September 22, 2011

BLAZING THE TRAIL: THE O’KALEMS IN IRELAND

Blazing the Trail reveals the legacy of New York’s silent movie pioneer The Kalem Film Company, toplined by the creative combo of director Sidney Olcott and actress Gene Gauntier. In 1910, they traveled to Ireland to produce the country’s first feature film, The Lad from Old Ireland, and built on its success with other tales of immigration, romance […]

September 20, 2011

BRINGING KING TO CHINA

After a long career covering wars for ABC News, director Kevin McKiernan (Good Kurds, Bad Kurds) turns the camera on his grown daughter Cáitrín as she attempts to produce a play about Martin Luther King, Jr. in China. Her quest to build a bridge between countries threatens to fall apart over political and cultural clashes. Collaborating with acclaimed […]