A new documentary from Investigation Discovery is exposing the culture of abuse within a group of Christian churches associated with the Duggar family. Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals examines a pattern of predatory behavior within the Independent Fundamental Baptist churches and the efforts of survivors to find justice. The four-part docuseries premieres Friday, Nov. 24.
‘Let Us Prey’ exposes Ifb ‘secrets and violence’
Although the name might not be familiar to many viewers, the Independent Fundamental Baptists are a powerful force within American Christianity. Since its founding in the 1950s, the Ifb “has evolved into one of the dominant religious forces in the United States today with an estimated 8 million believers spread out over 6,000 churches across the country,” according to ID. The loosely affiliated group has a “cheery and virtuous exterior.” However, that masks the “depraved secrets and violence that have existed within their churches for decades.”
“Rituals oriented...
‘Let Us Prey’ exposes Ifb ‘secrets and violence’
Although the name might not be familiar to many viewers, the Independent Fundamental Baptists are a powerful force within American Christianity. Since its founding in the 1950s, the Ifb “has evolved into one of the dominant religious forces in the United States today with an estimated 8 million believers spread out over 6,000 churches across the country,” according to ID. The loosely affiliated group has a “cheery and virtuous exterior.” However, that masks the “depraved secrets and violence that have existed within their churches for decades.”
“Rituals oriented...
- 11/20/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Investigation Discovery is set to premiere the new documentary series Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals on November 24, 2024. The true crime docuseries explores Independent Fundamental Baptist (Ifb) Churches and charts the struggles of victims of Ifb’s predatory behavior via interviews with survivors and church defectors.
The first two episodes of the four-part docuseries air on November 24th at 9pm Et/Pt. The final two episodes follow on November 25th.
Emmy-winning director Sharon Liese (The Flagmakers) created the series and directs, with ITV America’s Good Caper Content producing for ID.
ID offers this lengthy description of the docuseries:
“Since its inception in the 1950s, the Ifb has evolved into one of the dominant religious forces in the United States today with an estimated 8 million believers spread out over 6,000 churches across the country. Let Us Prey uncovers the dark inner-workings behind the Ifb’s cheery and virtuous exterior by...
The first two episodes of the four-part docuseries air on November 24th at 9pm Et/Pt. The final two episodes follow on November 25th.
Emmy-winning director Sharon Liese (The Flagmakers) created the series and directs, with ITV America’s Good Caper Content producing for ID.
ID offers this lengthy description of the docuseries:
“Since its inception in the 1950s, the Ifb has evolved into one of the dominant religious forces in the United States today with an estimated 8 million believers spread out over 6,000 churches across the country. Let Us Prey uncovers the dark inner-workings behind the Ifb’s cheery and virtuous exterior by...
- 11/10/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
What do you enjoy the most about the art of short films? How do you decide if a story should be a short film or feature length? How have streaming platforms impacted short films? What were the most difficult scenes to cut in order to keep your film under 40 minutes?
These were some of the secrets revealed by four of today’s top filmmakers when they joined Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with Film Shorts Oscar contenders: Nils Keller (“Almost Home”), Peter Baynton, Doug Blush (“The Elephant Whisperers”) and Sharon Liese (“The Flagmakers”). Watch our lively group discussion above and click on each name to view their solo chat.
“Coming from a student background, it’s just more common to do shorts,” says Keller. “You don’t have the money or you don’t get to choose. It was more natural to do a short.
These were some of the secrets revealed by four of today’s top filmmakers when they joined Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with Film Shorts Oscar contenders: Nils Keller (“Almost Home”), Peter Baynton, Doug Blush (“The Elephant Whisperers”) and Sharon Liese (“The Flagmakers”). Watch our lively group discussion above and click on each name to view their solo chat.
“Coming from a student background, it’s just more common to do shorts,” says Keller. “You don’t have the money or you don’t get to choose. It was more natural to do a short.
