Pivot, the cable network launched last year by Participant Media, is planning on bringing the Peabody Awards to TV. Administered by the University of Georgia, the George Foster Peabody Awards call out excellence and service by broadcasters, cable and webcasters. Last year's winners included Smithsonian Channel's "Mlk: The Assassination Tapes," HBO's "The Loving Story" and "Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present," the "Independent Lens" installment "Summer Pasture," Wnyc's "The Leonard Lopate Show," FX's "Louie," ABC News' coverage of Superstorm Sandy, doc series "Why Poverty?" and TNT's "Southland," among others. Pivot's made a multi-year alliance with the Peabodys that will begin this year and go through 2016. This year's honorees will be announced April 2. The Peabody medallions will be presented May 19 at a luncheon ceremony at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel. The 2014 Peabody Awards special, premiere date to be announced, will blend...
- 3/17/2014
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Finding the right archival material for your documentary can be an enormous and daunting undertaking -- one that, if you don't go about it the right way, may not pay off. Panelists on the "Dig Into Archives" panel at Doc NYC yesterday highlighted the most important things to keep in mind when researching and trying to secure the rights to archival material. The panelists included Frank Keraudren, co-director, "The Dog," Shola Lynch, director, "Free Angela and all Political Prisoners," Tom Jennings, director, "Mlk: The Assassination Tapes" and Scott Norman, content manager, NBC News Archives. Judith Aley, who has worked as an archival researcher on "When the Levees Broke," "Sicko" and "The Tillman Story," among other documentaries, moderated. "Free Angela Davis" tells the story of how Angela Davis' radical political stance wrongly implicated her in a kidnapping attempt and landed her on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list. The final...
- 11/20/2013
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
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