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Matt Wolf (filmmaker)
Matt Wolf (born May 11, 1982) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and producer. His notable films include ''Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell'', ''Teenage (2013 American film), Teenage'', ''Bayard & Me,'' ''Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project'', ''Spaceship Earth (film), Spaceship Earth'', and ''Pee-wee as Himself''. In 2010, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. His films are largely documentaries about "unconventional visionaries" that are shaped by expansive archives."Dreaming Documentary: Matt Wolf"" ''Mousse Magazine'', October–November 2013 Life Wolf was born in San Jose, California. As a teenager, he was involved with gay activism in the Bay Area. He was the subject of a documentary on queer youth, which he describes as a formative experience that late ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marion Stokes Project
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paper Tiger Television
Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is a non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City. Currently operating from Brooklyn, PPTV was co-founded by media activist and Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Dee Dee Halleck in 1981. It focuses on raising media literacy and exists as a protest to corporate control over broadcast mediums. Founded to promote freedom of speech and access to means of communication, the volunteer-run non-profit organization is a collective action in response to systems of hierarchical power. The collective celebrated its 25th anniversary on October 11, 2007 with a premiere of the video ''Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television'' at thAnthology Film Archives In 2018, in collaboration with Halleck's other collective, Deep Dish Television, Paper Tiger Television released a 10-part video series about resistance to the rise of far-right political movements. History Founded in part by Dee Dee Halle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pee-Wee As Himself
''Pee-wee as Himself'' is a 2025 American documentary series directed and produced by Matt Wolf. It follows the life and career of actor and comedian Paul Reubens, best known for portraying the character Pee-wee Herman. It was released on May 23, 2025, on HBO and Max. Premise ''Pee-wee as Himself'' explores the life and career of actor Paul Reubens. In the documentary, Reubens came out publicly as gay in interviews taped before his death in 2023. Reubens' sexuality had been discussed by certain outlets in the context of his 2002 arrest, though he had not publicly come out at that point; in the film, he notes that at various times in his life he had been in and out of the closet. Production In March 2021, it was announced Matt Wolf would direct a documentary revolving around Paul Reubens for HBO Documentary Films, with Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie set to executive produce under their Elara Pictures banner, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff to produce. In November 2024, the projec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens (; ; August 27, 1952 – July 30, 2023) was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman. Born in Peekskill, New York and raised in both Oneonta, New York and Sarasota, Florida, Reubens joined the Los Angeles-based troupe the Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. Reubens developed his Pee-wee character at the Groundlings. After a failed audition for ''Saturday Night Live'', Reubens debuted a stage show starring Pee-wee, '' The Pee-wee Herman Show'', in 1981. Pee-wee quickly became a cult figure and, for the next decade, Reubens completely committed to his character, conducting all public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee. He produced and wrote a feature film, '' Pee-wee's Big Adventure'' (1985), directed by Tim Burton, which was a financial and critical success. Its sequel, '' Big Top Pee-wee'' (1988), was less successful. Between 1986 and 1990, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenni Konner
Jennifer A. Konner (born May 15, 1971) is an American television writer, producer, and director. She is best known as co-showrunner and writer with Lena Dunham of the HBO series '' Girls.'' In 2016, she directed the season finale of the fifth season of ''Girls'' entitled "I Love You Baby" and in 2017, she directed the episode "Latching," which served as the series finale; both episodes were co-written by Judd Apatow, Dunham and Konner. With Lena Dunham, she ran a production company and is co-founder of the feminist newsletter, ''Lenny Letter,'' and its Random House imprint, Lenny Books. Early life Konner was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. She is daughter of American television writers Lawrence Konner and Ronnie Wenker-Konner (née Wenker). Konner has a younger brother, Jeremy Konner, who directs and produces the Comedy Central program '' Drunk History''. Konner graduated from Crossroads School, a progressive high scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham (; born May 13, 1986) is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series '' Girls'' (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of ''Girls'' and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film '' Tiny Furniture'' (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films '' Sharp Stick'' and '' Catherine Called Birdy''. In 2013, Dunham was included in the annual ''Time'' 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2014, Dunham released her first book, '' Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"''. In 2015, along with ''Girls'' show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Knight (illustrator)
Hilary Knight (born November 1, 1926) is an American writer and artist. He is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator and co-creator of Kay Thompson's ''Eloise (1955 book), Eloise'' (1955) and others in the ''Eloise (books), Eloise'' series. Knight has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, creating artwork for magazines, children's fashion advertisements, greeting cards, record albums as well as posters and music album covers for Broadway musicals, including ''Gypsy (musical), Gypsy'', ''Irene (musical), Irene'' (1973), ''Half a Sixpence, Half A Sixpence'', ''Hallelujah, Baby!, Hallelujah Baby!'', and ''No, No, Nanette#1971 revival and later productions, No, No, Nanette'' (1971). He has over 100 U.S. copyrights for his illustration works. An example of his artwork can be seen in the infobox for the article ''No, No, Nanette''. Early life and career One of two sons of artist-writers Clayton Knight and Katharine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neon (distributor)
NEON Rated, LLC, doing business as Neon (stylized in all caps), is an American independent film production and distribution company founded in 2017 by CEO Tom Quinn and Tim League, who also was the co-founder of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain. As of 2019, League is no longer involved with daily operations for the company. Its first film, '' Colossal'', was released in 2017. The company became known for distributing such notable films as '' I, Tonya'' (2017), ''Parasite'' (2019), ''Portrait of a Lady on Fire'' (2019), ''Palm Springs'' (2020), '' Flee'' (2021), '' Spencer'' (2021), '' The Worst Person in the World'' (2021), '' Triangle of Sadness'' (2022), ''Anatomy of a Fall'' (2023), ''Anora'' (2024), '' Longlegs'' (2024), '' The Seed of the Sacred Fig'' (2024), and '' The Monkey'' (2025). ''Parasite'' went on to become Neon's highest-grossing film at the worldwide box office with $262 million and the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Pictu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. The festival was established in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival. The festival moved to nearby Park City, Utah, in 1981 and was renamed the US Film and Video Festival. It was renamed the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. From its inception through 2025, the festival took place every January in Utah. In March 2025, it was ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biosphere 2
University of Arizona Biosphere 2 is an American Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. Its mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching, and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe. It is a structure originally built to be an artificial, materially closed ecological system, or vivarium. It remains the largest closed ecological system ever created. Constructed between 1987 and 1991, Biosphere 2 was originally meant to demonstrate the viability of closed ecological systems to support and maintain human life in outer space as a substitute for Earth's biosphere. It was designed to explore the web of interactions within life systems in a structure with different areas based on various biological biomes. In addition to the several biomes and living quarters for people, there was an agricultural area and work space to study the interactions between humans, farming, technology and the rest of natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was held in 1973. It is considered the longest-running and most important survey of contemporary art in the United States. The Biennial helped bring artists including Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Jeff Koons, among others to prominence. Artists In 2010, for the first time a majority of the 55 artists included in that survey of contemporary American art were women. The 2012 exhibition featured 51 artists, the smallest number in the event's history. The fifty-one artists for 2012 were selected by curator Elisabeth Sussman and freelance curator Jay Sanders. It was open for three months up to May 27, 2012 and presented for the first time "heavy weight" on dance, music and theater. Those performance art variations were open to spectators for an entire day on a sepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Enterprises. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. The festival was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the September 11 attacks, September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Until 2020, the festival was known as the Tribeca Film Festival. The festival hosts over 600 screenings with approximately 150,000 attendees each year, and awards independent artists in 23 juried competitive categories. History The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, and Craig Hatkoff, in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
