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Rosser Goodman
Rosser Goodman is an American film and television director, writer and producer. Goodman founded her own production company, KGB Films in the 90's upon moving to Hollywood. Goodman's company is now called Circle Content in partnership with fashion designer and costume designer Oneita Parker. Personal life Born in Washington, D.C., Goodman grew up acting and singing in the theater. At an early age, she was enrolled in advance drama classes at the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts founded by Toby Orenstein. In high school, Goodman's creative writing, social commentary and character studies flourished at The Park School of Baltimore. Goodman then graduated a year early from the honors college New College of Florida to attend film graduate school at Temple University's Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From there, Goodman got her first big break working on NBC Television's '' Earth 2'', produced by Steven Spielberg and his production company Amblin Entertainment. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington DC
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Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize and final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outfest
Outfest is an LGBTQ-oriented nonprofit that produces two film festivals, operates a movie streaming platform, and runs educational services for filmmakers in Los Angeles. Outfest is one of the key partners, alongside the Frameline Film Festival, the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, and the Inside Out Film and Video Festival, in launching the North American Queer Festival Alliance, an initiative to further publicize and promote LGBT film. History In 1979, John Ramirez and Stuart Timmons, two students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), founded a gay film festival on campus. By 1982, it had become known as the "Gay and Lesbian Media Festival and Conference." The name was changed to Outfest in 1994. In September 2016, Outfest held its first traveling film festival in Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Academy of Music Theatre. In June 2020, Outfest partnered with Film Independent to launch the United in Pride digital film festival. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mezipatra
Mezipatra is a Czech Republic, Czech queer film festival screening films with gay, lesbian, bisexuality, bisexual and transgender themes. The name Mezipatra translates as "Mezzanine (architecture), mezzanine" and refers to the festival's mission: creating space for meeting of people regardless of their gender or sexual identities. Each edition explores a chosen theme and hosts a variety of international guests. The accompanying events range from lectures and debates to art openings, theatre performances as well as exciting parties. It takes place annually in November in Prague and Brno with related events in Ostrava, Olomouc and other cities in Czech Republic. Throughout the year Mezipatra offers additional screenings within the Mezipatra Approved edition. Mezipatra also participates in Prague Pride festival by organizing screenings and debates with LGBT themes. History The festival was founded in Brno in 2000 as an accompanying program of the Gay Men CZ competition. The following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frameline Film Festival
The Frameline Film Festival (aka San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival) (formerly San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival; San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) began as a storefront event in 1976. The first film festival, named the Gay Film Festival of Super-8 Films, was held in 1977. The festival is organized by Frameline, a nonprofit media arts organization whose mission statement is "to change the world through the power of queer cinema". It is the oldest LGBTQ+ film festival in the world. With annual attendance ranging from 60,000 to 80,000, it is the largest LGBTQ+ film exhibition event. It is also the most well-attended LGBTQ+ arts event in the San Francisco Bay Area. The festival is held every year in late June according to a schedule that allows the eleven-day event's closing night to coincide with the City's annual Gay Pride Day, which takes place on the last Sunday of the month. Films screened at the Frameline Film Festival hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dekkoo
Dekkoo is a Philadelphia-based subscription streaming service with a focus on LGBT+ related content, particularly by and for gay men. It features a mixture of programs from other sources and original content, and derives its income from subscription fees rather than advertising. It is available on streaming devices such as Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, and Amazon Fire. The service was co-founded in 2015 by Derek Curl and Brian Sokel. The launch followed the 2014 acquisition of TLA Entertainment Group in 2014. According to Sokel, the name is based on a Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ... slang word, "dekka", which he said means "take a glance at something" and they thought the name "Dekkoo just sounded cuter." During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the company lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hulu
