Exclusive: Garcelle Beauvais (Spider-Man: Homecoming, White House Down) is set to star in the Lifetime original movie Black Girl Missing as part of the network’s Stop Violence Against Women campaign. A new PSA for Black and Missing Foundation will be part of the movie’s rollout featuring Beauvais, who is also executive producing the movie that’s inspired by actual stories of missing women of color.
Black Girl Missing tells the story of a mother named Cheryl (Beauvais) whose daughter Lauren (Iyana Halley) is nowhere to be found. Authorities and media dismiss Lauren as a runaway while focusing heavily on another missing girl, who is white. Cheryl and her 15-year-old daughter Marley (Taylor Mosby) enlist the help of a dedicated community of amateur internet sleuths to try to find Lauren.
Cheryl also discovers the Black and Missing Foundation and is horrified to discover the disparity in how missing persons...
Black Girl Missing tells the story of a mother named Cheryl (Beauvais) whose daughter Lauren (Iyana Halley) is nowhere to be found. Authorities and media dismiss Lauren as a runaway while focusing heavily on another missing girl, who is white. Cheryl and her 15-year-old daughter Marley (Taylor Mosby) enlist the help of a dedicated community of amateur internet sleuths to try to find Lauren.
Cheryl also discovers the Black and Missing Foundation and is horrified to discover the disparity in how missing persons...
- 1/25/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO’s four-part documentary series, “Black and Missing” began production three years ago, but makes its debut just weeks after the apex of the two-month Gabby Petito saga. In 2020, nearly 100,000 Black girls and women went missing and few made front-page news; by contrast, there’s a name for the mainstream media’s fondness for constructing and reaffirming the news value of missing white women: Missing White Woman Syndrome (Mwws). The privilege is so omnipresent that it effectively normalizes the marginalization and victimization of other groups.
Produced by Emmy-winning editor Geeta Gandbhir and CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien, this docuseries follows founders of the Black and Missing Foundation, Derrica and Natalie Wilson, in their fight to mainstream Black missing-persons cases. It’s a by-the-numbers production, but it’s both visceral and data-heavy. Audiences will discover that hundreds of thousands of girls and women reported missing each year go unnoticed, many of them African American,...
Produced by Emmy-winning editor Geeta Gandbhir and CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien, this docuseries follows founders of the Black and Missing Foundation, Derrica and Natalie Wilson, in their fight to mainstream Black missing-persons cases. It’s a by-the-numbers production, but it’s both visceral and data-heavy. Audiences will discover that hundreds of thousands of girls and women reported missing each year go unnoticed, many of them African American,...
- 11/17/2021
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Winners for the 2020 New Zealand Television Awards were announced today, with the event becoming of the few physical screen award ceremonies to be held during the pandemic.
The Luminaries, produced by Southern Light Films and Working Title TV, was the big winner in the drama craft categories with multiple wins including Best Script: Drama for Eleanor Catton, who adapted her Man Booker Prize-winning book for television, Best Director: Drama for Claire McCarthy, Best Cinematographer: Drama for Denson Baker, Best Production Design for Felicity Abbott and Daniel Birt, Best Costume Design for Edward K. Gibbon, Best Makeup Design for Jane O’Kane and Best Post Production Design for Alana Cotton. Lead actor Himesh Patel, who played Emery Staines in the series, won the award for Best Actor.
Taika Waititi, Paul Yates, Jemaine Clement won the Best Comedy award for season 2 of their Wellington Paranormal, while Yates also won Best Script: Comedy for the same program.
The Luminaries, produced by Southern Light Films and Working Title TV, was the big winner in the drama craft categories with multiple wins including Best Script: Drama for Eleanor Catton, who adapted her Man Booker Prize-winning book for television, Best Director: Drama for Claire McCarthy, Best Cinematographer: Drama for Denson Baker, Best Production Design for Felicity Abbott and Daniel Birt, Best Costume Design for Edward K. Gibbon, Best Makeup Design for Jane O’Kane and Best Post Production Design for Alana Cotton. Lead actor Himesh Patel, who played Emery Staines in the series, won the award for Best Actor.
Taika Waititi, Paul Yates, Jemaine Clement won the Best Comedy award for season 2 of their Wellington Paranormal, while Yates also won Best Script: Comedy for the same program.
- 11/18/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
One spring day in 2004 a young African-American woman named Tamika Huston vanished from her Spartanburg, S.C., apartment. Her family did everything they could to get the media to pay attention to the 24-year-old's disappearance, sending out emails, calling newspapers and TV stations - to no avail. "It was painful watching them struggle for any kind of media coverage-local or national," says Derrica Wilson, who was born and raised in Spartanburg. "This could have been one of my family members." One year almost to the day later, high school senior Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba. And that story, of course,...
