¡Buen Provecho! Florida’s Spanish Flavor premieres Sunday, June 30 at 7:00 p.m. on WPBT2. The one hour documentary explores Florida’s Spanish roots through its cuisine, while blending historical narrative with delicious recipes and vibrant locations. The documentary will premiere in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Ponce De Leon’s arrival in Florida.
Five centuries ago, Ponce de Leon arrived in “La Florida,” followed by Spanish explorers, settlers, and immigrants who would leave a lasting legacy of Hispanic influence. Hosted by James Beard award-winning chef and restaurateur, Michelle Bernstein, the documentary reveals these influences from the early conquistadors who brought seeds, spices and livestock to the wave of immigration from Spanish colonies in the Caribbean, infusing a distinctly Latin Flavor to Key West and Tampa to the more recent explosion of South American culture evident in the streets of Miami today.
As an added treat, Bernstein transports us from the past to the contemporary kitchen, where she demonstrates her take on some of the traditional Florida dishes. Her recipes will include a rich, hearty Spanish stew; a modern-day Minorcan pilau, a contemporary Cuban sandwich, and a fresh Peruvian-style ceviche.
For more info go to the Buen Provecho website: http://www.wpbt2.org/buenprovecho
First Toronto, Now Miami!
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
Selected to Screen at Miami International Film Festival
In Competition to win $10,000
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story is a brilliant, original and highly engrossing feature-length documentary depicting the life and times of the best-selling children's author and illustrator Tomi Ungerer. This French artist’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of subversive art and biting social satire is fully explored in this entertaining, 98-minute film. While you may not be familiar with Ungerer or his work, you will quickly be entranced by the force of nature that is Tomi Ungerer.
Far Out Isn’t Far Enough is the directorial feature-film debut of Brad Bernstein (also writer & producer), who weaves Ungerer’s epic life story into an illustrated tapestry of the seminal events of the 20th Century—using Ungerer’s own artwork. From his striking visual commentaries protesting American involvement in Vietnam to the many beloved characters of his children’s books, Ungerer is admired worldwide for the influence his work has had on a variety of art forms, and for his contribution to children’s literature. Yet the same factors that vaulted him to meteoric success – fearless creativity, absolute outspokenness, fierce independence - also made him a lightning rod for controversy and the object of intense malice.
With Ungerer in the drivers seat, Bernstein takes us on an emotional and visual journey through Nazi-occupied France during World War II, Ungerer’s subsequent move to America and his Madison Avenue successes (The Village Voice, New York Times) in the late 50’s during the Golden Age of Magazine Illustration, his immediate influence on children’s literature in the 1960’s (Crictor, Moon Man, The Three Robbers), and the anti-Vietnam war and sociological poster art that made him iconic (Eat, Kiss For Peace, Black Power/White Power). Yet despite all of his monumental visual achievements and the successes of his children’s books in the 60’s – which would, later in life, earn him the coveted Hans Christian Andersen Award – Tomi Ungerer is virtually forgotten in North America, even his most recognized books now out of print.
What led to this man’s freedom of expression being suppressed? What led to his demise? What forced him into obscurity on this side of the pond?
Through interviews with the late Maurice Sendak (Where The Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen), Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator and author Jules Feiffer (Feiffer, Carnal Knowledge), New York Times Book Review columnist Steven Heller, children’s literature scholar Michael Patrick Hearn and others, Far Out explores Ungerer’s self-destruction and subsequent departure from America. To this end, Bernstein and his creative partners & collaborators at Corner of the Cave Media – Rick Cikowski and Brandon Dumlao – have attempted to present the story in the most visually compelling way possible, laboriously combing through thousands of pieces of Ungerer’s artwork from his museum in Strasbourg, France. With the use of a variety of motion graphics techniques, they have taken almost 80-years worth of Ungerer’s art and brought it to life, animating his childhood sketches, ad campaigns, anti-Vietnam War posters, cartoons, children's books and erotica.
Far Out Screening Dates & Times @ MIFF:
Wednesday, March 6th at 9:30PM @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
Friday, March 8th at 7:15PM at Regal 18 South Beach
Arts Garage is a multi-disciplinary cultural hub for visual artists, musicians, performers, film presenters and arts educators.
Creative City Collaborative is dedicated to infusing arts and culture into the Delray Beach Community by presenting live and musical performances, and foreign and documentary films, and providing creative classes and workshops. Founded in 2006 to build the cultural infrastructure that celebrates the City of Delray Beach as a creative, authentic, and intimate City, Creative City Collaborative is supporting the Delray’s cultural growth; strengthening the City’s distinctive national brand and to creating a learning community through the implementation of the Creative City Collaborative plan adopted by the City Commission of Delray Beach.