- 1/12/2023
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
“It is humbling, I feel honored and I’m also terrified,” admits director Sharon Liese, whose National Geographic film “The Flagmakers” has been shortlisted for Best Documentary Short at the 95th Oscars. “This is very new territory for me. My co-director Cynthia Wade has been here before, but I have not so it’s a whole new world, but it’s great.” Wade won an Oscar in this same category for “Freeheld” in 2008. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“The Flagmakers” poses one of today’s most pressing questions: who is the American flag for? Employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, sews and ships five million American flags a year. The flagmakers – locals, immigrants and refugees – stitch stars and stripes as they wrestle with identity and belonging.
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“It’s a magical place and it’s a place that’s just so unexpected in terms of Oak Creek,...
“The Flagmakers” poses one of today’s most pressing questions: who is the American flag for? Employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, sews and ships five million American flags a year. The flagmakers – locals, immigrants and refugees – stitch stars and stripes as they wrestle with identity and belonging.
See over 200 interviews with 2023 awards contenders
“It’s a magical place and it’s a place that’s just so unexpected in terms of Oak Creek,...
- 1/12/2023
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Darn, those short film categories at the Oscars can be a difficult field to navigate, can’t they? Predicting the winners is one thing, but predicting the nominees in those categories can be an even bigger headache. Never fear, Derbyites, as you no longer have to worry about this since we’ve got your back covered! We’ve looked over the recently announced shortlist for Best Documentary Short Film at the 2023 Oscars and have provided you with descriptions of each one of the 15 finalists that you can use to help choose the five that you think will get nominated in our predictions center.
As a reminder, the four most recent Oscar winners in the Best Documentary Short Film category were “The Queen of Basketball” (2021), “Colette” (2020), “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)” (2019) and “Period. End of Sentence.” (2018). What will join the list this year? Here are...
As a reminder, the four most recent Oscar winners in the Best Documentary Short Film category were “The Queen of Basketball” (2021), “Colette” (2020), “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)” (2019) and “Period. End of Sentence.” (2018). What will join the list this year? Here are...
- 12/22/2022
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Mark Gordon Pictures has tapped playwright John J. Caswell Jr. to adapt a stage musical of the acclaimed short documentary The Flagmakers, from Oscar winner Cynthia Wade and AFI Doc Award winner Sharon Liese. The New York Public Theater’s associate artistic director Saheem Ali is attached to direct.
The doc, from National Geographic Documentary Films, is a meditation on the American dream, following workers at the employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wi, the country’s largest maker of American flags and flagpoles, which sews and ships 5 million American flags per year. The flagmakers — locals, immigrants and refugees — stitch stars and stripes as they wrestle with identity and belonging. The film provides an intimate glimpse into the people whose hands make America’s most recognizable icon.
The film was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the 2022 Critics Choice Documentary Awards and was awarded Best Documentary Short by the...
The doc, from National Geographic Documentary Films, is a meditation on the American dream, following workers at the employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wi, the country’s largest maker of American flags and flagpoles, which sews and ships 5 million American flags per year. The flagmakers — locals, immigrants and refugees — stitch stars and stripes as they wrestle with identity and belonging. The film provides an intimate glimpse into the people whose hands make America’s most recognizable icon.
The film was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the 2022 Critics Choice Documentary Awards and was awarded Best Documentary Short by the...
- 12/13/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wisc. makes American flags – a huge number of them. More than five million a year, in fact.
It sells 3’ by 5’ outdoor flags for 39.99 or 50’ by 80’ giant Old Glories for a little under 10,000, and flags of every size in between and the flagpoles to fly them on. What’s especially remarkable about Eder is not so much its annual sales, but who makes the flags. Most of the company’s workforce hails from around the world – Iraq, Tanzania, Mexico, Algeria, Serbia, Bosnia and other parts of the globe – people born under another flag.
The Oscar-contending short documentary The Flagmakers reveals the stories of many of those who sew, assemble, package and ship for Eder. The film directed by Sharon Liese and Cynthia Wade premieres on the National Geographic Channel tonight, and launches on Disney+ on December 21.
‘The Flagmakers’ directors Sharon Liese (L) and Cynthia Wade
“It...
