Queer the Ballet presents the world premiere of Dream of a Common Language from Friday, June 21 to Sunday, June 23, 2024, with performances at 7:30pm on June 21 and 22, and 2pm matinees on June 22 and 23. Performances will take place at Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, NYC. Tickets are $40, with student tickets available for $25, and can be purchased online at https://ci.ovationtix.com/36678/production/1194112?performanceId=11435956.
Dream of a Common Language is a new evening-length ballet inspired by lesbian writer and activist Adrienne Rich’s 1978 poetry collection by the same name. Directed by Adriana Pierce, founder of Queer the Ballet, the program includes choreography by Adriana Pierce, Minnie Lane, Rosie Elliott, and Lenai Alexis Wilkerson with dramaturgy by Emily DeMaioNewton. The story follows six dancers’ journeys through community, friendship, romance, and heartbreak, bringing to light the similarities between Adrienne Rich’s yearning for queer community in the 70s and queer ballet dancers...
Dream of a Common Language is a new evening-length ballet inspired by lesbian writer and activist Adrienne Rich’s 1978 poetry collection by the same name. Directed by Adriana Pierce, founder of Queer the Ballet, the program includes choreography by Adriana Pierce, Minnie Lane, Rosie Elliott, and Lenai Alexis Wilkerson with dramaturgy by Emily DeMaioNewton. The story follows six dancers’ journeys through community, friendship, romance, and heartbreak, bringing to light the similarities between Adrienne Rich’s yearning for queer community in the 70s and queer ballet dancers...
- 4/19/2024
- by Music MCM
- Martin Cid Music
While recently scrolling Twitter, an interesting anecdote came to my attention. In the fabled George Lucas outline for a Star Wars sequel trilogy, a treatment which the filmmaker shared with the Walt Disney Company when he sold Lucasfilm for $4 billion, Lucas apparently had a strange vision for Luke Skywalker: He wanted the older version of Skywalker to be like a character in a movie Lucas almost made before Star Wars. He wanted him to be, in essence, Marlon Brando’s Col. Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, right down to the bald head and rambling gibberish.
This detail is not new. In fact, Pablo Hidalgo first confirmed the information in Star Wars: Fascinating Facts (2020). In that book (via Total Film/GamesRadar+), Hidalgo wrote, “Although Luke Skywalker only barely appears in The Force Awakens, the concept artists had a lot to imagine based on the fragments of the story they were hearing as it developed.
This detail is not new. In fact, Pablo Hidalgo first confirmed the information in Star Wars: Fascinating Facts (2020). In that book (via Total Film/GamesRadar+), Hidalgo wrote, “Although Luke Skywalker only barely appears in The Force Awakens, the concept artists had a lot to imagine based on the fragments of the story they were hearing as it developed.
- 1/24/2024
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: The biggest players in UK children’s TV are being asked to attend a summit early next year to try and resolve grave funding issues amidst existential questions over the genre’s future.
The Children’s Media Foundation (Cmf) has been preparing the summit for months including via a series of consultative meetings with all the major broadcasters, producer groups and lobbyists from August to October. The likes of Netflix and YouTube, which have been hugely influential in shaping the modern children’s TV sector, will also be invited to attend. Organizers are concerned about the outsized impact these global behemoths are having on the local children’s TV sector.
Local children’s TV in the UK is in hot water, according to Cmf boss and summit organizer Greg Childs, due to stiff competition, the difficulties in attracting young audiences to broadcast TV, a sharp rise in production costs...
The Children’s Media Foundation (Cmf) has been preparing the summit for months including via a series of consultative meetings with all the major broadcasters, producer groups and lobbyists from August to October. The likes of Netflix and YouTube, which have been hugely influential in shaping the modern children’s TV sector, will also be invited to attend. Organizers are concerned about the outsized impact these global behemoths are having on the local children’s TV sector.
Local children’s TV in the UK is in hot water, according to Cmf boss and summit organizer Greg Childs, due to stiff competition, the difficulties in attracting young audiences to broadcast TV, a sharp rise in production costs...
- 12/6/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“We are sleepwalking into a media landscape where UK kids are culturally swamped,” the BBC Children’s boss warned today, as she urged government lobbying and “radical” solutions.
