The nominations are in, and two Knight Arts films are up for a 2010 Suncoast Emmy. Our 30-minute documentary of the 2008 Knight Arts Challenge is nominated in the Arts/Entertainment Program category. Subjects include Art Center/South Florida, Leggo My Demo and the New World School of the Arts. Sunday’s Best, an eight-minute film documenting the [...]
This Friday night at Barry University’s Andreas center, check out the debut of the Maroon Chronicles—a heart-thumping featurette produced by the creative forces at Carnival Arts and written by teens from the Miami Bridge youth crisis
Davis Guggenheim, Oscar winning director of global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth has set his sights on his next topic – the sad state of K-12 education in America. Waiting for Superman opens Sept 24, but Dennis Scholl, Knight’s vice president of the arts and Miami program director, recently had an opportunity to preview the [...]
Congratulations to the team behind Sunday’s Best – the eight-minute film was just accepted to the Aspen shortsfest. Conceived and commissioned by the Knight Foundation, Sunday’s Best blends interviews, vintage and contemporary photography and local gospel music to document the Miami black community’s rich tradition of wearing elaborate hats to church. Sunday’s Best made its [...]
For one night only WetHeatProjects transformed Locust Projects into a documentary production studio to capture the most important and immediate aspect of the coming season: you. Many came and played a part, on-camera and off-camera, and enjoyed the heat of the moment. And, the heat and humidity of the night. Balls in the Air: Not [...]
