Jess Search, producer and co-founder of U.K.’s Doc Society, has died. She was 54.
Search died in London on July 31 following a brain tumor diagnosis in early June.
Search was a near two-decade member and co-founder of the U.K. based Doc Society, a non-profit organization started in 2005 dedicated to producing and funding documentaries from around the world.
A month after the diagnosis of her brain tumor, Search announced on Doc Society’s website that she’d be stepping down from her director position. In her note, Search wrote “Today I am sharing that I’m currently under the care of a neurosurgeon because like 300,000 others every year around the world, I’ve been diagnosed with a brain tumor. I’m stepping back from Doc Society — after 18 years of nonstop creative collaboration, dedicated craft, joyous partying and fierce camaraderie.”
She continued, “You may know that for years six women directors – Beadie,...
Search died in London on July 31 following a brain tumor diagnosis in early June.
Search was a near two-decade member and co-founder of the U.K. based Doc Society, a non-profit organization started in 2005 dedicated to producing and funding documentaries from around the world.
A month after the diagnosis of her brain tumor, Search announced on Doc Society’s website that she’d be stepping down from her director position. In her note, Search wrote “Today I am sharing that I’m currently under the care of a neurosurgeon because like 300,000 others every year around the world, I’ve been diagnosed with a brain tumor. I’m stepping back from Doc Society — after 18 years of nonstop creative collaboration, dedicated craft, joyous partying and fierce camaraderie.”
She continued, “You may know that for years six women directors – Beadie,...
- 8/2/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
Search had published a letter revealing her brain tumour diagnosis last month.
Jess Search, co-founder and CEO of non-profit documentary organisation Doc Society, has died at the age of 54 from brain cancer.
Search’s death was announced in a statement on Tuesday, August 1 by Doc Society, which read:
Yesterday morning, our dear Jess Search died peacefully in London, England, from brain cancer. She was surrounded by the love of her life Beadie Finzi, their children Ella and Ben, and friends.
As a fierce supporter of independent artists and co-founder of Doc Society, Jess spent the weeks following her diagnosis focused...
Jess Search, co-founder and CEO of non-profit documentary organisation Doc Society, has died at the age of 54 from brain cancer.
Search’s death was announced in a statement on Tuesday, August 1 by Doc Society, which read:
Yesterday morning, our dear Jess Search died peacefully in London, England, from brain cancer. She was surrounded by the love of her life Beadie Finzi, their children Ella and Ben, and friends.
As a fierce supporter of independent artists and co-founder of Doc Society, Jess spent the weeks following her diagnosis focused...
- 8/1/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Upstate New York has been the birthplace of many Great Awakenings. In the 1820s, religious fervor so swept the region it became known as “the burned-over district.” In the 1960s, Timothy Leary’s commune in Millbrook became ground control for the East Coast psychedelic movement. “By the time we got to Woodstock,” sang Joni Mitchell, “we were half a million strong.”
More than five decades after Woodstock, in Wappinger Falls, Alex Grey and his wife, Allyson Grey, are trying to use art to get back to the garden. Under the...
More than five decades after Woodstock, in Wappinger Falls, Alex Grey and his wife, Allyson Grey, are trying to use art to get back to the garden. Under the...
- 6/30/2023
- by Cassady Rosenblum
- Rollingstone.com
The first recorded reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl,” which was lost for decades, will be finally be released on April 2nd, 2021.
Ginsberg’s debut public reading of one of the greatest works of American literature occurred at San Francisco’s Six Gallery in October 1955, with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in attendance. It was not recorded, though, leading many to claim that the first recorded reading took place in Berkeley, California, the following year.
However, a newly discovered recording proves otherwise. Prior to Ginsberg’s Berkeley performance,...
Ginsberg’s debut public reading of one of the greatest works of American literature occurred at San Francisco’s Six Gallery in October 1955, with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in attendance. It was not recorded, though, leading many to claim that the first recorded reading took place in Berkeley, California, the following year.
However, a newly discovered recording proves otherwise. Prior to Ginsberg’s Berkeley performance,...
- 1/12/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Looks like the once fiercely independent Sumner Redstone is going to be under the guardianship of the same court appointed lawyer who has ran Britney Spears’ affairs for years, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered today in a dramatic hearing.
Judge David Cowan told a Dtla courtroom this morning that he is granting the motion by the 95-year old media mogul’s grandson and Shari Redstone’s son for a guardian ad litem to be appointed
In public consultation with lawyers for Redstone’s ex-companion Manuela Herzer, the nonagenarian himself and his grandson Tyler Korff, Judge Cowan said that probate attorney Samuel Ingham, III will be offered the Gal post. With Redstone attorney and CBS board member Robert Kleiger looking on from the lawyer’s table in approval, Cowan said he would have the previously suggested Ingham contacted Asap to help oversee the tangled legal and potentially corporate matters...
Judge David Cowan told a Dtla courtroom this morning that he is granting the motion by the 95-year old media mogul’s grandson and Shari Redstone’s son for a guardian ad litem to be appointed
In public consultation with lawyers for Redstone’s ex-companion Manuela Herzer, the nonagenarian himself and his grandson Tyler Korff, Judge Cowan said that probate attorney Samuel Ingham, III will be offered the Gal post. With Redstone attorney and CBS board member Robert Kleiger looking on from the lawyer’s table in approval, Cowan said he would have the previously suggested Ingham contacted Asap to help oversee the tangled legal and potentially corporate matters...
- 12/17/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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