“Producer Jonah Hirsch and filmmaker Danny Abrahms are creating the new film Anne, which, through virtual reality technology, will recreate history and go back to the early 1940s, giving audiences the feel of being in the secret annex with Frank and the others hiding from Nazi persecution.”
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Privatising UK’s Channel Four Would Be A Very Bad Idea, Says Study
“The 74-page report argues that the impact of selling off Channel 4 would be ‘overwhelmingly negative’ for the UK economy, the broadcasting industry and creative industries.”
Hulu May Become Your ‘Skinny Cable’ Provider
“The move would give Hulu another leg up in courting cost-conscious consumers and others who live in the 10 million homes in the U.S. without a pay-TV subscription.”
Producing Radio Has Dramatically Changed These Imprisoned Women’s Lives
“Palabra Libre — translated it means ‘free word’ — began as a way to humanize those in the nation’s penal system and nurture inmates’ life skills. The program is a collaboration between Ecuador’s Ministry of Justice and provincial government of Pichincha to help ‘personas privadas de libertad’ — people deprived of physical liberty — to reintegrate into society by participating in the arts.”
Streaming Is Going To Kill The Cinema, For Real
“What makes movies a mass art is that they are made on a mass scale for a mass audience, which is true even for work that’s largely exhibited on the festival and art-cinema circuit. What happens to that art when we begin to remove, well, people from part of the equation? What happens to its democratic promise, which may be a fantasy at best, a lie at worst, but remains nonetheless?”
Promising Performances From Summer’s Non-Blockbusters
“My only concern was that she was just 9, and I was putting the weight of the film on her shoulders, since she’s in almost every frame of the film.”
Geena Davis: Where Are All The Female Characters?
“The world is missing female characters. A lot of times there is one female character, maybe even a cool one, maybe even an important one. But where are all the rest?”
Why Great Middlebrow Television No Longer Gets The Respect It’s Due
“Even when midbrow television is critically acclaimed and beloved by those who watch it, it still doesn’t get much in the way of award recognition or break into the larger cultural conversation. Midbrow is considered good for right now, not for posterity.”
A Fringe Circuit For Radio And Audio Drama
“A radio production company is launching the ‘audio drama equivalent of the fringe’, in a bid to widen the market beyond the BBC’s output.”
BBC Commits To 50-50 On-Screen Gender Parity Casting By 2020
The BBC said that, by 2020, 50% of on-screen and on-air roles will be filled by women, including lead roles in all genres, with a similar 15% target set for black, Asian and minority ethnic people on screen. In terms of the representation of LGBT people, the BBC has committed to an 8% target, which is also the target set for disability on screen. However, this does not include a commitment to having 8% of lead roles filled by disabled talent, with the BBC pledging “some lead roles”.