Lincoln Center is offering more than just outstanding performances of “The King and I.” Beginning July 6 and running through July 24, Lincoln Center Education will be hosting Summer Forum 2015. The learning program is an “immersive experience for attendees that caters to the needs and interests of local, national, and international audiences,” according to a statement from the Center. Mentors and educators will come from all over the United States and abroad to deliver lessons and workshops about current issues facing the intersections between arts and education. One-day, two-day, three-day, and five-day labs are available. Topics will include design and experience creation, how to engage families, how to learn and teach across language barriers, how to apply arts to other disciplines, and more. Speakers set to attend include Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer; Jed Bernstein, president of Lincoln Center; Garry Hynes, founder and artistic director of the Druid Theatre Company, based in Ireland; Logan Smalley,...
- 6/4/2015
- backstage.com
DoSomething, headed by Fast Company columnist Nancy Lublin, has recognized four young social entrepreneurs with $10,000 grants--and one with a prize of $100,000. Fast Company will profile one of these enterprising youth each day this week.
It's the morning after the night before, and Darius Weems can't get over his red-carpet experience. "Russell Simmons!" he says in awe. "Russell Simmons! He was standing there, shoulder to shoulder with me." And later, during the Do Something awards ceremony at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, Simmons had presented Weems with $10,000 and honored him for his work raising awareness for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal genetic disorder that took his brother's life and will eventually claim his too.
For this small-town, wheelchair-bound kid from Georgia, the awards were the latest stop in a wild journey that began with a fantastic question posed by Weems and a group of his buddies: Do you think we could...
It's the morning after the night before, and Darius Weems can't get over his red-carpet experience. "Russell Simmons!" he says in awe. "Russell Simmons! He was standing there, shoulder to shoulder with me." And later, during the Do Something awards ceremony at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, Simmons had presented Weems with $10,000 and honored him for his work raising awareness for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal genetic disorder that took his brother's life and will eventually claim his too.
For this small-town, wheelchair-bound kid from Georgia, the awards were the latest stop in a wild journey that began with a fantastic question posed by Weems and a group of his buddies: Do you think we could...
- 6/11/2009
- by Jeff Chu
- Fast Company
TORONTO -- The Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for children will unspool U.S. director Helen Hood Scheer's "Jump!" as part of its 11th edition, complete with a live demonstration by competitive jump ropers, organizers said Tuesday.
Scheer's documentary feature about teenagers training for the world jump-rope championships will be one of 26 features among a 68-film lineup to screen as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's kids edition April 12-18.
The full lineup, unveiled Tuesday, includes Danish director Charlotte Sachs Bostrup's "Karla's World", Iranian helmer Gholam-Reza Ramezani's "Standing Alone" and German filmmaker Hayo Freitag's "The Three Robbers".
Other U.S. movies bound for Sprockets includes Devin Bell's "Crank Balls", Logan Smalley's "Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life," David Levy's "Good Morning" and Todd Kessler's "Keith".
Sprockets, which annually features a healthy offering from Western Europe, particularly Scandinavia, also will unspool Arne Lindner Naess's "SOS – Summer of Suspense" from Norway, and Swedish filmmaker Petter Naess' "Leaps & Bounds."
The festival will additionally feature 30 non-English-language films with subtitles to be read aloud for the benefit of young audiences.
Scheer's documentary feature about teenagers training for the world jump-rope championships will be one of 26 features among a 68-film lineup to screen as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's kids edition April 12-18.
The full lineup, unveiled Tuesday, includes Danish director Charlotte Sachs Bostrup's "Karla's World", Iranian helmer Gholam-Reza Ramezani's "Standing Alone" and German filmmaker Hayo Freitag's "The Three Robbers".
Other U.S. movies bound for Sprockets includes Devin Bell's "Crank Balls", Logan Smalley's "Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life," David Levy's "Good Morning" and Todd Kessler's "Keith".
