Networks and streamers are setting special programming to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. More specifically, Juneteenth marks the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in the last Southern holdout state, Texas, on June 19, 1865.
The 156th anniversary of that day arrives next Saturday, and this year more than ever Juneteenth is being celebrated by Hollywood. See the list of TV, streaming and festival programming below. We’ll be updating as more information comes in, so refresh for the latest.
Juneteenth Programming:
ABC: On Friday the 18th, ABC will broadcast Juneteenth: Together We Triumph – A ‘Soul of a Nation’ Special Event. The two-hour ABC News special will be hosted by Leslie Odom Jr. will include performances by Jimmie Allen, Chloe Bailey (of Chloe x Halle) and Leon Bridges. Co-anchor Michael Strahan sat down for a one-on-one interview with former President Barack Obama about race,...
The 156th anniversary of that day arrives next Saturday, and this year more than ever Juneteenth is being celebrated by Hollywood. See the list of TV, streaming and festival programming below. We’ll be updating as more information comes in, so refresh for the latest.
Juneteenth Programming:
ABC: On Friday the 18th, ABC will broadcast Juneteenth: Together We Triumph – A ‘Soul of a Nation’ Special Event. The two-hour ABC News special will be hosted by Leslie Odom Jr. will include performances by Jimmie Allen, Chloe Bailey (of Chloe x Halle) and Leon Bridges. Co-anchor Michael Strahan sat down for a one-on-one interview with former President Barack Obama about race,...
- 6/14/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Peabody on Thursday said that documentary producer-director and film and TV editor Sam Pollard has been awarded the Peabody Career Achievement Award, while longtime PBS and CNN anchor Judy Woodruff has won the Peabody Award for Journalistic Integrity.
The honors come after the organization earlier this week gave Ava DuVernay’s Array its Institutional Award. The 30 winners of the 81st annual Peabody Awards will be unveiled later this month during a multi-day virtual presentation.
Pollard’s honor, given to individuals “whose work and commitment to broadcasting and digital media have left an indelible mark on the field and in American culture,” rewards a career of chronicling the Black experience via credits that include the landmark docus Eyes on the Prize II, Slavery By Another Name, August Wilson: The Ground On Which I Stand and Two Trains Runnin’. His director credits include Sammy Davis Jr., I’ve Gotta Be Me,...
The honors come after the organization earlier this week gave Ava DuVernay’s Array its Institutional Award. The 30 winners of the 81st annual Peabody Awards will be unveiled later this month during a multi-day virtual presentation.
Pollard’s honor, given to individuals “whose work and commitment to broadcasting and digital media have left an indelible mark on the field and in American culture,” rewards a career of chronicling the Black experience via credits that include the landmark docus Eyes on the Prize II, Slavery By Another Name, August Wilson: The Ground On Which I Stand and Two Trains Runnin’. His director credits include Sammy Davis Jr., I’ve Gotta Be Me,...
- 6/10/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Premiering at Tiff 2017, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me is the first major film documentary to examine Davis’ vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th-century America.
Today Sammy Davis is seen primarily as part of The Rat Pack. That quartet of bad boys who sing and joke around is very much a part of time when Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were the kings of the Las Vegas scene.
But Sammy Davis Jr. was much more than that and merely by lending his black face to that group makes The Rat Pack seem like a liberal if slightly dissolute, but a filled-with-fun group. In truth, his position with Sinatra, Martin, Peter Lawford was not all that comfortable and the path Davis had already trod before landing there was not a simple or easy one.
He...
Today Sammy Davis is seen primarily as part of The Rat Pack. That quartet of bad boys who sing and joke around is very much a part of time when Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were the kings of the Las Vegas scene.
But Sammy Davis Jr. was much more than that and merely by lending his black face to that group makes The Rat Pack seem like a liberal if slightly dissolute, but a filled-with-fun group. In truth, his position with Sinatra, Martin, Peter Lawford was not all that comfortable and the path Davis had already trod before landing there was not a simple or easy one.
He...
- 10/20/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Long-time Spike Lee editor (as well as director and producer in his own right) Sam Pollard, has been a busy filmmaker since his feature documentary for PBS, “Slavery By Another Name,” made its debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.… Continue Reading →...
