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SUMMARY:American Experience: The Busing Battleground
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books hosts a program with award winning directors Sharon Grimberg and Cyndee Readdean\, to discuss their AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s THE BUSING BATTLEGROUND: THE DECADE-LONG ROAD TO SCHOOL DESEGREGATION on PBS. \nIn September 2023\, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE premieres two new documentaries by Executive Producer Cameo George\, that examine the deeply mixed legacy of America’s efforts to racially integrate public schools. \nTHE BUSING BATTLEGROUND tells the story of the bitter struggle to integrate Boston’s school and captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white students in Boston were bused for the first time between neighborhoods to comply with a federal desegregation order. It premieres on September 11 at 9pm ET; check your local listing. It is streamable for free at pbs.org. \nABOUT THE FILMMAKERS\nSharon Grimberg: Writer\, Producer\, Director for THE BUSING BATTLEGROUND  \nSharon Grimberg is an award-winning filmmaker with 25 years of experience working for public television. According to The Baltimore Sun\, her latest film McCarthy\, about the infamous Wisconsin senator\, met “the highest hopes that the most enlightened founders of public broadcasting had for the medium.” Her previous project\, a mini-series on the history of the circus\, garnered a Writer’s Guild nomination and was on The Wall Street Journal’s list of the best television of 2018. Grimberg was the executive producer of The Abolitionists\, which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and of the multi-platform mini-series We Shall Remain\, which retold US history from a Native perspective. According to The Washington Post\, the project “shifted the focus and the weight of history.” From 2003-2015\, Grimberg was the senior producer of American Experience where\, she played a key role in the origination\, development\, acquisition\, and editorial oversight of more than 130 films. \nCyndee Readdean: Producer and Director  \nCyndee Readdean (Producer and Director) is an award-winning director\, producer\, and writer. Her films have appeared on PBS\, ABC\, MSNBC and EPIX. Readdean directed and produced episode two of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award-winning series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War and the Emmy-nominated film The FBI & the Panther. She served as the series producer on the four-hour series By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem. Her producer credits include Freedom Summer\, the 2014 American Experience film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the George Foster Peabody Award; the Emmy-nominated Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities\, which also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; and the two-hour premiere episode of the OBAMA series. Readdean is a member of DGA\, PGA and WGA. \nThis event is also available on Facebook and Youtube.
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SUMMARY:American Experience: The Harvest | Filmmaker Talk
DESCRIPTION:THE HARVEST Filmmaker Talk streams on PBS Books Wednesday\, Sept. 13\, 2023\, 8 p.m. ET  \nTHE HARVEST premieres Tuesday\, Sept. 12\, 2023\, 9-11 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS\, PBS.org and the PBS App.  \n \nPBS Books hosts a program with award winning filmmakers Sam Pollard and Douglas A. Blackmon\, to discuss part two of the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The School Integration” series\, THE HARVEST: Integrating Mississippi’s Schools” on PBS.  \nIn September 2023\, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE premieres two new documentaries by Emmy Award-winning producer\, writer and journalist Cameo George\, that examines the deeply mixed legacy of America’s efforts to racially integrate public schools; she is the Executive Producer for both of these films.   \nTHE HARVEST The film narrated by Blackmon\, himself one of the Leland students\, is a personal and powerful look at Leland\, Mississippi’s attempts to desegregate its schools. The film follows Blackmon and his fellow classmates through their early experiences\, exploring deep friendships\, awkward separations\, in classrooms and playgrounds\, in plays and athletics\, at homecoming and graduation. 50 years later\, many members of that first class have returned to Leland\, committed to giving back to their community.  \n\nABOUT THE FILMMAKERS \nSAM POLLARD\, Producer of THE HARVEST  \nSam Pollard is an accomplished feature film and television video editor\, and documentary producer/director. 2022 and 2023 have been very productive years for Pollard. In December 2022 Peacock began streaming Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power\, a film Pollard co-directed with Gandbhir\, which tells the story of the courageous campaign of citizens and activists who faced violence and oppression in the struggle for the right to vote.   \nPollard’s two-part documentary\, Bill Russell: Legend\, about legendary Boston Celtic and civil rights icon premiered on Netflix on February 8.   \n Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes\, a film that Pollard co-directed with Ben Shapiro\, had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 12.   \n South to Black Power\, inspired by New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s book\, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto\, was co-directed by Pollard and Llewellyn Smith and will premiere on HBO in Fall 2023.   \nDOUGLAS A. BLACKMON\, Producer and Writer of THE HARVEST\nDouglas A. Blackmon (Writer & Producer) is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author\, journalist\, and filmmaker. His bestselling first book\, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II\, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009. He was co-executive producer of the acclaimed documentary film based on Slavery by Another Name\, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 and continues to be regularly rebroadcasted. As a journalist\, Blackmon has witnessed some of the most important events of our time\, including the fall of the Berlin Wall\, multiple presidential elections\, Hurricane Katrina\, post-Apartheid South Africa\, and war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. He is a Gerald Loeb Award winner and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2011. A native of the Mississippi Delta\, he directs the Narrating Justice Project and teaches in the Creative Media Industries Institute at Georgia State University in Atlanta. 
