Rock Brynner, the son of legendary actor Yul Brynner, who cut his own path as a writer, historian, novelist, playwright, bodyguard, and more, has died. He was 76. According to the New York Times, Rock passed away on Friday, October 13, at a hospice in Salisbury, Connecticut. His close friend, Maria Cuomo Cole, said the cause of death was due to complications of multiple myeloma. Born on December 23, 1946, in Manhattan, New York City, Rock had big shoes to fill, given that his father, Yul, was one of the world’s most iconic and well-respected actors, best known for his Tony and Oscar-winning turns in the stage and screen versions of the musical The King and I. He also starred in The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Westworld, and the CBS TV series Anna and the King. However, Rock carved his own niche, embarking on a fascinating and varied career throughout his lifetime.
- 10/26/2023
- TV Insider
Rock Brynner, who escaped the shadow of his iconic actor father Yul Brynner to launch a multifaceted career, died Oct. 13 in Salisbury, Connecticut. He was 76 and was in hospice battling complications of multiple myeloma, according to family friend Maria Cuomo Cole.
Like many children of major celebrities, Rock Brynner tried to carve his own path. That included time spent as a road manager for The Band, bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, farmer, pilot, street performer, novelist, and professor of constitutional history at several universities.
Rock Brynner attended Yale, Trinity College Dublin, and Columbia, where he received a doctorate in American history in 1993 before teaching for more than a decade at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
His life was filled with intriguing stints in various roles. He wrote a one-man play based on French playwright Jean Cocteau’s addiction memoir, “Opium,” which he performed briefly on Broadway in 1970. Cocteau was Brynner’s godfather.
Like many children of major celebrities, Rock Brynner tried to carve his own path. That included time spent as a road manager for The Band, bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, farmer, pilot, street performer, novelist, and professor of constitutional history at several universities.
Rock Brynner attended Yale, Trinity College Dublin, and Columbia, where he received a doctorate in American history in 1993 before teaching for more than a decade at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
His life was filled with intriguing stints in various roles. He wrote a one-man play based on French playwright Jean Cocteau’s addiction memoir, “Opium,” which he performed briefly on Broadway in 1970. Cocteau was Brynner’s godfather.
- 10/25/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Peabody has added six more members to its West Coast board of directors, including Lorrie Bartlett, co-head of talent, ICM; Channing Dungey, chairman, Warner Bros. Television Group; Alix Jaffe, executive VP of television, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group; Tilane Jones, president of Array; Charles D. King, founder and CEO of Macro; and Josh Sapan, president and CEO of AMC Networks.
The board of directors, separate from the board of jurors that decide the annual Peabody Awards, is made up of “prominent executives from leading media companies and networks,” the organization said. “The board provides expert counsel and stewardship, and advances Peabody’s commitment to outstanding and transformative storytelling.”
The board was first launched in 2015 to support the Peabody organization, which is based at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. It’s comprised of an East Coast and West Coast arm.
“We’re extremely proud...
The board of directors, separate from the board of jurors that decide the annual Peabody Awards, is made up of “prominent executives from leading media companies and networks,” the organization said. “The board provides expert counsel and stewardship, and advances Peabody’s commitment to outstanding and transformative storytelling.”
The board was first launched in 2015 to support the Peabody organization, which is based at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. It’s comprised of an East Coast and West Coast arm.
“We’re extremely proud...
- 5/26/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has secured the North American distribution rights to Us Kids, the Kim A. Snyder-directed documentary, which chronicles the March For Our Lives student-led movement that was sparked by the plague of gun violence ravaging their schools. It premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and will be released in theaters and on digital platforms on April 9, shortly after the three-year anniversary of March For Our Lives.
The documentary follows Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Samantha Fuentes, gun violence survivors and teenage activists, as they pull together the largest youth protest in American history. Their movement went global with rallies on 6 continents and in over 700 cities in every state across the nation, expanding to address racial injustice, a growing public health crisis, and shocking a political system into change. The movement was instrumental in the record youth voter turnout in 2018 and 2020.
“You have got to watch this film.
The documentary follows Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Samantha Fuentes, gun violence survivors and teenage activists, as they pull together the largest youth protest in American history. Their movement went global with rallies on 6 continents and in over 700 cities in every state across the nation, expanding to address racial injustice, a growing public health crisis, and shocking a political system into change. The movement was instrumental in the record youth voter turnout in 2018 and 2020.
