Oscar nominee Tod Lending’s latest documentary, “Rosevelt’s America,” has its broadcast premiere in a standalone screening on national PBS April 25. It plays locally at 10:30 p.m. on Ch. 11.
Suree Towfighnia first visited the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in August, 2002 to film Alex White Plume’s hemp harvest for her documentary “Standing Silent Nation.”
A few years ago it occurred to best friends Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson that their travels to exotic lands?80 so far?might make a good TV show. And so
When ReelChicago last connected with Beth Aldrich of “For Her Information” in early 2005, the show was in its second season on the PAX network, and Aldrich was on the
Northfield-based Media Recall, the people who made Ch. 11’s archives available online, have signed another PBS station, KAET, Ch. 8 in Phoenix, to digitize much of archives for convenient
“Omar and Pete,” the latest film from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentarian Tod Lending (“Legacy”), has its broadcast premiere Sept. 13 in the season finale of the national PBS doc series
Michael Caplan’s personal documentary “Stones from the Soil” premieres in 75 markets on PBS Plus this month.
“Stones from the Soil” explores the impact of Gross-Breesen, a
Chicago is about to regain its once-dazzling reputation for jazz as production of a series on the music and artists gets underway at Ch. 11.
“Legends of
Everyone knows the unparalleled on-court antics of the Harlem Globetrotters, but few today are aware of the team’s pivotal role in shattering basketball’s color barrier and transforming the sport in
Scott Erlinder’s gamble that there would be a national audience for his doc about Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast paid off when American Public Television
By having been in the right place at the right time, Wiggle Puppy Productions’ director Mark Krieglstein and producer Sara Yule were hired to provide the documentary footage that was
A second season of 13 “Soundstage” episodes launches June 17 on Ch. 11 and national PBS with a line-up of today’s hottest performers. First show is a Fleetwood Mac
Rudolph Caplan was staying overnight in an infirmary on the night after Kristallnacht in November 1938 when Nazis raided his school and shipped all the
Moline-based Silver Oaks Communications undertook an ambitious project for its first HD production: a five- camera shoot of the 14th Annual First Presbyterian Church Christmas
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| Nomadic Pictures’ Tod Lending |
Tod Lending makes no little plans. The socially-minded filmmaker
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| Nomadic Pictures’ Tod Lending |
Tod Lending makes no little plans. The socially-minded filmmaker is embarking
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Like a lot of young boys his age, Gary Foreman was captivated by the rugged boldness
A new adaptation of The Forsyte Saga by Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy is coming to PBS and WTTW via Masterpiece. The multi-generational story, published in the early twentieth century, follows the “new
Did a UFO fly over O’Hare Airport? How did the alligator later named “Chance the Snapper” suddenly appear in Chicago’s Humboldt Park Lagoon? Is Hull-House haunted? Why don’t Chicagoans put ketchup
