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The Woodstock Film Festival is hosting an online conversation with Ron Nyswaner, creator and showrunner of FELLOW TRAVELERS, currently airing on Paramount Plus/Showtime and earning rave reviews.
Moderated by film and television producer Peter Saraf, Nyswaner will discuss the origin of the series and the challenges faced in its creation, and he will answer your questions about this “provocative” and “epic” show.
Once you RSVP, you will receive a Zoom link to join. You will also receive a form to submit your questions in advance to Ron.
About FELLOW TRAVELERS: Decades-long chronicle of the risky, volatile and steamy relationship between the charismatic and ambitious Hawk and the pious and idealistic Tim, two political staffers who fall in love at the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare. Through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco culture of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the two men’s fiery affair only intensifies despite the constant threat of being exposed and losing everything.
"To Make 'Fellow Travelers", Ron Nyswaner Had to Fall in Love. The new drama, which follows a gay romance over several decades, is the first TV series created by the Oscar-winning writer of “Philadelphia.” - New York Times
"A complex, intimate, captivating and visually stunning portrait of anguish and desire, “Fellow Travelers” is an expansive tale set primarily at the height of the U.S. government’s war on communists, “subversives” and “sexual deviants” and ending amid the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s. What begins as a helpless attraction and intense lust transforms into a lifetime of longing that never has a chance at a happy ending." - Variety
Oscar and Emmy nominee Ron Nyswaner has been writing and producing film and television drama for over thirty years, while documenting LGBTQ history in the second half of the twentieth century. He will discuss his writing method, which combines exhaustive research with honest self-appraisal to create high-stakes, emotional dramas, citing examples from the ground-breaking Philadelphia; Soldiers’ Girl, based on a real-life murder and one of the first films to feature a trans main character; the topical and iconic Homeland; the acclaimed true crime documentary series, Murder on Middle Beach; and the upcoming Fellow Travelers, that follows the love story of two men from the era of Joseph McCarthy to the age of AIDS.
The Woodstock Film Festival is hosting an online conversation with Ron Nyswaner, creator and showrunner of FELLOW TRAVELERS, currently airing on Paramount Plus/Showtime and earning rave reviews.
Moderated by film and television producer Peter Saraf, Nyswaner will discuss the origin of the series and the challenges faced in its creation, and he will answer your questions about this “provocative” and “epic” show.
Once you RSVP, you will receive a Zoom link to join. You will also receive a form to submit your questions in advance to Ron.
About FELLOW TRAVELERS: Decades-long chronicle of the risky, volatile and steamy relationship between the charismatic and ambitious Hawk and the pious and idealistic Tim, two political staffers who fall in love at the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare. Through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco culture of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the two men’s fiery affair only intensifies despite the constant threat of being exposed and losing everything.
"To Make 'Fellow Travelers", Ron Nyswaner Had to Fall in Love. The new drama, which follows a gay romance over several decades, is the first TV series created by the Oscar-winning writer of “Philadelphia.” - New York Times
"A complex, intimate, captivating and visually stunning portrait of anguish and desire, “Fellow Travelers” is an expansive tale set primarily at the height of the U.S. government’s war on communists, “subversives” and “sexual deviants” and ending amid the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s. What begins as a helpless attraction and intense lust transforms into a lifetime of longing that never has a chance at a happy ending." - Variety
Oscar and Emmy nominee Ron Nyswaner has been writing and producing film and television drama for over thirty years, while documenting LGBTQ history in the second half of the twentieth century. He will discuss his writing method, which combines exhaustive research with honest self-appraisal to create high-stakes, emotional dramas, citing examples from the ground-breaking Philadelphia; Soldiers’ Girl, based on a real-life murder and one of the first films to feature a trans main character; the topical and iconic Homeland; the acclaimed true crime documentary series, Murder on Middle Beach; and the upcoming Fellow Travelers, that follows the love story of two men from the era of Joseph McCarthy to the age of AIDS.