Congratulations to Robin Bronk are due, not only for being honored at Jesse Jackson's 72nd birthday, but for her good work year round, bringing the entertainment community face to face with the issues of education in America today.
The Creative Coalition is the premiere nonprofit, nonpartisan social and public advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment community. Founded in 1989 by prominent members of the creative community, The Creative Coalition is dedicated to educating, mobilizing, and activating its members on issues of public importance, primarily public education, the First Amendment, and arts advocacy. Actor Tim Daly serves as the organization’s President. As CEO, Bronk is dedicated to educating and mobilizing members of The Creative Coalition on issues of public importance. As a seasoned Capitol Hill strategist, she has represented The Creative Coalition at numerous Congressional Hearings, and the White House. Bronk is an author and a frequent public speaker.
She produced the feature film airing on Showtime, Poliwood, directed by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson. She also produced the award-winning Watch What You Watch PSA campaign addressing girls and body image. Bronk pens a weekly “Five Minutes…” column for The Hill newspaper. Bronk grew up in Clemson, South Carolina and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from The Pennsylvania State University. She resides in New York with her three daughters.
The Rainbow Push Coalition and the Citizenship Education Fund held their Annual Awards Gala , Friday, November 22, 2013 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The event celebrated Rev. Jackson’s 72nd birthday and his lifetime of service in the struggle for civil and human rights at home and abroad. Significantly, Rev. Jackson just returned from meaningful visits to Nigeria, South Africa, and Brazil, addressing the critical issues facing the African Diaspora, and drawing links to the plight of African- Americans at home.
This year also marks critical landmark struggles in the U.S., from the fight to protect the Voting Rights Act from the Supreme Court decision, to commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the Church bombings in Birmingham, to critical movements to protect the Affordable Care Act from the current onslaught in Congress.
Robin Bronk, CEO, The Creative Coalition was honored along with Lysa Heslov, Founder and Executive Director of Children Mending Hearts; Steve McKeever, music producer and CEO of Hidden Beach Records; Lester McKeever, Principal of Washington, Pittman and McKeever; Andrew Young, former Us Ambassador to the Un; Rev. Joseph Bryant, Senior Pastor, Calvary Hill Community Church; Jeffrey David Cox, Sr., National President, American Federation of Government Employees/AFL-CIO; Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel, Maldef.
Music was performed by Jin Jin Reevs and Hitzville.
Proceeds from the gala celebration are being directed to the commitment to providing scholarships for students across the country, to expand their higher education opportunities.
The Creative Coalition is the premiere nonprofit, nonpartisan social and public advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment community. Founded in 1989 by prominent members of the creative community, The Creative Coalition is dedicated to educating, mobilizing, and activating its members on issues of public importance, primarily public education, the First Amendment, and arts advocacy. Actor Tim Daly serves as the organization’s President. As CEO, Bronk is dedicated to educating and mobilizing members of The Creative Coalition on issues of public importance. As a seasoned Capitol Hill strategist, she has represented The Creative Coalition at numerous Congressional Hearings, and the White House. Bronk is an author and a frequent public speaker.
She produced the feature film airing on Showtime, Poliwood, directed by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson. She also produced the award-winning Watch What You Watch PSA campaign addressing girls and body image. Bronk pens a weekly “Five Minutes…” column for The Hill newspaper. Bronk grew up in Clemson, South Carolina and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from The Pennsylvania State University. She resides in New York with her three daughters.
The Rainbow Push Coalition and the Citizenship Education Fund held their Annual Awards Gala , Friday, November 22, 2013 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The event celebrated Rev. Jackson’s 72nd birthday and his lifetime of service in the struggle for civil and human rights at home and abroad. Significantly, Rev. Jackson just returned from meaningful visits to Nigeria, South Africa, and Brazil, addressing the critical issues facing the African Diaspora, and drawing links to the plight of African- Americans at home.
