Exclusive: Byron Allen’s Freestyle Digital Media has acquired and set release dates for Kindling, a coming-of-age drama starring George Somner with Mia McKenna-Bruce, and Objects, a documentary from Vincent Liota.
Watch the trailers for both below.
Inspired by true events, Kindling follows the story of a group of young men who return to their hometown to turn their terminally ill friend’s final summer into a celebration of life, love and friendship. Facing mortality, Sid (Sex Education‘s Somner) wants to create a legacy and be remembered forever. With his obsession for astronomy and the atmosphere, he comes up with a plan. He gives each boy a category — love, home, friends, family and location — and asks them to find an item that connects them all with the word they’ve been given. Together, they’ll burn the items on a gigantic fire, making the particles and his memory a part of the atmosphere forever.
Watch the trailers for both below.
Inspired by true events, Kindling follows the story of a group of young men who return to their hometown to turn their terminally ill friend’s final summer into a celebration of life, love and friendship. Facing mortality, Sid (Sex Education‘s Somner) wants to create a legacy and be remembered forever. With his obsession for astronomy and the atmosphere, he comes up with a plan. He gives each boy a category — love, home, friends, family and location — and asks them to find an item that connects them all with the word they’ve been given. Together, they’ll burn the items on a gigantic fire, making the particles and his memory a part of the atmosphere forever.
- 9/5/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Vincent Liota’s Objects Doc NYC World Première on Sunday, November 14 with the director, executive producer Sally Roy, subjects Robert Krulwich, Heidi Julavits, Rick Rawlins, Jad Abumrad, Josh Glenn, and Rob Walker participating in an in-cinema Q&a
Marcel Proust knew that “the past is hidden in some material object which we do not suspect.” In his novel Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me, Javier Marías writes about the moment when we die and the transformation of our most precious belongings into trash, when “everything that had meaning and history loses it in a single moment and my belongings lie there inert, suddenly incapable of revealing their past and their origins; and someone will make a pile of them.”
Vincent Liota with Anne-Katrin Titze on the narrative mystery: “We see these things and at the beginning they’re meaningless objects and by the end they’re filled with meaning.
Marcel Proust knew that “the past is hidden in some material object which we do not suspect.” In his novel Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me, Javier Marías writes about the moment when we die and the transformation of our most precious belongings into trash, when “everything that had meaning and history loses it in a single moment and my belongings lie there inert, suddenly incapable of revealing their past and their origins; and someone will make a pile of them.”
Vincent Liota with Anne-Katrin Titze on the narrative mystery: “We see these things and at the beginning they’re meaningless objects and by the end they’re filled with meaning.
- 11/13/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Altitude Films has debuted a new trailer for Ric Burns’ documentary ‘Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.’
Oliver Sacks was a man of extremes. In his youth, he was a self-destructive rebel who fled London for San Francisco to reinvent himself as a bodybuilding biker, struggling with drug addiction and his own sexuality. In his maturity, he became a pioneering neurologist and the author of best-sellers such as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. Filmed just weeks after receiving a terminal diagnosis with full access to the man himself and those closest to him.
The doc celebrates Sacks’ incredible life and reminds us of his most important teaching: that our ability to connect with others is what truly makes us human.
Directed by documentary filmmaker Ric Burns, the film features exclusive interviews with Jonathan Miller, Robert Silvers, Temple Grandin, Christof Koch, Robert Krulwich, Lawrence Weschler, Roberto Calasso,...
Oliver Sacks was a man of extremes. In his youth, he was a self-destructive rebel who fled London for San Francisco to reinvent himself as a bodybuilding biker, struggling with drug addiction and his own sexuality. In his maturity, he became a pioneering neurologist and the author of best-sellers such as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. Filmed just weeks after receiving a terminal diagnosis with full access to the man himself and those closest to him.
The doc celebrates Sacks’ incredible life and reminds us of his most important teaching: that our ability to connect with others is what truly makes us human.