It sells 3’ by 5’ outdoor flags for 39.99 or 50’ by 80’ giant Old Glories for a little under 10,000, and flags of every size in between and the flagpoles to fly them on. What’s especially remarkable about Eder is not so much its annual sales, but who makes the flags. Most of the company’s workforce hails from around the world – Iraq, Tanzania, Mexico, Algeria, Serbia, Bosnia and other parts of the globe – people born under another flag.
The Oscar-contending short documentary The Flagmakers reveals the stories of many of those who sew, assemble, package and ship for Eder. The film directed by Sharon Liese and Cynthia Wade premieres on the National Geographic Channel tonight, and launches on Disney+ on December 21.
‘The Flagmakers’ directors Sharon Liese (L) and Cynthia Wade
“It...
- 12/8/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
On December 9, IndieWire will showcase some of the best Oscar-qualified short films of the year, at an event in Los Angeles co-hosted by ShortsTV and National Geographic Documentary Films. The program will also include a conversation with Oscar winner Cynthia Wade and a sneak peek at her new short film, “The Flagmakers.” Apply to attend the event here.
Acclaimed documentarians Cynthia Wade and Sharon Liese have run the merit of short films up the flagpole — Wade even won an Oscar for one, “Freeheld,” in 2007 — and discovered that shorts are superior to feature-length documentaries for one reason above all: People lose interest fast.
“We both made feature docs and series, and feature docs are just too long,” Wade said in an interview with her co-director. “Docs are the best thing in the world, but it’s a lot to ask of people. We just felt like we could be very efficient.
Acclaimed documentarians Cynthia Wade and Sharon Liese have run the merit of short films up the flagpole — Wade even won an Oscar for one, “Freeheld,” in 2007 — and discovered that shorts are superior to feature-length documentaries for one reason above all: People lose interest fast.
“We both made feature docs and series, and feature docs are just too long,” Wade said in an interview with her co-director. “Docs are the best thing in the world, but it’s a lot to ask of people. We just felt like we could be very efficient.
- 12/8/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
On December 9, IndieWire will showcase some of the best Oscar-qualified short films of the year, at an event in Los Angeles co-hosted by ShortsTV and National Geographic Documentary Films. The program, which takes place ahead of IndieWire parent company Penske Media’s LA3C festival, features around 90 minutes of shorts that have qualified for the Oscar short film categories either by winning at an Oscar-qualifying festival or receiving an awards qualifying run.
Academy Members, Guild Members, Members of the Industry and fans may apply to attend this event here. (Capacity is limited; an application does not guarantee admission.) A limited number of tickets for the short film event will be available exclusively to LA3C passholders, who will also have access to additional events the same week hosted by fellow Penske brands Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, She Media, Vibe, Variety, and Women’s Wear Daily.
The program is an international selection that includes live action,...
Academy Members, Guild Members, Members of the Industry and fans may apply to attend this event here. (Capacity is limited; an application does not guarantee admission.) A limited number of tickets for the short film event will be available exclusively to LA3C passholders, who will also have access to additional events the same week hosted by fellow Penske brands Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, She Media, Vibe, Variety, and Women’s Wear Daily.
The program is an international selection that includes live action,...
- 12/6/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Titles include Taiwan’s ’Goddamned Asura’ and Croatia’s ’Safe Place’.
Screen International is hosting a series of online FYC screenings focused on the 2022-23 awards campaign.
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For the third year, Screen is partnering with Archipel Market, a film market platform powered by Cascade8, enabling industry professionals to interact and replicate film market activities online, all year round.
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Safe Place - Croatia (Juraj Lerotic)
Lerotic wrote, directed and starred in this autobiographical family drama about a man trying to save his younger, depressed brother from taking his own life.
Screen International is hosting a series of online FYC screenings focused on the 2022-23 awards campaign.
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For the third year, Screen is partnering with Archipel Market, a film market platform powered by Cascade8, enabling industry professionals to interact and replicate film market activities online, all year round.
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Safe Place - Croatia (Juraj Lerotic)
Lerotic wrote, directed and starred in this autobiographical family drama about a man trying to save his younger, depressed brother from taking his own life.
