Exclusive: Pastor, author and filmmaker T.D. Jakes has signed on as an executive producer of Lifetime’s upcoming foster care film I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story. Moved by Regina Louise and her harrowing story navigating the broken system, the network says Jakes joined the movie as an Ep to bring additional attention to the need for foster care reform.
In addition, Lifetime has partnered with several youth and adoption organizations on a PSA that will air during the movie’s April 20 premiere on Lifetime. You can watch it and a trailer for the film below.
I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, based on Louise’s books Somebody...
In addition, Lifetime has partnered with several youth and adoption organizations on a PSA that will air during the movie’s April 20 premiere on Lifetime. You can watch it and a trailer for the film below.
I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, based on Louise’s books Somebody...
- 4/8/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Lifetime started 2019 with “Surviving R. Kelly” a docuseries aimed to shine light on violence against women, and inspired by new original movie “I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story,” the next group for which the network wants to advocate is those in the foster care system, Variety has learned exclusively.
The network will run a special PSA driving awareness to adoption and foster care resources and information during the premiere of “I Am Somebody’s Child” Saturday, April 20 at 8 p.m.
“I Am Somebody’s Child” is based on author and motivational speaker Regina Louise’s experience navigating the foster care system in her youth. Angela Fairley, who also has experience within the foster care system, plays Regina in the project, while Ginnifer Goodwin plays her hopeful adoptive mother Jeanne.
Lifetime has also partnered with Promise House to raise funds and awareness for homeless youth at a “Sleep...
The network will run a special PSA driving awareness to adoption and foster care resources and information during the premiere of “I Am Somebody’s Child” Saturday, April 20 at 8 p.m.
“I Am Somebody’s Child” is based on author and motivational speaker Regina Louise’s experience navigating the foster care system in her youth. Angela Fairley, who also has experience within the foster care system, plays Regina in the project, while Ginnifer Goodwin plays her hopeful adoptive mother Jeanne.
Lifetime has also partnered with Promise House to raise funds and awareness for homeless youth at a “Sleep...
- 2/4/2019
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
TBS continues its shift to hourlong comedies with the pickup of 2 more one-hour pilots: Hound Dogs and The Wedding Band. Hound Dogs, from feature writer/ director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) and Sony Pictures TV, draws from his experience as a baseball player and is set in the world of minor league baseball. It centers on a minor league team and its general manager as they try to handle life’s ups and downs, both in and out of the locker room. In addition to writing, Shelton serves as executive producer with Michele Weisler, Andrea Buchanan and Todd DeLorenzo. The Wedding Band, from writers-executive producers Josh Lobis and Darin Moiselle (South Park), FremantleMedia and Mike Tollin's Tollin Prods., follows a group of guys anchored by 2 lifelong best friends – a perennial bachelor and a married father of two – who try to escape the stress and craziness of their lives by performing in a wedding band.
- 10/21/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Jennifer Aniston has been a mainstay on the big screen since she captured America’s heart as Rachel in Friends. Soon, the quintessential rom-com girl will be moving behind the camera and tackling her first film as director. According the New York Post, Aniston said she is ready to take a “different turn” in her career. The actress got her first taste behind the camera back in 2006 when she co-directed a short film, “Room 10” with Andrea Buchanan. The upcoming project, about which details remain closely guarded, will be Aniston’s first full-length in the director’s chair....
- 4/19/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
One of the greatest gifts in business is not a good lawyer or the coveted lucky break but also the ability to be agile, or in other words the talent to embrace and master new things. Call them change agents or chameleons, these lucky souls are capable of adopting and mastering whatever course is set before them. For Power Girl Andrea Buchanan, this has been television, then film, then author and now speaker -- and she's not stopping there. Her recently released book Note to Self is the first of many "products" she's creating around a desire to inspire and motivate women. Like Martha Stewart to home decorating and entertainment, or Rachel Ray to 30-minute meals, Andrea sees a bigger picture and she's going after it. Today's modern women entrepreneurs and executives know how to make big ideas bigger. What it...
- 7/2/2009
- by Patricia Handschiegel
- Huffington Post
Lifetime Television has given a vote of confidence to Election, a reality series pitting husband-and-wife political consultants James Carville and Mary Matalin against each other as part of a high school election. The cable network has ordered six half-hour episodes of the show, titled Election, which is set to premiere in the fourth quarter. The series will see Republican Matalin and Democrat Carville put their White House experience to use when they become rival campaign managers in what's described as a "hotly contested" election for student-body president at a high school in Washington. RJ Cutler, Andrea Buchanan and Todd DeLorenzo are executive producing Election, which is from Brillstein-Grey.