This year also marks critical landmark struggles in the U.S., from the fight to protect the Voting Rights Act from the Supreme Court decision, to commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the Church bombings in Birmingham, to critical movements to protect the Affordable Care Act from the current onslaught in Congress.
Robin Bronk, CEO, The Creative Coalition was honored along with Lysa Heslov, Founder and Executive Director of Children Mending Hearts; Steve McKeever, music producer and CEO of Hidden Beach Records; Lester McKeever, Principal of Washington, Pittman and McKeever; Andrew Young, former Us Ambassador to the Un; Rev. Joseph Bryant, Senior Pastor, Calvary Hill Community Church; Jeffrey David Cox, Sr., National President, American Federation of Government Employees/AFL-CIO; Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel, Maldef.
Music was performed by Jin Jin Reevs and Hitzville.
Proceeds from the gala celebration are being directed to the commitment to providing scholarships for students across the country, to expand their higher education opportunities.
- 11/25/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
You gotta give up it up for Barry Levinson. While the track record has been mixed, it's certainly been interesting, as the famed director has mixed it up quite a bit with his last few films, moving from comedy in "Man Of The Year" to pointed satire in "What Just Happened," tossing in a documentary with the political flick "Poliwood" and last year, his true story pic "You Don't Know Jack" scored a staggering fifteen Emmy nominations, with Al Pacino pocketing a win. Not too bad. Now the director is set to shift gears again, for another true life tale…...
- 3/3/2011
- The Playlist
Movie For Just Cause - A Holiday Gift from The Creative Coalition In the spirit of the holidays, The Creative Coalition is offering a special sale of the acclaimed film, Barry Levinson’s Poliwood, for the month of January. Proceeds will benefit several national charity organizations including The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Psi Youth Aids, The National Education Association’s Read Across America, Help USA, The Pennsylvania State University, Blue Star Families, The Veterans Healing Initiative, Artists for a New South Africa, The African Medical and Research Foundation, The Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center and Being Alive San Diego. In Poliwood, legendary…...
- 1/2/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
By Wrap Staff
New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley is coming under attack from filmmaker Barry Levinson, who took the highly unusual -- though not unheard of -- step of criticizing the critic.
Stanley, whose high correction rate has attracted the critical eye of media watchdogs as diverse as Gawker and Columbia Journalism Review, is now being slammed for misrepresenting Levinson's "Poliwood." A documentary that explores the connections between celebrities and Washington, "Poliwood" premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and last week made its TV debut on Showti...
New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley is coming under attack from filmmaker Barry Levinson, who took the highly unusual -- though not unheard of -- step of criticizing the critic.
Stanley, whose high correction rate has attracted the critical eye of media watchdogs as diverse as Gawker and Columbia Journalism Review, is now being slammed for misrepresenting Levinson's "Poliwood." A documentary that explores the connections between celebrities and Washington, "Poliwood" premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and last week made its TV debut on Showti...
- 11/11/2009
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
By Barry Levinson
As I write this, I realize I am about to do something that, for the most part, is never done. I am going to criticize a critic.
Filmmakers are never supposed to respond to a critic about their work. It’s an unspoken rule of engagement. But in this case, I feel compelled.
I am going to criticize Alessandra Stanley, the TV critic for the New York Times. I am not going to criticize her on the basis of what she may not like about my recent film essay “Poliwood,” but I am going to take her to task for her blatant inaccuracies. For her inability to view the piece f...
As I write this, I realize I am about to do something that, for the most part, is never done. I am going to criticize a critic.
Filmmakers are never supposed to respond to a critic about their work. It’s an unspoken rule of engagement. But in this case, I feel compelled.
I am going to criticize Alessandra Stanley, the TV critic for the New York Times. I am not going to criticize her on the basis of what she may not like about my recent film essay “Poliwood,” but I am going to take her to task for her blatant inaccuracies. For her inability to view the piece f...
