When Misty Copeland filmed the last scenes of the short Flower, she was, in her words, “very pregnant.” Not only was she blooming into motherhood, she was entering a new beginning as a producer and actor.
Flower is the first project from Copeland’s Life in Motion Productions, which she co-founded with fellow American Ballet Theatre dancer-turned-producer Leyla Fayyaz. Directed by Lauren Finerman and written by Fayyaz, the 28-minute short made its debut at the Tribeca Festival earlier this month, and it will be screened July 1 at the Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park as part of its Summer in the City series.
The film follows Rose (Copeland) as she carries the weight of providing a home, caring for her dementia-suffering mother and teaching young ballerinas in her Oakland community, which is gentrifying at an alarming rate.
Here, Copeland, the first Black woman named a principal dancer at Abt, speaks about...
Flower is the first project from Copeland’s Life in Motion Productions, which she co-founded with fellow American Ballet Theatre dancer-turned-producer Leyla Fayyaz. Directed by Lauren Finerman and written by Fayyaz, the 28-minute short made its debut at the Tribeca Festival earlier this month, and it will be screened July 1 at the Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park as part of its Summer in the City series.
The film follows Rose (Copeland) as she carries the weight of providing a home, caring for her dementia-suffering mother and teaching young ballerinas in her Oakland community, which is gentrifying at an alarming rate.
Here, Copeland, the first Black woman named a principal dancer at Abt, speaks about...
- 6/30/2023
- by Cori Murray
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2023 Tribeca Festival, presented by Okx, today announced its lineup of short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as music videos. The festival takes place June 7-18 and showcases 12 short film programs of diverse and creative storytelling. It’s also notable for showcasing a film by Francesca Scorsese, Martin Scorsese’s daughter, at a festival started, in part, by her father’s longtime collaborator Robert DeNiro.
The 2023 shorts lineup includes 76 total selections – 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos, and six special screening shorts – from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. The lineup includes 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres.
Premieres include “Last Call,” about a desperate mother needing to reconnect with her son, directed by Harry Holland and starring brother Tom Holland; “Shadow Brother Sunday,” “Solo” star Alden Ehrenreich’s directorial debut (he plays “a down-on-his-luck musician returning home on the...
The 2023 shorts lineup includes 76 total selections – 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos, and six special screening shorts – from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. The lineup includes 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres.
Premieres include “Last Call,” about a desperate mother needing to reconnect with her son, directed by Harry Holland and starring brother Tom Holland; “Shadow Brother Sunday,” “Solo” star Alden Ehrenreich’s directorial debut (he plays “a down-on-his-luck musician returning home on the...
- 4/25/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
The 2023 Tribeca short films lineup has been unveiled and features a slew of talent.
Ranging from short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as music videos, the 2023 shorts lineup includes 76 total selections, with 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos, and six special screening shorts, from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. There will also be 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres.
The lineup’s four categories — narrative shorts, documentary shorts, animated shorts, and music videos — are curated across 12 thematic programs highlighting love, family relationships, LGBTQ+ stories, “Expressions of Black Freedom,” Latin America, resilience, and more.
Presented by Okx, the 2023 Tribeca Festival takes place June 7 through 18. This year’s festival had a record-breaking 8,096 total submissions.
Programming highlights include “Last Call,” which is about a desperate mother needing to reconnect with her son, played by Tom Holland. The short is directed by his brother,...
Ranging from short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as music videos, the 2023 shorts lineup includes 76 total selections, with 62 shorts in competition, eight music videos, and six special screening shorts, from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries. There will also be 48 world premieres, three international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, and 22 New York premieres.
The lineup’s four categories — narrative shorts, documentary shorts, animated shorts, and music videos — are curated across 12 thematic programs highlighting love, family relationships, LGBTQ+ stories, “Expressions of Black Freedom,” Latin America, resilience, and more.
Presented by Okx, the 2023 Tribeca Festival takes place June 7 through 18. This year’s festival had a record-breaking 8,096 total submissions.
Programming highlights include “Last Call,” which is about a desperate mother needing to reconnect with her son, played by Tom Holland. The short is directed by his brother,...
- 4/25/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: The Broadway-bound Ali musical, based on the life of three-time world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, will have its world premiere in the late sports superstar’s birthplace in Louisville, Kentucky in Fall 2024, Deadline can reveal.
Richard Willis, the show’s lead producer, told me that Ali will float “like a butterfly” into the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts for a three- or four-week run. An opening date hasn’t been set yet but it’s likely to be in October or early November next year.