Hulu () is an American subscription streaming service majority-owned by The Walt Disney Company, with Comcast's NBCUniversal holding a minority stake. It was launched on October 29, 2007 and it offers a library of films and television series like 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, Disney Television Studios, ABC, Freeform, and FX Networks among others, as well as Hulu original programming. Hulu was initially established as a joint venture between News Corporation and NBC Universal, Providence Equity Partners, and later The Walt Disney Company, serving as an aggregation of recent episodes of television series from their respective television networks. In 2010, Hulu launched a subscription service, initially branded as "Hulu Plus", which featured full seasons of programs from the companies and other partners, and undelayed access to new episodes. In 2017, the company launched ''Hulu with Live TV''—an over-the-top live TV service featuring linear television channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfe Video
Wolfe Video is the oldest and largest exclusive producer and distributor of LGBT films in North America. Founded in 1985 in New Almaden by Kathy Wolfe, the company began as a consumer mail order distribution company for lesbian VHS videos but has evolved over the years to become a full-service distributor of LGBT films. Wolfe releases LGBT films on DVD in North America as well as doing film festival bookings, foreign sales, US digital delivery, and broadcast sales for its library of more than one hundred feature films and dozens of shorts and documentaries. Notable Wolfe releases over the years include the film '' Big Eden'', the 20th Anniversary DVD release of ''Desert Hearts'', ''Were the World Mine'', and Thom Fitzgerald's AIDS drama '' 3 Needles''. Significant Wolfe DVD releases in recent years include the Sundance Film Festival award-winner '' Undertow'', the acclaimed French drama ''Tomboy'', the praised Polish cyberthriller drama Suicide Room, the multiple award-winner ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regent Releasing
Regent Releasing was a U.S. theatrical distribution company based in Los Angeles, California, under the umbrella of Regent Entertainment, which was owned by producers Paul Colichman (formerly of IRS Media) and Stephen P. Jarchow. Focusing on narrow releases of independent films from around the world and from U.S. filmmakers, Regent's successes include such Academy Award-winning films as '' Departures'', Best Foreign Language film from Japan; '' Gods and Monsters'', starring Ian McKellen; ''Sordid Lives'', starring Olivia Newton-John, Delta Burke, and Leslie Jordan; Franco Zeffirelli's ''Callas Forever'', starring Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons and Joan Plowright; and ''The Hunting of the President,'' producer Harry Thomason's documentary based on the book about the right-wing conspiracy to destroy Bill Clinton. Regent also distributed film acquisitions from Here Films, their LGBT sister public company. In 2009, Regent merged with PlanetOut and Here Networks to form Here Media. Regen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peccadillo Pictures
Peccadillo Pictures is a UK-based film producer and distributor of art house, gay and lesbian, independent and world cinema. They have provided distribution for many films such as ''Weekend (2011 film), Weekend'', ''Tomboy (2011 film), Tomboy'', ''XXY (film), XXY'', ''Eyes Wide Open (2009 film), Eyes Wide Open'', ''Four Minutes (2006 film), Four Minutes'', ''The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros'', ''Transylvania (film), Transylvania'', ''Cockles and Muscles'', ''Summer Storm (2004 film), Summer Storm'', ''The Guest House'' and ''Chemsex (film), Chemsex''. History Overview Peccadillo Pictures is a distributor of gay and lesbian, art house, and world cinema - including films from Europe, Latin America and Asia: ''Presque Rien'' and ''Wild Side (2004 film)'' both by Sèbastien Lifshitz (France), ''15 (film), 15'' by Royston Tan (Singapore), ''Summer Storm (2004 film), Summer Storm'' by Marco Kreuzpaintner (Germany), ''El Mar'' by Augusti Villaronga (Spain), ''A Year Without Love'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational programming to public television stations in the United States, distributing shows such as ''Frontline'', '' Nova'', ''PBS NewsHour'', ''Sesame Street'', and ''This Old House''. PBS is funded by a combination of member station dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, pledge drives, and donations from both private foundations and individual citizens. All proposed funding for programming is subject to a set of standards to ensure the program is free of influence from the funding source. PBS has over 350 member television stations, many owned by educational institutions, nonprofit groups both independent or affiliated with one particular local public school district or collegiate educational institution, or entities owned by or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