Patricia Hidalgo was sounding the alarm over a lack of investment in UK kids TV amidst an “explosion in choice” from the big U.S. players.
She urged the entire UK sector to ask the government for help, “not just for a handout but because change is happening at such a deep societal level that no solution is possible without [the government].”
One idea floated by Hidalgo at today’s Westminster Media Forum was extra incentives linked to shows that prove “enhanced cultural relevance,” which would go beyond the current tax credit set-up and “bring IP and productions” back to the nation. A BFI-managed Young Audiences Content Fund ran for three years but was closed in February 2022 to much chagrin from the sector.
Hidalgo...
Patricia Hidalgo was sounding the alarm over a lack of investment in UK kids TV amidst an “explosion in choice” from the big U.S. players.
She urged the entire UK sector to ask the government for help, “not just for a handout but because change is happening at such a deep societal level that no solution is possible without [the government].”
One idea floated by Hidalgo at today’s Westminster Media Forum was extra incentives linked to shows that prove “enhanced cultural relevance,” which would go beyond the current tax credit set-up and “bring IP and productions” back to the nation. A BFI-managed Young Audiences Content Fund ran for three years but was closed in February 2022 to much chagrin from the sector.
Hidalgo...
- 9/14/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The lightsaber is one of the most recognizable and iconic parts of "Star Wars," a veritable symbol for the media series' legacy. There's perhaps no better proof that George Lucas was looking to make an epic science-fiction fantasy (emphasis on the "fantasy") than the Jedi Order's medieval-like plasma sword weapons. The lore behind the lightsaber is expansive and any dedicated "Star Wars" geek will mention that the colors symbolize rank and personality. The honest truth, though, is that the different colors were originally the result of special effects decisions.
It was pretty easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in the original "Star Wars" trilogy. The Jedi wielded blue lightsabers while Darth Vader repped his Sith loyalties with a glaring red blade. After Luke loses his hand along with his lightsaber in "The Empire Strikes Back," he changes his color preference in "Return of the Jedi," reappearing with a green blade.
It was pretty easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in the original "Star Wars" trilogy. The Jedi wielded blue lightsabers while Darth Vader repped his Sith loyalties with a glaring red blade. After Luke loses his hand along with his lightsaber in "The Empire Strikes Back," he changes his color preference in "Return of the Jedi," reappearing with a green blade.
- 4/23/2023
- by Andrew Housman
- Slash Film
While movie remakes are popular across genres (Anyone remember the 2018 remake of Garry Marshall's "Overboard"?), the horror genre is especially susceptible. The genre is unique insofar as its scares endure more than most. Where comedies and action movies, for instance, are inextricably linked to their time of release, a scary movie is a scary movie. With a fresh coat of paint, what was new three decades ago can seem fresh again.
A curious contemporary trend has emerged in which relatively recent titles are remade just a few years after their original releases. Released just 14 years after the first "Cabin Fever," the remake used the exact script as the original. Recently, horror filmmaker Anthony Diblasi released "Malum" in select theaters. "Malum," a remake of Diblasi's 2014 indie "Last Shift," isn't quite a shot-for-shot remake so much as it is a reimagining. With more money and more experience, Diblasi revisits his demonic fable in a new context.
A curious contemporary trend has emerged in which relatively recent titles are remade just a few years after their original releases. Released just 14 years after the first "Cabin Fever," the remake used the exact script as the original. Recently, horror filmmaker Anthony Diblasi released "Malum" in select theaters. "Malum," a remake of Diblasi's 2014 indie "Last Shift," isn't quite a shot-for-shot remake so much as it is a reimagining. With more money and more experience, Diblasi revisits his demonic fable in a new context.
- 4/16/2023
- by Chad Collins
- Slash Film
Houston, March 1 (Ians) A waste disposal site in south central US’ Texas state will continue receiving hazardous liquid from East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed early February, the office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said.
“The Epa (the US Environmental Protection Agency) just informed us that due to heavy rain at the derailment site and capacity limitations in other facilities, transportation of the firefighting water from East Palestine will resume to Harris County today,” Hidalgo said in a statement.