- 3/21/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lifetime Television has given a vote of confidence to Election, a reality series pitting husband-and-wife political consultants James Carville and Mary Matalin against each other as part of a high school election. The cable network has ordered six half-hour episodes of the show, titled Election, which is set to premiere in the fourth quarter. The series will see Republican Matalin and Democrat Carville put their White House experience to use when they become rival campaign managers in what's described as a "hotly contested" election for student-body president at a high school in Washington. RJ Cutler, Andrea Buchanan and Todd DeLorenzo are executive producing Election, which is from Brillstein-Grey.
- 3/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The incredibly true adventures of two 26-year-old women on the road in search of the American dream, "Anthem" is surprisingly worthwhile. This documentary film falls into the same category as Robert Downey Jr.'s "The Last Party" and, although it does not chronicle a particular political or cultural event, the Zeitgeist Films release (playing for one week at the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles) reveals the personalities of its makers as it explores the country they range over during one summer.
"Anthem" is the work of Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn, who are generally fearless in pursuing famous interview subjects and capable of handling an ever-changing agenda. Gabel was director of programming for the Independent Feature Project/ West and the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, while Hahn has a background in theater and co-founded a Production Company dedicated to socially conscious projects.
Armed with video cameras, Gabel and Hahn "crave the unpublicized" but seek out many public figures -- starting with George Stephanopoulos, who they chat with at the White House. This scene charmingly sets the tone as the filmmakers whisper to each other excitedly when President Clinton interrupts their meeting and is overheard but unseen.
Other memorable encounters include a rare glimpse of the home life of journalist Hunter S. Thompson and conventionally filmed but illuminating interviews with the likes of John Waters, Studs Terkel, Chuck D, Robert Redford and George McGovern. Aside from an early visit with the Christian Coalition's Dr. Ralph Reed, the vast majority of subjects are liberal-minded, and there's shockingly few noteworthy women.
Gabel and Hahn make it clear, however, that their creation is a "time capsule" and not meant to reach profound conclusions or dwell on negative aspects of the current era. Instead, it's to concentrate on approachable people and what they have on their minds. As such, "Anthem" offers several remarkable and thought-provoking moments, particularly when the filmmakers stop to talk with such common folk as an Iowa waitress and a Pennsylvania gas station attendant.
One wonders about those subjects referred to and seen in a montage near the end who did not make it into the final film, but overall, "Anthem" is a rousing success. With contemporary music on the soundtrack and a self-deprecatingly spunky narration, this is a documentary that could easily have been overly self-indulgent or fashionably irreverent but instead appeals to one's intelligence and provides glimpses of a dynamic country cruising peacefully toward the millennium.
ANTHEM
Zeitgeist Films
An Anthem production
Writers-producers-directors Shainee Gabel,
Kristin Hahn
Executive producer Jo Ann Fagan
Associate producers Edet Belzberg,
Andrea Buchanan
Cinematographer Bill Brown
Editor Lucas Platt
Color/stereo
Running time -- 127 minutes
No MPAA rating...
"Anthem" is the work of Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn, who are generally fearless in pursuing famous interview subjects and capable of handling an ever-changing agenda. Gabel was director of programming for the Independent Feature Project/ West and the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, while Hahn has a background in theater and co-founded a Production Company dedicated to socially conscious projects.
Armed with video cameras, Gabel and Hahn "crave the unpublicized" but seek out many public figures -- starting with George Stephanopoulos, who they chat with at the White House. This scene charmingly sets the tone as the filmmakers whisper to each other excitedly when President Clinton interrupts their meeting and is overheard but unseen.
Other memorable encounters include a rare glimpse of the home life of journalist Hunter S. Thompson and conventionally filmed but illuminating interviews with the likes of John Waters, Studs Terkel, Chuck D, Robert Redford and George McGovern. Aside from an early visit with the Christian Coalition's Dr. Ralph Reed, the vast majority of subjects are liberal-minded, and there's shockingly few noteworthy women.
Gabel and Hahn make it clear, however, that their creation is a "time capsule" and not meant to reach profound conclusions or dwell on negative aspects of the current era. Instead, it's to concentrate on approachable people and what they have on their minds. As such, "Anthem" offers several remarkable and thought-provoking moments, particularly when the filmmakers stop to talk with such common folk as an Iowa waitress and a Pennsylvania gas station attendant.
One wonders about those subjects referred to and seen in a montage near the end who did not make it into the final film, but overall, "Anthem" is a rousing success. With contemporary music on the soundtrack and a self-deprecatingly spunky narration, this is a documentary that could easily have been overly self-indulgent or fashionably irreverent but instead appeals to one's intelligence and provides glimpses of a dynamic country cruising peacefully toward the millennium.
ANTHEM
Zeitgeist Films
An Anthem production
Writers-producers-directors Shainee Gabel,
Kristin Hahn
Executive producer Jo Ann Fagan
Associate producers Edet Belzberg,
Andrea Buchanan
Cinematographer Bill Brown
Editor Lucas Platt
Color/stereo
Running time -- 127 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/28/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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