Providence Productions

10/28/2019

Perfectly Normal For Me

We're thrilled to announce that our documentary, Perfectly Normal For Me, will be airing on America ReFramed on the PBS WORLD Channel this Tuesday 10/29 at 8/7c.

Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don'ts,
Not the God who ever does
Anything weird,
But the God who knows only four words
And keeps repeating them, saying:
"Come Dance with Me."
Come Dance.
-Hafiz (1320-1389)

#inclusion #inclusionmatters #indiefilm #indiedocumentary
https://worldchannel.org/episode/arf-perfectly-normal-me/

Four youth, ages 5 to 15, reveal what it’s like to live with physical disabilities.

07/18/2019

Providence Productions

02/17/2018

Perfectly Normal For Me - ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York

We have wonderful news for our film: Perfectly Normal For Me has been chosen to screen at the ReelAbilities Film Festival: North America! The New York Premiere is Friday, March 9 at 3PM at the JCC Manhattan located at 76th and Amsterdam. We are being honored with a red carpet event that will include the stars of the film for this special occasion.

The festival runs from March 8-14 and we have 5 screenings at different venues during that time.

Filmmakers and stars will attend as available (TBD).

Friday, March 9 at 3 PM at Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
Sunday, March 11 at 10 AM at Central Queens Y and Samuel Field Y in Forest Hills (free ticketed)

Sunday, March 11 at 3:30 PM at Cinema Arts Center in Huntington

Monday, March 12 at 7:30 PM at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, David Rubenstein Atrium (free)

Tuesday, March 13 at 1 PM at The Viscardi Learning Center: Multimedia Learning Center in Albertson

If you plan to attend any of these screenings, please secure tickets at your earliest convenience before they sell out. Two of the screenings are free but you should secure your tickets right away.
Check with each venue for discounted senior, student and group sales.

At a unique after school dance program in Queens, kids with a variety of physical and developmental challenges pair with teenage volunteer helpers to create an inclusive environment too often absent in our world.

01/07/2018

COMPANIES THAT EXPLOIT DISABLED PEOPLE HAVE A FRIEND IN JEFF SESSIONS

COMPANIES THAT EXPLOIT DISABLED PEOPLE HAVE A FRIEND IN JEFF SESSIONS

Right before Christmas, the Department of Justice rescinded key protections for disabled workers.

11/03/2017

Most Polling Places Inaccessible During 2016 Election, Report Finds

Rarely does a news break apply to two films by one production company. Neither is a happy coincidence! ~ EH

Less than 20 percent of polling places were fully accessible to people with disabilities during the 2016 election, according to a new government report that urges the U.S. Department of Justice to step in. The report released Thursday from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found tha

06/04/2017

Home

Home

An intimate portrait of four volunteer voter protection workers who travel to North Carolina in 2016 to work the first presidential election since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

03/23/2017

Upworthy

Upworthy

Needing to eat dinosaur eggs — that's a special need. Let's think about what we mean when we say "special needs." (via CoorDown Onlus Coordinamento associazioni persone Down and notspecialneeds.com)

03/23/2017

Unanimous Supreme Court overturns a Gorsuch decision ... in the middle of his confirmation hearing

Unanimous Supreme Court overturns a Gorsuch decision ... in the middle of his confirmation hearing

Under Gorsuch’s opinion in Luke P., a school district complies with the law so long as they provide educational benefits that “must merely be ‘more than de minimis.’” “De minimis” is a Latin phrase meaning “so minor as to merit disregard.” So Gorsuch essentially concluded that school distri

02/23/2017

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

Remembering Elaine at Vartali's Hair Salon on 57th Street - always taking care of business...!!

