There’s an uncanny sense of repetition for the creators behind PBS’ “The Blinding of Isaac Woodard” — a feeling that they’ve told this story before. The tale of a Black serviceman beaten and blinded by police in 1946 took on an added air of history repeating when the “American Experience” episode was being filmed. “We did most of our principal photography at the height of the George Floyd protests,” said producer and director Jamila Ephron at Friday’s TCA Winter Press Tour panel for PBS.
The question, then, on everyone’s minds throughout the project was: How have things changed, if at all? “I learned…that it’s a constant battle,” Ephron said. She said it often felt like a continuous stream of police violence was happening while working on the project.
“What’s important is for people to understand that issues of police violence against Black people…have been...
The question, then, on everyone’s minds throughout the project was: How have things changed, if at all? “I learned…that it’s a constant battle,” Ephron said. She said it often felt like a continuous stream of police violence was happening while working on the project.
“What’s important is for people to understand that issues of police violence against Black people…have been...
- 2/5/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Does the world really need another movie about Woodstock? There are fewer of them than you might imagine, but the two that most readily spring to mind feel like a closed parenthetical: Michael Wadleigh released his definitive 1970 concert documentary when the music was still echoing across the fields of upstate New York, and Ang Lee’s 2009 “Taking Woodstock” suggested we should have left it at that.
Barak Goodman (“Oklahoma City”) and co-director Jamila Ephron (“Far from the Tree”) must have disagreed. Made in conjunction with PBS, timed for the 50th anniversary, and set for a proper theatrical run before airing on the television channel later this year, their “Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation” revisits the epochal music festival as if it had never been done before — as if the Aquarian Exposition isn’t the only rock concert in American history that gets its own page in high school textbooks.
Barak Goodman (“Oklahoma City”) and co-director Jamila Ephron (“Far from the Tree”) must have disagreed. Made in conjunction with PBS, timed for the 50th anniversary, and set for a proper theatrical run before airing on the television channel later this year, their “Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation” revisits the epochal music festival as if it had never been done before — as if the Aquarian Exposition isn’t the only rock concert in American history that gets its own page in high school textbooks.
- 5/2/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
PBS has ordered a trio of documentaries: “Woodstock,” “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” and Ken Burns’ “The Gene: An Intimate History,” the public broadcaster announced Monday at the Television Critics Association press tour.
“Woodstock” is a two-hour Barak Goodman doc tied to the 50th anniversary of the legendary 1969 concert held in upstate New York.
The four-hour “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” is executive produced and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and chronicles the confusing years immediately after the Union Army defeated the Confederacy in a divided America. Like “Woodstock,” “Reconstruction” is set to air next year.
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“Ken Burns Presents The Gene: An Intimate History” is a three-hour adaptation of Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D.’s book “The Gene: An Intimate History.” That one, in which Burns (pictured above) explores the breakthroughs in understanding the impact genes play on heredity,...
“Woodstock” is a two-hour Barak Goodman doc tied to the 50th anniversary of the legendary 1969 concert held in upstate New York.
The four-hour “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” is executive produced and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and chronicles the confusing years immediately after the Union Army defeated the Confederacy in a divided America. Like “Woodstock,” “Reconstruction” is set to air next year.
Also Read: Tavis Smiley Admitted to 'Multiple Sexual Encounters With Subordinates,' PBS Says
“Ken Burns Presents The Gene: An Intimate History” is a three-hour adaptation of Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D.’s book “The Gene: An Intimate History.” That one, in which Burns (pictured above) explores the breakthroughs in understanding the impact genes play on heredity,...
- 7/30/2018
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
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