Director Todd Douglas Miller and Composer Matt Morton held a talk after a screening of their film, Apollo 11. The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, chronicles the 1969 Apollo 11 mission from days before takeoff to after the astronauts returned home. It includes original footage from the expedition and celebrates the 50 year anniversary of the historic moment in American history and was formatted to be viewed in 65mm IMAX.
August 20th was a star studded night in Los Angeles. ASCAP honored some of the industries best and brightest songwriters for their biggest hits. Everyone from City Girls, to Migos, Cardi B and more were in the building, and The Knockturnal was live on the scene as A-listers shared their excitement for tonight’s award. Catch the exclusive below:
The Redemption Project with Van Jones is a trailblazing series that defies the traditional way of facing forgiveness in a society that struggles with proper criminal justice reform.
This groundbreaking documentary makes you feel like you’re witnessing the moon landing firsthand, from mission control to the lunar surface.
We spent Monday evening at The Plaza hotel celebrating progress in the LGBTQ community with guests such as Uzo Aduba and Javier Muñoz at the annual Point Honors Gala.
W. Kamau Bell’s new show “United Shades of America” claims to explore the “unique” parts of America.
CNN will host a six part miniseries come 2016 about six exciting campaigns to become leader of the free world. Produced by Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti, with their Trigger Street Productions (along with Raw Productions), the docu-series will be CNN’s new 2016 original series and will feature unseen footage and interviews with the key people who were involved with those elections.
In a press release by CNN, the president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, stated, “We are absolutely thrilled to have Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti bring their world-class talent to CNN. When we created the CNN Original Series brand, this is exactly the type of programming we had in mind and Race for the White House will be the perfect complement to our coverage of the 2016 campaigns and election.”
Narrated by Spacey, each hour long installment will closely follow a campaign to become President of the United States. Considering that Spacey is Frank Underwood on the Netflix series House of Cards, it’s no wonder that CNN would want to show the dirty side of politics. Below are our guesses for the six campaigns:
All joking aside, we can be be fairly certain that the 2016 campaign will be one of six. The other five? We can only speculate, but:
What looked like a superheroes convention, turned out to be in fact a gathering of humanity’s most courageous real life heroes.
Chelsea’s SVA Theatre hosted some of the rap world’s biggest legends for a special screening of the new hip hop fashion documentary Fresh Dressed yesterday. The special event was presented by Mass Appeal, StyleHaul, CNN Films and Samuel Goldwyn Film.