Deadline broke the news about the musical in September last year.
Willis was speaking to Deadline in London where he was reuniting with Ali director and book writer Clint Dyer, who serves as deputy artistic director of London’s National Theatre, and composer Teddy Abrams, the music director and conductor of the Louisville Orchestra.
Teddy Abrams,Clint...
Richard Willis, the show’s lead producer, told me that Ali will float “like a butterfly” into the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts for a three- or four-week run. An opening date hasn’t been set yet but it’s likely to be in October or early November next year.
Deadline broke the news about the musical in September last year.
Willis was speaking to Deadline in London where he was reuniting with Ali director and book writer Clint Dyer, who serves as deputy artistic director of London’s National Theatre, and composer Teddy Abrams, the music director and conductor of the Louisville Orchestra.
Teddy Abrams,Clint...
- 4/18/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
The opportunity to collaborate with Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann would be enough in itself for many artists to sign on to a project without so much as reading a script, but for The Get Down choreographers, and brothers, Rich and Tone Talauega, there was also a profound opportunity embedded in the Netflix original series—an opportunity to honor music, a place and a culture that had a critical influence on them in their young lives. Sharing a versatile career as…...
- 6/6/2017
- Deadline TV
Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann wasn’t the only person on set who had to get schooled on hip-hop for his Netflix musical drama “The Get Down.”
Its young stars, including “Dope” breakout Shameik Moore, had to relearn what hip-hop is in the context of 1970s New York, when the drama takes place. Moore, who is a rapper, singer and dancer in his own right realized that all of his moves were wrong for the period.
The show created a hip-hop bootcamp where world-renowned choreographers and brothers Rich and Tone Talauega recruited B-boys Phantom and Samo to teach Moore how to breakdance. The lessons were all-encompassing: “The thing about the show is not just acting,” said Jimmy Smits at the Television Critics Association press tour Wednesday. “The had to relearn hip-hop, how to stand, how to move —“
“— how to hold a mic,” chimed in music and culture writer Nelson George. “There...
Its young stars, including “Dope” breakout Shameik Moore, had to relearn what hip-hop is in the context of 1970s New York, when the drama takes place. Moore, who is a rapper, singer and dancer in his own right realized that all of his moves were wrong for the period.
The show created a hip-hop bootcamp where world-renowned choreographers and brothers Rich and Tone Talauega recruited B-boys Phantom and Samo to teach Moore how to breakdance. The lessons were all-encompassing: “The thing about the show is not just acting,” said Jimmy Smits at the Television Critics Association press tour Wednesday. “The had to relearn hip-hop, how to stand, how to move —“
“— how to hold a mic,” chimed in music and culture writer Nelson George. “There...
- 7/27/2016
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Company reportedly claims Jackson is under contract not to perform until July 2010.
By Gil Kaufman
Michael Jackson
Photo: Eamonn McCormack/ WireImage
Given Michael Jackson's long, twisted legal history, it's almost expected that his upcoming 50-date residency at the O2 Arena in London would not go off without lawyers getting involved. The latest potential roadblock appears serious, though.
Reuters reported that music promotions company AllGood Entertainment is planning to sue Jackson, claiming that he signed a contract last year that prevents him from performing live until July 2010.
The New Jersey-based company says that it signed an agreement in November with Jackson's manager, Frank Dileo, that committed the singer to performing in a Jackson family reunion tour — which was also to include Janet Jackson — slated to launch in July 2010. Under that agreement, Jackson is reportedly not allowed to perform live until the reunion tour, an 18-month blackout that coincides with his planned solo shows in London.
By Gil Kaufman
Michael Jackson
Photo: Eamonn McCormack/ WireImage
Given Michael Jackson's long, twisted legal history, it's almost expected that his upcoming 50-date residency at the O2 Arena in London would not go off without lawyers getting involved. The latest potential roadblock appears serious, though.
Reuters reported that music promotions company AllGood Entertainment is planning to sue Jackson, claiming that he signed a contract last year that prevents him from performing live until July 2010.
The New Jersey-based company says that it signed an agreement in November with Jackson's manager, Frank Dileo, that committed the singer to performing in a Jackson family reunion tour — which was also to include Janet Jackson — slated to launch in July 2010. Under that agreement, Jackson is reportedly not allowed to perform live until the reunion tour, an 18-month blackout that coincides with his planned solo shows in London.
- 5/12/2009
- MTV Music News
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