“You have got to watch this film.
- 2/4/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Documentarian Kim A. Snyder had been down this road before, talking to grieving parents and families about children felled by gun violence, three years ago with 2016’s shocking “Newtown.” “I thought, ‘That was it, I was done,'” she told me on the phone. “Since that time, there have been many hundreds of thousands of mass shootings; people are numb. That’s a movie I couldn’t or wouldn’t make today, it was a different moment and motivation.”
But in February 2018, Snyder found herself in Tallahassee, Florida, watching a fiery protest on the steps of the Capitol in the wake of the deadliest high-school shooting spree in U.S. history: At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a 19-year-old gunman with an Ar-15 automatic rifle killed 17 people and injured 17 more. “The kids arrived demanding change in the state of Florida,” she said. “They were enraged, pissed, and traumatized.
But in February 2018, Snyder found herself in Tallahassee, Florida, watching a fiery protest on the steps of the Capitol in the wake of the deadliest high-school shooting spree in U.S. history: At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a 19-year-old gunman with an Ar-15 automatic rifle killed 17 people and injured 17 more. “The kids arrived demanding change in the state of Florida,” she said. “They were enraged, pissed, and traumatized.
- 1/25/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Documentarian Kim A. Snyder had been down this road before, talking to grieving parents and families about children felled by gun violence, three years ago with 2016’s shocking “Newtown.” “I thought, ‘That was it, I was done,'” she told me on the phone. “Since that time, there have been many hundreds of thousands of mass shootings; people are numb. That’s a movie I couldn’t or wouldn’t make today, it was a different moment and motivation.”
But in February 2018, Snyder found herself in Tallahassee, Florida, watching a fiery protest on the steps of the Capitol in the wake of the deadliest high-school shooting spree in U.S. history: At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a 19-year-old gunman with an Ar-15 automatic rifle killed 17 people and injured 17 more. “The kids arrived demanding change in the state of Florida,” she said. “They were enraged, pissed, and traumatized.
But in February 2018, Snyder found herself in Tallahassee, Florida, watching a fiery protest on the steps of the Capitol in the wake of the deadliest high-school shooting spree in U.S. history: At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a 19-year-old gunman with an Ar-15 automatic rifle killed 17 people and injured 17 more. “The kids arrived demanding change in the state of Florida,” she said. “They were enraged, pissed, and traumatized.
- 1/25/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
As the 2020 Sundance Film Festival readies to open Thursday, some of the biggest buzz is surrounding documentary titles, as mainstream audiences continue their hunger for high-quality nonfiction stories. Propelled by a parade of true-crime podcasts like “Serial,” documentaries like “Free Solo,” and bingeable series like Netflix’s 13-part “The Staircase,” there’s never been a better time to be in the business of making, buying, and selling real-life stories.
“The most exciting thing that’s happening in entertainment, for me, is what’s happening in documentary films,” said Bryn Mooser, co-founder of documentary studio Xtr.
Xtr and another newly launched player, Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim’s Concordia Studio, have seized on the doc-obsessed moment with promising results: Each company has four films on their Sundance slates, accounting for almost half of the U.S. Documentary Competition lineup. Together, they co-financed Bill and Turner Ross’ “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.”
“There’s no shortage of great projects,...
“The most exciting thing that’s happening in entertainment, for me, is what’s happening in documentary films,” said Bryn Mooser, co-founder of documentary studio Xtr.
Xtr and another newly launched player, Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim’s Concordia Studio, have seized on the doc-obsessed moment with promising results: Each company has four films on their Sundance slates, accounting for almost half of the U.S. Documentary Competition lineup. Together, they co-financed Bill and Turner Ross’ “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.”
“There’s no shortage of great projects,...
- 1/22/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
The organization that administers the Peabody Awards has established an East Coast board of directors as it looks to raise its profile in the broader media landscape.
The 18 board members include Katie Couric, Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc, PBS president-ceo Paula Kerger of PBS and MTV Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins. The board of directors will be tasked with expanding the Peabody Awards’ media visibility with nonprofits, policy makers, and the public. The board is separate from the jurors who determine the winners of Peabody Awards every year.
