The Academy Award-winning director is set to begin work on a version of the author’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk
The Moonlight director, Barry Jenkins, has announced his next film will be an adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk.
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The Moonlight director, Barry Jenkins, has announced his next film will be an adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk.
Related: The fire this time – the legacy of James Baldwin
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- 7/10/2017
- by Jake Nevins
- The Guardian - Film News
Jonathan Demme’s films, including “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia,” won Oscars, earned worldwide acclaim, and influenced countless filmmakers. But his efforts on the small screen were anything but small in comparison. Over the course of nearly 40 years in TV, Demme directed, wrote, and produced an impressive array of genres and worked with artists like Laura Dern, Peter Falk, Elliot Gould, Patrick Wilson, Aisha Hinds, and Helen Hunt.
Demme died Wednesday morning in New York at the age of 73. The cause was esophageal cancer and complications from heart disease, according to a source close to the family. He was originally treated for the disease in 2010, but suffered from a recurrence in 2015, and his condition deteriorated in recent weeks.
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His last credited project is “Shots Fired,” the Fox limited series for which he directed one episode — coincidentally scheduled to air tonight.
Demme died Wednesday morning in New York at the age of 73. The cause was esophageal cancer and complications from heart disease, according to a source close to the family. He was originally treated for the disease in 2010, but suffered from a recurrence in 2015, and his condition deteriorated in recent weeks.
Read More: Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director of ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ Dies At 73
His last credited project is “Shots Fired,” the Fox limited series for which he directed one episode — coincidentally scheduled to air tonight.
- 4/26/2017
- by Ben Travers, Hanh Nguyen, Liz Shannon Miller and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The Fire This Time 10 Minute Play Festival 2017 Directed by Cezar Williams Presented by Frigid New York @ Horse Trade at the Kraine Theater, NYC January 19-February 5, 2017
The annual The Fire This Time Festival was begun by artists, for artists, and its purpose is to showcase early-career playwrights of the African diaspora. Traditionally, The Fire This Time has been composed of a variety of events, with the 10 Minute Play Festival serving as the flagship, and this year, its eighth, Tftt has expanded those events beyond the strictly theatrical, including web series and readings by playwrights and sisters Kia and Kara Lee Corthron from their respective debut novels. As an anchor to the festivities (and the only event that isn't free to attend), the The 10 Minute Play Festival has consistently put forth collections of strong, exciting work, and this year's group of seven short plays, performed by a group of seven actors, is no exception.
The annual The Fire This Time Festival was begun by artists, for artists, and its purpose is to showcase early-career playwrights of the African diaspora. Traditionally, The Fire This Time has been composed of a variety of events, with the 10 Minute Play Festival serving as the flagship, and this year, its eighth, Tftt has expanded those events beyond the strictly theatrical, including web series and readings by playwrights and sisters Kia and Kara Lee Corthron from their respective debut novels. As an anchor to the festivities (and the only event that isn't free to attend), the The 10 Minute Play Festival has consistently put forth collections of strong, exciting work, and this year's group of seven short plays, performed by a group of seven actors, is no exception.
- 1/26/2017
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
The Fire This Time 10-Minute Play Festival (2016) Krainer Theater, NYC January 21-February 6, 2016
The Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, a showcase of "early-career playwrights of African and African American descent," has returned to the East Village for its seventh iteration. Its 10-minute play festival features a strong slate of seven new short plays that demonstrate the festival's mission statement, that "[t]he African American experience is not represented...by one voice or one style," with tremendous impact.
The opening piece is clarity, by Korde Arrington Tuttle. An often-poetic monologue, clarity is spoken by Georgia resident Cameron, read on opening night by the playwright himself, in anticipation of his wedding. As he discusses his relationship with the man whom he loves, Cameron touches on the competing complexities of individual, familial, and racial identities. His refrain of "just to be clear" echoes his own search for clarity in these matters, as well...
The Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, a showcase of "early-career playwrights of African and African American descent," has returned to the East Village for its seventh iteration. Its 10-minute play festival features a strong slate of seven new short plays that demonstrate the festival's mission statement, that "[t]he African American experience is not represented...by one voice or one style," with tremendous impact.
The opening piece is clarity, by Korde Arrington Tuttle. An often-poetic monologue, clarity is spoken by Georgia resident Cameron, read on opening night by the playwright himself, in anticipation of his wedding. As he discusses his relationship with the man whom he loves, Cameron touches on the competing complexities of individual, familial, and racial identities. His refrain of "just to be clear" echoes his own search for clarity in these matters, as well...
- 1/26/2016
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
The Fire This Time 10-Minute Play Festival Kraine Theater 85 E. 4th St., NYC January 23-30, 2015
Very short plays are at their most effective when they enter into and add to an existing conversation, and the plays that comprise the Sixth Annual The Fire This Time Festival recognize this. The festival exists as “a platform for talented early-career playwrights of African and African American descent to … move beyond common ideas of what’s possible in ‘black theater’” to demonstrate that “[t]he African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style,” and the seven voices that stage these short pieces--this year each inspired by the photographs of Alex Harsley of the 4th Street Photo Gallery, just down the street from the theater and itself worth a visit--give expression to the diversity of the American experience of people of color in a way that is both particular and inextricable...
Very short plays are at their most effective when they enter into and add to an existing conversation, and the plays that comprise the Sixth Annual The Fire This Time Festival recognize this. The festival exists as “a platform for talented early-career playwrights of African and African American descent to … move beyond common ideas of what’s possible in ‘black theater’” to demonstrate that “[t]he African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style,” and the seven voices that stage these short pieces--this year each inspired by the photographs of Alex Harsley of the 4th Street Photo Gallery, just down the street from the theater and itself worth a visit--give expression to the diversity of the American experience of people of color in a way that is both particular and inextricable...
- 2/15/2015
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
An update on a project we first profiled 2 summers ago, when it was one of 10 projects selected to receive completion funds from The Women In Film Foundation's Film Finishing Fund (Wiff Fff), which supports films by, for or about women by providing cash grants of up to $15,000 and in-kind services. Previously titled The Fire This Time, and now called Out In The Night, and directed by Blair Doroshwalther, the feature documentary, which has been in development since 2009, is now complete and will make its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs from June 11 to June 19. Its synopsis reads: Under the neon lights of the gay-friendly West...
- 5/7/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A project we first profiled last summer, and have been tracking since then, it was also one of 10 projects to receive completion funds last fall from The Women In Film Foundation's Film Finishing Fund (Wiff Fff), which supports films by, for or about women by providing cash grants of up to $15,000 and in-kind services. Previously titled The Fire This Time, and now called Out In The Night, and directed by Blair Doroshwalther, the feature doc has been in development since 2009, as the filmmaker and her production crew have been working diligently, with little money, earned from grants (like the one abovek) and donors here and there, in order to complete its long journey to...
- 4/9/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
It’s finally and truly cold, and for anyone looking not to congeal, I prescribe triple doses of wonderfully weird theater. What better time of year to huddle together with your fellow humans, warming yourselves with quirk, madness, beauty, and horror? Nothing gets the ol’ particles into hot perturbation like young avant-gardists acting-out.Luckily, we’ve got festivals for that sort of thing. Coil (presented by experimental powerhouse Ps 122) and Under the Radar (curated by the Public Theater) are the biggies this month, with Here’s Culturemart bringing up the rear (and extending well into February)—and I'm not even touching on American Realness, Prototype, and The Fire This Time. The offerings look generously strange. To be clear: I’ve seen none of these shows yet, with two exceptions: Utr will be remounting the Debate Society’s exquisitely unsettling Blood Play, and if you missed it in Bushwick, make sure you catch it in Manhattan.