Directed by documentary filmmaker Ric Burns, the film features exclusive interviews with Jonathan Miller, Robert Silvers, Temple Grandin, Christof Koch, Robert Krulwich, Lawrence Weschler, Roberto Calasso,...
- 8/12/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Morgan Freeman, Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, Zachary Quinto, Vanessa Williams, David Alan Grier, Elizabeth Ashley, Matthew Broderick, Lucas Hedges and Paul Mescal are among the actors who’ll take part in a benefit series of new, livestreamed stage reading productions of works by such major playwrights as Gore Vidal, David Mamet, Kenneth Lonergan and Donald Margulies.
Producer Jeffrey Richards announced the new line-up of the weekly Spotlight On Plays, a web series at the recently launched Broadway’s Best Shows website. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to The Actor’s Fund, with the livestreamed events available for a strictly limited amount of time.
Productions are all-new and performed remotely, with directors including Mamet, Phylicia Rashad and Daniel Sullivan given leeway in how to present their shows. (Watch a trailer for the series above.)
The series, which follows last May’s production of Love Letters with Bryan Cranston and Sally Field,...
Producer Jeffrey Richards announced the new line-up of the weekly Spotlight On Plays, a web series at the recently launched Broadway’s Best Shows website. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to The Actor’s Fund, with the livestreamed events available for a strictly limited amount of time.
Productions are all-new and performed remotely, with directors including Mamet, Phylicia Rashad and Daniel Sullivan given leeway in how to present their shows. (Watch a trailer for the series above.)
The series, which follows last May’s production of Love Letters with Bryan Cranston and Sally Field,...
- 10/7/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Oliver Sacks lived a lot of life, putting primacy on the brain throughout his career as a neurologist as the most incredible thing in the universe. But during that life, which ended in 2015, he also battled drug addiction, cancer, homophobia, and a medical establishment that wouldn’t take him seriously for decades. His towering achievements and personal struggles are chronicled in the new documentary “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life,” directed by Ric Burns and coming later this summer. IndieWire shares the exclusive first trailer below.
Sacks, perhaps best known for his literary works “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” was an intrepid explorer of cognitive worlds who helped us redefine how the brain and mind work. The film features exclusive interviews conducted with Sacks just weeks after his terminal diagnosis, leading up to his death, along with nearly two dozen testimonials from family, colleagues, patients,...
Sacks, perhaps best known for his literary works “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” was an intrepid explorer of cognitive worlds who helped us redefine how the brain and mind work. The film features exclusive interviews conducted with Sacks just weeks after his terminal diagnosis, leading up to his death, along with nearly two dozen testimonials from family, colleagues, patients,...
- 7/22/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
East Tennessee native Dolly Parton and former Nashville resident Jad Abumrad, who co-hosts the popular public radio series Radiolab with Robert Krulwich, are teaming for an upcoming podcast series this fall. Titled Dolly Parton’s America, the nine-part series looks at what Parton’s storybook life reveals about the country itself.
In a Twitter post teasing the upcoming series, Abumrad writes, “She’s been called the “Great Unifier” for her rare ability to bring people together across divides. What does @DollyParton’s story tell us about America? I’ve been...
In a Twitter post teasing the upcoming series, Abumrad writes, “She’s been called the “Great Unifier” for her rare ability to bring people together across divides. What does @DollyParton’s story tell us about America? I’ve been...
- 8/1/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
The Ultimate Summer Binge Guide: Where to Stream The Best Summer TV, Ever — IndieWire Critics Survey
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: What is the perfect summer show? Why? (Note: This doesn’t have to be a current show)
Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall), Uproxx
When you’re picking the perfect summer show, you first have to define your terms. “The Oc” and “American Idol” debuted in the summer, but so did “The Wire” and “Mad Men.” So your definition can be wide and varied. And with most of TV history available to us with a few clicks, almost anything can become a summer binge on a boiling day when you really need to stay indoors. That said, while some of the greatest series ever aired at times while school was out,...
