Amid numerous exits of top talent of color at fellow pubcaster NPR and ongoing backlash to the lack of diversity within its roster of filmmakers, PBS’ top exec revealed the service’s plan to make significant changes to its own operations and public broadcasting in general.
“In engaging in conversations with filmmakers, it was very clear that there were filmmakers that were having difficulty bringing their work forward,” PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger told reporters Tuesday during her executive session at the the pubcaster’s first day of virtual Television Critics Association winter press tour.
“Some of it is, in part, the structure of public broadcasting, which is very decentralized,” she said “We’re a federated system. Our stations are all independent. There are many paths into public broadcasting, so it’s confusing sometimes for filmmakers figure out, ‘Do I come to PBS? Do I go to a producing station?...
“In engaging in conversations with filmmakers, it was very clear that there were filmmakers that were having difficulty bringing their work forward,” PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger told reporters Tuesday during her executive session at the the pubcaster’s first day of virtual Television Critics Association winter press tour.
“Some of it is, in part, the structure of public broadcasting, which is very decentralized,” she said “We’re a federated system. Our stations are all independent. There are many paths into public broadcasting, so it’s confusing sometimes for filmmakers figure out, ‘Do I come to PBS? Do I go to a producing station?...
- 1/18/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
From my inbox… seems like a lot of you folks are on that Kickstarter kick… Here’s a release I received from Stacey Holman, one of the members of The Leagues, who brought you 6 Things I Never Told You, and whose name appeared on the Shadow And Act Black Filmmakers To Watch list:
For Immediate Release
New York, NY – August 2, 2010 – There’s a new movement sweeping across the World Wide Web dubbed the Internet TV Revolution http://kck.st/aqO4Ue.
Fed up with (fake) reality television, the movement was started by independent TV/Film producers Stacey Holman & Tracee Loran. With their aptly titled website StaceyandTraceeTV.com, the duo is on a mission to alter the media landscape by producing original content specifically for the ‘net. But, Stacey & Tracee aren’t journeying alone. Via the creative funding site Kickstarter.com, the public can join the Revolution by donating dollars in...
For Immediate Release
New York, NY – August 2, 2010 – There’s a new movement sweeping across the World Wide Web dubbed the Internet TV Revolution http://kck.st/aqO4Ue.
Fed up with (fake) reality television, the movement was started by independent TV/Film producers Stacey Holman & Tracee Loran. With their aptly titled website StaceyandTraceeTV.com, the duo is on a mission to alter the media landscape by producing original content specifically for the ‘net. But, Stacey & Tracee aren’t journeying alone. Via the creative funding site Kickstarter.com, the public can join the Revolution by donating dollars in...
- 8/8/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
We’ve been following this since inception. And now, both shorts are complete. The first on is online, titled, Red Heeled by Stacey Holman. You’re encouraged to watch them both, and vote for which you like best. To vote Click Here, although the other one (Dilemma directed by Attika Torrence) isn’t available yet, for some reason.
First up is Red Heeled:...
First up is Red Heeled:...
- 7/15/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
I’ve been wanting to do this for some time – a periodically (maybe annually) updated list of up-and-coming black filmmakers, especially those working mostly outside the mainstream; something we could call “black filmmakers to watch,” preceded by a year, not-so unlike Filmmaker magazine’s annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film” list.
As I’ve already made known on this blog, I’m not necessarily a fan of lists, especially ranked lists where the arts are concerned.
However, I do see Some value in providing black cinema enthusiasts like yourselves (or cinema enthusiasts regardless of race) with the names of noteworthy black filmmakers who may otherwise go unnoticed by the the mainstream press, and even indie film publications like Filmmaker magazine. We’re celebrating those black filmmakers… propping them up, you could say. If a site like ours doesn’t do that, we certainly can’t complain when more prominent media outlets don’t.
As I’ve already made known on this blog, I’m not necessarily a fan of lists, especially ranked lists where the arts are concerned.
However, I do see Some value in providing black cinema enthusiasts like yourselves (or cinema enthusiasts regardless of race) with the names of noteworthy black filmmakers who may otherwise go unnoticed by the the mainstream press, and even indie film publications like Filmmaker magazine. We’re celebrating those black filmmakers… propping them up, you could say. If a site like ours doesn’t do that, we certainly can’t complain when more prominent media outlets don’t.
- 7/9/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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