01/09/2017

Watch (and read) all of Meryl Streep's provocative Golden Globes acceptance speech

http://providence-productions.com/news/2017/1/9/jtspjentatgg04jsqr92ex51lxr0eq

The Golden Globes have wrapped with "La La Land" breaking records and "Moonlight" winning for drama. But the night was filled with so much more including Amy Schumer's "Bachelor" picks and Meryl Streep's rousing speech stating, "disrespect invites disrespect." Jan. 8, 2017, 7:32 p.m. The followin...

12/15/2016

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

Wishing Everyone a Joyous Holiday Season!!!

09/22/2016

E.G.Hemmerdinger on Twitter

hooray to my partners and Kirsten Kelly for the Emmy for The Homestretch!

“Hooray to my partners Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly for the Emmy for The Homestretch @TheEmmys”

07/21/2016

Vote for Good Sister on FanBoy Festival for Best Shorts

Please Vote for Good Sister!

Vote for Good Sister - BEST SHORTS on FanBoy Festival!

07/15/2016

Vote for Good Sister on FanBoy Festival for Best Shorts

Vote for GOOD SISTER for BEST SHORTS on FanBoy Festival!

Vote for Good Sister - BEST SHORTS on FanBoy Festival!

07/12/2016

GOOD SISTER

We have been nominated on FanBoy Film Festival!!!! Voting starts July 15th - Please vote for our short film! And don't forget to watch for it on ShortsHD!!!!

Helene is taking care of mother - even if it kills her. - Helene, suffering from the crazy need to care for her narcissistic mother, is on a mission to rescue the old bag from a swank nursing home – even if it kills her. Starring Jessica Hecht and Grant Shaud.

07/07/2016

A tribute to the women who fueled the Arsenal of Democracy

A tribute to the women who fueled the Arsenal of Democracy

In 1942, Mildred Crow Sargent was a teenage mother from Tennessee who migrated to Detroit to work in an aircraft assembly plant as part of America's massive mobilization for World War II. And, as she told a New York University "Real Rosie the Riveter" history project in 2010, she was "the fastest ri...

06/23/2016

Good Sister will Premiere on Shorts HD Channel!

We are so excited!

We just received word that "Good Sister" will premiere on Shorts HD on July 5th! Check your local cable listings for time.

06/03/2016

OVERJOYED GIRL BEAMS AT 'TWIN' DOLL WITH MATCHING PROSTHETIC LEG

OVERJOYED GIRL BEAMS AT 'TWIN' DOLL WITH MATCHING PROSTHETIC LEG

A patient at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, Emma was born with a rare birth defect that required the amputation of her leg when she was only nine months old. Three months later, she was fitted for a prosthetic leg and began to learn how to walk.

05/18/2016

Twitter Moments: This viral GIF very simply illustrates global warming

Twitter Moments: This viral GIF very simply illustrates global warming

Scientists have produced many reports, charts and animations to measure climate change over the decades. But few have achieved the resonance of this one from scientist Ed Hawkins, hailed for its stunning simplicity.

04/15/2016

Where the Dancing Dreams of Children With Disabilities Come True

Thank you Ms. Magazine!!

...Ferrara was inspired to create the program after Veronica, at age 5, said to her, “I wish I could be a dancer but nobody wants me.”

03/31/2016

Ms. Foundation for Women Hosts Panel on Women Documentarians

Ms. Foundation for Women Hosts Panel on Women Documentarians

...brought together a powerhouse group of women filmmakers, impact professionals and stakeholders for a frank conversation about unique challenges faced by women directors and film industry professionals.

03/09/2016

Dance with Me

Many thanks to Ms. Foundation for Women who are hosting the "Women Making Films and the Power to Provoke Change" event next week, March 14th. Featuring Catherine Tambini, Laverne Berry and Elizabeth Hemmerdinger being interviewed by Cynthia López

Providence Productions is a New York City based film company focusing on Documentary work. Serving the NYC area with powerful documentaries on women.