- 11/11/2009
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Americans take it on faith that movie stars are politically liberal. Whether the celebrity lives in L.A. or New York, from Streisand to Sarandon, we know how they see the world because they're honest about it. Some don't think liberal actors should espouse personal views. The performer should shut up and dance, or sing, or act. This is different from other professions. If you sit at the corner bar, you'll hear a butcher, baker, candlestick maker opine on all sorts of things in public, often loudly after a few drinks. It's their right, yet they'll also be the first to tell you that so-called "famous people" shouldn't do so.....unless they're conservative, of course. The Dixie Chicks? Never, never, never. The new documentary from Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson, Poliwood examines the intersection of politics and...
- 11/6/2009
- by Jackson Williams
- Huffington Post
On the eve of Edward Norton's By the People: The Election of Barack Obama's HBO premiere, Showtime rolls out Barry Levinson's Poliwood, a documentary examining the positive and negative effects that celebrities have on politics. The program revisits last year's Democratic and Republican national conventions to explore the public's take on movie stars' political outspokenness. The 90-minute film includes conversations with Ellen Burstyn, Susan Sarandon, Sting, Elvis Costello, Annette Bening, Tim Daly (who also produced the documentary) and many others.
- 11/3/2009
- Movieline
It's not uncommon to hear people discussing -- or complaining about -- the ways in which Hollywood celebrities are involved in politics, whether they're airing their opinions during a concert or speaking in public on behalf of a politician. Barry Levinson (Diner, Good Morning Vietnam) thought this was an interesting enough topic to address in his documentary Poliwood, which focuses on the 2008 national Democratic and Republican conventions. Unfortunately, the documentary shows us little that we haven't already seen, and tends to preach to the converted.
Poliwood is subtitled "a Barry Levinson film essay," which signals us that this will be a more personal style of documentary. Levinson opens the movie with shots from his 1990 feature film Avalon and uses this footage to discuss the ways American lives have changed because of television. His focus is on the Creative Coalition, a non-partisan organization of celebrities that focuses on issues such as arts education.
Poliwood is subtitled "a Barry Levinson film essay," which signals us that this will be a more personal style of documentary. Levinson opens the movie with shots from his 1990 feature film Avalon and uses this footage to discuss the ways American lives have changed because of television. His focus is on the Creative Coalition, a non-partisan organization of celebrities that focuses on issues such as arts education.
- 11/1/2009
- by Jette Kernion
- Cinematical
The only big film festival in my own backyard is back and it runs from November 12th through the 22nd. While it caters more to heavy run fest material and arthouse film, they do have some of the more interesting films playing this year:
Ryan Ward's excellent Son of the Sunshine which is one of my favorite films of the year. (review)
The weird, lengthy comedy The Revenant (review)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
and much more. Program after the break!
In Competition
Children of Invention
Two first-generation Chinese kids in suburban Boston find themselves on their own after their desperate mother is unwittingly involved in a pyramid scheme and arrested. Older brother Raymond takes a page from her marketing seminars to start creating a life for himself and his sister - casting a strange, pint-sized reflection on the American Dream.
Footprints...
Ryan Ward's excellent Son of the Sunshine which is one of my favorite films of the year. (review)
The weird, lengthy comedy The Revenant (review)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
and much more. Program after the break!
In Competition
Children of Invention
Two first-generation Chinese kids in suburban Boston find themselves on their own after their desperate mother is unwittingly involved in a pyramid scheme and arrested. Older brother Raymond takes a page from her marketing seminars to start creating a life for himself and his sister - casting a strange, pint-sized reflection on the American Dream.
Footprints...
- 10/26/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The Austin Film Festival and Conference, which runs Oct. 22-29, released a sampling of its feature lineup Wednesday.
The 16th annual screenwriter-focused fest will screen several documentaries, including Peter Hanson's "Tales From the Script," Barry Levinson's "PoliWood" and Robert Townsend's "Why We Laugh."