In November of 2010, The Delray Beach CRA decided to utilize the storefront space located at the lower level of Old School Square Parking Garage to host cultural and arts activities in the space. Alyona Ushe, the Executive Director of Creative City Collaborative, as a CRA employee was tasked to work with the Creative City Collaborative to organize activities in the space that has been named “Arts Garage.” These activities include performances, film, concerts, workshops, and multi-disciplinary classes. In addition, programming at the Arts Garage is being used as a testing ground for activities envisioned in the CRA’s Warehouse project, while building awareness in the community of the City’s Cultural efforts.
Executive Director Alyona Ushe explains why the Arts Garage is the jewel in the crown of the revitalized Delray Beach Arts District
The Newcomer is a documentary that focuses on the life and career of Richard Heyman, who was electedAmerica’s first openly gay Mayor for the city ofKey West.
Directed by Emmy Award-winning journalist John Mikytuck, the Newcomer tells the story about a forgotten gay icon and the tragic circumstances which arrested the political and social progress he made for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in the 1980s.
While the culture wars inflamed by Anita Bryant and the religious right had a powerful impact on the march toward gay civil rights in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the AIDS epidemic was ultimately much more destructive to the movement. The film focuses attention on that tragedy through the story of Heyman.
The Newcomer includes interviews with such longtime Keys notables as Peter Ilchuk, June Keith, John Kiraly, Joan Higgs and Dr. Mark Whiteside.
The Newcomer was made possible with support from the Miami Foundation.
Directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Joe Cardona, this new documentary offers a vibrant portrait of South Florida in the 1970s and 1980s. “El Open House is a story that brings all of our cultures together into an eclectic, unique blend. It’s a celebration of who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be” says Joe Cardona. The one-hour program explores the social, cultural and musical forces that shaped our region and created its distinct sound.
In the 1960s, Miami became home to thousands of Cuban exiles. As families began to settle in, the first generation of Cubans raised in Miami embraced their adopted culture without forgetting their customs and traditions.
Airs Thursday, October 25 at 8:00 & 10:00 p.m.
Producer/Director -- Fiona Cochrane
Cinematographer/Editor -- Zbigniew Friedrich
JOE CAMILLERI, now aged 62, has been rocking the pubs
and clubs of Australia for 45 years, as well as making close to 30 CDs and producing countless more.
This documentary has multiple threads - the migrant story
of Joe's family spanning from Malta to Melbourne, a history
of some of the Melbourne music scene over the last 45 years
via Joe's two main bands Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons and The
Black Sorrows, and a studio insight into the making of his
latest double album which is due for release later this year.
It is a fascinating look at the man and his passion for music.
A trailer for 'Dhivaan's Dream', a new documentary that I produced, directed and edited. An inspiring story about a young boy from South Africa who was diagnosed with Aspergers and has huge aspirations in becoming a filmmaker/screenwriter. With love and support from his family, along with courage and difficult hurdles for Dhivaan himself (who has a vision as big as Walt Disney), comes this heart warming documentary that should encourage any child and/or any parent that has a child on the spectrum of autism to 'leave no stone unturned' in making way for their goals and dreams to come true.
BURN is a feature documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of Detroit firefighters, who are charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.
June 2012 Update: We were able to screen BURN at Tribeca Film Festival (and we won the Audience Award!), but we are not yet fully funded for public release. We STILL need your support! To finish the film for release, we must pay for a long list of "deliverables"-- things like music licensing, a full audio mix, Closed Captioning, creating the DVD masters, marketing, and MPAA ratings.
uVu covered a special FIU screening of "Cuban America." For the past 50 years the Cuban immigrant group has established a historical importance, political significance, and economic influence in the city of Miami. Through interview with Cuban American students, lawyers, professionals, teachers, entrepreneurs, politicians, activists ,authors, public intellectuals, academics, artists, and more, the film explores how this unique group shaped a sleepy, tourist town into a major metropolitan community and urban environment.
The screening was held at the WUC Mary Ann Wolf Theatre at FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus on Tuesday, October 2nd at 6:30pm.
