Hulu Orders Nuyorican Sibling Drama Pilot Olga Dies Dreaming With Xochitl Gonzalez and Alfonso Gómez-Rejón Producing
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April 29, 2021
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Hulu has ordered a one-hour drama pilot titled “Olga Dies Dreaming,” based on the yet-to-be-published novel of the same name. Author Xochitl Gonzalez and Alfonso Gómez-Rejón are attached to executive produce, with Gonzalez writing, and Gómez-Rejón directing. Twentieth Television will produce.
Per the logline, “Olga Dies Dreaming” is the story of a Nuyorican brother and sister from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn, reckoning with their absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City’s elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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Rather, The World-Herald’s Henry Cordes reported, it happened intentionally. Taking over the Husker program in the late 1970s, former coach Terry Pettit set out to improve high school play, holding clinics for Nebraska players and coaches.
Over time, Nebraska had built homegrown talent and began attracting top recruits. In 1995, the Huskers won the first of their now-five national championships. With 15 total Final Four appearances and the best attendance in the nation, the college program has engendered some of the top high school programs in the country.
Cordes’ story showed how Omaha’s success in hosting the volleyball Final Four in 2006 set a new standard and forever changed the atmosphere and expectations for the NCAA tournament.
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This Thursday night, April 8, Mary Swander will enter her downtown Kalona office to oversee yet another of her frequent and diverse efforts to connect the two worlds she loves.
Sustainable farming and art.
That evening, farmers from Iowa and beyond will gather online for a Zoom event she has informally titled “Mapping Our Farm with Storytelling” sponsored by the national AgArts nonprofit she co-founded a dozen years ago.
“I’ve lined up a panel of four farmers to talk about a story of relevance on their farm,” she told me. “It could be about a location, piece of equipment, tool, history anything that is important to them.”