World premieres will include Gary Lundgren's "Calvin Marshall," Todd Berger's "The Scenesters" and Mark Potts and Cole Selix's "Simmons on Vinyl."
The centerpiece film will be Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon's "The Messenger."
Also screening are Robert Byington's "Harmony and Me," Peter Bratt's "La Mission" and Gregori Viens and Henry Phillips' "Punching the Clown."
This year's fest will honor Steven Zaillian with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award and Ron Howard with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award.
The rest of the program -- including competition titles, shorts and the opening- and closing-night films -- will be announced mid-September.
The 16th annual screenwriter-focused fest will screen several documentaries, including Peter Hanson's "Tales From the Script," Barry Levinson's "PoliWood" and Robert Townsend's "Why We Laugh."
World premieres will include Gary Lundgren's "Calvin Marshall," Todd Berger's "The Scenesters" and Mark Potts and Cole Selix's "Simmons on Vinyl."
The centerpiece film will be Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon's "The Messenger."
Also screening are Robert Byington's "Harmony and Me," Peter Bratt's "La Mission" and Gregori Viens and Henry Phillips' "Punching the Clown."
This year's fest will honor Steven Zaillian with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award and Ron Howard with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award.
The rest of the program -- including competition titles, shorts and the opening- and closing-night films -- will be announced mid-September.
- 8/26/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Eric Kohn
Barry Levinson knows the beast that is mass media.
The director explored the impact of television on family life with his 1990 drama "Avalon," and he revealed the ways politicians use the news to manipulate the public in his clever satire "Wag the Dog." Now he's turned the camera on himself and his peers with a film essay entitled "Poliwood" about celebrity activism.
In the movie, Levinson focuses on the activities of the Creative Coalition in building awareness for political causes while dealing with the backlash from ...
Barry Levinson knows the beast that is mass media.
The director explored the impact of television on family life with his 1990 drama "Avalon," and he revealed the ways politicians use the news to manipulate the public in his clever satire "Wag the Dog." Now he's turned the camera on himself and his peers with a film essay entitled "Poliwood" about celebrity activism.
In the movie, Levinson focuses on the activities of the Creative Coalition in building awareness for political causes while dealing with the backlash from ...
- 5/3/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
Barry Levinson ©Getty Images, photo credit: Neilson Barnard Last night at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Barry Levinson premiered his new 'film essay,' Poliwood, to an engaged and appreciative audience. In the film, the Academy Award-winning director (Rain Man) explores the ever-blurrying divides at the intersection of Hollywood, media, and politics. In following a path from last summer's conventions through Obama's jubilant inauguration as the 44th president, the film poses many questions for celebrities who want to get involved, the central one being, 'How do you survive the media circus and not end up the clown?' The Creative Coalition is an ostensibly non-partisan group of artists from the entertainment industry who are committed to ...
- 5/2/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
by Matthew-Lee Erlbach and Carmelo Larose Barry Levinson is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television best known for Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, Liberty Heights, and the HBO series Oz, as well as many other notable and important works on screen. His latest documentary, Poliwood, about the 2008 Republican and Democratic conventions is premiering at the 2009 TriBeCa Film Festival: www.TribecaFilm.com for more info. Would you say Poliwood is more of an extension or a departure from your other work and in what ways? Bl: I think it's an extension in certain ways. It's an extension of what I've been doing in some cases unconsciously with works like Avalon, which dealt with the effects of television on the family, on the American family. It certainly goes through Wag the Dog. It certainly...
- 4/27/2009
- by Matthew-Lee Erlbach
- Huffington Post
“In the most simplistic way, it’s really about the collison of politics, celebrity and the media,” Barry Levinson told indieWIRE about his new documentary “PoliWood,” premiering next Friday night as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. “Basically, how they collide and how they feed off one another. That’s the theme of the piece.” More specifically, the piece uses interviews with a variety of high-profile celebrities and political figures (from Anne Hathaway …...
