The Barber of Little Rock — an award-winning documentary short recently nominated for a Critics Choice Documentary Award, screened as part of Doc NYC’s Short List program and counts basketball great Dwyane Wade among its executive producers — has been acquired by the New Yorker Studios for an Oscar run.
The film is now part of the New Yorker Documentary series, which showcases innovative shorts from around the world that offer uncommon perspectives on important issues, and will launch on the magazine’s digital channels in January 2024.
Directed by John Hoffman and Christine Turner, The Barber of Little Rock explores America’s racial wealth gap through the story of Arlo Washington, a barber in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose barber college has created professional opportunities for more than 1,500 licensed barbers. Having experienced the effects of generational poverty and structural racism firsthand, Washington understands his community’s profound mistrust of financial institutions, which...
The film is now part of the New Yorker Documentary series, which showcases innovative shorts from around the world that offer uncommon perspectives on important issues, and will launch on the magazine’s digital channels in January 2024.
Directed by John Hoffman and Christine Turner, The Barber of Little Rock explores America’s racial wealth gap through the story of Arlo Washington, a barber in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose barber college has created professional opportunities for more than 1,500 licensed barbers. Having experienced the effects of generational poverty and structural racism firsthand, Washington understands his community’s profound mistrust of financial institutions, which...
- 11/30/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Luchina Fisher, the filmmaker behind Netflix’s forthcoming documentary short The Dads, has signed with CAA for representation.
Slated to debut on Netflix November 17th, the most recent short directed and produced by Fisher watches as five fathers of trans children join Dennis Shepard, the father of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard, for a weekend fishing trip in rural Oklahoma, finding common purpose across races, generations and experiences. As the men cast their rods into the river, they discuss what has brought them together: the love for their children.
The film, billed as a quiet meditation on fatherhood, brotherhood and manhood, was executive produced by Dwyane Wade and Jon Marcus for 59th and Prairie Entertainment, winning Best Documentary Short at the 2023 El Paso Film Festival. Netflix announced its acquisition of the title, named Runner-Up for the Documentary Short Audience Award at NewFest’s 35th anniversary festival, back in June.
Slated to debut on Netflix November 17th, the most recent short directed and produced by Fisher watches as five fathers of trans children join Dennis Shepard, the father of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard, for a weekend fishing trip in rural Oklahoma, finding common purpose across races, generations and experiences. As the men cast their rods into the river, they discuss what has brought them together: the love for their children.
The film, billed as a quiet meditation on fatherhood, brotherhood and manhood, was executive produced by Dwyane Wade and Jon Marcus for 59th and Prairie Entertainment, winning Best Documentary Short at the 2023 El Paso Film Festival. Netflix announced its acquisition of the title, named Runner-Up for the Documentary Short Audience Award at NewFest’s 35th anniversary festival, back in June.
- 11/13/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix on Friday announced its acquisition of The Dads, a documentary short billed as a quiet meditation on fatherhood, brotherhood and manhood that counts 13-time NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade amongst its EPs.
The film from director Luchina Fisher (Mama Gloria) watches as five fathers of trans children join Dennis Shepard, the father of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard, for a weekend fishing trip in rural Oklahoma, finding common purpose across races, generations and experiences. As the men cast their rods into the river, they discuss what has brought them together: the love for their children.
The gay University of Wyoming Student who was beaten, tortured and left to die on October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard’s story famously inspired the Moisés Kaufman play The Laramie Project, which Kaufman later adapted into a Sundance-premiering HBO film of the same name. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Dennis Shepard and wife Judy...
The film from director Luchina Fisher (Mama Gloria) watches as five fathers of trans children join Dennis Shepard, the father of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard, for a weekend fishing trip in rural Oklahoma, finding common purpose across races, generations and experiences. As the men cast their rods into the river, they discuss what has brought them together: the love for their children.
The gay University of Wyoming Student who was beaten, tortured and left to die on October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard’s story famously inspired the Moisés Kaufman play The Laramie Project, which Kaufman later adapted into a Sundance-premiering HBO film of the same name. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Dennis Shepard and wife Judy...