The screening was follwed by a panel-led discussion and Q&A session. Members of the panel include: Filmmaker, Adelin Gasana, Director for the Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment, Michael Gillespie, Ph.D, and the Director of the Exile Studies program and Graduate Studies in Literature, Asher Milbauer, Ph.D.
uVu covered a special FIU screening of "Cuban America." For the past 50 years the Cuban immigrant group has established a historical importance, political significance, and economic influence in the city of Miami. Through interview with Cuban American students, lawyers, professionals, teachers, entrepreneurs, politicians, activists ,authors, public intellectuals, academics, artists, and more, the film explores how this unique group shaped a sleepy, tourist town into a major metropolitan community and urban environment.
The screening was held at the WUC Mary Ann Wolf Theatre at FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus on Tuesday, October 2nd at 6:30pm.
The screening was follwed by a panel-led discussion and Q&A session. Members of the panel include: Filmmaker, Adelin Gasana, Director for the Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment, Michael Gillespie, Ph.D, and the Director of the Exile Studies program and Graduate Studies in Literature, Asher Milbauer, Ph.D.
uVu covered a special FIU screening of "Cuban America." For the past 50 years the Cuban immigrant group has established a historical importance, political significance, and economic influence in the city of Miami. Through interview with Cuban American students, lawyers, professionals, teachers, entrepreneurs, politicians, activists ,authors, public intellectuals, academics, artists, and more, the film explores how this unique group shaped a sleepy, tourist town into a major metropolitan community and urban environment.
The screening was held at the WUC Mary Ann Wolf Theatre at FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus on Tuesday, October 2nd at 6:30pm.
The screening was follwed by a panel-led discussion and Q&A session. Members of the panel include: Filmmaker, Adelin Gasana, Director for the Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment, Michael Gillespie, Ph.D, and the Director of the Exile Studies program and Graduate Studies in Literature, Asher Milbauer, Ph.D.
Broadway or Bust premieres on Sunday, September 9, with new episodes airing September 16 and 23. The documentary tracks the real-life stories of America's top high school musical performers as they participate in the ultimate competition to find the nation's best young rising stars.
Part competition, part performance, and part non-fiction drama, the series starts with regional theater competitions, then moves to New York City, where the "best of the best" take part in grueling drama boot camp and then compete in the National High School Musical Theater Awards (a.k.a. The Jimmy Awards).
Norton presents Outside/In, first exhibition by new Curator of Photography Tim B. Wride
The work of six Florida photographers is featured
Tim B. Wride, the new William & Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Norton Museum of Art raised the curtain on his inaugural exhibition. Titled Outside/In: Florida Photographers Face-to-Face with the Museum Collection, the exhibition opened at 5 p.m. on March 22, 2012 during Art After Dark.
The featured photographers are: Maria Martinez-Cañas, from Miami; Alexander Dias, from St. Augustine; Valerie George, from Pensacola, Christopher Morris, based in Tampa, and the team of Eduardo del Valle and Mirta Gómez, also from Miami. Wride will discuss Martinez-Canas’ work with the artist at 6:30 p.m. also on March 22 at the Museum. (Christopher Morris will present an Artist Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 24.)
“Their work,” says Wride, explores issues of identity, culture, environment, surveillance, and the documentary, and will be juxtaposed with works from the Norton’s Photography Collection to create a ‘dialog’ between the photographers and the Museum Collection.”
Wride used this first exhibition as a way to get acquainted with his new home. Before joining the Norton, he spent 14 years at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as Curator of Photography. Curating Outside/In enabled him to get acquainted with Florida and some of its artists as he travelled to their studios. It also provided the initial opportunity to explore the Norton’s Photography Collection which includes about 3,000 works.
“As a museum curator arriving in an unfamiliar region,” Wride notes, “there are additional discoveries that become imperative before one can truly feel a part of the community: understanding the diversity and needs of your audiences; acquainting yourself with the artists who call your new home theirs, and finally, intimately absorbing the contents and possibilities of the collection you have been hired to shepherd.”
He adds that, “The latter process—the curatorial one—is a continuous endeavor that began the moment I took the job as the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography. My first exhibition for the Norton, Outside/In, is a barometer of sorts, an early indicator of where I am in the process of becoming a part of my new community.”
The Norton Museum of Art is a major cultural attraction in Florida, and internationally known for its distinguished Permanent Collection featuring American Art, Chinese Art, Contemporary Art, European Art and Photography. The Norton is located at 1451 S. Olive Ave. in West Palm Beach, FL., and is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Closed on Mondays and major Holidays). For additional information, please call 561-832-5196, or visit www.norton.org.
Whem I started out making documentary films I was a smart ass.
