Tige Charity found herself unemployed from an insurance department job during the late-2000s recession. Looking to find a new sense of purpose, she began thinking about a visit she’d once made to a girls group home with her husband, actor Antonio D. Charity (The Orville), and how the home’s director had told her about the rewards of mentorship. In 2009, Tige decided to create Kids in the Spotlight (Kits), a nonprofit that helps empower foster youth through filmmaking. Kits program participants write, direct, shoot, cast and act in projects alongside mentors from the film world. “You give them the arts, create a platform for them to be seen, heard, validated and celebrated,” says Tige.
Now, Kits has grown enough to have opened its first studio. Launched with an open house in April, Kits Production Studio is a 5,300-square-foot space in Van Nuys available to entertainment companies for shoots,...
Now, Kits has grown enough to have opened its first studio. Launched with an open house in April, Kits Production Studio is a 5,300-square-foot space in Van Nuys available to entertainment companies for shoots,...
- 5/27/2023
- by Ural Garrett
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This year’s 79th Annual Golden Globes awards ceremony wasn’t televised or livestreamed, and has never been seen by anyone other than those in attendance for the show on Jan. 9 at the Beverly Hilton. Until now.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has shared with Variety three excerpts from the 2022 ceremony, which opened with HFPA president Helen Hoehne and featured representatives from educational and philanthropic organizations — recepients of grants from the org — as presenters. Despite the lack of any at-home audiences, the show was still produced with the sheen of a full-fledged telecast, as directed by Patricia Lowry and produced by Neil Mandt, Michael Mandt and Matthew Brady.
The Mandt brothers, whose credits include “Jim Rome is Burning” and “Destination Truth,” spoke to the Golden Globes website about the show: “This is certainly a unique year,” Michael Mandt told the org. “We knew the challenges given the timing considering the world’s Covid situation,...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has shared with Variety three excerpts from the 2022 ceremony, which opened with HFPA president Helen Hoehne and featured representatives from educational and philanthropic organizations — recepients of grants from the org — as presenters. Despite the lack of any at-home audiences, the show was still produced with the sheen of a full-fledged telecast, as directed by Patricia Lowry and produced by Neil Mandt, Michael Mandt and Matthew Brady.
The Mandt brothers, whose credits include “Jim Rome is Burning” and “Destination Truth,” spoke to the Golden Globes website about the show: “This is certainly a unique year,” Michael Mandt told the org. “We knew the challenges given the timing considering the world’s Covid situation,...
- 2/19/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Celebrity ambassador Ty Burrell (Modern Family) is set to host the annual screening and awards show, “Movies by Kids” on behalf of Kids in the Spotlight on Saturday, November 3 at Fox Studios, and Look To The Stars asked him a few questions about what the cause means to him.
How did you get involved with Kits and ‘Movies by Kids’?
I became involved with Kits after having a conversation with one of the board members, Tamesha Scott, discussing the foster care system. I was looking for a way to continue my father’s work (He spent the bulk of his adult life working at the Children’s Services Division for the state of Oregon.) and she mentioned that she worked with an organization that helped foster kids make their own short films.
What was it in particular that drew you to the organization?
I was drawn to the organization by...
How did you get involved with Kits and ‘Movies by Kids’?
I became involved with Kits after having a conversation with one of the board members, Tamesha Scott, discussing the foster care system. I was looking for a way to continue my father’s work (He spent the bulk of his adult life working at the Children’s Services Division for the state of Oregon.) and she mentioned that she worked with an organization that helped foster kids make their own short films.
What was it in particular that drew you to the organization?
I was drawn to the organization by...
- 11/2/2018
- Look to the Stars
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