“The Epa explained to me that the residents of East Palestine need this firefighting water to be properly stored and disposed of rather than for it to be exposed offsite,” Hidalgo was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
The rest of the waste and some of the firefighting water will be transported to other facilities in Ohio and Indiana, according to the statement.
Earlier, the...
“The Epa (the US Environmental Protection Agency) just informed us that due to heavy rain at the derailment site and capacity limitations in other facilities, transportation of the firefighting water from East Palestine will resume to Harris County today,” Hidalgo said in a statement.
“The Epa explained to me that the residents of East Palestine need this firefighting water to be properly stored and disposed of rather than for it to be exposed offsite,” Hidalgo was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
The rest of the waste and some of the firefighting water will be transported to other facilities in Ohio and Indiana, according to the statement.
Earlier, the...
- 3/1/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Eva Grant, Romi Kim, and Jasmine Monton sleected from pool of more than 50 emerging Bipoc, 2Slgbtqia+ film programmers.
Out On Screen and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival have named Eva Grant, Romi Kim, and Jasmine Monton as inaugural recipients of the Vqff Programming Disruptor Fellowship.
The new training and mentorship programme for emerging Bipoc, 2Slgbtqia+ film programmers considered a pool of 54 applicants. Each Fellow will receive at least 10,000 throughout the fellowship running February to August.
Spanning five phases, the initiative combines masterclasses, workshops, and hands-on experience. Speakers will include Changing The Game, Disclosure and Framing Agnes producer Alex Schmider and LGBTQ+ media advocacy organisation GLAAD.
Out On Screen and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival have named Eva Grant, Romi Kim, and Jasmine Monton as inaugural recipients of the Vqff Programming Disruptor Fellowship.
The new training and mentorship programme for emerging Bipoc, 2Slgbtqia+ film programmers considered a pool of 54 applicants. Each Fellow will receive at least 10,000 throughout the fellowship running February to August.
Spanning five phases, the initiative combines masterclasses, workshops, and hands-on experience. Speakers will include Changing The Game, Disclosure and Framing Agnes producer Alex Schmider and LGBTQ+ media advocacy organisation GLAAD.
- 2/9/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Dubai, Jan 28 (Ians) It was not the kind of a start Shubhankar Sharma was looking for as he began his first round of the weather-disrupted 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic.
Due to start on Thursday afternoon, he finally got to tee off on Friday but after a promising start of 2-under through the first three holes, he finished 2-over 74 and was in danger of missing the cut.
He did get some respite with a birdie in the three holes of the second round he got to play before play was suspended due to fading light on Friday. Sharma is now 1-over through 21 holes at the Emirates Golf Club.
Richard Bland and Ian Poulter were tied at the top of the leader board reaching eight under par before the daylight ran out.
Angel Hidalgo was their nearest challenger on seven under, with Louis de Jager another shot further back alongside Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed,...
Due to start on Thursday afternoon, he finally got to tee off on Friday but after a promising start of 2-under through the first three holes, he finished 2-over 74 and was in danger of missing the cut.
He did get some respite with a birdie in the three holes of the second round he got to play before play was suspended due to fading light on Friday. Sharma is now 1-over through 21 holes at the Emirates Golf Club.
Richard Bland and Ian Poulter were tied at the top of the leader board reaching eight under par before the daylight ran out.
Angel Hidalgo was their nearest challenger on seven under, with Louis de Jager another shot further back alongside Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed,...
- 1/28/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
‘My Octopus Teacher’ Indie Cco Allison Bean Moves To Wildflame
Allison Bean, Chief Creative Officer of My Octopus Teacher producer Off the Fence (Otf), is moving to Welsh factual indie Wildflame Productions. As Creative Director, Bean will drive Wildflame’s international push, with the indie having been behind the likes of Discovery+’s Brink of Disaster and Smithsonian Channel’s Secrets of the Celtic Grave. Bean has spent 16 years with Zdf Enterprises-owned Otf, overseeing the likes of Oscar-winning feature My Octopus Teacher and Stan Lee’s Superhumans for History. She was hailed as a “major figure in the international production and distribution industry,” by Paul Islwyn Thomas, Wildflame CEO, who “built the business from its inception to an internationally renowned powerhouse of factual production.”