- 1/4/2013
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
One of 10 projects to receive completion funds this year from The Women In Film Foundation's Film Finishing Fund (Wiff Fff), which supports films by, for or about women by providing cash grants of up to $15,000 and in-kind services. Previously titled The Fire This Time, and now called Out In The Night, and directed by Blair Doroshwalther, the feature doc has been in development since 2009, as the filmmaker and her production crew have been working diligently, with little money, earned from grants (like the one about, which was announced last week) and donors here and there, in order to complete its long journey to completion. Its synopsis reads: Under the neon...
- 10/15/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
It's doc day on S&A. They just happen to make up the bulk of what I'm getting/seeing today. This one is just as intriguing as all the others I featured earlier this morning/afternoon. Titled The Fire This Time, and directed by Blair Doroshwalther, the feature doc appears to have been in development since 2009 (that's as far back as I was able to trace it), as the filmmaker and her production crew have been working diligently, with little money, earned from grants and donors here and there, in order to complete its long journey to completion. Its synopsis reads: One hot August night, under the neon lights of a gay friendly neighborhood in New...
- 7/11/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
What makes for African-American theater? According to Kelley Nicole Girod, a playwright and lead producer of The Fire This Time Festival, there are major misconceptions. Now in its third year, the Off-Broadway event, produced by the Horse Trade Theater Group, provides a platform for emerging playwrights of color to present 10-minute plays. These may be snippets of larger works or completed pieces.As literary descendants of Lorraine Hansberry ("A Raisin in the Sun") and Amiri Baraka ("Dutchman"), black playwrights continue to be identified with such topics as the heritage of slavery, political struggle, and identity crises, Girod says. "That's been the standard, and it's come to be expected." "The Submission," "The Mountaintop," and "Stick Fly" are current examples on and Off-Broadway, she notes. "I'm not saying those plays shouldn't be written, but there's so much more that makes up the black experience," she continues. "In our first year, we had plays.
- 1/18/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Chicago – The ancient martial arts get a workout with M. Night Shyamalan’s live action version of the anime “The Last Airbender.” Featuring Dev Patel – the contestant in the Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” – and Aasif Mandvi of “The Daily Show,” Airbender uses special effects and action to tell its story.
The “Avatar,” a boy named Aang (Noah Ringer) is unearthed in the south water land in this fantasy version of earth. The sectors are divided by four elements – air, water, earth and fire. The Fire Nation wants earth dominance. Can the Avatar stop their aggressive war machines?
Click “Next” and “Previous to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All images Industrial Light & Magic for © 2010 Paramount Pictures Corporation
LastAir1: Aang (Noah Ringer) Makes his Escape in ‘The Last Airbender’
LastAir2: The Flying Creature Appa LastAir3: Nicola Peltz as Katara and...
The “Avatar,” a boy named Aang (Noah Ringer) is unearthed in the south water land in this fantasy version of earth. The sectors are divided by four elements – air, water, earth and fire. The Fire Nation wants earth dominance. Can the Avatar stop their aggressive war machines?
Click “Next” and “Previous to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All images Industrial Light & Magic for © 2010 Paramount Pictures Corporation
LastAir1: Aang (Noah Ringer) Makes his Escape in ‘The Last Airbender’
LastAir2: The Flying Creature Appa LastAir3: Nicola Peltz as Katara and...
- 6/30/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
If you haven’t been following the series, Click Here for episode 1, and Here for episode 2, and Here for episode 3.
Episode 4 below is titled The Fire This Time, in which Quinci (Tatyana Ali) inquires about a familiar pair of shoes on Bitsy’s feet, and Truth confronts Eliot, and things get a little warm for some
Watch below, and leave your thoughts in the comments section:...
Episode 4 below is titled The Fire This Time, in which Quinci (Tatyana Ali) inquires about a familiar pair of shoes on Bitsy’s feet, and Truth confronts Eliot, and things get a little warm for some
Watch below, and leave your thoughts in the comments section:...
- 12/15/2009
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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