“This new board serves as a complement to our existing West Coast board and brings the totality of what we do into focus,” said Peabody executive director Jeffrey Jones. “Their collective experience in journalism, documentary filmmaking, radio and podcasting, nonprofit management, and issue-conscious work reflects the diverse constituencies we partner with and promote. We welcome their participation, and appreciate the board’s...
The 18 board members include Katie Couric, Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc, PBS president-ceo Paula Kerger of PBS and MTV Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins. The board of directors will be tasked with expanding the Peabody Awards’ media visibility with nonprofits, policy makers, and the public. The board is separate from the jurors who determine the winners of Peabody Awards every year.
“This new board serves as a complement to our existing West Coast board and brings the totality of what we do into focus,” said Peabody executive director Jeffrey Jones. “Their collective experience in journalism, documentary filmmaking, radio and podcasting, nonprofit management, and issue-conscious work reflects the diverse constituencies we partner with and promote. We welcome their participation, and appreciate the board’s...
- 5/29/2019
- by Mackenzie Nichols
- Variety Film + TV
The Peabody Awards has established an East Coast division of its board of directors, with Sheila Nevins, Katie Couric and Nancy Dubuc among the industry leaders added to the group.
Other high-profile figures joining the East Coast board, chaired by former Time Inc. editor-in-chief John Huey, include producer Maria Cuomo Cole, PBS CEO Paula Kerger and New York University professor Jay Rosen.
The board will provide "intellectual and idea capital and actively assist with broadening the organization’s relations and visibility with media industries, nonprofits, policy makers and the public," the Peabody organization said Wednesday in announcing the ...
Other high-profile figures joining the East Coast board, chaired by former Time Inc. editor-in-chief John Huey, include producer Maria Cuomo Cole, PBS CEO Paula Kerger and New York University professor Jay Rosen.
The board will provide "intellectual and idea capital and actively assist with broadening the organization’s relations and visibility with media industries, nonprofits, policy makers and the public," the Peabody organization said Wednesday in announcing the ...
- 5/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Peabody Awards: Issa Rae, John Oliver, Carol Burnett, Hasan Minhaj Celebrate the Power of Television
Comedian Hasan Minhaj set a serious-but-irreverent tone right from the start at Saturday’s 77th annual Peabody Awards in New York, where kudos were presented to a range of news, documentary, public service and entertainment programs.
Host Minhaj opened the evening by noting the odd contrast of handing out awards for excellence in TV and digital media at a venue in the heart of the financial district, Cipriani Wall Street.
“This is the wokest award show in the least woke location,” Minhaj joked. “Are the Pulitzers being handed out at Mar-a-Lago?” Later in the ceremony, Minhaj had a zinger for Vice President Mike Pence. He noted that most people were unsettled by the themes in one of 2017’s honorees, Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “unless of course you’re the Vice President, and then this show is the breakout comedy of the year.”
Barry Sonnenfeld and Neil Patrick Harris...
Host Minhaj opened the evening by noting the odd contrast of handing out awards for excellence in TV and digital media at a venue in the heart of the financial district, Cipriani Wall Street.
“This is the wokest award show in the least woke location,” Minhaj joked. “Are the Pulitzers being handed out at Mar-a-Lago?” Later in the ceremony, Minhaj had a zinger for Vice President Mike Pence. He noted that most people were unsettled by the themes in one of 2017’s honorees, Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “unless of course you’re the Vice President, and then this show is the breakout comedy of the year.”
Barry Sonnenfeld and Neil Patrick Harris...
- 5/19/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
On December 13, The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosted the annual Ripple of Hope Awards dinner at the New York Hilton that raised over $3 Million.
Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Attend Ripple of Hope Awards dinner
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Ethel Kennedy presented Harry Belafonte, Alex Gorsky, Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, and Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani with the Ripple of Hope Award, an award that celebrates leaders of international business, entertainment, and activist communities who have demonstrated a commitment to social change.
Alec Baldwin acted as the evening’s Master of Ceremonies for the dinner, which was hosted by Ethel Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Philip W. Johnston, B. Scott Minerd, Marvin S. Rosen, Robert & Hope Smith, Pedro Torres-Mackie and Donato Tramuto.
