Like Hip Hop Uncovered before it, FX’s new documentary series Pride boasts a broad title, but plays as an intermediate text that assumes you’ve done all of your introductory coursework. (And before you start thinking this is the core idea behind FX’s newly evolving documentary brand, the network’s recent women-in-comedy docuseries Hysterical was definitely an introductory text.)
This is, as it was with Hip Hop Uncovered, less a criticism than an expectation-setter.
As much as Pride exposes how desperately the LGBTQ+ rights movement deserves and needs some kind of Eyes on the Prize-style wide-reaching treatment, it’s still a mainstream cable series ...
This is, as it was with Hip Hop Uncovered, less a criticism than an expectation-setter.
As much as Pride exposes how desperately the LGBTQ+ rights movement deserves and needs some kind of Eyes on the Prize-style wide-reaching treatment, it’s still a mainstream cable series ...
- 5/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like Hip Hop Uncovered before it, FX’s new documentary series Pride boasts a broad title, but plays as an intermediate text that assumes you’ve done all of your introductory coursework. (And before you start thinking this is the core idea behind FX’s newly evolving documentary brand, the network’s recent women-in-comedy docuseries Hysterical was definitely an introductory text.)
This is, as it was with Hip Hop Uncovered, less a criticism than an expectation-setter.
As much as Pride exposes how desperately the LGBTQ+ rights movement deserves and needs some kind of Eyes on the Prize-style wide-reaching treatment, it’s still a mainstream cable series ...
This is, as it was with Hip Hop Uncovered, less a criticism than an expectation-setter.
As much as Pride exposes how desperately the LGBTQ+ rights movement deserves and needs some kind of Eyes on the Prize-style wide-reaching treatment, it’s still a mainstream cable series ...
- 5/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The FX documentary Hysterical spotlights a number of fierce female comics who share their experiences of breaking into a field that has traditionally marginalized female comedians in favor of their cis white male counterparts. The women share their accounts of their hard-fought journeys to become the voices of their generation and their gender.
“Who better to spend time with and document than the very people who are always breaking boundaries? That’s what comedians do,” said director and executive producer Andrea Nevins, who was joined on the Hysterical panel at Deadline’s Contender Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event by executive producer and stand-up comic Jessica Kirson and comedian Marina Franklin, one of the many comics featured in the documentary.
For Kirson, the onset of the #MeToo movement provided the perfect opportunity to share their stories.
“We are on a path to make a woman’s voice so powerful right now,...
“Who better to spend time with and document than the very people who are always breaking boundaries? That’s what comedians do,” said director and executive producer Andrea Nevins, who was joined on the Hysterical panel at Deadline’s Contender Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event by executive producer and stand-up comic Jessica Kirson and comedian Marina Franklin, one of the many comics featured in the documentary.
For Kirson, the onset of the #MeToo movement provided the perfect opportunity to share their stories.
“We are on a path to make a woman’s voice so powerful right now,...
- 5/1/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Campfire, a producer of scripted and non-scripted content, has been on a tear.
The company debuted three films at this year’s SXSW, the buzzy documentaries “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn,” “Hysterical,” and “The Lost Sons,” and also fielded “A Glitch in the Matrix,” which scored rave reviews at Sundance. All told, the company will have nearly a dozen movies and shows scheduled to premiere in 2021, a remarkable burst of productivity given that Covid-19 has slowed production for the past 12 months.
“The pandemic didn’t really impede our growth,” says Ross M. Dinerstein, the company’s founder and CEO. “We were able to pivot quickly and figure out how to move much of our post-production remotely.”
The explosion of content is also being fueled by a key investor. In 2019, Wheelhouse Group, the media and investment firm created by Brent Montgomery and late night host Jimmy Kimmel,...
The company debuted three films at this year’s SXSW, the buzzy documentaries “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn,” “Hysterical,” and “The Lost Sons,” and also fielded “A Glitch in the Matrix,” which scored rave reviews at Sundance. All told, the company will have nearly a dozen movies and shows scheduled to premiere in 2021, a remarkable burst of productivity given that Covid-19 has slowed production for the past 12 months.
“The pandemic didn’t really impede our growth,” says Ross M. Dinerstein, the company’s founder and CEO. “We were able to pivot quickly and figure out how to move much of our post-production remotely.”
The explosion of content is also being fueled by a key investor. In 2019, Wheelhouse Group, the media and investment firm created by Brent Montgomery and late night host Jimmy Kimmel,...
- 4/5/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Demi Lovato’s new docuseries has been set as the opening night headliner at the 2021 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival.
South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals announced that the YouTube Originals docuseries “Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil,” directed by Michael D. Ratner, will make its world premiere and kick off the 2021 online event, which runs March 16-20.
In the project (which is set to debut on YouTube in March), Lovato opens up for the first time about her nearly fatal overdose, dissecting every aspect that led to the 2018 incident and her awakenings in the aftermath. Lovato is said to have granted Ratner “unprecedented access to [her] personal and musical journey during the most trying time of her life as she unearthed her prior traumas and discovered the importance of her physical, emotional, and mental health.” A description of the project paints it as, “far deeper than an inside look beyond the celebrity surface,...
South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals announced that the YouTube Originals docuseries “Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil,” directed by Michael D. Ratner, will make its world premiere and kick off the 2021 online event, which runs March 16-20.
In the project (which is set to debut on YouTube in March), Lovato opens up for the first time about her nearly fatal overdose, dissecting every aspect that led to the 2018 incident and her awakenings in the aftermath. Lovato is said to have granted Ratner “unprecedented access to [her] personal and musical journey during the most trying time of her life as she unearthed her prior traumas and discovered the importance of her physical, emotional, and mental health.” A description of the project paints it as, “far deeper than an inside look beyond the celebrity surface,...
- 1/15/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
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