- 12/2/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
First titles are Indian box office hit ’Gangubai Kathiawadi’, Taiwan’s Goddamned Asura and short ’The Flagmakers’.
Screen International is hosting a series of online FYC screenings focused on the 2022-23 awards campaign.
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For the third year, Screen is partnering with Archipel Market, a film market platform powered by Cascade8, enabling industry professionals to interact and replicate film market activities online, all year round.
Find out more about the titles:
Gangubai Kathiawadi – India (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
This Hindi-language crime thriller tells the true story of how a young girl became the...
Screen International is hosting a series of online FYC screenings focused on the 2022-23 awards campaign.
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For the third year, Screen is partnering with Archipel Market, a film market platform powered by Cascade8, enabling industry professionals to interact and replicate film market activities online, all year round.
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Gangubai Kathiawadi – India (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
This Hindi-language crime thriller tells the true story of how a young girl became the...
- 11/22/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
In celebration of Transgender Awareness Week and the November 13 debut of the Sharon Liese-directed documentary Transhood, HBO Max is set to host the TRANSlation Summit. It will take place November 17-19 starting at 7 p.m. Et. The virtual three-day seminar will be available to watch on HBO’s YouTube channel.
The TRANSlation Summit is a partnership between HBO Max, the Human Rights Campaign, Family Equality, and Pflag National that will bring people together for a series of informative, open-minded sessions and discussions. The summit will serve as an informed safe space for education and conversation around what it means to raise transgender children in America today. Each day will feature a keynote speaker followed by three moderated panel conversations. The summit will also lean into a different theme for each day: transitioning, growing up trans and advocacy.
Model, trans rights activist and singer-songwriter Laith Ashley will serve as host of the event.
The TRANSlation Summit is a partnership between HBO Max, the Human Rights Campaign, Family Equality, and Pflag National that will bring people together for a series of informative, open-minded sessions and discussions. The summit will serve as an informed safe space for education and conversation around what it means to raise transgender children in America today. Each day will feature a keynote speaker followed by three moderated panel conversations. The summit will also lean into a different theme for each day: transitioning, growing up trans and advocacy.
Model, trans rights activist and singer-songwriter Laith Ashley will serve as host of the event.
- 11/16/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
A year and a half after Laverne Cox became the first transgender person to grace the cover of Time Magazine, National Geographic followed suit with its own explosive issue. For its 2016 cover story, The Gender Revolution, National Geographic’s Robin Hammond photographed 80 nine-year-olds in eight countries. Poised gracefully on the cover was nine-year-old Avery Jackson, staring serenely into the camera, her bright pink hair and outfit striking a vivid complement to the magazine’s iconic yellow border. Jackson is one of four transgender kids profiled in “Transhood,” a tender-hearted documentary that humanizes trans kids while avoiding many of the usual gawking pitfalls. Following a timeline when trans rights have been consistently under attack, “Transhood” is a vital record of what it’s like to grow up trans in the Trump era.
Filmed in Kansas City, Missouri over the course of five years, “Transhood” shrewdly focuses its lens on families and...
Filmed in Kansas City, Missouri over the course of five years, “Transhood” shrewdly focuses its lens on families and...
- 11/11/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
In the gentle and absorbing HBO documentary Transhood, director Sharon Liese conducts a microcosmic kind of longitudinal study on childhood gender transition. Filmed cinema verité-style over five years, starting in 2015, Transhood follows four Kansas City families in various stages of this conversely agonizing and rewarding process. Offering no narration, expert talking heads or text interstitials, Liese forgoes contextualizing the culture wars and instead lets her subjects speak for themselves. Their pathos, however, doesn’t always localize where you’d expect.
These kids’ frustrations range from gender dysphoria to celebrity fatigue to being outed by others before they were ready to do ...
These kids’ frustrations range from gender dysphoria to celebrity fatigue to being outed by others before they were ready to do ...
