Singer Whitney Houston skyrockets to fame and has a tumultuous marriage with fellow entertainer Bobby Brown. Yaya DaCosta and Arlen Escarpeta star in Lifetime’s Whitney Houston biopic drama Whitney, directed by Angela Bassett. By Movienewz January 17, 2015.
Broadcaster Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund ( Igf), which invests in British production companies by taking minority stakes to help them grow. Variety can reveal that the London- and Los Angeles-based outfit is buying back its shares and leaving U.K. EST on Lifetime, and the network shared a teaser of the trailer ahead of its air date.Founded by Oscar-winning “ Man on Wire” producer Simon Chinn and Emmy winner Jonathan Chinn, high-end documentary producer Lightbox is navigating the next phase of its evolution, and exiting one of the key initiatives that helped the transatlantic company set up shop. Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All premieres on Saturday, February 6 at 8 p.m.
Whitney Houston Lifetime 2015 Plus Her Drug
But, I had hope that this would be a good one because Angela Bassett was directing, and Yaya Dacosta as Whitney in pics was semi-convincing (plus I’ve loved her since ANTM ).Movie Review - Whitney Houston: A Tragic Love (2015) made for TV biopic starring Yaya DaCosta stars as Whitney Houston and Arlen Escarpeta as Bobby Brown.The 25th anniversary of The Bodyguard will be celebrated with new Whitney Houston recordings - and only Et has the exclusive details. Meet the Grieving Military Moms and Widows Who Say President Trump Never Called ThemWhitney is a 2015 American biographical film directed by Angela Bassett based on American recording artist Whitney Houston and her turbulent marriage to R&B.The much-talked about Whitney Houston movie came on Lifetime yesterday and we all know how their track record with biopics is less than stellar (read: downright a mess). “It’sDespite some good performances by Yaya DaCosta as whitney houston and the rest of the cast, this TV movie offers very little to the teleplay and even less about story, it's a story about whitney houston and her disastrous marriage to bobby brown all these years, plus her drug addiction and other stuff including bobby Christina, director angela. Player specializing in high-end documentaries for streaming services and premium cablers. Since accepting the Channel 4 investment in 2014, the “Whitney” producer has more than tripled in size, growing from a £4-million to £13-million turnover company, and establishing itself as a bona fide U.S.-U.K.
She is a recipient of grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and was a senior Fulbright fellow in Damascus, Syria from 2005 to 2006. Meltzer’s work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, Idfa, Toronto International Film Festival, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She previously directed the feature film, “The Light in Her Eyes,” which broadcast on “Pov” in 2012 and toured with the Sundance Film Forward program. But the way Houston belts it out, she is owning everything and anything.See full article at The Guardian - Film NewsLaff 2017 Women Directors: Meet Julia Meltzer — “Dalya’s Other Country”“Dalya’s Other Country” Julia Meltzer is an award-winning filmmaker and the founder and director of Clockshop, an arts organization. The singer is of course renouncing her claim on the loved one. (Much stronger, for me, than Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On from Titanic.) Whitney’s hurricane-force “I” all but blitzes the song’s meaning, which I only fully appreciated on listening to Dolly Parton’s considerably more muted and melancholy self-penned original from 1973.
W&H: What drew you to this story? Jm: I lived in Syria in 2005 for a year, and then I returned there every year until just before the war started more than six years ago. She finds herself to be a self-described Syrian-American feminist responding to growing anti-Muslim sentiment in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. Dalya moves through her teenage years, from 14 to 18 years of age, with increasing confidence. The film follows Dalya through four years of high school where she is the only Muslim student attending an all-girls Catholic school. Jm: “Dalya’s Other Country” is about Dalya and her mother Rudayna adjusting to life in Southern California after fleeing Aleppo, Syria when the war began there in 2012. W&H: Describe the film for us in your own words.
It was devastating to think about what might happen to the city and its inhabitants. I spent time in Aleppo and loved it. When my last film was broadcast on “Pov” in 2012, Aleppo was just entering the war.
I hope people can take that lesson in. Dalya is an incredibly open-minded and adaptable person — if only we could all be like her! What I hope people see is that most young people take in the world around them and have an easy time adjusting to different beliefs, values, and cultures if they are surrounded by love. W&H: What do you want people to think about when they are leaving the theater? Jm: I want people to absorb the perspective of a young Syrian Muslim woman and how she sees the world during these complicated times. I realized that his mother and sister had recently come from there and that the story I was searching for was right underneath my nose. Mustafa Zeno, the co-producer of “Dalya’s Other Country,” worked on my last film doing outreach and distribution.
At the very end I learned that “Pov” was going to take the film and I breathed a huge sigh of relief. Towards the end of post-production I got several other grants that took me almost to delivery. I raised some money from grants at the beginning of production and then I put in my own money to carry the film through rough cut. I’m grateful to all of these talented women who stuck with me. Iryna Kucherenko, my main sound person, did the same. Catherine Hollander, my editor, also lowered her rate and committed to the project over four years.
W&H: What’s the best and worst advice you’ve received? Jm: Way back in 1992 I was just starting out as a filmmaker, I met a documentarian, Richard Cohen. There is simply no better place for my film to have its world premiere. Los Angeles is at the forefront of the pro-immigrant movement in our country. To have a screening with everyone present is a dream. Where do I start? My whole crew is here, my family is here, Dalya’s family is here. W&H: What does it mean for you to have your film play at the Laff? Jm: As a former Film Independent Doc Lab fellow and an La-native, it means so much to me.
However, looking back, I do see some wisdom in that advice — he was passing on part of his experience and it served as both a warning and threat. I remember thinking that he was just a depressed guy who couldn’t finish his film. It’s a terrible career.” In some ways that was both the best and the worst advice together.
It’s hard to choose only one. It’s a tough world out there and you will need these people to survive and get that film made! W&H: Name your favorite woman-directed film and why. Develop a crew who you can count on by being that person too. Work for your filmmaker friends and barter your skills and services.
It’s a brutal beginning and end, though. But she is who she is throughout the whole film — she is selfish and a survivor. As a viewer you want Mona to be friendly, fake it a little bit, just so she can be treated better and get by. There are so few films about women traveling by themselves and on their own terms, so this film is a true gem. I love the truth of Mona’s life as a drifter and a traveler. It is such a perfectly paced film and Sandrine Bonnaire is unrelenting and uncompromising as the main character.
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