Other notable guests included: Hilaria Baldwin, Tony Bennett, Kenneth Cole & Maria Cuomo Cole, Thomas Dinapoli, Kathryn Erbe, D’Brickshaw Ferguson, Peter Frampton, Pamela Frank, Whoopi Goldberg,...
Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Attend Ripple of Hope Awards dinner
Credit/Copyright: Getty Images/Jason Kempin
Ethel Kennedy presented Harry Belafonte, Alex Gorsky, Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, and Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani with the Ripple of Hope Award, an award that celebrates leaders of international business, entertainment, and activist communities who have demonstrated a commitment to social change.
Alec Baldwin acted as the evening’s Master of Ceremonies for the dinner, which was hosted by Ethel Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Philip W. Johnston, B. Scott Minerd, Marvin S. Rosen, Robert & Hope Smith, Pedro Torres-Mackie and Donato Tramuto.
Other notable guests included: Hilaria Baldwin, Tony Bennett, Kenneth Cole & Maria Cuomo Cole, Thomas Dinapoli, Kathryn Erbe, D’Brickshaw Ferguson, Peter Frampton, Pamela Frank, Whoopi Goldberg,...
- 12/19/2017
- Look to the Stars
Tom Hanks, James Corden, Diane Sawyer, Heidi Klum, Melanie Griffith, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Sean Penn, Sophia Bush, Dermot Mulroney, Dita Von Teese, and amfAR Chairman of the Board Kenneth Cole were among those who gathered at Ron Burkle’s Historic Green Acres Estate for the eighth annual amfAR Gala Los Angeles.
The event paid tribute to Academy Award-winning actress, Julia Roberts, in recognition of her profound commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS, as well as countless other humanitarian causes. The gala, presented by Harry Winston, M•A•C Viva Glam, and Amtd Group, raised over $2 million for amfAR’s life-saving research programs.
Cheyenne Jackson, Natasha Bedingfield, Victoria Justice, Busy Philipps, Julianne Nicholson, Ryan Murphy, Cara Santana and Jesse Metcalfe, Maria Cuomo Cole, Selita Ebanks, Bethenny Frankel, Ashley Greene, Connie Britton, Colton Haynes, Jeff Leatham, Patricia Bonaldi, Sistine Stallone, Daniel Levy, Viktor Luna, Mia Maestro, Angela Missoni, Ongina, and others were also in attendance.
The event paid tribute to Academy Award-winning actress, Julia Roberts, in recognition of her profound commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS, as well as countless other humanitarian causes. The gala, presented by Harry Winston, M•A•C Viva Glam, and Amtd Group, raised over $2 million for amfAR’s life-saving research programs.
Cheyenne Jackson, Natasha Bedingfield, Victoria Justice, Busy Philipps, Julianne Nicholson, Ryan Murphy, Cara Santana and Jesse Metcalfe, Maria Cuomo Cole, Selita Ebanks, Bethenny Frankel, Ashley Greene, Connie Britton, Colton Haynes, Jeff Leatham, Patricia Bonaldi, Sistine Stallone, Daniel Levy, Viktor Luna, Mia Maestro, Angela Missoni, Ongina, and others were also in attendance.
- 10/17/2017
- Look to the Stars
Kenneth Cole has made fighting for social justice part of his daily life. Whether he’s running his company and its Kenneth Cole Foundation or by serving as chairman of the board of amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, acting as a Unaids International Goodwill Ambassador or launching the End AIDS Coalition, he has dedicated his life to HIV/AIDS awareness and activism, as well as other social issues. “Finding a way to make a difference is arguably far more defining than any collection I have brought to market,” the designer, 63, tells People in a new interview featured in this week’s issue.
- 10/2/2017
- by Sharon Kanter
- PEOPLE.com
Ronny Ahmed will never forget the moment in 2014 when a gunman emerged suddenly and shot him while he was studying for finals at Florida State University.
“First bullet went through, hit my spine at my T-10, bounced off my spine, hit my liver — and then that one instantly paralyzed me,” he says in the third installment of We Are All Newtown, a three-part web series that People is exclusively debuting this week.
In the same webisode, an NRA gun safety instructor says he thinks a trained shooter like himself might have helped prevent the tragedy on Nov. 20, 2014, when a gunman...