- 11/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In the gentle and absorbing HBO documentary Transhood, director Sharon Liese conducts a microcosmic kind of longitudinal study on childhood gender transition. Filmed cinema verité-style over five years, starting in 2015, Transhood follows four Kansas City families in various stages of this conversely agonizing and rewarding process. Offering no narration, expert talking heads or text interstitials, Liese forgoes contextualizing the culture wars and instead lets her subjects speak for themselves. Their pathos, however, doesn’t always localize where you’d expect.
These kids’ frustrations range from gender dysphoria to celebrity fatigue to being outed by others before they were ready to do ...
These kids’ frustrations range from gender dysphoria to celebrity fatigue to being outed by others before they were ready to do ...
- 11/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Network: CBS.
Episodes: Eight (hour).
Seasons: One.
TV show dates: July 28, 2018 — September 15, 2018.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Marcia Clark (host).
TV show description:
A true-crime series, the Pink Collar Crimes TV show comes from executive producers Jon Kroll and Sharon Liese. Hosted by author and former prosecutor Marcia Clark, the docu-series delves into a growing crime demographic -- women.
As PTA mothers, country-club chairs, and more, these women do not fit the profile of the usual suspects. Still, they have taken big risks, taken in some big bucks, and served sizable sentences. Read More…...
Episodes: Eight (hour).
Seasons: One.
TV show dates: July 28, 2018 — September 15, 2018.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Marcia Clark (host).
TV show description:
A true-crime series, the Pink Collar Crimes TV show comes from executive producers Jon Kroll and Sharon Liese. Hosted by author and former prosecutor Marcia Clark, the docu-series delves into a growing crime demographic -- women.
As PTA mothers, country-club chairs, and more, these women do not fit the profile of the usual suspects. Still, they have taken big risks, taken in some big bucks, and served sizable sentences. Read More…...
- 8/26/2020
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
AFI Fest is going virtual for its 34th edition on Oct. 15-22, rather than hosting glitzy premieres at its usual site at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
The festival, an early stop on the awards season circuit, has opted to dispense with physical events, a spokesperson said. Upcoming fall festivals at Venice, Toronto and New York are offering a hybrid of physical and virtual events to deal with the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, while organizers of the Telluride Film Festival recently pulled the plug on this year’s event, which usually took place over Labor Day weekend.
AFI already produced a virtual AFI Docs festival with ticketed events over June 17-21, which included live Q&As with filmmakers and events with industry leaders and activists. The festival’s audience award for best feature went to “Transhood,” directed by Sharon Liese.
AFI plans to announce its lineup in...
The festival, an early stop on the awards season circuit, has opted to dispense with physical events, a spokesperson said. Upcoming fall festivals at Venice, Toronto and New York are offering a hybrid of physical and virtual events to deal with the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, while organizers of the Telluride Film Festival recently pulled the plug on this year’s event, which usually took place over Labor Day weekend.
AFI already produced a virtual AFI Docs festival with ticketed events over June 17-21, which included live Q&As with filmmakers and events with industry leaders and activists. The festival’s audience award for best feature went to “Transhood,” directed by Sharon Liese.
AFI plans to announce its lineup in...
- 8/11/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, three projects — “The Culling,” “Atlantis” and “A Savannah Haunting” — are unveiled; “Transhood” wins the Audience Award at AFI Docs; the WGA East announces 15 candidates; and the Visual Effects Society honors five members.
Project Launches
Universal Pictures is developing the thriller “Atlantis with “Jurassic World” director Colin Trevorrow and his Metronome Film Co. with Trevorrow directing and producing.
The project is based on a story about the mythical city of Atlantis by Trevorrow and Matt Charman. Dante Harper, who wrote the original spec script that became Tom Cruise’s “Edge of Tomorrow,” will write the script for “Atlantis.”
Metronome and Universal are also collaborating on “Space Opera,” a musical with producer Marc Platt based on Catherynne Valente’s book.
Treverrow’s directing credits include “Safety Not Guaranteed,” “The Book of Henry” and the upcoming “Jurassic World: Dominion.” The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
Project Launches
Universal Pictures is developing the thriller “Atlantis with “Jurassic World” director Colin Trevorrow and his Metronome Film Co. with Trevorrow directing and producing.