- 4/24/2009
- indieWIRE - People
“In the most simplistic way, it’s really about the collison of politics, celebrity and the media,” Barry Levinson told indieWIRE about his new documentary “PoliWood,” premiering next Friday night as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. “Basically, how they collide and how they feed off one another. That’s the theme of the piece.” More specifically, the piece uses interviews with a variety of high-profile celebrities and political figures (from Anne Hathaway …...
- 4/24/2009
- indieWIRE - People
The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival has announced the line-up for its two discussion programs - the Tribeca Talks Series and “Behind the Screens: Films and Conversations about Truth, Clarity and Responsibility” - which will include the world premiere of Barry Levinson’s “Poliwood,” and a special screening of Spike Lee’s “Passing Strange.” The Tribeca Talks Series includes “Tribeca Talks Panels,” “Tribeca Talks: After the Movie,” “Tribeca Talks Special Events,” “Tribeca Talks: Industry” …...
- 3/30/2009
- indieWIRE - People
The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival has announced the line-up for its two discussion programs - the Tribeca Talks Series and “Behind the Screens: Films and Conversations about Truth, Clarity and Responsibility” - which will include the world premiere of Barry Levinson’s “Poliwood,” and a special screening of Spike Lee’s “Passing Strange.” The Tribeca Talks Series includes “Tribeca Talks Panels,” “Tribeca Talks: After the Movie,” “Tribeca Talks Special Events,” “Tribeca Talks: Industry” …...
- 3/30/2009
- indieWIRE - People
The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival has announced the line-up for its two discussion programs - the Tribeca Talks Series and “Behind the Screens: Films and Conversations about Truth, Clarity and Responsibility” - which will include the world premiere of Barry Levinson’s “Poliwood,” and a special screening of Spike Lee’s “Passing Strange.” The Tribeca Talks Series includes “Tribeca Talks Panels,” “Tribeca Talks: After the Movie,” “Tribeca Talks Special Events,” “Tribeca Talks: Industry” …...
- 3/30/2009
- indieWIRE - People
The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival's panel series and special events will include conversations with directors Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, Steven Soderbergh, Kirby Dick and Alex Gibney.
The fest, which runs April 22-May 3 in New York, will showcase "Tribeca Talks Special Events" around the films "Poliwood" and "Passing Strange."
Levinson will be on hand to discuss his new film "Poliwood" following its premiere. Joining him to discuss the movie about politics and Hollywood will be the film's actors Josh Lucas, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tim Daly, Lynn Whitfield, Tony Goldwyn, Robert Davi and Matthew Modine. NBC News political analyst and writer Lawrence O'Donnell will moderate.
Lee will present "Passing Strange," his filmed version of the 2008 Tony-winning Broadway musical. Joining him for a panel discussion will be the show's creator, Stew, and its co-composer, Heidi Rodewald.
The "Behind the Screens" series will examine serveral films: Cathy Henkel's documentary "The Burning Season"; Barry Ptolmy's...
The fest, which runs April 22-May 3 in New York, will showcase "Tribeca Talks Special Events" around the films "Poliwood" and "Passing Strange."
Levinson will be on hand to discuss his new film "Poliwood" following its premiere. Joining him to discuss the movie about politics and Hollywood will be the film's actors Josh Lucas, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tim Daly, Lynn Whitfield, Tony Goldwyn, Robert Davi and Matthew Modine. NBC News political analyst and writer Lawrence O'Donnell will moderate.
Lee will present "Passing Strange," his filmed version of the 2008 Tony-winning Broadway musical. Joining him for a panel discussion will be the show's creator, Stew, and its co-composer, Heidi Rodewald.
The "Behind the Screens" series will examine serveral films: Cathy Henkel's documentary "The Burning Season"; Barry Ptolmy's...
- 3/30/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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