“First bullet went through, hit my spine at my T-10, bounced off my spine, hit my liver — and then that one instantly paralyzed me,” he says in the third installment of We Are All Newtown, a three-part web series that People is exclusively debuting this week.
In the same webisode, an NRA gun safety instructor says he thinks a trained shooter like himself might have helped prevent the tragedy on Nov. 20, 2014, when a gunman...
- 3/31/2017
- by KC Baker
- PEOPLE.com
The bullet that is still lodged in Javier Nava’s body is a constant reminder of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, in Orlando, Florida, that stole the lives of four of his friends and killed 45 others.
The long scar on Nava’s abdomen is another remnant of that day.
“For me, it’s just hard to see my body with a big scar,” he says in the second installment of We Are All Newtown, a three-part web series that People is exclusively debuting this week.
“At the same time,” Nava says in the episode, “I’m pretty sure that any one...
The long scar on Nava’s abdomen is another remnant of that day.
“For me, it’s just hard to see my body with a big scar,” he says in the second installment of We Are All Newtown, a three-part web series that People is exclusively debuting this week.
“At the same time,” Nava says in the episode, “I’m pretty sure that any one...
- 3/30/2017
- by KC Baker
- PEOPLE.com
Six weeks after the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012 killed 26 people, including 20 first-graders, in Newtown, Connecticut, filmmaker Kim A. Snyder traveled to the shattered town.
She spent the next three and a half years in a community still reeling from the carnage.
The result? The documentary Newtown, premiering on PBS on April 3, which weaves together intimate and emotionally raw interviews of parents, teachers, first responders and others with never-before-seen footage.
“After the cameras leave, the community is left to carry on with the trauma and the heartache of the worst devastation imaginable,” producer Maria Cuomo Cole tells People.
She says their...
She spent the next three and a half years in a community still reeling from the carnage.
The result? The documentary Newtown, premiering on PBS on April 3, which weaves together intimate and emotionally raw interviews of parents, teachers, first responders and others with never-before-seen footage.
“After the cameras leave, the community is left to carry on with the trauma and the heartache of the worst devastation imaginable,” producer Maria Cuomo Cole tells People.
She says their...
- 3/29/2017
- by KC Baker
- PEOPLE.com
Documentary directors tried to pull film over cinema chain’s treatment of victims of Aurora shooting, but were bound by their contract
Newtown, a documentary about the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut, hsa been shown at Cinemark movie theatres despite its makers attempting to withdraw it.
Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole had attempted to block the chain from showing the film in solidarity with the victims of the Aurora cinema shooting in 2012, where James Holmes killed 12 people during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
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Newtown, a documentary about the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut, hsa been shown at Cinemark movie theatres despite its makers attempting to withdraw it.
Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole had attempted to block the chain from showing the film in solidarity with the victims of the Aurora cinema shooting in 2012, where James Holmes killed 12 people during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
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- 11/4/2016
- by Alan Evans
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Newtown, the documentary that chronicles the Connecticut community in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, will continue to play at 100-plus Cinemark Theaters tonight despite the filmmakers’ initiative last week to pull the movie from the exhibition chain. Newtown filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole’s actions came about in an effort to show solidarity with the families who were victimized by the 2012 Cinemark Century 16 Dark Knight Rises shooting in…...
- 11/2/2016
- Deadline
Filmed over three years, Newtown is a new documentary exploring the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history, focusing on the journey of the fractured families and community affected by the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary. Filmmakers Kim A. Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole recently sat down with uInterview to talk […]
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- 11/2/2016
- by Travis Jeffrey Gonzalez
- Uinterview
Directors of Newtown withdraw film from chain after it emerged it was seeking legal fees from victims’ families for failed lawsuit
The makers of the Sandy Hook shooting documentary Newtown have joined a boycott of the cinema chain Cinemark over the latter’s treatment of the victims of the 2012 Aurora shootings.
According to Deadline, Newtown was due to screen in over 100 Cinemark theatres – including sites in Los Angeles, Detroit and Ann Arbor – as part of a one-night multi-cinema event on 2 November. (About 400 other cinemas were also booked.) However, Newtown’s directors, Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, have withdrawn the film from Cinemark, saying in a statement: “Out of respect for the families of the Aurora victims and with solidarity for the community as a whole, our decision to remove the film from playing in all Cinemark theaters is unequivocal.”