Sprockets, which annually features a healthy offering from Western Europe, particularly Scandinavia, also will unspool Arne Lindner Naess's "SOS – Summer of Suspense" from Norway, and Swedish filmmaker Petter Naess' "Leaps & Bounds."
The festival will additionally feature 30 non-English-language films with subtitles to be read aloud for the benefit of young audiences.
- 3/12/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday named Allen Braude and Elizabeth Muskala as co-directors of learning, with overall responsibility for the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children.
In addition to programming Toronto's annual Sprockets kids film festival, Braude adn Muskala will oversee youth and adult film appreciation initiatives at Bell Lightbox, the festival's year-round home set to open in late 2010.
Braude most recently was programming manager for Sprockets, while Muskala will be promoted from director of program administration at the Toronto festival.
Their ascent at Sprockets follows Jane Schoettle, the long-time director of the kids festival, stepping away from day-to-day control of Sprockets to assume more general programming duties at the Toronto festival.
The 11th annual Sprockets festival is set to run April 12-18. Programming highlights for this year's installment include Logan Smalley's "Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life" and Todd Kessler's "Keith", both from the U.S., and Swedish director Hella Joof's "Bitter Sweetheart".
In addition to programming Toronto's annual Sprockets kids film festival, Braude adn Muskala will oversee youth and adult film appreciation initiatives at Bell Lightbox, the festival's year-round home set to open in late 2010.
Braude most recently was programming manager for Sprockets, while Muskala will be promoted from director of program administration at the Toronto festival.
Their ascent at Sprockets follows Jane Schoettle, the long-time director of the kids festival, stepping away from day-to-day control of Sprockets to assume more general programming duties at the Toronto festival.
The 11th annual Sprockets festival is set to run April 12-18. Programming highlights for this year's installment include Logan Smalley's "Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life" and Todd Kessler's "Keith", both from the U.S., and Swedish director Hella Joof's "Bitter Sweetheart".
- 2/13/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dan Wolman's Tied Hands, the account of a mother and her son who is dying of AIDS, was named best feature film at the 12th annual Palm Beach International Film Festival, which wrapped Thursday.
Nicole van Kilsdonk was hailed as best feature film director for the comedy Johan, while the award for best screenplay went to Scott Dacko for The Insurgents, starring Henry Simmons, John Shea and Mary Stuart Masterson.
Two performers were recognized with an award for best performance in a feature film: Christopher Plummer for Man in the Chair and Gila Almagor for Tied Hands.
A special jury prize for best feature went to Maurice Richard/The Rocket. In addition the jury chose to recognize the cast of Adrift in Manhattan, which includes Heather Graham, William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese, Victor Rasuk and Graham Gremm with a special ensemble award for their "mesmerizing and haunting performances."
Ray McCormack's A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash was named best documentary feature. Lawrence Walsh's Cold Kenya took the prize for best short film.
Audience choice awards were presented to Evan Lieberman's Kathie T., best feature film; Logan Smalley's Darius Goes West - The Roll of His Life, best documentary feature; and Ziv Alexandrony's And Behold, There Came a Great Wind, best short film.
Nicole van Kilsdonk was hailed as best feature film director for the comedy Johan, while the award for best screenplay went to Scott Dacko for The Insurgents, starring Henry Simmons, John Shea and Mary Stuart Masterson.
Two performers were recognized with an award for best performance in a feature film: Christopher Plummer for Man in the Chair and Gila Almagor for Tied Hands.
A special jury prize for best feature went to Maurice Richard/The Rocket. In addition the jury chose to recognize the cast of Adrift in Manhattan, which includes Heather Graham, William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese, Victor Rasuk and Graham Gremm with a special ensemble award for their "mesmerizing and haunting performances."
Ray McCormack's A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash was named best documentary feature. Lawrence Walsh's Cold Kenya took the prize for best short film.
Audience choice awards were presented to Evan Lieberman's Kathie T., best feature film; Logan Smalley's Darius Goes West - The Roll of His Life, best documentary feature; and Ziv Alexandrony's And Behold, There Came a Great Wind, best short film.
- 4/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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