Exclusive: PBS’s Independent Lens strand has acquired feature doc One with the Whale, spotlighting a Siberian Yupik community facing up to climate change and animal rights activists.
Co-directed by Pete Chelkowski and environmental journalist Jim Wickens (Ecostorm), the doc was filmed over two years on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, and explores the traditions and customs, values and lifestyles of a tight-knit Yupik village known as Gambell.
Being based on a small ice-covered island near the Bering Sea, the Yupiks have witnessed the increasingly damaging impact of climate change on their environment and way of life, while their centuries-old practices as traditional hunter gatherers have been attacked by online animal rights activists. The doc will follow the story of Chris Apassingok, a teenager and local hero who harpooned a 50-foot whale that fed the village for months. After his story emerged, he was...
Co-directed by Pete Chelkowski and environmental journalist Jim Wickens (Ecostorm), the doc was filmed over two years on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, and explores the traditions and customs, values and lifestyles of a tight-knit Yupik village known as Gambell.
Being based on a small ice-covered island near the Bering Sea, the Yupiks have witnessed the increasingly damaging impact of climate change on their environment and way of life, while their centuries-old practices as traditional hunter gatherers have been attacked by online animal rights activists. The doc will follow the story of Chris Apassingok, a teenager and local hero who harpooned a 50-foot whale that fed the village for months. After his story emerged, he was...
- 6/5/2023
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: USA Network has elevated Michael Sluchan to Svp Original Scripted Programming. Sluchan, a 13-year USA veteran, oversees current series and develops and shepherds production on new shows alongside Svp Alex Sepiol. Both report to Bill McGoldrick, Evp Original Scripted Programming. “Michael is a truly talented executive with vast relationships in the creative community and an incredible ability to nurture the types of writers and producers we love to work with,” McGoldrick said. Sluchan oversees production of USA dramas Necessary Roughness and Royal Pains and also oversaw recent limited series Political Animals. Related: USA’s ‘Necessary Roughness’ Renewed For Third Season Sluchan joined USA as creative executive, longform programming in October 1999. He developed and oversaw production of such movies and miniseries as Dominick Dunne Presents: Murder In Greenwich, Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, Call Me: The Rise And Fall Of Heidi Fleiss, and Spartacus. In 2005, he moved over to the original series area as director,...
- 1/7/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Stone casts vote for 'Bush'
Oliver Stone, who has made films about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the presidency of Richard Nixon, will next turn his attention to George W. Bush.
Josh Brolin is attached to play the president in the project, titled Bush.
Stone is looking to secure financing for a script by Stanley Weiser, who co-wrote Wall Street with Stone and who also penned the 2003 telefilm Rudy: The Rudy Giulianai Story.
Stone hopes to begin production on Bush as early as the spring in order to release the film by the fall election. But securing financing in the midst of an election cycle in which even the Republican candidates for the presidency are distancing themselves from Bush could present a challenge if the film is to be completed before Bush fades from the scene.
Moritz Borman, who served as a producer on both Stone's Alexander and World Trade Center, and John Kilik, another of Alexander's producers, are on board to produce.
Kilik also was to have produced Stone's My Lai massacre film Pinkville, which United Artists put on hold in November, citing the need for further script revisions, though skeptics also suggested that the company lost confidence in the politically themed project after the boxoffice failure of Lions for Lambs.
Josh Brolin is attached to play the president in the project, titled Bush.
Stone is looking to secure financing for a script by Stanley Weiser, who co-wrote Wall Street with Stone and who also penned the 2003 telefilm Rudy: The Rudy Giulianai Story.
Stone hopes to begin production on Bush as early as the spring in order to release the film by the fall election. But securing financing in the midst of an election cycle in which even the Republican candidates for the presidency are distancing themselves from Bush could present a challenge if the film is to be completed before Bush fades from the scene.
Moritz Borman, who served as a producer on both Stone's Alexander and World Trade Center, and John Kilik, another of Alexander's producers, are on board to produce.
Kilik also was to have produced Stone's My Lai massacre film Pinkville, which United Artists put on hold in November, citing the need for further script revisions, though skeptics also suggested that the company lost confidence in the politically themed project after the boxoffice failure of Lions for Lambs.
- 1/21/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Miller elected to play ex-wife in USA's 'Rudy!'
Penelope Ann Miller has been tapped to play Rudolph Giuliani's ex-wife, Donna Hanover, in Rudy! USA Network's upcoming biopic of the former New York mayor. She will star opposite James Woods, who will portray Giuliani in the project, which Robert Dornhelm (FX's RFK) has come aboard to direct. Based on Wayne Barrett's book of the same name, Rudy! looks at Giuliani's public and personal life. The script is by Stanley Weiser, who penned the first draft, and Lionel Chetwynd, who contributed significantly in the final stages.
- 10/15/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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