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The makers of the Sandy Hook shooting documentary Newtown have joined a boycott of the cinema chain Cinemark over the latter’s treatment of the victims of the 2012 Aurora shootings.
According to Deadline, Newtown was due to screen in over 100 Cinemark theatres – including sites in Los Angeles, Detroit and Ann Arbor – as part of a one-night multi-cinema event on 2 November. (About 400 other cinemas were also booked.) However, Newtown’s directors, Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, have withdrawn the film from Cinemark, saying in a statement: “Out of respect for the families of the Aurora victims and with solidarity for the community as a whole, our decision to remove the film from playing in all Cinemark theaters is unequivocal.”
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- 10/28/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, who made the documentary “Newtown,” have decided to pull their film from more than 100 Cinemark theaters, TheWrap has learned. Their film covers the tragic 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 children and 6 adults dead in Newtown, Connecticut. As a sign of solidarity with shooting victims of the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater massacre that happened that same year, Snyder and Cole have pulled their film from the chain that owns the theater where the shooting happened during a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight.” “Cinemark has proven their insensitivity to victims...
- 10/27/2016
- by Meriah Doty
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Newtown filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, whose documentary chronicles the pain and suffering of the parents of murdered children Daniel Barden, Benjamin Wheeler and Dylan Hockley in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre, have pulled their feature documentary from Cinemark Theaters to stand in unison with the Aurora theater shooting families. The film was to be released in about 500 theaters across the country. The well-reviewed…...
- 10/27/2016
- Deadline
“Newtown” explores the aftermath of the tragic 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and touches on the salient issue of gun access in the U.S. The documentary had a special opening-night screening on Friday at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in New York, where Governor Andrew M. Cuomo attended and delivered remarks about the film and gun-control issues.
The documentary is directed by Kim A. Snyder and produced by the governor’s sister, Maria Cuomo Cole. Taking the stage, Governor Cuomo congratulated his sister and the “Newtown” team for their hard work, then delved into the changes that need to be made in this country regarding gun violence.
“Just a couple of words, because this film is so powerful and the film is going to say better than any message I could convey to you,” he said. “The gun issue is still one that truly confounds me and the insanity of it,...
The documentary is directed by Kim A. Snyder and produced by the governor’s sister, Maria Cuomo Cole. Taking the stage, Governor Cuomo congratulated his sister and the “Newtown” team for their hard work, then delved into the changes that need to be made in this country regarding gun violence.
“Just a couple of words, because this film is so powerful and the film is going to say better than any message I could convey to you,” he said. “The gun issue is still one that truly confounds me and the insanity of it,...
- 10/8/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Kim A. Snyder’s documentary “Newtown” examines the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the deadliest mass shooting of school children, with citizens of the Newtown community. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and later screened at SXSW and the Cleveland International Film Festival. It also screened the White House the week of the 2016 Orlando shootings. Now, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will attend the opening night screening of “Newtown”on Friday, October 7th and will provide post-screening remarks with Snyder, producer Maria Cuomo Cole, and Newtown parents Mark and Jackie Barden, Nicole Hockley, and David and Francine Wheeler. It will be a public screening at 7:45pm at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema.
Read More: Sundance Review: Kim A. Snyder’s Emotionally Devastating Documentary ‘Newtown’
Snyder has previously directed the documentaries “I Remember Me,” a biographical film about chronic fatigue syndrome that explores...
Read More: Sundance Review: Kim A. Snyder’s Emotionally Devastating Documentary ‘Newtown’
Snyder has previously directed the documentaries “I Remember Me,” a biographical film about chronic fatigue syndrome that explores...
- 10/4/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that it has acquired North American rights to Bill Ross and Turner Ross’s latest documentary featuring and produced by David Byrne, “Contemporary Color.” The film premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won awards for Best Documentary Cinematography and Best Documentary Editing.
The film’s camera operators included many well-known documentary directors and cinematographers, including Jarred Alterman, Sean Price Williams, Robert Greene, Amanda Rose Wilder, Jessica Oreck, Wyatt Garfield and Michael Palmieri. Oscilloscope will release the film in theaters in 2017 followed by a release across all ancillary platforms.
