For most of us, it's not difficult to decipher where we come from and who we are. Looking at parents, siblings and relatives, one can determine which traits came from which side of family, and determine where we fit in not only at home, but in the community at large. However, the award-winning documentary "Somewhere Between" takes a look at a group of young women whose lives have taken root in the United States, but whose family tree reaches far overseas. Profiling Chinese adoptees in contemporary America, "Somewhere Between" finds director Linda Goldstein Knowlton ("The World According to Sesame Street"; producer of "Whale Rider" and "The Shipping News") focusing on teenagers Haley, Jenna, Ann and Fang. They are four of the approximately 80,000 girls who have been adopted in th U.S. from China since 1989 in the wake of that nation's One Child Policy, and the film takes a look at...
- 7/18/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Participant Productions and Sony Pictures Classics are teaming up on an Errol Morris documentary examining the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
Participant's executive vp documentary production Diane Weyermann announced the project to an audience of hundreds at the AFM seminar Who Backs Movies and Why on Sunday.
Morris is now prepping the film, which will examine the infamous abuse and torture of inmates held as suspected terrorists in the Iraqi prison located 20 miles west of Baghdad. The scandal was revealed in 2004 when photos of inmates being tortured were published around the world.
Previous Participant-financed films include the hit documentary An Inconvenient Truth and The World According to Sesame Street.
When contacted, Sony Pictures Classics co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard declined comment on any details.
Participant's executive vp documentary production Diane Weyermann announced the project to an audience of hundreds at the AFM seminar Who Backs Movies and Why on Sunday.
Morris is now prepping the film, which will examine the infamous abuse and torture of inmates held as suspected terrorists in the Iraqi prison located 20 miles west of Baghdad. The scandal was revealed in 2004 when photos of inmates being tortured were published around the world.
Previous Participant-financed films include the hit documentary An Inconvenient Truth and The World According to Sesame Street.
When contacted, Sony Pictures Classics co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard declined comment on any details.
- 11/6/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARK CITY -- With politics taking front and center stage among the movies unspooling here this week, billionaire eBay co-founder Jeff Skoll and his Participant Prods. president, Ricky Strauss, have injected two opinionated documentaries into the Sundance fray: Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth takes aim at global warming and stars former vice president and environmentalist Al Gore, while Linda Goldstein Knowlton and Linda Hawkins Costigan's The World According to Sesame Street looks at how the educational series is adapted in other countries. Both films are seeking distribution. They also arrive as part of what to date has been a successful two-year experiment engineered by Skoll and Strauss to use "the power of Hollywood to do good," as their ParticipantProductions.com Web site declares.
- 1/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Reinforcing its commitment to documentary productions, Jeff Skoll's socially relevant Participant Prods. announced Monday the hiring of Diane Weyermann to executive vp documentary production. She will start Monday and will report to Participant president Ricky Strauss. Weyermann will oversee Participant's docu slate, which includes the upcoming The World According to Sesame Street, which is still in production, and ThinkFilm/MTV Films' Murderball, which Participant partnered on for its July release. She will oversee the documentary division, including the acquisition of new product and development of original docus from development through production and release.
- 10/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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