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"Valley Of Souls" After getting cancelled thanks to last year’s coronavirus lockdowns, the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter SFFILM) returns this year with its 2021 edition.  Running from April 9-18, 2021, this year’s SFFILM mixes together online streaming and live events at the Fort Mason Center drive-in.  This year’s program presents 103 films from 41 different countries.  13 of these films are World Premieres. One of these World Premieres takes Opening Night honor...

One of the standouts from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. The documentary from Marilyn Agrelo ( Mad Hot Ballroom) dives into the origins of the beloved children’s program Sesame Street, a groudbreaking venture that dared to use television to educate children at a time when it was being used for nothing but mindless entertainment to keep them occupied. As you can see in the first trailer for the documentary, th...

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15 Standouts From the 2021 (Virtual) Sundance Film Festival From Tweet Together Together The Sundance Film Festival is typically the industrys annual coronation of indie sensations and once and future awards darlings. Intrepid filmgoers make the pilgrimage to snowy Park City, Utah, where they wait in long lines to catch a movie that could either be the next big thing or a Redbox exclusive in seven months.  Sundance carried on in 2021 despite the pandemic thanks to a ma...

Reel Dad: "Street Gang" brings "Sesame Street" to life at Sundance Mark Schumann FacebookTwitterEmail “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.Sundance Film Festival For millions of children, the lessons from “Sesame Street” created paths to curiosity and caring, civility and compassion. From its debut on public television in 1969, this magical combination of entertainment and education gave countless children the chance to be more prepared w...

Documentaries like I Am Big Bird: The Carroll Spinney Story and Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey have already dug into a couple slices of the magic that makes Sesame Street so beloved by children and adults alike. Now Marilyn Agrelo‘s new film Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (inspired by Michael Davis’ book of the same name) goes back to the origins of the groundbreaking series created by producer Joan Ganz Cooney and writer/director Jon Stone, and shines a light on the h...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Directed by Marilyn Agrelo. There will surely never again be a children’s TV phenom on the scale of  Sesame Street – and the abundance of choice afforded by modern streaming services can only partially explain that. Orson Welles famously called it “the best thing that ever happened to television,” and today, it remains a rarest of legacy TV shows to endure over more than a half-century without becoming a du...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Review: A Dream Team Teaches Kids Math, the Alphabet and Integration Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Review: A Dream Team Teaches Kids Math, the Alphabet and Integration Marilyn Agrelos sweeping look at the origins and impact of the revolutionary kids show transcends nostalgia, documenting television and cultural history alike. Chris Willman, provided by

Half a century in, Sesame Street has become one of the most reliable staples of childhood in America. You probably grew up with it; your parents probably did too, and your kids are probably growing up with it now. Which can make it easy to forget how radical the show seemed when it first aired. That, in part, is what Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street is here to fix.  The documentary takes a broad view of the first two decades of the show, digging into the heady days of its creation ...

2021 Sundance Film Festival: Day 3 highlights By David Morgan Updated on: January 30, 2021 / 11:50 PM / CBS News Highlights for Day 3:  Though Jamila Wignots rapturous profile of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) spends less time on details of his life than may be wished for, it more than makes up for it on details of Aileys work, including archival footage of Ailey as a dancer and choreographer; stunning performances of such pieces as his quintessential...