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A few years ago, none of us had ever tasted wine before. Protagonist Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for Blind Ambition, a doc film premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival coming up this month. It s the long-awaited follow-up by co-directors Warwick Ross & Robert Coe, the team behind the Russell Crowe-narrated doc Red Obsession. And following its documentary film debut, Blind Ambition is being developed as a scripted series as well. Intro from Tribeca: Joseph, Marlvin, & Pardon are part of a wave of Zimbabweans who left their economically-hit homeland for a better life elsewhere. After their perilous journeys they arrive in South Africa, eventually get jobs in restaurants, gain interest in the intricacies of wine, become sommeliers, meet and bond with one another, and are encouraged to form the ....
AcuityMD raises $7M to better track the evolving world of medical hardware In a world defined by tons of noise and little signal, startups that make it easier for consumers to make a choice just make sense. Career Karma helps students pick a tech bootcamp, Stackin’ helps millennials navigate the world of neobank and savings apps, and a new Boston-based company is helping doctors keep track of the most up-to-date medical devices on the market. AcuityMD, founded in 2019 by Mike Monovoukas, Lee Smith, and Robert Coe, is an enterprise software company that wants to unlock the often siloed world of medical device data. And to do so, it landed a $7 million seed round this week, led by Benchmark. ....
Kelley Henry is a champion for death row inmates Photo courtesy of Kelley Henry Kelley Henry hadn’t been on an airplane for nearly seven months when she learned the Department of Justice had set an execution date for Lisa Montgomery, who was the only woman on the federal government’s death row. It was a Friday in October when the warden of Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, called and put Montgomery on the phone with Henry and her co-counsel, Amy Harwell. Montgomery was crying and could barely speak. “With Lisa, there was no just talking with her over the phone,” says Henry, the supervisory assistant federal public defender based in Nashville, Tennessee, who had represented Montgomery since 2012. Henry explains that as a child, Montgomery was sex trafficked by her mother and gang-raped by adult men, which exacerbated severe mental health issues that existed on both sides of her family. “We needed to physically observe her,” Henry says ....