Queer Charity Out On Screen Launches Programming Fellowship
Exclusive: Charity and queer arts organization Out On Screen has launched its inaugural Programming Disruptor Fellowship, a...
Allison Bean, Chief Creative Officer of My Octopus Teacher producer Off the Fence (Otf), is moving to Welsh factual indie Wildflame Productions. As Creative Director, Bean will drive Wildflame’s international push, with the indie having been behind the likes of Discovery+’s Brink of Disaster and Smithsonian Channel’s Secrets of the Celtic Grave. Bean has spent 16 years with Zdf Enterprises-owned Otf, overseeing the likes of Oscar-winning feature My Octopus Teacher and Stan Lee’s Superhumans for History. She was hailed as a “major figure in the international production and distribution industry,” by Paul Islwyn Thomas, Wildflame CEO, who “built the business from its inception to an internationally renowned powerhouse of factual production.”
Queer Charity Out On Screen Launches Programming Fellowship
Exclusive: Charity and queer arts organization Out On Screen has launched its inaugural Programming Disruptor Fellowship, a...
- 12/13/2022
- by Max Goldbart, Zac Ntim and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Released in 1988, "Willow" was an epic fantasy film from the mind of George Lucas. Directed by Ron Howard and starring Warwick Davis and Val Kilmer, it had an '80s adventure sensibility while being set firmly in the world of high magic and fantasy. Although it wasn't particularly beloved by critics at the time, it's developed a devoted cult following over the years.
With many fans of the film being put in positions of creative power, it was no surprise to find that Lucasfilm would be developing a sequel to the beloved classic. Jon Kasdan, co-writer of "Solo: A Star Wars Story", had many conversations on the set of that film with folks like Ron Howard, George Lucas, and Warwick Davis about the property and found himself in a position to shepherd the project at Lucasfilm. He took on the title of showrunner, and put the wheels in motion that...
With many fans of the film being put in positions of creative power, it was no surprise to find that Lucasfilm would be developing a sequel to the beloved classic. Jon Kasdan, co-writer of "Solo: A Star Wars Story", had many conversations on the set of that film with folks like Ron Howard, George Lucas, and Warwick Davis about the property and found himself in a position to shepherd the project at Lucasfilm. He took on the title of showrunner, and put the wheels in motion that...
- 11/28/2022
- by Bryan Young
- Slash Film
Exclusive: The BBC is reviewing its commissioning practices in its Children’s & Education department following a two-year period of sweeping change.
Deadline understands an audit took place late last month and its findings are due back shortly.
The terms of the audit are wide-ranging and include whether commissioning decisions are being made that adhere to BBC public service values and examines the relationship between Patricia Hidalgo’s department and the new BBC Studio’s Kids & Family division, which used to be an in-house producer but was subsumed by commercial outfit BBC Studios earlier this year and can now make shows for other networks.
The BBC insisted that the audit is a “routine review” but several sources from both within and outside the department described it as “out of the ordinary,” with some who have worked there for many years saying they’ve never known it to happen. While the audit is internal,...
Deadline understands an audit took place late last month and its findings are due back shortly.
The terms of the audit are wide-ranging and include whether commissioning decisions are being made that adhere to BBC public service values and examines the relationship between Patricia Hidalgo’s department and the new BBC Studio’s Kids & Family division, which used to be an in-house producer but was subsumed by commercial outfit BBC Studios earlier this year and can now make shows for other networks.
The BBC insisted that the audit is a “routine review” but several sources from both within and outside the department described it as “out of the ordinary,” with some who have worked there for many years saying they’ve never known it to happen. While the audit is internal,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Children’s TV bosses from all over the world met at Mip Junior last night to discuss major challenges and seek co-production alliances, as the BBC’s Patricia Hidalgo tells Deadline a commercial strategy is the best way to safeguard kids programing.
The group of around 20 people who run children’s public broadcasting channels from the likes of Australia, France, Italy, Spain and Scandinavia talked about the immense challenges faced from wealthy competitors, according to BBC Children’s & Education Chief Hidalgo, as inflation pushes up costs and under-18s’ attention turns elsewhere.
