An invaluable addition to our still-developing understanding of an artist whose fame raises thorny questions, Jeffrey Wolf’s Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts introduces a man whose distinctive drawings depict life during the final years of slavery and the decades that followed. Drawing heavily on works from various fields — from Zora Neale Hurston’s writing to music and theater — Wolf succeeds in finding a wealth of meaning in Traylor’s deceptively simple pictures, even if he can’t answer all our questions about the man’s life. Some of Wolf’s smartest choices, though, will be invisible to viewers unfamiliar with Traylor’s complicated, posthumous rise to ...
- 4/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
An invaluable addition to our still-developing understanding of an artist whose fame raises thorny questions, Jeffrey Wolf’s Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts introduces a man whose distinctive drawings depict life during the final years of slavery and the decades that followed. Drawing heavily on works from various fields — from Zora Neale Hurston’s writing to music and theater — Wolf succeeds in finding a wealth of meaning in Traylor’s deceptively simple pictures, even if he can’t answer all our questions about the man’s life. Some of Wolf’s smartest choices, though, will be invisible to viewers unfamiliar with Traylor’s complicated, posthumous rise to ...
- 4/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Jeffrey Wolf’s documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts and is planning to release in Spring 2021.
The doc captures the life of the titular Bill Traylor who, in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art. Born into an enslaved family in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, he witnessed profound social and political change during his life spanning Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration.
In his later years, he poured out those memories from within, drawing and painting over 1,000 pieces of art from 1939 to 1942. Using historic and cultural context, the film brings the spirit of Traylor’s art to life and shines a spotlight to a remarkable creative gift that was long ignored and marginalized. His works have since been shown at New York...
The doc captures the life of the titular Bill Traylor who, in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art. Born into an enslaved family in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, he witnessed profound social and political change during his life spanning Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration.
In his later years, he poured out those memories from within, drawing and painting over 1,000 pieces of art from 1939 to 1942. Using historic and cultural context, the film brings the spirit of Traylor’s art to life and shines a spotlight to a remarkable creative gift that was long ignored and marginalized. His works have since been shown at New York...
- 11/10/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
News on the march!
This is the first time I’m hearing of this. I literally just got this press release in my inbox.
The gist of it? They’re calling it Bounce – the 1st-ever 24/7 broadcast TV network created exclusively for African Americans; behind it are Ambassador Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III who are founders; also on the team are Rainforest Films co-Founders Rob Hardy and Will Packer; former Turner Broadcasting executives Ryan Glover & Jonathan Katz; former Sony Pictures Television executive Jeffrey Wolf; the new network will launches this fall;
Major motion picture licensing deals are in place with NBCUniversal Television, Sony Pictures Television, Codeblack Entertainment and Image Entertainment, which will net nearly 400 titles.
Target audience for the network which will broadcast 24/7, is African Americans primarily, between the ages of 25-54; programming will included a mix of theatrical motion pictures, live sporting events, documentaries, specials, inspirational faith-based programs,...
This is the first time I’m hearing of this. I literally just got this press release in my inbox.
The gist of it? They’re calling it Bounce – the 1st-ever 24/7 broadcast TV network created exclusively for African Americans; behind it are Ambassador Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III who are founders; also on the team are Rainforest Films co-Founders Rob Hardy and Will Packer; former Turner Broadcasting executives Ryan Glover & Jonathan Katz; former Sony Pictures Television executive Jeffrey Wolf; the new network will launches this fall;
Major motion picture licensing deals are in place with NBCUniversal Television, Sony Pictures Television, Codeblack Entertainment and Image Entertainment, which will net nearly 400 titles.
Target audience for the network which will broadcast 24/7, is African Americans primarily, between the ages of 25-54; programming will included a mix of theatrical motion pictures, live sporting events, documentaries, specials, inspirational faith-based programs,...
- 4/4/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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