Fathom Events will premiere a new documentary, 'Allegiance to Broadway The Dream. The Story. The Journey of A Musical,' by directorfilmmaker Greg Vander Veer on Tuesday, December 4th at 730 pm local time in cinemas across the country. 'Allegiance to Broadway' will give audiences an in-depth look into the making of George Takei's 'Star Trek,' 'Heroes' moving Broadway musical, which also starred Tony Award winner Lea Salonga Miss Saigon, Mulan and Telly Leung Aladdin, Godspell, 'Glee'.
- 11/30/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
In its annual return to screens around the anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, Fathom Events is bringing George Takei's Star Trek, Heroes moving Broadway musical Allegiance, also starring Tony Award winner Lea Salonga Miss Saigon, Mulan and Telly Leung Godspell, Glee, back to cinemas nationwide for an encore event on December 11. In addition to the film of the original Broadway production, Fathom Events is premiering a new documentary, Allegiance to Broadway The Dream. The Story. The Journey of A Musical, by directorfilmmaker Greg Vander Veer on December 4, which gives audiences an in-depth look into the making of Allegiance.
- 10/11/2018
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sing Out Louise Productions are pleased to announce that the new documentary, Allegiance to Broadway, will be the Opening Night Film of the American Documentary Film Festival. Allegiance to Broadway, by Greg Vander Veer, details the challenges of bringing George Takei and his life experience in WWII Japanese American internment camps to Broadway in the musicalAllegiance. The showing and opening night ceremonies will take place in Palm Springs, CA on Friday, April 6, 2018 with Mr. Takei in attendance.
- 4/5/2018
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
You need not be a student or scholar of dance to be completely enthralled by Greg Vander Veer's documentary Miss Hill. Described by one interview subject as "the trunk of the modern dance tree," Martha Hill is one of the seminal figures in the history of her art, but her story is largely unknown outside the fields of dance or performance studies. Vander Veer rectifies that in a celebration of the life and life's work of the woman who almost singlehandedly created the field of modern dance studies in American colleges — she was sort of a Johnny Appleseed of the field. The film sketches her brief time as a struggling professional dancer before her discovery that her true passion was teaching dance and being an advocate for it, a calling that took her from Bennington (where s...
- 1/21/2015
- Village Voice
Best documentary at the Oscars is, like best foreign language film, the type of category that seems invented to be grumbled over, with selections and winners rarely reflecting the films everyone else in the world finds most worthy of praise. So it's much less frustrating to look to organizations like the International Documentary Association for better indicators of the docs that are the cream of 2010's crop.
The nominees for the 2010 Ida Documentary Awards were announced today, and the contenders for the top prize include Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop," a personal favorite; Laura Poitras' Al-Qaeda saga "The Oath"; Joonas Berghaell and Mika Hotakainen's look at Finnish sauna culture "Steam of Life"; Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's trailing of Montana sheepherders "Sweetgrass"; and Lucy Walker's tale of making art of trash "Waste Land," opening in New York on Friday. The awards will take place in L.
The nominees for the 2010 Ida Documentary Awards were announced today, and the contenders for the top prize include Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop," a personal favorite; Laura Poitras' Al-Qaeda saga "The Oath"; Joonas Berghaell and Mika Hotakainen's look at Finnish sauna culture "Steam of Life"; Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's trailing of Montana sheepherders "Sweetgrass"; and Lucy Walker's tale of making art of trash "Waste Land," opening in New York on Friday. The awards will take place in L.
- 10/27/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
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