This week’s question: What is the perfect summer show? Why? (Note: This doesn’t have to be a current show)
Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall), Uproxx
When you’re picking the perfect summer show, you first have to define your terms. “The Oc” and “American Idol” debuted in the summer, but so did “The Wire” and “Mad Men.” So your definition can be wide and varied. And with most of TV history available to us with a few clicks, almost anything can become a summer binge on a boiling day when you really need to stay indoors. That said, while some of the greatest series ever aired at times while school was out,...
- 6/27/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Manhattan Theatre Club announces the guests for the upcoming Sloan panel discussing Sharr White's The Other Place. The panel will focus on the role of science in the play and will feature novelist Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting playwright Sharr White neuroscientist Heather Berlin and genetic counselor Jill Goldman. The panel will be moderated by NPR's Robert Krulwich. The panel will follow the 2 Pm matinee performance today, January 27 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.
- 1/27/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Manhattan Theatre Club announces the guests for the upcoming Sloan panel discussing Sharr White's The Other Place. The panel will focus on the role of science in the play and will feature novelist Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting playwright Sharr White neuroscientist Heather Berlin and genetic counselor Jill Goldman. The panel will be moderated by NPR's Robert Krulwich. The panel will follow the 2 Pm matinee performance on Sunday January 27 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.
- 1/22/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
As Robert Krulwich explains at Krulwich Wonders, the NPR science blog, these miniature works of art and others have been left mysteriously at libraries, an arthouse cinema, a book festival, and other book-related venues in Edinburgh since this past spring: Many more at Central Station and Krulwich Wonders, where Krulwich examines how the anonymity of the artist adds to their exquisiteness, and how the city of Edinburgh has decided not to want to know who made these.
- 11/20/2011
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
[1] The first teaser trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon hit earlier this week (if you haven't seen it yet, watch it here -- it's actually pretty awesome [2]). The trailer reveals "a secret hidden for 40 years" -- that the Apollo 11 mission to the moon was actually a cover-up for Nasa's investigation into a possible alien landing on the dark side of the moon. The trailer (and film) presents a storyline where Us astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin used the 21 minutes of radio/video silence while on the far side of the moon, to investigate a crashed alien ship a couple football fields away from their lander. Of course, none of this is true or even possible but NPR's Robert Krulwich [3] wondered why Armstrong and Aldrin barely crossed 90 yards of moon on that first trip. The article gives some perspective, adding that "Armstrong's longest, boldest walk took him about...
- 12/10/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Sunshine couldn't keep fans of Christopher Nolan's memorable thriller Memento away on a crisp spring Saturday. The Arthur P. Sloan Foundation sponsored the screening and talk. A packed audience filled the Chelsea Clearview Theater, expecting to watch the same riveting, mysterious and backwards, albeit chronologically, story of a man disoriented by short-term memory loss they first saw 10 years ago. Instead, they were privy to new scenes. During the post-screening panel discussion, the film's screenwriter Jonathan Nolan revealed, "Just to mess with people, my brother [Christopher Nolan] swapped out to different shots, so the movie itself isn't the same as the DVD." In addition to the affable Nolan, whose own short story inspired the now cult-classic, the panel included the film's stars Guy Pearce and Joe Pantoliano, as well as professor of psychology Dr. William Hirst, and professor of behavioral neuroscience Dr. Suzanne Corkin. Moderator Robert Krulwich, the NPR news host, ...
- 4/26/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Radio Lab is a radio show that delves into big questions of science and philosophy, with a desire to make sense of the nonsensical, and an impulse to play around. The themes are striking—past episodes have delved into everything from what makes "time" a phenomenon to what it means to laugh—and the sound of the show represents an unusual experimental approach for National Public Radio. Producer and co-host Jad Abumrad handles post-production that comprises playful trails of echo, intercut dialogue, and influxes of electronic sound; by his side, science reporter Robert Krulwich talks with professors and academics with a strange performative wonder. The A.V. Club spoke with both in the midst of their latest season. The A.V. Club: Your show has a very distinctive sound. What sort of antecedents do you draw from? Jad Abumrad: We often do very theatrical things that make me think...
- 4/25/2008
- by Andy Battaglia
- avclub.com
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