- 4/17/2017
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Based on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name by Wall Street Journal writer Douglas Blackmon, “Slavery by Another Name” challenges the assumptions that slavery ended with Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The film tells how even as chattel slavery… Continue Reading →...
- 7/11/2016
- by Tambay Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Austin Film Society will screen Slavery by Another Name this Wednesday, Nov. 13 at Afs at the Marchesa [event info/tickets]. The documentary, which PBS originally broadcast in 2012, delves into the ways African-Americans were forced into involuntary servitude in the post-Civil War South, until the 1940s.
I imagine most of us are at least vaguely familiar with the system of sharecropping, but how many of us were taught about peonage in history class? Not me, unfortunately. I was aghast to just be learning about this illegal debt servitude at my current age.
The documentary, based on the book by Douglas A. Blackmon, uses interviews with historians and descendants of victims of forced labor alongside live-action scenes of actors performing specific stories. Laurence Fishburne narrates. The history of practices such as convict leasing (men who really shouldn't have been arrested in the first place were "leased" to corporations for services such as mining), chain gangs...
I imagine most of us are at least vaguely familiar with the system of sharecropping, but how many of us were taught about peonage in history class? Not me, unfortunately. I was aghast to just be learning about this illegal debt servitude at my current age.
The documentary, based on the book by Douglas A. Blackmon, uses interviews with historians and descendants of victims of forced labor alongside live-action scenes of actors performing specific stories. Laurence Fishburne narrates. The history of practices such as convict leasing (men who really shouldn't have been arrested in the first place were "leased" to corporations for services such as mining), chain gangs...
- 11/11/2013
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
The Beautiful Game is a new documentary which puts its intentions boldly out in front as Outreach Producer Dollena S. Campbell (producer for the upcoming El Sistema USA) calls it “a film about soccer in South Africa as social justice to challenge gender norms, homophobia and heal rape.” The film is produced and directed by Danny Turken, with Sam Pollard (who edited Spike Lee’s documentaries When the Levees Broke and Four Little Girls, and also Venus and Serena as well as directed the PBS documentary Slavery By Another Name) on board as Executive Producer. Campbell became involved with Game when she found out and was “appalled” that “men were using corrective rape/violence/and...
- 10/15/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Screening at the ongoing Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, now in the latter half of this year's run, with 3 days to go... Based on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name by Wall Street Journal writer Douglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name challenges the assumptions that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Directed by Long-time Spike Lee editor (as well as director and producer in his own right) Sam Pollard, incorporating re-enactments, interviewes with historians and descendants of both the slavers and the enslaved, punctuated by steady narration by Laurence Fishburne, the 90-minute film...
- 2/15/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
It's time for a new season of Degrassi and Cam's still depressed.
I just hope he doesn't start chugging milk again.
News
Jason Ritter has joined Friends & Family, the Fox comedy pilot based on Gavin & Stacey, taking the Gavin role. That's got to be a promising first step, right?
Maggie Smith tells 60 Minutes this weekend that she's never watched Downton Abbey, saying she'd "agonize" over her performance if she did. That's right, even Maggie Smith has those moments of insecurity.
Apparently they didn't mean it. E! has cancelled Whitney Cummings' talk show, Love You, Mean It.
NBC's adaption of About a Boy has cast its lead female, asking Minnie Driver to step into the role played by Toni Collette in the film.
CBS' summer adaptation of Stephen King's Under the Dome just added Breaking Bad alum Dean Norris to the cast.
Wait. Wait. What's this about Cch Pounder...
I just hope he doesn't start chugging milk again.
News
Jason Ritter has joined Friends & Family, the Fox comedy pilot based on Gavin & Stacey, taking the Gavin role. That's got to be a promising first step, right?
Maggie Smith tells 60 Minutes this weekend that she's never watched Downton Abbey, saying she'd "agonize" over her performance if she did. That's right, even Maggie Smith has those moments of insecurity.
Apparently they didn't mean it. E! has cancelled Whitney Cummings' talk show, Love You, Mean It.
NBC's adaption of About a Boy has cast its lead female, asking Minnie Driver to step into the role played by Toni Collette in the film.
CBS' summer adaptation of Stephen King's Under the Dome just added Breaking Bad alum Dean Norris to the cast.
