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So thrilled that Shaina Taub won TWO Tony Awards last night for her work on the brilliant Suffs musical. A decade ago, we had the pleasure of filming Shaina's work with theater legend Liz Swados on the musical Sosua Dare to Dance Together. Mazel tov, Shaina -- may your work serve as an example to "loud little girls" everywhere to tell necessary stories.
Workers of the world, unite (and sing)!
An award-winning short documentary about the revolutionary anthem, "The Internationale." Features Billy Bragg and Pete Seeger. Short-listed for an…
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A musical celebration of May Day at the American Labor Museum / Botto House in Haledon, NJ, featuring a screening of "The Internationale." No more tradition's chains shall bind us, there's a better world in birth!🎶
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https://newyorklaborhistory.org/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Labor-History-Calendar-2024.pdf
Our favorite holiday!
EGG CREAM is a short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor…
📢 Now available: an AKA DOC POMUS movie poster from its theatrical release! The hippest home decor!
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https://willowpondfilms.com/product/aka-doc-pomus-theatrical-poster/
Our online store now has t-shirts, DVDs, posters, mugs, and a zillion ways to enjoy our filmmaking (and our fashion sense). Get yourself some swag!
Posters! T-shirts! Mugs! Baseball!
⚾ Spring training may still be a month away, but you can get an official movie poster for Jews and Baseball today! ⚾
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https://willowpondfilms.com/product/jews-and-baseball-theatrical-poster/
Calling all (young) Marcellas!
We are in search of children named Marcella!
At book signings, Marcella Hazan was sometimes asked to inscribe a cookbook to a baby named Marcella -- in honor of her parents' cooking hero. If anyone named for is out there, we'd love to hear from them or their parents, and we'd like to see a photo of them!
Got a lead on a young Marcella?! Email us at [email protected]
.. and please share and spread the word!
📣📣📣Just in time for last-minute holiday shopping, we just launched the Willow Pond Films store! Fill your life with t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, posters, and support independent documentary filmmaking!
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Our A.K.A. Doc Pomus doc gets some NPR love -- a decade ago on All Things Considered!
NPR's Melissa Block speaks with director Peter Miller about his recent documentary, A.K.A. Doc Pomus, about the obscure songwriter behind Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas," The Drifters' "This Magic Moment" and many more pop hits.
📣📣📣New Jersey friends: join us for a screening of SACCO AND VANZETTI this Sunday afternoon at Casa Colombo in Jersey City, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Peter Miller!
A viewing of the 80 minute, award winning film: Sacco and Vanzetti with discussion by the film's director Peter Miller
Boston friends: A.K.A. Doc Pomus comes to the Regent Theatre Arlington on October 26!
Boston people: A.K.A. Doc Pomus returns to the Regent Theatre Arlington on Thursday, October 26th, for a screening and conversation with producer (and Doc's daughter) Sharyn Felder and music writer Peter Guralnick.
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regenttheatre.com/details/a.k.a._doc_pomus
You can stream Bedlam for free for the next two weeks on PBS. Please watch and share the news!
“A damning indictment and a call to action – lucid, harrowing and urgent.” - The Hollywood Reporter
The stories of people with mental illness are explored with immediacy and urgency.
Here's to you, Giuliano Montaldo, heroic filmmaker and beautiful presence in our "Sacco and Vanzetti" documentary.
Giuliano Montaldo, the prolific Italian director, actor and film industry executive, whose works comprise powerful political drama “Sacco and Vanzetti” about the Massachusetts trial and…
An honor to screen our film with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives and the Democratic Socialists of America Fund. Please join us!
Film Screening and Interactive Discussion on: Sacco and Vanzetti
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story details the many Jewish ballplayers in the history of the game. (Pictured: Hank Greenberg) https://dugoutdirt.substack.com/p/jews-and-baseball-an-american-love
Film Screening and Interactive Discussion on Granito: Sacco and Vanzetti
Join us June 14 at the The National Arts Club in NYC for a sneak peek at a clip from our work-in-progress on Marcella and a delicious conversation with filmmaker Peter Miller, acclaimed cooking teacher (and Marcella's son) Giuliano Hazan, and Chef Jordan Frosolone of The Leopard at des Artistes, who will be serving one of Marcella's dishes!
Co-sponsored by our friends at Gruppo Italiano.
Space is limited, RSVP now: https://bit.ly/3pJa31X
Buon appetito and hope to see you there! 🍅
📣New York friends: please join us on June 14 at 6PM for a conversation about the life and work of Marcella Hazan!
Filmmaker Peter Miller will speak and share a clip of our documentary-in-progress, joined by Marcella's son, the cookbook writer and teacher Giuliano Hazan. Chef Jordan Frosolone of The Leopard at des Artistes will prepare and share one of Marcella's iconic recipes.
Thanks to Gruppo Italiano for its unwavering support for our film, and for making this event possible at the glorious National Arts Club on Gramercy Park.
Seats are limited, RSVP soon to grab a spot! 🍅
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Brooklyn Seltzer Boys has a century-old carbonator and a museum with a spritzing station. Beat that, LaCroix.
So pleased to announce that A.K.A. Doc Pomus is streaming again, re-released by Cinedigm! Now available on Amazon, Vudu, Xbox & Docurama.
If you haven't seen it yet, or haven't heard Doc's amazing story recently, please have a look!
The incredible true story of how Doc Pomus, a disabled Jewish man from Brooklyn, became one of the most celebrated and influential songwriters in music history.
Big news! Jews and Baseball is streaming again!
Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of Jewish Americans to the most American sport of them all: baseball. Highlights include a rare interview with legendary pitcher Sandy Koufax.
Saturday, April 1, at the New York State Writers Institute in Albany, Amy Linton talks about editing "Daughters of the Dust" and her magnificent filmmaking career (and wins an "Ironweed Award," too)!
Ephraim Aisli is the writer-director of THE INHERITANCE (2020), an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and activists form a socialist collective. The film is based on his own experiences as a former member of a Blac...
A happy National Egg Cream Day to all!
EGG CREAM is a short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor…
In case you missed it, here's the WBAI Radio Cat Radio Cafe program featuring Deborah Shaffer and Peter Miller talking about their radical history documentaries now streaming on OVID's "Anarchy in the US" film series:
https://wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=38889
ANARCHY PART 2: ON OVID’S FILM COLLECTION “ANARCHY IN THE USA” On tonight’s show, we’ll bring you Part 2 of Ovid&...
Edited by the incomparable Amy Linton. LA friends, hope you can be there!
Some love for our films from Jewish Currents: "Peter Miller’s excellent 2006 documentary 'Sacco and Vanzetti' thoroughly demolishes the case against the two men…. Also streaming by Miller is a history of the hymn of the international working-class movement, 'The Internationale' (2000)... a thoroughly inspiring half-hour of cinema.”
Both films are part of OVID's new series of films about anarchism. Check them out at www.ovid.tv!
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Directed by Peter Miller • Documentary • With John Turturro, Tony Shalhoub, Howard Zinn, Arlo Guthrie, Studs Terkel • 2006 • 82 minutes Sacco and Vanzetti brings to life the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, ...
An essay by SACCO AND VANZETTI and THE INTERNATIONALE filmmaker Peter Miller
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