Donations are welcome and will help offset the streaming fees absorbed by Aspen Film.
Following the film, you are invited to view a special pre-recorded conversation featuring Director Sam Pollard and Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Radhika Jones.
Sam Pollard (Director)
Sam Pollard is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director and producer. His films for HBO, PBS, and the Discovery Channel include the documentaries Four Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Slavery by Another Name, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me, ACORN and the Firestorm, Why We Hate, and Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children. Pollard also directed two episodes of the groundbreaking series Eyes on the Prize II.
Since 1994 Pollard has served on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and lives in New York City.
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Radhika Jones (Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair
Radhika Jones is the fifth editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair since its modern revival in 1983. She previously held senior editorial roles at The New York Times, Time and The Paris Review. In December 2017, she joined Vanity Fair from the Times, where, since November 2016, she was Editorial Director, Books, overseeing daily and Sunday reviews and expanding the desk’s digital coverage at the intersection of books, news, and ideas. As deputy editor at Time, Jones led the editorial and aesthetic direction of the weekly magazine and steered the multi-platform Time 100 and Person of the Year franchises.
Prior to joining Time in 2008, Jones was the managing editor of The Paris Review, where she commissioned and edited fiction and nonfiction pieces. She also was the managing editor at Grand Street, an editor at Artforum, and the arts editor of The Moscow Times, where she began her career.
Jones holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia, where she has also taught courses in writing and literature. Born in New York City, she grew up in Cincinnati and Ridgefield, Connecticut. She joined CARE’s Board in 2019.
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
Donations are welcome and will help offset the streaming fees absorbed by Aspen Film.
Following the film, you are invited to view a special pre-recorded conversation featuring Director Sam Pollard and Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Radhika Jones.
Sam Pollard (Director)
Sam Pollard is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director and producer. His films for HBO, PBS, and the Discovery Channel include the documentaries Four Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Slavery by Another Name, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me, ACORN and the Firestorm, Why We Hate, and Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children. Pollard also directed two episodes of the groundbreaking series Eyes on the Prize II.
Since 1994 Pollard has served on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and lives in New York City.
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Radhika Jones (Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair
Radhika Jones is the fifth editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair since its modern revival in 1983. She previously held senior editorial roles at The New York Times, Time and The Paris Review. In December 2017, she joined Vanity Fair from the Times, where, since November 2016, she was Editorial Director, Books, overseeing daily and Sunday reviews and expanding the desk’s digital coverage at the intersection of books, news, and ideas. As deputy editor at Time, Jones led the editorial and aesthetic direction of the weekly magazine and steered the multi-platform Time 100 and Person of the Year franchises.
Prior to joining Time in 2008, Jones was the managing editor of The Paris Review, where she commissioned and edited fiction and nonfiction pieces. She also was the managing editor at Grand Street, an editor at Artforum, and the arts editor of The Moscow Times, where she began her career.
Jones holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia, where she has also taught courses in writing and literature. Born in New York City, she grew up in Cincinnati and Ridgefield, Connecticut. She joined CARE’s Board in 2019.
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States