‘Shooting Midnight Cowboy’ Doc in the Works From Nancy Buirski Based on New Book
“This is a film about a masterpiece and the moment and the much wider sociological, political and human canvas on which it takes place,” Buirski said
Umberto Gonzalez | May 6, 2021 @ 10:07 AM
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Nancy Buirski and her documentary production company Augusta Films, have acquired the film rights to adapt Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author Glenn Frankel’s latest behind-the-scenes exploration “Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic.”
“This is a film about a masterpiece and the moment and the much wider sociological, political and human canvas on which it takes place. As dark as it is at times, it is laced with humor and hope,” Buirski stated Thursday, adding, “Re-watching the film I was reminded how beautifully it holds up after 50+ years. I’d forgotten how tender it is.”
2021 Horizon Award Given to Director of Sudanese Child Soldiers Drama ‘Etana’
Marian de Pontes and Shira Baron will receive a $2,500 grant as part of the prize recognizing emerging female and non-binary filmmakersBrian Welk | February 12, 2021 @ 2:35 PM
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The seventh annual Horizon Award, which is given to emerging female and non-binary filmmakers by a mentorship team that includes producers Cassian Elwes, Lynette Howell Taylor and Christine Vachon, has awarded prizes to the directors of “Etana” and “Sol De La Sol.”
“Etana” is directed by Marian de Pontes and is a narrative short film about female child soldiers from South Sudan, and “Sol de la Sol” is a documentary short by Shira Baron about ice cream cart peddlers in Chicago.
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Marketing professor Timothy Calkins says companies should develop COVID-friendly customer experience strategy.
Companies should embrace the online experience and adapt offerings to meet their customer s needs.
The first days and weeks of the pandemic forced companies to initiate significant changes to their customer experience. Nearly a year later, with the risks of exposure still high in the US, many of those changes have become habits. And because habits tend to stick, even with vaccine rollouts, many industries face a changed landscape for the future. The realization has hit all of us that this pandemic is not a two-week or a two-month disruption, said Tim Calkins, a clinical professor of marketing at the Kellogg School. It s going to go on for a very long time.
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Kellogg professor Jeffrey Eschbach says established companies have unique resources and capabilities to overcome common internal blocks to innovation.
Intrapreneurs, or internal entrepreneurs, are strong company leaders who can champion clear paths of communication across multiple teams.
To increase creativity and collaboration, Eschbach recommends focusing on customer needs and leveraging resources including internal platforms, data sets, and customer feedback.
Rapid innovation can be tougher to achieve at established companies than at startups. After all, when the drive to iterate, fail, and keep honing new products and services has to coexist with long-standing operations, there is bound to be some friction.
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Documentary-maker Judith Helfand puts herself front and center once again with this sort of sequel to A Healthy Baby Girl and Blue Vinyl.
New York City-based filmmaker Judith Helfand broke through as a filmmaker in 1997 with a highly personal documentary,
A Healthy Baby Girl. This multilayered essay on maternity, medical negligence and guilt, among many other things, explored how her mother Florence s use of a drug to prevent miscarriage led to Judith having first cervical cancer and then a radical hysterectomy in her twenties.
After several more films, such as similarly personal feature