“These issues are impacting all public broadcasters globally,” former Turner Media Emea kids chief Hidalgo told Deadline. “We are currently playing this game of being between two chairs with one foot on each, trying to keep audiences while moving them from the old linear way onto streaming platforms.”
The meeting was also used to help forge co-pro alliances...
The group of around 20 people who run children’s public broadcasting channels from the likes of Australia, France, Italy, Spain and Scandinavia talked about the immense challenges faced from wealthy competitors, according to BBC Children’s & Education Chief Hidalgo, as inflation pushes up costs and under-18s’ attention turns elsewhere.
“These issues are impacting all public broadcasters globally,” former Turner Media Emea kids chief Hidalgo told Deadline. “We are currently playing this game of being between two chairs with one foot on each, trying to keep audiences while moving them from the old linear way onto streaming platforms.”
The meeting was also used to help forge co-pro alliances...
- 10/17/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
‘I May Destroy You’ Producer Various Artists Behind BBC Hen Do Comedy
I May Destroy You producer Various Artists Limited has been greenlit for a BBC Two comedy about a hen weekend that goes wrong. Henpocalypse!, from Hullraisers creator Caroline Moran, takes five women who headed out on a weekend of a lifetime to celebrate Zara’s engagement only to be interrupted by the end of the world. They subsequently have to wait it out in an isolated holiday cottage in Wales and, emerging from quarantine into the harsh new post-apocalyptic world, find the male population has almost entirely been wiped out. BBC Head of Comedy Tanya Qureshi described the show as “very funny with an incredible collection of women at the heart of it.” Various Artists was behind Michaela Coel’s smash hit I May Destroy You for the BBC and HBO and has also produced British comedies including Sally4Ever and Dead Pixels.
I May Destroy You producer Various Artists Limited has been greenlit for a BBC Two comedy about a hen weekend that goes wrong. Henpocalypse!, from Hullraisers creator Caroline Moran, takes five women who headed out on a weekend of a lifetime to celebrate Zara’s engagement only to be interrupted by the end of the world. They subsequently have to wait it out in an isolated holiday cottage in Wales and, emerging from quarantine into the harsh new post-apocalyptic world, find the male population has almost entirely been wiped out. BBC Head of Comedy Tanya Qureshi described the show as “very funny with an incredible collection of women at the heart of it.” Various Artists was behind Michaela Coel’s smash hit I May Destroy You for the BBC and HBO and has also produced British comedies including Sally4Ever and Dead Pixels.
- 7/6/2022
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: One of the BBC’s longest-serving kids executives, Michael Towner, responsible for the likes of Teletubbies and Andy and the Band, is exiting after nearly three decades with the corporation.
Deadline understands Towner has taken voluntary redundancy and his Senior Commissioning Editor role will be closed.
The BBC will subsequently recruit for an animation commissioner for ages 0-6, coming at a time when BBC Children’s & Education boss Patricia Hidalgo is prioritizing animation. She recently launched a fund and issued a callout for a British equivalent of The Simpsons.
Towner joined the BBC 27 years ago and has worked across Children’s for most of that time, producing, directing and commissioning shows for linear channels Cbbc and CBeebies.
He has produced and directed the likes of Teletubbies, Blue Peter, Get Your Own Back and the BAFTA-nominated Something Special, along with commissioning titles including Twirlywoos, Waffle The Wonder Dog and Andy and the Band.
Deadline understands Towner has taken voluntary redundancy and his Senior Commissioning Editor role will be closed.
The BBC will subsequently recruit for an animation commissioner for ages 0-6, coming at a time when BBC Children’s & Education boss Patricia Hidalgo is prioritizing animation. She recently launched a fund and issued a callout for a British equivalent of The Simpsons.
Towner joined the BBC 27 years ago and has worked across Children’s for most of that time, producing, directing and commissioning shows for linear channels Cbbc and CBeebies.
He has produced and directed the likes of Teletubbies, Blue Peter, Get Your Own Back and the BAFTA-nominated Something Special, along with commissioning titles including Twirlywoos, Waffle The Wonder Dog and Andy and the Band.
- 6/17/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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