Lionsgate has signed a multi-year deal with unscripted TV producer and director Jonathan Karsh, the studio announced Wednesday. Karsh, a four-time Emmy winner behind hits like MTV’s “Catfish: The TV Show” and HBO’s “My Flesh And Blood,” will develop and produce alternative programming through his new Shiny Objects Entertainment banner. In his previous role as senior vice president of creative affairs at Relativity Television, Karsh helped build the company from its inception in 2008 into a business with over 70 network projects. He developed and executive produced the pilot for “Policewomen” and “My Five Wives” for TLC, “My Extreme Animal Phobia” for Animal Planet,...
- 1/6/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Reality TV producer Jonathan Karsh has signed a multiyear overall deal with Lionsgate TV. Under the pact, Karsh will develop and produce alternative programming through his new Shiny Objects Entertainment banner. "As Lionsgate TV expands its alternative programming portfolio, Jonathan fits right in with our mandate to create formats that can travel around the globe as well as identify interesting worlds to target for series," said Jennifer O'Connell, Executive Vice…...
- 1/6/2016
- Deadline TV
A couple months ago we got an odd report: MTV has been developing a TV show [1] based on the buzzed-about indie documentary Catfish. (Or 'documentary,' depending on how you view the film's position vis a vis honesty.) At the time all we knew was that unspecified Catfish creators, presumably Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, were among those working on the show. Now we've got more info, and it sounds -- not surprisingly -- like a watered-down 'reality' dating show about internet-based relationships. In a piece about new shows being developed at MTV, Deadline [2] offers a synopsis of the show based on Catfish: From the producers of the hit Sundance feature documentary Catfish comes a new MTV series that brings together couples who’ve interacted solely through LCD screens. Over the course of months they’ve supposedly fallen in love — but what will happen when they meet in real life for the first time?...
- 9/17/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
9. The Cove: Psihoyos and Barry assemble a crack team like some sort of Clooney to infiltrate and record the goings-on. They gather world champion free divers to plant underwater cameras and microphones. They get Industrial Light and Magic to craft hidden HD cameras in realistic boulders and shrubbery. They get high-tech night vision and heat-sensitive cameras to scope out for guards and danger as they go all Spy Tech on the fishermen. It's a tense and dangerous operation because they're going espionage on a multi-million dollar industry. Water park dolphins sell for a minimum $150,000. But their efforts work. We see the butchery first-hand, and it's unnerving. Essentially, the dolphins are harpooned to death, as the cove fills with blood. By the finish, they're hooking carcasses out of the water, and the cove itself is drenched with sanguine waters.
8. Grizzly Man: Your view on whether Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man...
8. Grizzly Man: Your view on whether Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man...
- 8/15/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
Opened Friday, Nov. 28
The Audience Award winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, "My Flesh and Blood" isn't exactly your standard crowd-pleaser.
Spending four seasons in the lives of Fairfield, Calif., mother Susan Tom and her sprawling family of adopted kids with special needs, the documentary can at times be downright devastating to watch (particularly the first half-hour), but, gradually, that initial shock value turns into something remarkably life-affirming.
Set to air in the spring on HBO in time for Mother's Day, the film began its Academy Award-qualifying theatrical run Friday and would seem assured of emerging as one of the final five nominees for best documentary.
First-time feature documentary director Jonathan Karsh, who took the director prize at Sundance, had originally met single mom Tom and her unique household when he was a producer for the San Francisco news program "Evening Magazine", but it quickly became apparent that her story warranted much more than the usual seven-minute treatment.
Among the 11 adopted children who make up the Tom clan of tweens and teens are troubled Joe, who, in addition to being stricken with cystic fibrosis, also has ADD, hyperactivity and a methamphetamine-addicted birth mother to contend with; Hannah and Xenia, who were born in Russia without any legs; the sweet Anthony, who has a fatal skin disease that makes bathing a traumatic ordeal; the developmentally challenged Katie; and sensitive Faith, whose piercing blue eyes gaze past a face that was severely disfigured as the result of a fire.
Despite all those special needs, the most intriguing thing about Tom's kids is how they function as your average American family with the obligatory teasing, meltdowns, schoolgirl crushes and joyful celebrations of birthdays and holidays. Their rather macabre take on Halloween is especially inspired.
Like the compassionate but no-nonsense Susan Tom herself, director Karsh's unblinking approach has little patience for strained sentimentality. Fortunately, room has been allowed for cinematographer Amanda Micheli's lovely transitional footage.
