The first-ever North Fork TV Festival has announced it will take place on Saturday, August 20 in Greenport, New York. Presented alongside SeriesFest, the festival will highlight upcoming indie television projects and aim to elevate and draw attention to the innovative minds of television executives, directors, writers and actors from around the globe. The festival is open to the public.
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“New York is the center of so much of what we watch on TV these days, and we want New York to be the area that celebrates the independent producers who are creating much of that content,” said festival founder Noah Doyle in an official statement. “Each year more and more independent TV pilots are finding their way into our homes and into our lives. The North Fork TV Festival aims to bring that independently produced content to the greater New York media market.
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“New York is the center of so much of what we watch on TV these days, and we want New York to be the area that celebrates the independent producers who are creating much of that content,” said festival founder Noah Doyle in an official statement. “Each year more and more independent TV pilots are finding their way into our homes and into our lives. The North Fork TV Festival aims to bring that independently produced content to the greater New York media market.
- 8/4/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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Seventeen years after JFK Jr.'s death, his closest friends reveal never-before-told stories about his life and final weeks. Subscribe now for an inside look at the JFK Jr. you never knew, only in People!She married the most eligible bachelor in the world and became famous overnight, but seventeen years after her death, friends of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. tell People that she was much more than the ethereal beauty who captured John's heart. "She was a whole other complex woman,” says close friend Sasha Chermayeff. "The newness of the celebrity was much more shocking for her.
- 7/20/2016
- by Liz McNeil, @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
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Seventeen years after JFK Jr.'s death, his closest friends reveal never-before-told stories about his life and final weeks. Subscribe now for an inside look at the JFK Jr. you never knew, only in People!She married the most eligible bachelor in the world and became famous overnight, but seventeen years after her death, friends of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. tell People that she was much more than the ethereal beauty who captured John's heart. "She was a whole other complex woman,” says close friend Sasha Chermayeff. "The newness of the celebrity was much more shocking for her.
- 7/20/2016
- by Liz McNeil, @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
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To the world, John F. Kennedy Jr. was the son of the slain president who grew up and became an impossibly handsome, charming and articulate man with a world of possibility ahead. But to his friends, he was just "John," the lovable, loyal, goofy pal who threw rocks at their window when he lost his keys, wasn't as athletically gifted as he seemed - and who carried his name and legacy with an innate sense of grace. It all came to a tragic end 17 years ago, when John's plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off of Martha's Vineyard, killing him...
- 7/19/2016
- by Liz McNeil, @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
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To the world, John F. Kennedy Jr. was the son of the slain president who grew up and became an impossibly handsome, charming and articulate man with a world of possibility ahead. But to his friends, he was just "John," the lovable, loyal, goofy pal who threw rocks at their window when he lost his keys, wasn't as athletically gifted as he seemed - and who carried his name and legacy with an innate sense of grace. It all came to a tragic end 17 years ago, when John's plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off of Martha's Vineyard, killing him...
- 7/19/2016
- by Liz McNeil, @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
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