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NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The New Orleans Film Society (NOFS) announced the first wave of titles for the 33rd annual, Oscar®-qualifying New Orleans Film

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NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The New Orleans Film Society (NOFS) announced ten Louisiana-based filmmakers that have been selected to take part in the 2022

The Television Academy has appointed George Cheeks and Channing Dungey as new chair’s appointees to the Television Academy Executive Committee. The announcement was made on Tuesday (February 1) by Frank Scherma, chairman and ...

Duo Join Returning Appointees Gloria Calderón Kellett, Dawn Olmstead, Vernon Sanders, and Zack Van Amburg

The Television Academy just added two more heavy hitters to its executive committee....

The Television Academy just added two more heavy hitters to its executive committee. Channing Dungey, the chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group, and George Cheeks, the president and chief executive officer of CBS and chief content officer, news and sports at Paramount Plus, have both been appointed to the group. The news was announced Tuesday by Frank Scherma, chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, who revealed Dungey and Cheeks as new chair’s appointees to the Television Academy Exec...

One of the nonfiction categories is made up entirely of films that were on the Oscar doc shortlist but weren't nominated

New Orleans Film Society hires new director of documentary programming and filmmaker labs The New Orleans Film Society (NOFS) announced the hire of director and producer Kiyoko McCrae as director of documentary programming and filmmaker labs, a new full-time position at NOFS where McCrae will be leading the documentary programming for the New Orleans Film Festival and managing the Emerging Voices Mentorship Program and the Southern Producers Lab. McCrae will also oversee other efforts to suppor...

And stay together. >> reporter: one of the few times the 15-year-old really smiles is when i ask her what she would like to do to the men from isis who attacked her family? "i would stomp on their heads and kill them," she says. this girl may have escaped to live another day, but her innocence has been forever lost. wolf, all these people i spoke to, none of them believe that there is any future for them in iraq. and they all say if they had the ability, if they had the money or the visas, they ...