Demanding but deeply affecting, "My Flesh and Blood" ultimately takes on a literal, highly visceral meaning that transcends notions of conventional family dynamics.
MY FLESH AND BLOOD
Strand Releasing
Chaiken Films
Credits:
Director: Jonathan Karsh
Producer: Jennifer Chaiken
Director of photography: Amanda Micheli
Editor: Eli Olson
Music: Hector H. Perez and B. Quincy Griffin
Running time -- 83 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The Audience Award winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, "My Flesh and Blood" isn't exactly your standard crowd-pleaser.
Spending four seasons in the lives of Fairfield, Calif., mother Susan Tom and her sprawling family of adopted kids with special needs, the documentary can at times be downright devastating to watch (particularly the first half-hour), but, gradually, that initial shock value turns into something remarkably life-affirming.
Set to air in the spring on HBO in time for Mother's Day, the film began its Academy Award-qualifying theatrical run Friday and would seem assured of emerging as one of the final five nominees for best documentary.
First-time feature documentary director Jonathan Karsh, who took the director prize at Sundance, had originally met single mom Tom and her unique household when he was a producer for the San Francisco news program "Evening Magazine", but it quickly became apparent that her story warranted much more than the usual seven-minute treatment.
Among the 11 adopted children who make up the Tom clan of tweens and teens are troubled Joe, who, in addition to being stricken with cystic fibrosis, also has ADD, hyperactivity and a methamphetamine-addicted birth mother to contend with; Hannah and Xenia, who were born in Russia without any legs; the sweet Anthony, who has a fatal skin disease that makes bathing a traumatic ordeal; the developmentally challenged Katie; and sensitive Faith, whose piercing blue eyes gaze past a face that was severely disfigured as the result of a fire.
Despite all those special needs, the most intriguing thing about Tom's kids is how they function as your average American family with the obligatory teasing, meltdowns, schoolgirl crushes and joyful celebrations of birthdays and holidays. Their rather macabre take on Halloween is especially inspired.
Like the compassionate but no-nonsense Susan Tom herself, director Karsh's unblinking approach has little patience for strained sentimentality. Fortunately, room has been allowed for cinematographer Amanda Micheli's lovely transitional footage.
Demanding but deeply affecting, "My Flesh and Blood" ultimately takes on a literal, highly visceral meaning that transcends notions of conventional family dynamics.
MY FLESH AND BLOOD
Strand Releasing
Chaiken Films
Credits:
Director: Jonathan Karsh
Producer: Jennifer Chaiken
Director of photography: Amanda Micheli
Editor: Eli Olson
Music: Hector H. Perez and B. Quincy Griffin
Running time -- 83 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Opened Friday, Nov. 28
The Audience Award winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, "My Flesh and Blood" isn't exactly your standard crowd-pleaser.
Spending four seasons in the lives of Fairfield, Calif., mother Susan Tom and her sprawling family of adopted kids with special needs, the documentary can at times be downright devastating to watch (particularly the first half-hour), but, gradually, that initial shock value turns into something remarkably life-affirming.
Set to air in the spring on HBO in time for Mother's Day, the film began its Academy Award-qualifying theatrical run Friday and would seem assured of emerging as one of the final five nominees for best documentary.
First-time feature documentary director Jonathan Karsh, who took the director prize at Sundance, had originally met single mom Tom and her unique household when he was a producer for the San Francisco news program "Evening Magazine", but it quickly became apparent that her story warranted much more than the usual seven-minute treatment.
Among the 11 adopted children who make up the Tom clan of tweens and teens are troubled Joe, who, in addition to being stricken with cystic fibrosis, also has ADD, hyperactivity and a methamphetamine-addicted birth mother to contend with; Hannah and Xenia, who were born in Russia without any legs; the sweet Anthony, who has a fatal skin disease that makes bathing a traumatic ordeal; the developmentally challenged Katie; and sensitive Faith, whose piercing blue eyes gaze past a face that was severely disfigured as the result of a fire.
Despite all those special needs, the most intriguing thing about Tom's kids is how they function as your average American family with the obligatory teasing, meltdowns, schoolgirl crushes and joyful celebrations of birthdays and holidays. Their rather macabre take on Halloween is especially inspired.
Like the compassionate but no-nonsense Susan Tom herself, director Karsh's unblinking approach has little patience for strained sentimentality. Fortunately, room has been allowed for cinematographer Amanda Micheli's lovely transitional footage.
