“I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” —Woody Allen
Psychologist and best-selling author Jodi Wellman ("You Only Die Once") knows that a humorous take on the inevitable aka...death, can disempower fear and allow you to turn your attention to making the best of the time you're given!
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We had a really great chat with Stebs Schinnerer, co-founder of Crews for a Cause, a 100% volunteer run nonprofit production group made up of production assistants, producers, makeup artists, directors, cinematographers and everyone in between.
If you're a creative looking to give back, check out Crews For a Cause!
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Check out the latest Making Media Now podcast, where we chat with filmmaker Rob Apse about his entry into the world of substack newsletters. His publication is The Freelancers!
In addition to airing on GBH/2 at 10pm tonight (May 30), "Public Enemies, Private Friends" will also be available to stream starting on the same day at 9pm at the WORLD YouTube Channel and the PBSapp. In early June, a 6-episode version of the same riveting story will drop on Amazon Prime. #documentary #conversation
On the latest Making Media Now, we hear from documentary filmmakers Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green about the second in their 3-film Matter of Mind series. Their first film looked at ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Their latest film, which debuts on Independent Lens | PBS on April 8, tell the story of three people—a political cartoonist, a mother turned boxing coach, and an optician—as they navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a different degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease.
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"The Cancer Detectives," debuting on American Experience | PBS on March 26, tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the people who fought tirelessly to save women from what was once the number one cancer killer of women. Our podcast chat with Amanda Pollak and Gene Tempest, the film's director and writer, is live NOW!
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February '22 and unleashed a devastating attack on civilians in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photojournalist Mstyslav Chernov, a Ukraine native, was trapped in the city for nearly 3 weeks. Risking his life, Chernov captured footage that, through the involvement of FRONTLINE | PBS and the AP, evolved into the Oscar-nominated film 20 Days in Mariupol. We talked to Frontline executive producer, Raney Aronson-Rath, along with co-producer and editor Michelle Mizner about this process.
"Whoever is under-represented in your life, is over-represented in your imagination." This wise insight, shared by Mónica Guzmán, of A Braver Way Podcast addresses how it's so easy to demonize those who hold opinions different than ours if we never engage with them in real life. It's always refreshing and hopeful to realize even people with whom we disagree are far more complicated than the cartoon versions the forces of manipulation want us to believe.
Tim Molloy, editor-in-chief of MovieMaker Magazine, shares his thoughts on the challenges facing documentary filmmakers seeking an audience for their films.
Don't miss Brief Tender Light on PBS' POV series tonight. In our chat with Arthur Musah, the film's director and a former international student from Ghana at MIT, we wondered if an engineer has a particularly unique approach to documentary film making. Check out our full conversation on the Making Media Now podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.
Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton started 217 Films to showcase and honor great American works of culture and artistic merit. Remarkably, all 9 of their deep-dive film essays are available to stream for free! Their latest is "Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give All To Love."
Whether you know it or not, you've heard the music of the Immediate Family, the session players that supported the likes of James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Phil Collins, and many more. Denny Tedesco has directed a documentary--called Immediate Family--that's wall-to-wall music and good times! It'll be available for streaming on 12/15. We chatted with him about it!
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has boarded the Oscar-shortlisted documentary short film “Stranger at the Gate” as executive producer.
The film, which charts the surprising change of heart of a PTSD-suffering former U.S. Marine who set out to bomb a mosque but instead converted to Islam, was a prize winner at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. Directed by Joshua Seftel, “Stranger at the Gate” is distributed by The New Yorker as part of the magazine’s New Yorker Documentary series.