- 2/28/2013
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan
- PEOPLE.com
The Sydney Morning Herald has a rather fascinating story about the exact type of rather dysfunctional hero that Edward Cullen really is. The author that the article is written about sees Edward as a type of “Byronic hero”, a type that both exactly fits him, and yet doesn’t quite fit right him either. Interestingly enough, one of the very first vampire stories was based on the real Lord Byron – where we get the term “Byronic hero”. Keep an open mind and check out the article below:
The collective name for these literary bad boys is “Byronic heroes”. Named after Lord Byron, they are, in the famous words of one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. The real Lord Byron, it turns out, was the inspiration for one of the first vampires to appear in English literature. One of Byron’s acquaintances, John Polidori, based Lord Ruthven, the main character in his 1819 short story The Vampyre, on Byron.
Viewed in this light, Edward is about as close to the original Byronic hero as you can get. Natalie Wilson, author of Seduced by Twilight: The Allure and Contradictory Messages of the Popular Saga, agrees, up to a point. Edward, she says, differs from the traditional Byronic hero in a number of important respects.
“Many Byronic heroes revel in being bad. Edward hates himself for his ‘badness’ and the danger he poses to Bella,” she says. “He has a lot more angst than a typical Byronic hero and he genuinely tries to protect Bella-something Byronic heroes don’t normally do for their leading ladies. Granted, his ‘protection’ results in him controlling Bella but his domination comes from the desire to protect her, not harm her.”
Wilson continues: “And, significantly, he wants to protect her humanity and particularly her virginity. Traditional Byronic heroes were not so chaste but actively tried to turn their leading ladies into ‘fallen women’. ”
Stories featuring Byronic heroes usually end in tragedy but although Edward is good-looking and dangerous and disregards social norms, Edward and Bella’s story ends in wedded bliss. Judged against that standard, Edward starts to look like the best of a rotten bunch. Sure, he may be a homicidal blood-sucking bad boy but at least he’s a self-aware homicidal blood-sucking bad boy
Read the full, very interesting article at The Sydney Morning Herald here.
“Sure, he may be a homicidal blood-sucking bad boy but at least he’s a self-aware homicidal blood-sucking bad boy.” I’m laughing so hard at this, like darn near rolling on the floor laughing! That’s one of those quotable quotes that could live forever. So sure, you could get all angry about this view of Edward, but unlike common haters, this person has done their homework.
What do you think of this view of Edward? It does sound a little bit like Jacob really, doesn’t it?
hanks Noor!)...
The collective name for these literary bad boys is “Byronic heroes”. Named after Lord Byron, they are, in the famous words of one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. The real Lord Byron, it turns out, was the inspiration for one of the first vampires to appear in English literature. One of Byron’s acquaintances, John Polidori, based Lord Ruthven, the main character in his 1819 short story The Vampyre, on Byron.
Viewed in this light, Edward is about as close to the original Byronic hero as you can get. Natalie Wilson, author of Seduced by Twilight: The Allure and Contradictory Messages of the Popular Saga, agrees, up to a point. Edward, she says, differs from the traditional Byronic hero in a number of important respects.
“Many Byronic heroes revel in being bad. Edward hates himself for his ‘badness’ and the danger he poses to Bella,” she says. “He has a lot more angst than a typical Byronic hero and he genuinely tries to protect Bella-something Byronic heroes don’t normally do for their leading ladies. Granted, his ‘protection’ results in him controlling Bella but his domination comes from the desire to protect her, not harm her.”
Wilson continues: “And, significantly, he wants to protect her humanity and particularly her virginity. Traditional Byronic heroes were not so chaste but actively tried to turn their leading ladies into ‘fallen women’. ”
Stories featuring Byronic heroes usually end in tragedy but although Edward is good-looking and dangerous and disregards social norms, Edward and Bella’s story ends in wedded bliss. Judged against that standard, Edward starts to look like the best of a rotten bunch. Sure, he may be a homicidal blood-sucking bad boy but at least he’s a self-aware homicidal blood-sucking bad boy
Read the full, very interesting article at The Sydney Morning Herald here.
“Sure, he may be a homicidal blood-sucking bad boy but at least he’s a self-aware homicidal blood-sucking bad boy.” I’m laughing so hard at this, like darn near rolling on the floor laughing! That’s one of those quotable quotes that could live forever. So sure, you could get all angry about this view of Edward, but unlike common haters, this person has done their homework.
What do you think of this view of Edward? It does sound a little bit like Jacob really, doesn’t it?
hanks Noor!)...
- 10/10/2011
- by Evie
- twilightersanonymous.com
Toy Story 3 has been accused of expressing a "careless sexism" in its characters and dialogue. The attacks were made in a critique of the Pixar sequel published on a blog for the self-described "unique, outspoken, and hard-hitting" Ms Magazine. Author Natalie Wilson wrote: "Toy Story 3 opens on a woman-empowerment high, with Mrs Potato-Head displaying mad train-robbing skills and cowgirl Jessie skillfully steering her faithful horse Bullseye in the ensuing chase. "And that's the end of that: From there on, the film displays the same careless sexism as its predecessors." The article criticises the marginalisation of other female characters and continues: "As for Ken, he is depicted as a closeted gay fashionista with a fondness for writing in sparkly purple ink (more)...
- 6/28/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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