GENIUS: ARETHA Hails From 20th Television and Imagine Television;
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard Serve as Executive Producers Along With Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks As Executive Producer and Showrunner and Emmy and Golden Globe Winner Anthony Hemingway As Executive Producer and Director
Legendary Hit Record-Producer Clive Davis and Atlantic Records Chairman and CEO Craig Kallman Also Serve as Executive Producers
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–National Geographic and Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet,” “The Color Purple”) revealed today during the network’s TCA session the highly anticipated premiere date and official series trailer for the multiple Emmy award-winning anthology series
GENIUS: ARETHA. From 20th Television and Imagine Television, this new season
Award-Winning Journalist DeNeen Brown Spearheads Investigation of Mass Grave in Oklahoma, Chronicling Early 20
th Century’s Reign of Racial Terror and Legacy of Violence in Two-Hour Special to Premiere on
National Geographic in June 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, National Geographic Documentary Films announced it is partnering with acclaimed filmmaker
Dawn Porter (“The Way I See It,” “Good Trouble: John Lewis”) and Trailblazer Studios on a feature documentary that sheds new light on a century-old period of intense racial conflict.
RED SUMMER (working title) comes one hundred years from the two-day Tulsa Massacre in 1921 that led to the murder of as many as 300 Black people and left as many as 10,000 homeless and displaced. The film will premiere in June on National Geographic, commemorating Juneteenth when the last Black slaves in the U.S. heard of their emancipation, and will air globally in 172 countries and 43 languages.
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Disney+ to Exclusively Premiere Documentary ‘Own the Room’ on March 12
February 8, 2021 GMT
Credit: National Geographic Documentary Films and Disney+
BURBANK, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 8, 2021
Following the success of the Emmy Award-winning, Sundance and SXSW audience favorite “
Science Fair,” National Geographic Documentary Films and filmmakers Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster are joining forces once again on the feature documentary “
Own the Room”, which will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on March 12.
Credit: National Geographic Documentary Films and Disney+
“
Own the Room” chronicles five students from disparate corners of the planet as they take their budding business ventures to Macau, China, to compete in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. Santosh is from a small farming town in Nepal; Alondra works the register at her family’s bakery in Pue
National Geographic Documentary Films Acquires Worldwide Rights for Underwater Exploration Feature Playing with Sharks Out of Sundance
Playing with Sharks Documents the Life of Australian Icon, Conservationist and Filmmaker Valerie Taylor
WASHINGTON (BUSINESS WIRE) National Geographic Documentary Films announced today the acquisition of the feature documentary
Playing with Sharks, from two-time Emmy-nominated director Sally Aitken, WildBear Entertainment and Dogwoof. The film documents the life of Australian icon, conservationist and filmmaker Valerie Taylor.
Called “visually stunning,” “enthralling” and “gorgeous” by critics after its Sundance premiere Friday evening, Playing with Sharks captures the life of a woman ahead of her time a true pioneer in both underwater filmmaking and shark research, whose life’s work has become the basis for much of what we know about sharks today. Through remarkable underwater archival footage, along with interviews with Vale
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholars (APIA Scholars) has elected new members to its Board of Directors: Nancy Lee, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman of The Walt Disney Company; William F. L. Moses, Managing Director, Education, at The Kresge Foundation; Nidhi Munjal, Vice President of International Partnership Services at Walmart; Wally Suphap, Writer, Lawyer and Advocate at Columbia University; and Jason Wong, Vice President – Treasurer and Investor Relations at Tiffany & Co. Nancy, William, Nidhi, Wally and Jason are excellent thought leaders and advocates for the higher education needs of the APIA community, and we are honored to welcome them to our Board, said APIA Scholars President & Executive Director Noël Harmon, Ph.D. As we continue to navigate the many challenges and opportunities of our new normal in 2021, we are excited to have these five join our efforts to support our Sch