– Abramorama has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Kim A. Snyder’s powerful documentary “Newtown,” which was produced by Itvs, while The Orchard will handle TV,...
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that it has acquired North American rights to Bill Ross and Turner Ross’s latest documentary featuring and produced by David Byrne, “Contemporary Color.” The film premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won awards for Best Documentary Cinematography and Best Documentary Editing.
The film’s camera operators included many well-known documentary directors and cinematographers, including Jarred Alterman, Sean Price Williams, Robert Greene, Amanda Rose Wilder, Jessica Oreck, Wyatt Garfield and Michael Palmieri. Oscilloscope will release the film in theaters in 2017 followed by a release across all ancillary platforms.
– Abramorama has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Kim A. Snyder’s powerful documentary “Newtown,” which was produced by Itvs, while The Orchard will handle TV,...
- 7/1/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Parents of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting bared their grief during an emotional panel discussion at BAMcinemaFest last week, following a screening of the Sundance documentary “Newtown.” The film looks at the lives of those who lost loved ones in the shooting in Connecticut that killed 20 children and six educators, and confronts the inability of policymakers to address the U.S. gun violence epidemic.
Read More: Sundance Review: Kim A. Snyder’s Emotionally Devastating Documentary ‘Newtown’
During the panel discussion, Mark Barden, whose seven-year-old son Daniel was killed in the Newtown shooting, urged members of the audience to treat the documentary as an instrument in the effort to pass gun control legislation. “We need action, and this is a great tool toward that action,” Barden said, adding that he and the other members of the panel were very appreciative of the everyone who showed up to listen to the emotional conversation.
Read More: Sundance Review: Kim A. Snyder’s Emotionally Devastating Documentary ‘Newtown’
During the panel discussion, Mark Barden, whose seven-year-old son Daniel was killed in the Newtown shooting, urged members of the audience to treat the documentary as an instrument in the effort to pass gun control legislation. “We need action, and this is a great tool toward that action,” Barden said, adding that he and the other members of the panel were very appreciative of the everyone who showed up to listen to the emotional conversation.
- 6/29/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Abramorama just acquired the U.S. theatrical rights to Kim A. Snyder’s documentary Newtown which was produced by Maria Cuomo Cole and features testimonies about the aftermath of the Dec. 14, 2012 school shooting which took the lives of 20 children and six educators. The project was produced by Itvs. The Orchard will handle TV, excluding PBS, and all home entertainment in North America. The deal comes after they were invited to show the film before Congress on July…...
- 6/27/2016
- Deadline
Bradley Cooper, Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm are among 113 stars thanking President Barack Obama for introducing new executive orders on gun control this week.
"Like you, and like most Americans, we have had Enough. We have had enough of seeing unthinkable tragedies happen and nothing being done," reads a letter signed by the stars and organized by the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence. "This level of depravity should rattle anyone with a conscience. We have seen how it has visibly."
The letter names recent mass shootings – from Sandy Hook to San Bernardino – as evidence that action needs to be taken.
"Like you, and like most Americans, we have had Enough. We have had enough of seeing unthinkable tragedies happen and nothing being done," reads a letter signed by the stars and organized by the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence. "This level of depravity should rattle anyone with a conscience. We have seen how it has visibly."
The letter names recent mass shootings – from Sandy Hook to San Bernardino – as evidence that action needs to be taken.
- 1/8/2016
- by Aaron Couch, @AaronCouch
- People.com - TV Watch
Bradley Cooper, Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm are among 113 stars thanking President Barack Obama for introducing new executive orders on gun control this week. "Like you, and like most Americans, we have had Enough. We have had enough of seeing unthinkable tragedies happen and nothing being done," reads a letter signed by the stars and organized by the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence. "This level of depravity should rattle anyone with a conscience. We have seen how it has visibly." The letter names recent mass shootings - from Sandy Hook to San Bernardino - as evidence that action needs to be taken.
- 1/8/2016
- by Aaron Couch, @AaronCouch
- PEOPLE.com
Bradley Cooper, Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm are among 113 stars thanking President Barack Obama for introducing new executive orders on gun control this week. "Like you, and like most Americans, we have had Enough. We have had enough of seeing unthinkable tragedies happen and nothing being done," reads a letter signed by the stars and organized by the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence. "This level of depravity should rattle anyone with a conscience. We have seen how it has visibly." The letter names recent mass shootings - from Sandy Hook to San Bernardino - as evidence that action needs to be taken.
