PBS Digital Studios is branching out from its usual educational programming of literary, science, and philosophy content to take on an important social issue. The YouTube network has teamed up with the Interactive Engagement Group of Wnet, a New York-based PBS station, to release a new web series called First Person, featuring personal stories related to the Lgbtq community.
First Person episodes will include interviews, host commentary, and viewer comments and prompts via the series’ social media accounts to generate discussion around different sets of issues the Lgbtq community faces. Some of the initial topics PBS and Wnet’s new series will will address are transgender transitions on YouTube, queer fashion, and coming out in the world of sports.
Kristin Russo, Lgbtq YouTube vlogger and founder of youth organization Everyone Is Gay, will host the new PBS Digital Studios series. Featured guests include trans artist and YouTuber Skylar Kergil, Espn correspondent Kate Fagan,...
First Person episodes will include interviews, host commentary, and viewer comments and prompts via the series’ social media accounts to generate discussion around different sets of issues the Lgbtq community faces. Some of the initial topics PBS and Wnet’s new series will will address are transgender transitions on YouTube, queer fashion, and coming out in the world of sports.
Kristin Russo, Lgbtq YouTube vlogger and founder of youth organization Everyone Is Gay, will host the new PBS Digital Studios series. Featured guests include trans artist and YouTuber Skylar Kergil, Espn correspondent Kate Fagan,...
- 2/20/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Oscar-nominated director, screenwriter and producer behind films including When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle
Nora Ephron, the Oscar-nominated film-maker behind romantic comedies When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle has died, aged 71.
Ephron's death was confirmed by her friend Richard Cohen, the Washington Post columnist. She died of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia, with which she was diagnosed six years ago.
The New York Times reported her son Jacob Bernstein said she died from pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukaemia.
Considered one of most influential women in Hollywood, Ephron was a director, screenwriter and producer who also wrote books including Heartburn and Crazy Salad. Her most recent film credits included the film Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep.
Heartburn, which also starred Streep in the film version, chronicled Ephron's own dissolving marriage with journalist Carl Bernstein and was based on the novel of the same name.
Nora Ephron, the Oscar-nominated film-maker behind romantic comedies When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle has died, aged 71.
Ephron's death was confirmed by her friend Richard Cohen, the Washington Post columnist. She died of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia, with which she was diagnosed six years ago.
The New York Times reported her son Jacob Bernstein said she died from pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukaemia.
Considered one of most influential women in Hollywood, Ephron was a director, screenwriter and producer who also wrote books including Heartburn and Crazy Salad. Her most recent film credits included the film Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep.
Heartburn, which also starred Streep in the film version, chronicled Ephron's own dissolving marriage with journalist Carl Bernstein and was based on the novel of the same name.
- 6/27/2012
- by Ben Quinn, Dominic Rushe
- The Guardian - Film News
Nora Ephron, one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood as the creative force behind such blockbusters as You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally, died at age 71 on Tuesday, according to multiple news reports. The cause of death for the three-time Oscar nominee wasn't immediately known. Friends and family had told ABC News she had battled leukemia. A writer and director who was as comfortable with romantic comedies as she was with hard-hitting dramas with social themes, Ephron's films featured strong female roles that attracted such A-listers as Meg Ryan, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Cher.
- 6/27/2012
- by Mike Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
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