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/american-experience-the-harvest-filmmaker-talk/
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SUMMARY:Unforgotten | Masterpiece Filmmaker Talk with Chris Lang
DESCRIPTION:The Magic of Masterpiece \nPBS Books\, in collaboration with MASTERPIECE\, presents a conversation with creator\, writer and executive producer of UNFORGOTTEN Chris Lang\, discussing the much-anticipated Season 5.  \nUnforgotten Season 5 – Preview\n \nUNFORGOTTEN Season 5 airs on MASTERPIECE Mystery! on PBS\, beginning Sunday\, SEPT. 3 at 9pm ET. Watch Here! \nSet in London\, DCI Jessica James joins DI Sunny Khan to investigate the discovery of human remains in a newly renovated antique home in West London. While referencing the loss of DCI Cassie Stuart\, strains on interpersonal relationships are front and center throughout this season.   \nHear from creator\, writer and executive producer of "Unforgotten"\, Chris Lang\, about the themes and plot in Season 5\, the challenges and opportunities with developing a new main character\, and more.  Don't miss special behind-the-scenes insights! \n\nChris Lang – Creator\, Writer and Executive Producer \, “Unforgotten”\nChris Lang is the writer and producer of over 120 hours of prime-time British drama. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art\, leaving in 1983 to work at Nottingham Playhouse for six months. There he met fellow actor Hugh Grant\, and the two of them formed a comedy writing partnership (later joined by fellow RADA student Andy Taylor) called The Jockeys of Norfolk\, who enjoyed great success at the Edinburgh Festival\, and who went on to star in their own TV comedy showcase.  \nLang then moved in to writing for other comedians\, including Jack Dee\, Jonathan Ross\, David Frost and Smith & Jones before turning to drama in the early 90’s. Since then\, he has written and created over 85 hours of original prime time drama\, including “Torn” (nominated for an RTS award)\, “Amnesia” (nominated for an Edgar Award) and “A Mother’s Son” (nominated for a Broadcast Award). He created\, wrote and executive produced “Unforgotten” starring Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar. In 2018\, the series premiered on MASTERPIECE on PBS to much critical acclaim and quickly became a fan favorite. The show’s fifth season saw the addition of new cast member Sinéad Keenan and is currently airing in the fall of 2023. 
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SUMMARY:We Are Each Other with Sonya Clark | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event is recorded live on Thursday\, September 21\, 2023 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nSonya Clark is an artist and educator who creates installations and objects rooted in craft’s legacy. She employs the language of textiles and politics of hair to celebrate Blackness\, reclaim freedoms\, and interrogate historical and contemporary injustices. The work is grounded in the exchange of stories and the transmission of craft techniques between individuals\, communities\, and generations. \n“Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other\,” currently on view at Cranbrook Art Museum through September 26\, is a traveling mid-career survey focusing on Clark’s community-centered and participatory projects created over the past 25 years. Among them are the Hair Craft Project (a collaboration with 12 hairstylists)\, The Healing Memorial (created with thousands from the Detroit community as a salve for pandemic grief)\, Monumental Cloth: the flag we should know ( a series of interactive works that bring to light the little-known cloth that ended the Civil War)\, and Finding Freedom (a 1500 square foot canopy created in part by incarcerated individuals). Her work has been exhibited in over 500 venues worldwide. ​“Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other” marks her 60th solo exhibit. \nClark is the Winifred Arms Professor of Arts and Humanities at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Previously\, she held the title of Commonwealth Professor and was a Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has received awards from many organizations\, including United States Artists\, Pollock-Krasner\, Art Prize\, and Anonymous Was a Woman. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Fall 2023 Season\nThis winter\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
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