Wait. Wait. What's this about Cch Pounder...
- 2/15/2013
- by LyleMasaki
- The Backlot
Long-time Spike Lee editor (as well as director and producer in his own right) Sam Pollard, has been a busy filmmaker lately. His feature documentary for PBS, Slavery By Another Name, made its debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, in the documentary competition section; and most recently we reported on his teaming with Melissa Haizlip to produce the feature documentary Mr. Soul!: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV. What we haven't yet reported on, and thus I'm guessing a lot of you aren't aware of, are feature documentary projects on John Coltrane, and the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform...
- 12/18/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
In the over 200-year history of the United States, many monumental events have rocked the nation. One of which was an unfortunate one called slavery and it existed well after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued. After Lincoln’s executive order was passed, slavery was hit hard but it wasn’t completely gone. PBS’ documentary Slavery by Another Name explores slavery and its existence after the Civil War.
Narrated by Laurence Fishburne, Slavery by Another Name is a powerful and gripping documentary which sheds light on one of America’s darkest chapters in history. The film is based upon Douglas A. Blackmon’s book of the same name and it is a riveting program. Mostly innocent African-American men usually in the South would be arrested and forced into involuntary servitude. The legal practices of United States were seriously flawed and this documentary chronicles this terrible time.
Read more.
Narrated by Laurence Fishburne, Slavery by Another Name is a powerful and gripping documentary which sheds light on one of America’s darkest chapters in history. The film is based upon Douglas A. Blackmon’s book of the same name and it is a riveting program. Mostly innocent African-American men usually in the South would be arrested and forced into involuntary servitude. The legal practices of United States were seriously flawed and this documentary chronicles this terrible time.
Read more.
- 2/22/2012
- by Randall Unger
- JustPressPlay.net
Sam Pollard has been making films about the African-American experience for years, having had a hand in producing part of the legendary "Eyes On The Prize" documentary series as well as collaborating with Spike Lee as an editor. His career continues with his documentary "Slavery By Another Name." What's it about? "The film tells the stories of slaves and their descendants who found freedom only to be forced back into involuntary servitude." Director Sam Pollard says: "'Slavery By Another Name' was for me an eye opening experience in understanding the complex relationship of African Americans to America; it is one whose long history will resonate for generations. I have worked on films about African American history for years, and as much as I think I know, I'm always surprised at the new revelations. Working on this film was no exception. "I would like the Sundance audiences to come away with an understanding of.
- 1/18/2012
- Indiewire
Sam Pollard's Slavery by Another Name Chasing Ice, Detropia: Sundance 2012 U.S. Documentary Competition U.S. Documentary Competition (cont.) The Invisible War / U.S.A. (Director: Kirby Dick) — An investigative and powerfully emotional examination of the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the U.S. military, the institutions that cover up its existence and the profound personal and social consequences that arise from it. Marina Abramovi? The Artist is Present / U.S.A. (Director: Matthew Akers) — Marina Abramovi? prepares for a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York hoping to finally silence four decades of skeptics who proclaim: 'But why is this art?' Me at the Zoo / U.S.A. (Directors: Chris Moukarbel, Valerie Veatch) — With 270 million hits to date, Chris Crocker, an uncanny young video blogger from small town Tennessee, is considered the Internet's first rebel folk hero and at...
- 12/2/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Park City, Ut – Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival will take place January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.
Robert Redford, Founder and President of Sundance Institute remarked, “We are, and always have been, a festival about the filmmakers. So what are they doing? What are they saying? They are making statements about the changing world we are living in. Some are straight-forward, some novel and some offbeat but always interesting. One can never predict. We know only at the end, and I love that.”
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, “In these challenging economic times, filmmakers have had to be more resourceful and truly independent in their approaches to filmmaking.
Robert Redford, Founder and President of Sundance Institute remarked, “We are, and always have been, a festival about the filmmakers. So what are they doing? What are they saying? They are making statements about the changing world we are living in. Some are straight-forward, some novel and some offbeat but always interesting. One can never predict. We know only at the end, and I love that.”
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, “In these challenging economic times, filmmakers have had to be more resourceful and truly independent in their approaches to filmmaking.
- 11/30/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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