The first Up programme was the brainchild of Tim Hewat, the brilliant Australian producer behind the World In Action strand. Legend has it he walked into the World in Action office and quoted the Jesuit motto cited at the beginning of the film: "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man." And then instructed a young trainee...
They understand longevity at Manchester's ITV Granada, which was Granada Television and is the only survivor of the original four independent TV franchisees awarded in 1954. Not only does it make Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, but this week sees the return of its Up series, which may be the world's longest-running documentary.
The first Up programme was the brainchild of Tim Hewat, the brilliant Australian producer behind the World In Action strand. Legend has it he walked into the World in Action office and quoted the Jesuit motto cited at the beginning of the film: "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man." And then instructed a young trainee...
- 5/12/2012
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
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