The project is based on a story about the mythical city of Atlantis by Trevorrow and Matt Charman. Dante Harper, who wrote the original spec script that became Tom Cruise’s “Edge of Tomorrow,” will write the script for “Atlantis.”
Metronome and Universal are also collaborating on “Space Opera,” a musical with producer Marc Platt based on Catherynne Valente’s book.
Treverrow’s directing credits include “Safety Not Guaranteed,” “The Book of Henry” and the upcoming “Jurassic World: Dominion.” The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
- 6/23/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
When you’re a child, one of the most maddening things adults always say is how fast children grow up. If you’ve only lived a few years, it takes forever: The powers and privileges that come with being older are at once tantalizing and infinitely far away. Yet when the child’s lifetime is a fraction of yours, they change drastically if you look away for so much as a day; in the case of transgender childhood, moreover, even the subtlest transitions are seismic. Sharon Liese’s documentary “Transhood” maintains an artful bifocal perspective, capturing both youthful impatience and parental whiplash as it tracks the physical and emotional development of four trans children over the course of five years. The title’s evocation of Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” can’t be accidental: In nonfiction form, Liese’s film aims for similarly striking, sensitive time-lapse rewards.
Coming as it does from the HBO Documentary stable,...
Coming as it does from the HBO Documentary stable,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
CBS is riding TV’s true-crime wave, announcing a pair of new series premiering this month. Whistleblower is set to sound off at 8 Pm Friday, July 13, and Pink Collar Crimes will be perpetrated starting at 8 Pm Saturday, July 28.
Produced by CBS News for CBS Television Studios, Whistleblower looks into the real-life David vs. Goliath stories of heroic people who put everything on the line to expose illegal and often dangerous wrongdoing when major corporations rip off U.S. taxpayers. Hosted by attorney Alex Ferrer, a former judge and police officer, each hour introduces cases in which ordinary people step up to do the extraordinary by risking their careers, their families and even their lives to ensure others are not harmed or killed by unchecked, unethical corporate greed. 48 Hours veteran Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer, and Alex Ferrer and Ted Eccles are the EPs.
The Pink Collar Crimes logline:...
Produced by CBS News for CBS Television Studios, Whistleblower looks into the real-life David vs. Goliath stories of heroic people who put everything on the line to expose illegal and often dangerous wrongdoing when major corporations rip off U.S. taxpayers. Hosted by attorney Alex Ferrer, a former judge and police officer, each hour introduces cases in which ordinary people step up to do the extraordinary by risking their careers, their families and even their lives to ensure others are not harmed or killed by unchecked, unethical corporate greed. 48 Hours veteran Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer, and Alex Ferrer and Ted Eccles are the EPs.
The Pink Collar Crimes logline:...
- 7/2/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
CNN Films has acquired director Sharon Liese's "The Gnomist" out of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. The short film, which follows three women on a journey deep into the woods of Overland Park, is expected to premiere this Fall. Produced by Liese and Oscar winner Cynthia Wade and shot by Ty Jones, the film takes us to Firefly Forest, where fairy dwellings fit in the hollows of trees began mysteriously popping up in Spring 2013. For these three former strangers, the suburban Kansas forest takes on a psychic healing power. CNN launched its inaugural online short film series in March as part of its aggressive push into the realm of original video content. Additional films for the Fall series will include shorts from Andrew Jenks and Roger Ross Williams. CNN Films recently released the campus rape doc "The Hunting Ground" and will launch the Oscar-nominated "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me" later this year.
- 4/29/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Two profiles of people best known for their work with reality TV appeared in newspapers recently: one is about a producer working in the Midwest, while the other is about an attention-seeking reality star who wants attention except when she doesn't. The Kansas City Star's Aaron Barnhart profiles Herizon Productions' Sharon Liese, the executive producer behind High School Confidential, the documentary series that followed high school girls for four years. The story explains how she...
- 3/21/2010
- by Andy Dehnart
- Reality Blurred
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