- 6/16/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Hunting Season is the raw, fresh and funny web series that took the gay Internet by storm last year, when it played on LogoTV.com. Now producers are looking to start Season 2, but they need help from fans like you.
Creator Jon Marcus paid for Season One out of his own pocket and, while the show made enough money to recoup its costs, filming a second season is prohibitive. So Marcus and his team have launched a Kickstarter to help fund another season of this uncensored look at gay Manhattan. They’re looking to raise $150,000 by December 2, and is less than a quarter-way there. (You can make a donation here.)
What should we expect in Season 2? Marcus gives a little tease:
Alex will face challenges in Season 2 that make him question his true goals, and test him in ways he didn’t expect. Tommy, Tj, and the whole cast of...
Creator Jon Marcus paid for Season One out of his own pocket and, while the show made enough money to recoup its costs, filming a second season is prohibitive. So Marcus and his team have launched a Kickstarter to help fund another season of this uncensored look at gay Manhattan. They’re looking to raise $150,000 by December 2, and is less than a quarter-way there. (You can make a donation here.)
What should we expect in Season 2? Marcus gives a little tease:
Alex will face challenges in Season 2 that make him question his true goals, and test him in ways he didn’t expect. Tommy, Tj, and the whole cast of...
- 11/15/2013
- by Daniel Avery
- The Backlot
Patti Smith is busy turning her life with Robert Mapplethorpe into a movie. But who could play such iconic cultural figures? Patti says that one idea she had was Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. I'll just let that sink in for a minute.
Espn anonymously surveyed athletes in the NBA, NFL, NHL, and Mbl for their attitudes on a variety of subjects, including same-sex marriage. Overall, the results were positive, except in the NBA and Mlb, who oppose it by a slim margin. The NHL, home of the You Can Play Project, was 92.3% in favor.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $250,000 to the Maryland campaign to preserve marriage equality. Bloomberg has a lot of faults, but he's been remarkable on marriage.
Peter Berg, the creator of Friday Night Lights, is not happy that Mitt Romney is using "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose" from his show in the campaign. "Mitt, we...
Espn anonymously surveyed athletes in the NBA, NFL, NHL, and Mbl for their attitudes on a variety of subjects, including same-sex marriage. Overall, the results were positive, except in the NBA and Mlb, who oppose it by a slim margin. The NHL, home of the You Can Play Project, was 92.3% in favor.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $250,000 to the Maryland campaign to preserve marriage equality. Bloomberg has a lot of faults, but he's been remarkable on marriage.
Peter Berg, the creator of Friday Night Lights, is not happy that Mitt Romney is using "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose" from his show in the campaign. "Mitt, we...
- 10/14/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Hunting Season is Logo's provocative new web series
AfterElton: We’re talking with Jon Marcus, the man behind Hunting Season, the new web series airing on Logo and it’s based upon one of my favorite blogs from the early 2000’s, The Great C*ck Hunt. Jon, how did we get a 2003 era blog into a web series in 2012?
Jon Marcus: I’m so glad that you were a fan of the original blog, that makes me really happy to hear. I too was a fan of the blog. It started in ’06 and then continued through, I believe, ’08, and in the middle of that period, somewhere around 2007-2008, there were three gay television networks that all started out. Logo was one of them, obviously, and one called Here! and one called Q. Seeing as how I was working in television at the time I decided that one of these...
AfterElton: We’re talking with Jon Marcus, the man behind Hunting Season, the new web series airing on Logo and it’s based upon one of my favorite blogs from the early 2000’s, The Great C*ck Hunt. Jon, how did we get a 2003 era blog into a web series in 2012?
Jon Marcus: I’m so glad that you were a fan of the original blog, that makes me really happy to hear. I too was a fan of the blog. It started in ’06 and then continued through, I believe, ’08, and in the middle of that period, somewhere around 2007-2008, there were three gay television networks that all started out. Logo was one of them, obviously, and one called Here! and one called Q. Seeing as how I was working in television at the time I decided that one of these...
- 10/11/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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