Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on August 2, 2012

This years Pipeline survey found projects planned, begun or completed about Francis Scott Key and Phil Ochs religious pilgrims and itinerant carnies Shakespeare and NASCAR Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee Col. George Armstrong Custer and Joe Paterno Johann Bach and Freddie Fender aging brains and young multitaskers.

Mark (Survivor) Burnett does a reality show for PBS about prime ministers chefs, and David (Farmers Wife) Sutherland gives us verite of an aspiring Sioux social worker. Ken Burns follows up on the Central Park jogger case and Ric Burns looks at the blood spilled by the Civil War and the bad blood that still remains.

The survey found about 145 projects planned for broadcast in January 2012 or later. This online list includes 17 titles added from the addendum published in Currents issue of Dec. 12, 2011.For space reasons the list includes only noninstructional public TV projects one hour or longer. The list also excludes sequels and episodes of ongoing series that are 60 minutes or shorter.

Anna Deavere Smith as the cast of Let Me Down Easy on Great Performances."

Producing organization: National Black Programming Consortium. Distributor: APT. Episodes: 4 x 6, 1 x 90 (HD). Status: postproduction. Major funders: NEA, CPB. E.p.: Jacquie Jones. Managing producer: Leslie Fields-Cruz. Series producer: Angela Tucker. Series director: Duana Butler. Contact: Leslie Fields-Cruz, leslienbpc.tv.

Independent docs and short films cover life, art and culture throughout the African Diaspora. Web: blackpublicmedia.org/ watch/afropop.

Producing organizations: Fisher Klingenstein Films and Channel Productions. Distributor: EPS. Episodes: 1 x 60 (HD). Status: completed. Major funder: Channel Productions. Budget: $650,000. Managing e.p.: Donald Tanselle. Executive producers: Matthew Tollin, Arick Wierson. Director: Harry Hunkele. Director of photography: William Fitzgerald. Art director: Roland Le Breton. Contact: Alan Foster, alanepstv.com, 540-483-4767.

Penetrates the hidden corridors of power during 1979 Camp David peace treaty negotiations between Egypt and Israel. Web: http://www.backdoorchannels.com.

Producing organizations: WGBH/Nova (Boston), Windfall Films. Presented by WGBH/Nova. Distributor: PBS. Episodes: 1 x 120 (HD). Status: postproduction. Senior e.p.: Paula S. Apsell. E.p.: Howard Swartz. Contact: Pamela Rosenstein, Pamela_rosensteinwgbh.org.

Recounts story of bouncing bomb that crippled Hitlers war machine.

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