Demanding but deeply affecting, "My Flesh and Blood" ultimately takes on a literal, highly visceral meaning that transcends notions of conventional family dynamics.
MY FLESH AND BLOOD
Strand Releasing
Chaiken Films
Credits:
Director: Jonathan Karsh
Producer: Jennifer Chaiken
Director of photography: Amanda Micheli
Editor: Eli Olson
Music: Hector H. Perez and B. Quincy Griffin
Running time -- 83 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The Audience Award winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, "My Flesh and Blood" isn't exactly your standard crowd-pleaser.
Spending four seasons in the lives of Fairfield, Calif., mother Susan Tom and her sprawling family of adopted kids with special needs, the documentary can at times be downright devastating to watch (particularly the first half-hour), but, gradually, that initial shock value turns into something remarkably life-affirming.
Set to air in the spring on HBO in time for Mother's Day, the film began its Academy Award-qualifying theatrical run Friday and would seem assured of emerging as one of the final five nominees for best documentary.
First-time feature documentary director Jonathan Karsh, who took the director prize at Sundance, had originally met single mom Tom and her unique household when he was a producer for the San Francisco news program "Evening Magazine", but it quickly became apparent that her story warranted much more than the usual seven-minute treatment.
Among the 11 adopted children who make up the Tom clan of tweens and teens are troubled Joe, who, in addition to being stricken with cystic fibrosis, also has ADD, hyperactivity and a methamphetamine-addicted birth mother to contend with; Hannah and Xenia, who were born in Russia without any legs; the sweet Anthony, who has a fatal skin disease that makes bathing a traumatic ordeal; the developmentally challenged Katie; and sensitive Faith, whose piercing blue eyes gaze past a face that was severely disfigured as the result of a fire.
Despite all those special needs, the most intriguing thing about Tom's kids is how they function as your average American family with the obligatory teasing, meltdowns, schoolgirl crushes and joyful celebrations of birthdays and holidays. Their rather macabre take on Halloween is especially inspired.
Like the compassionate but no-nonsense Susan Tom herself, director Karsh's unblinking approach has little patience for strained sentimentality. Fortunately, room has been allowed for cinematographer Amanda Micheli's lovely transitional footage.
Demanding but deeply affecting, "My Flesh and Blood" ultimately takes on a literal, highly visceral meaning that transcends notions of conventional family dynamics.
MY FLESH AND BLOOD
Strand Releasing
Chaiken Films
Credits:
Director: Jonathan Karsh
Producer: Jennifer Chaiken
Director of photography: Amanda Micheli
Editor: Eli Olson
Music: Hector H. Perez and B. Quincy Griffin
Running time -- 83 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 12/1/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- U.S. filmmaker Jonathan Karsh's My Flesh and Blood, which recently reaped honors at Sundance, will open the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on April 25 in Toronto. Karsh's directorial debut, which centers on Susan Tom and the 11 special-needs children she adopted, grabbed the trophies for best documentary feature and best documentary director at the January festival. Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival, will close May 4 with the world premiere of The Last Round, Joseph Blasioli's recounting of local boxer George Chuvalo's match with Muhammad Ali in March 1966 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. Hot Docs will unspool 122 documentaries from Canada and abroad.
Director Ben Coccio's Zero Day took the Grand Jury prize for best narrative feature, worth $100,000 in goods and services, at the Orlando-based Florida Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. The audience award for best narrative feature went to Never Get Outta the Boat, directed by Paul Quinn. The Grand Jury prize for best documentary was presented to Paul Devlin's Power Trip, while Elaine Epstein's State of Deniel took home the audience award for best documentary. Among narrative shorts, Paul Gutrecht's The Vest won both the Grand Jury award and the Audience Award. Vance Malone's Ocularist earned the Grand Jury award for best documentary short, while Alex Budovsky's Bathtime in Clerkenwell won the Grand Jury award for animated short. Special jury awards were also presented to Greg Pak's Robot Stories, Jonathan Karsh's My Flesh and Blood, PES's Roofsex, and Shane Sauer's Voyage of the Kitty Kuku. The narrative features jury was comprised of Raymond De Felitta, Dave Karger, and Diana Williams. The documentary competition jurors were Alan Berliner, Mary Litkovich, and Kelly M. DeVine. The shorts jury was comprised of Michael Ellenbogen, Laura Levine, and Stephen Schaefer. The student works jurors were Tracy Frenkel, Leslie Halpern, and Katrinka VanDeventer.
- 3/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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