In today’s film news roundup, Laverne Cox is exec producing a transgender documentary, Steve Carell’s upcoming movie will be called “Welcome to Marwen,” the “Trolls” sequel gets a title and “High School 9-1-1″ gets a grassroots screening campaign.
Transgender Documentary
Laverne Cox, best known as a star of “Orange Is the New Black,” has joined the creative team behind the upcoming documentary feature “Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen.”
Disclosure Films is the production company for the movie, directed by trans filmmaker Sam Feder and focused on Hollywood’s depiction of transgender people and experiences over the last 100 years of film and television, and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture. Cox joins as an executive producer alongside producer Amy Scholder.
“I have been obsessed for a long time with how the perception of trans people has been shaped by the ways we have...
Transgender Documentary
Laverne Cox, best known as a star of “Orange Is the New Black,” has joined the creative team behind the upcoming documentary feature “Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen.”
Disclosure Films is the production company for the movie, directed by trans filmmaker Sam Feder and focused on Hollywood’s depiction of transgender people and experiences over the last 100 years of film and television, and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture. Cox joins as an executive producer alongside producer Amy Scholder.
“I have been obsessed for a long time with how the perception of trans people has been shaped by the ways we have...
- 6/13/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
“Race to Nowhere” focuses on the physical toll today’s competitive school system takes on students. A California mother of three, first-time filmmaker Vicki Abeles picked up a camera when her own kids’ struggles to keep up with hours of nightly homework, extracurricular activities and all of the other “requirements” for success resulted in headaches, stomachaches and anxiety. Meanwhile, a 13-year-old girl in her community committed suicide after failing a math test.
Education is an enormous issue, so Abeles narrows her focus to children who are college bound. Whether from upper-middle-class families or below-the-poverty-line households, these students experience the same immense pressures. They respond by routinely pulling all-nighters — stopping eating or taking stimulants to do so — or cheating, and the toll is depression, self-mutilation, suicide, binge drinking, self-medication and drug abuse. The problem is, they’re all competing for the same achievement levels and admission to colleges that are really...
Education is an enormous issue, so Abeles narrows her focus to children who are college bound. Whether from upper-middle-class families or below-the-poverty-line households, these students experience the same immense pressures. They respond by routinely pulling all-nighters — stopping eating or taking stimulants to do so — or cheating, and the toll is depression, self-mutilation, suicide, binge drinking, self-medication and drug abuse. The problem is, they’re all competing for the same achievement levels and admission to colleges that are really...
- 9/11/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Kids today are under more pressure than earlier generations realize. With higher and higher expectations from parents, teachers, schools, admissions boards, and state and local governments, they often face unrealistic amounts of homework, day-extending extracurricular activity, and pressure to achieve, achieve, achieve. At what cost? Sparked by her own daughter's over-the-top stress and a local 13-year-old girl's suicide, that's what first-time filmmaker - a corporate lawyer who is the mother of three - Vicki Abeles set out to uncover in her documentary Race to Nowhere, opening Friday, September 10, at IFC Center. Abeles hopes the film, which she is making available to families, schools, and communities, will be the starting point for conversations that will spur a grass-roots movement across the country. Her mission? To get parents and adults to advocate for all our children. Her goal? To give kids time to be kids - with unstructured play, time to spend with their families,...
- 9/9/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
"Race to the Top" is the name given to President Obama's education-reform program that is supposed to change the education system in America. But what it should be called is "Race to Nowhere," which happens to be the name of a powerful new documentary by Vicki Abeles that explores, as the film's subtitle states, the dark side of America's achievement culture. I saw Race to Nowhere last week with my wife and was blown away by its message. As the father of two young girls, it scared the heck out of me what lies ahead for them. And as the author of two parenting books with similar messages as the film, it was a real reminder of the very human and societal costs of our current education system. Through interviews with students, parents, teachers, and other educators, and bookended by...
- 2/1/2010
- by Dr. Jim Taylor
- Huffington Post
The Mill Valley Film Festival opens tonight, filling the next 10 days with some of the most anticipated films of the rest of the year, as well as a selection of international films making its way to the Bay Area. In addition, the festival will also host the awarding of talents such as Woody Harrelson, Clive Owen, Uma Thurman, Jason Reitman and screen legend Anna Karina.
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
- 10/8/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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