02/27/2016

ELAINE STRITCH

ELAINE STRITCH

Bravura abounds in this portrait of one of Broadway’s brassiest stars. The film follows the late, famously pants less cabaret singer as she dishes dirt on her early days in the biz, pads around her room at the Carlyle Hotel, and tirelessly rehearses for a one-woman show, illustrating the truism tha…

10/15/2015

New York Filmmakers Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, Anne De Mare, Kirsten Kelly and Laverne Berry join...

New York Filmmakers Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, Anne De Mare, Kirsten Kelly and Laverne Berry join...

This week New York filmmakers Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, Anne De Mare, Kirsten Kelly and Laverne Berry are joining us to present award wining film The Homestretch, about the problem of youth homelessness, and works in progress including Dance with Me “a universal story of children struggling to be ac…

10/12/2015

Culture, Documentary Film as a Form of Social Activism

Documentary Film as a Form of Social Activism - Veteran filmmakers Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, Kirsten Kelly, Anne De Mare and Laverne Berry will join us to talk about their experience writing, directing and producing films http://alturl.com/ehx87

LPD Dialogue on Culture - Documentary Film as a Form of Social Activism,

07/31/2015

DanceWithMeTheDoc (@dancewithmedoc) | Twitter

We have a new Twitter feed for our upcoming Dance with Me Documentary - https://twitter.com/dancewithmedoc Please add & share!

The latest Tweets from DanceWithMeTheDoc (@dancewithmedoc). What would it be like if you couldn’t dance, without help? We follow the transformational experiences that empower all with self-confidence, empathy, and drive

07/17/2015

The Best Shorts Competition - the results are in! Good Sister !!!!

http://providence-productions.com/news/2015/7/17/the-best-shorts-competition-the-results-are-in-good-sister-

The official Home of Providence Productions based in (NYC) New York City. Film production company focusing on women based films.

07/17/2015

One year this week has passed - we miss you dear Elaine!

One year ago... We miss you #ElaineStritch!

Elaine Stritch Cindy Ord, Getty Images Actors Alec Baldwin and Elaine Stritch attend the "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me" screening at Paley Center For Media on Feb. 19, 2014 in New York City.

04/08/2015

The documentary The Homestretch will air on PBS!

The documentary The Homestretch will air on PBS!

The documentary The Homestretch will air on PBS’ Independent Lens on April 13 at 10 PM. Member Elizabeth Hemmerdinger is one of the associate producers and member Laverne Berry worked on the production as an attorney. The Homestretch follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, gra…

02/25/2015

Courting James Corden for Broadway musical

At Bruce Bozzi Jr.’s Palm Restaurant in Beverly Hills, Catherine Tambini, who produced Oscar’s nominated Suzanne Farrell doc, and Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, who produced Elaine Stritch’s, are now doing “Dance With Me,” about physically challenged Americans . . .

Mike Todd is cooking "Around the World in 80 Days" into a Broadway musical.

02/25/2015

Diary of a Documentary Filmmaker During Oscars Weekend

Diary of a Documentary Filmmaker During Oscars Weekend

What’s it like to be in Hollywood during Oscars weekend? Playwright/producer/ screenwriter Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, a Women’s Voices board member, is our Beverly Hills correspondent: She has promised to tell her diary, and us, what’s happening out there during her working—but definitely glamorous—wee…

01/11/2015

The Year of the Fighter: The Top 10 Feminist Films of 2014

http://providence-productions.com/news/2015/1/11/the-year-of-the-fighter-the-top-10-feminist-films-of-2014

Broadway diva Elaine Stritch breaks the fourth wall and shares the script
of her life. Brash and bawdy, Stritch brought her special brand of humor to
every situation on and offscreen, a technique often applied to mask deep
insecurities about her own talent. As Stritch prepares for her swan song
performance at the Cafe Carlyle, Shoot Me audiences have a front-row seat
to observe master thespian—and one helluva woman—at work.

01/05/2015

Cinema Eye Honors 2015 Audience Choice Prize :: The 2015 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking

Last chance tonight to vote for Elaine Stritch : Shoot Me Documentary as Audience Favorite!