One of my first films was an artist interview. It was 1977, I was in art school in Palatka, Florida. I borrowed the schools black and white 1/2 inch reel to reel recorder and a back and white camera.
I went on location to a sculpter's home located on the San Sabastian River near St. Augustine, Florida. Set-up under a large Oak tree and had one of my very first filming experiences as a director/cameraman.
I had my on camera tallent ask the artist: what is art. I thought it would trip the person up and I was close-in on the artist's face to get the reaction shot of being dumb founded. Some how at the time I thought that was what filming interviews was about, making people look dumb. I was wrong, very wrong.
Without missing a beat the interviewee responded: "Art is order."
Every since that day I have strived with my film work to make people look good as I capture their best responces.
Serving America: Memories of Peace Corps premieres on Tuesday, April 3, 7:30 p.m. on WPBT2. (Special webcast on March 29th at 7:30 on wpbt.org/webcast) This original WPBT2 documentary highlights the experience of eleven South Floridians who served in the early years of the Peace Corps.
Through the mix of archival film and photographs with personal stories from these returned volunteers, the program tells the story of service and idealism while tracing the history and heritage of an organization that has inspired more than 200,000 Americans to work for peace in 139 countries.
The Peace Corps traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries.
Serving America: Memories of Peace Corps traces the roots of the Peace Corps traces and its mission and history, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries.
From that inspiration grew a federal government agency devoted to world peace and friendship. Within weeks of his inauguration, President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10924, establishing the Peace Corps on a temporary pilot basis.
By June 30, 1962, 2816 volunteers are in the field in 28 host countries: Afghanistan, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Iran, Jamaica, Liberia, Malaysia, Nepal, Niger, Peru, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Senegal, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, and Venezuela.
Serving America, a WPBT2 original documentary, highlights the experiences of South Floridians who served in the first decade of the Peace Corps. Through a mix of archival film and photographs with personal stories from these retired volunteers, The Peace Corps tells a story of service and idealism while tracing the history and heritage of an organization has inspired more than 200,000 Americans to work for peace in 139 countries.
the program premieres April 3 at 7:30 exclusively on WPBT2
Serving America: Memories of Peace Corps traces the roots of the Peace Corps traces and its mission and history, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries.
From that inspiration grew a federal government agency devoted to world peace and friendship. Within weeks of his inauguration, President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10924, establishing the Peace Corps on a temporary pilot basis.
By June 30, 1962, 2816 volunteers are in the field in 28 host countries: Afghanistan, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Iran, Jamaica, Liberia, Malaysia, Nepal, Niger, Peru, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Senegal, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, and Venezuela.
Serving America, a WPBT2 original documentary, highlights the experiences of South Floridians who served in the first decade of the Peace Corps. Through a mix of archival film and photographs with personal stories from these retired volunteers, The Peace Corps tells a story of service and idealism while tracing the history and heritage of an organization has inspired more than 200,000 Americans to work for peace in 139 countries.
the program premieres April 3 at 7:30 exclusively on WPBT2
Serving America: Memories of Peace Corps traces the roots of the Peace Corps traces and its mission and history, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries.
From that inspiration grew a federal government agency devoted to world peace and friendship. Within weeks of his inauguration, President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10924, establishing the Peace Corps on a temporary pilot basis.
By June 30, 1962, 2816 volunteers are in the field in 28 host countries: Afghanistan, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Iran, Jamaica, Liberia, Malaysia, Nepal, Niger, Peru, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Senegal, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, and Venezuela.
Serving America, a WPBT2 original documentary, highlights the experiences of South Floridians who served in the first decade of the Peace Corps. Through a mix of archival film and photographs with personal stories from these retired volunteers, The Peace Corps tells a story of service and idealism while tracing the history and heritage of an organization has inspired more than 200,000 Americans to work for peace in 139 countries.
the program premieres April 3 at 7:30 exclusively on WPBT2
New York, May 2011. The Dillard Jazz Ensemble from Dillard Center for The Arts in Fort Lauderdale participated for the 2nd time in the Essentially Ellington Jazz competition. uVu followed them during the three intense days of competing against some of the best high schools Jazz ensemble from around the nation.This is a story of hope, dream and passion for music.
Commemorating the 100th anniversary (Jan. 22, 2012) of the maiden journey of the Over-Sea Line of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway, linking mainland Florida and Key West. The documentary includes archival stills and newspaper articles, personal correspondence, and original drawings of the project. http://www.wpbt2.org/flagler/
Airs on WPBT2 on Thursday, January 12th at 8:00p.m.