- 1/8/2016
- by Aaron Couch, @AaronCouch
- PEOPLE.com
Reverend Rob Schenck, The Armor of Light director Abigail Disney with Us Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producer for Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War, was the host for a luncheon and discussion of Fork Films’ The Armor of Light with director Abigail Disney, Reverend Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath at 21 Club in midtown New York on a beautiful late summer afternoon, elegantly organised by Peggy Siegal.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Davis was seated at my table. The last time we spoke was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when she presented Jockey, her enlightening exposé on the thoroughbred horse racing world.
Lucy McBath with Abigail Disney: "I wanted the truth of what happened to Jordan and how tragic it was for us as a family." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Abigail Disney's faithful and ever more timely directorial debut,...
Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producer for Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War, was the host for a luncheon and discussion of Fork Films’ The Armor of Light with director Abigail Disney, Reverend Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath at 21 Club in midtown New York on a beautiful late summer afternoon, elegantly organised by Peggy Siegal.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Davis was seated at my table. The last time we spoke was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when she presented Jockey, her enlightening exposé on the thoroughbred horse racing world.
Lucy McBath with Abigail Disney: "I wanted the truth of what happened to Jordan and how tragic it was for us as a family." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Abigail Disney's faithful and ever more timely directorial debut,...
- 9/22/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Reverend Rob Schenck, The Armor of Light director Abigail Disney with Us Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producer for Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War, was the host for a luncheon and discussion of Fork Films’ The Armor of Light with director Abigail Disney, Reverend Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath at 21 Club in midtown New York on a beautiful late summer afternoon, elegantly organised by Peggy Siegal.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Davis was seated at my table. The last time we spoke was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when she presented Jockey, her enlightening exposé on the thoroughbred horse racing world.
Lucy McBath with Abigail Disney: "I wanted the truth of what happened to Jordan and how tragic it was for us as a family." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Abigail Disney's faithful and ever more timely directorial debut,...
Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producer for Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War, was the host for a luncheon and discussion of Fork Films’ The Armor of Light with director Abigail Disney, Reverend Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath at 21 Club in midtown New York on a beautiful late summer afternoon, elegantly organised by Peggy Siegal.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Davis was seated at my table. The last time we spoke was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when she presented Jockey, her enlightening exposé on the thoroughbred horse racing world.
Lucy McBath with Abigail Disney: "I wanted the truth of what happened to Jordan and how tragic it was for us as a family." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Abigail Disney's faithful and ever more timely directorial debut,...
- 9/22/2015
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s not often a U.S. senator weighs in on the pre-Oscar documentary race, but California’s Sen. Barbara Boxer seemed enthusiastic about The Invisible War on Nov. 8 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “The trailer is so captivating, can you imagine the whole film?” said the senator after the clip for the Sundance Documentary Audience Award winner played for a lunch crowd celebrating the movie’s DVD release that included Marcia Gay Harden, Frances Fisher, Laurie David, Maria Cuomo Cole, Jamie McGurk and director Kirby Dick. Film Review: The Invisible War The documentary focuses on rape in the military and
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- 11/10/2012
- by Bill Higgins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off Part Two of its 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” screening series with the 2010 Oscar®-nominated feature “Exit through the Gift Shop” and “Catfish” on Wednesday, March 21, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the series is free.
“Exit through the Gift Shop” follows a videographer named Thierry Guetta, who attempts to document the work of some of the world’s best-known guerrilla street artists. When the artist known only as Banksy questions Guetta’s intentions, however, and seizes control of the film, the roles of filmmaker and subject are reversed. Directed by Banksy and produced by Jaimie D’Cruz, “Exit through the Gift Shop” earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Feature.
In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost began to film the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project,...
“Exit through the Gift Shop” follows a videographer named Thierry Guetta, who attempts to document the work of some of the world’s best-known guerrilla street artists. When the artist known only as Banksy questions Guetta’s intentions, however, and seizes control of the film, the roles of filmmaker and subject are reversed. Directed by Banksy and produced by Jaimie D’Cruz, “Exit through the Gift Shop” earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Feature.
In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost began to film the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project,...
- 3/16/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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