(Different browsers count individually I'm told)

09/26/2014

The Best Documentaries of 2014 So Far, According to Criticwire

The Best Documentaries of 2014 So Far, According to Criticwire

Twenty-two docs released in 2014 have scored a "B+" average or better with the members of our Criticwire Network. From a profile of a legendary writer to a brot

08/06/2014

INDIEWIRE: The Best Documentaries Of 2014 So Far

INDIEWIRE: The Best Documentaries Of 2014 So Far

Truth, the maxim goes, is stranger than fiction. And almost every week there's a feature documentary hitting theaters or VOD telling a story just as compelling, if not more, than anything that can be found in mainstream multiplexes and $200 million dollar tentpoles. Unfortunately, it's relatively ra…

07/29/2014

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me re-opens in Select Theaters

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me re-opens in Select Theaters

"Shoot Me" has re-opened this week in the following cities: The Quad Cinema, NYC http://www.quadcinema.com/#2166 Arena Cinema, Hollwood, CA http://arenascreen.com Red River Theatres, Concord, NH https://www.boxofficetickets.com/bot/wa/event?id=284893

07/21/2014

Elaine Stritch, Broadway’s Enduring Dame, Dies at 89

http://providence-productions.com/news/2014/7/21/elaine-stritch-broadways-enduring-dame-dies-at-89

...“Elaine, I never thought I’d say this,” Garland said, “but good night.”

07/17/2014

The world has lost a remarkable woman today... Our deepest sympathies to Elaine's family and close friends...

05/24/2014

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

Here comes the DVD - June 24th!

04/29/2014

Hot Docs 2014: The Homestretch (Anne de Mare & Kirsten Kelly)

http://providence-productions.com/news/2014/4/29/dxb81bfzjuf17t9prkfbf7f7l7cci8

Screening for the second time this afternoon at 3:30 at the ROM, as well as
one final time on 4 May at 7 at Scotiabank is this strong documentary that
shines a light on a heartbreaking subject.

04/29/2014

Hot Docs 2014: The Homestretch (Anne de Mare & Kirsten Kelly)

http://providence-productions.com/news/2014/4/29/dxb81bfzjuf17t9prkfbf7f7l7cci8

Screening for the second time this afternoon at 3:30 at the ROM, as well as
one final time on 4 May at 7 at Scotiabank is this strong documentary that
shines a light on a heartbreaking subject.

04/29/2014

Hot Docs 2014: The Homestretch (Anne de Mare & Kirsten Kelly)

http://providence-productions.com/news/2014/4/29/dxb81bfzjuf17t9prkfbf7f7l7cci8

Screening for the second time this afternoon at 3:30 at the ROM, as well as
one final time on 4 May at 7 at Scotiabank is this strong documentary that
shines a light on a heartbreaking subject.

04/29/2014

Pretty Clever Films: Homestretch Review

http://providence-productions.com/news/hsga92i0q3k0q4wy5d6ljnymzb1jtl

Since I’m lucky enough to always have had a roof over my head, it’s
difficult to fully understand what it is to be homeless. To wonder where
you’ll sleep that night, where the next meal is coming from, how to access
health services – it must be a constant struggle. Now add being a teenager
to homelessness, and trying to graduate from high school, and your problems
are compounded.

04/29/2014

Pretty Clever Films: Homestretch Review

http://providence-productions.com/news/hsga92i0q3k0q4wy5d6ljnymzb1jtl

Since I’m lucky enough to always have had a roof over my head, it’s
difficult to fully understand what it is to be homeless. To wonder where
you’ll sleep that night, where the next meal is coming from, how to access
health services – it must be a constant struggle. Now add being a teenager
to homelessness, and trying to graduate from high school, and your problems
are compounded.

04/22/2014

GOOD SISTER - SOHO International Film Festival

** Good Sister - SOHO International Film festival **