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Taking a look at Black academia and what it looks like for Black Faculty with host Carol Jenkins. Joined by June Cross, Errol Olton Dr. Marcus D. Allen
June Cross is a documentary filmmaker who has Emmy, Peabody, and DuPont-Columbia Journalism awards under her belt. She also founded and directs the doc program at the Columbia University Journalism School. So you could say she's helped bring not only documentary films into the world but also a lot of documentary filmmakers. We talk about her own films, which include the autobiographical Secret Daughter, a film with many twists about her upbringing as the daughter of a white mother and a Black father, and Wilhemina's War, about a grandmother caring for her HIV-positive granddaughter in South Carolina. We also discuss what she teaches her students about the craft and ethics of documentary filmmaking and how her own thoughts about those things have evolved over the years. More about June here.Films mentioned in the episode:Wilhemina's War (2015), Dir. June CrossSecret Daughter, June CrossThe Territory (2022), Dir. Alex PritzImitation of Life (1959), Dir. Douglas SirkA Kid Kills (1992), Dir. June CrossFahrenheit 9/11 (2004), Dir. Michael MooreOther Mentions:Bill MoyersFredi WashingtonAmiri BarakaAnna Deavere SmithDavid FanningFrontlineJigsaw ProductionsFollow us on Instagram! @ThousandRoadsPodSpecial thanks for helping make this series happen: Sara Archambault, Florence Barrau-Adams, Jon Berman, Ben Cuomo (music), Jax Deluca, Pallavi Deshpande, Nancy Gibbs, Kathleen Hughes, Caroline Kracunas, Laura Manley, Alexis Pancrazi, Liz Schwartz, Jeff Seelbach, Lindsay Underwood (logo/graphics)This episode was supported by a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
Trust is in short supply in America as social and political divides continue to erode our faith in our democratic republic. National surveys and polls show that people distrust each other as well as our government and institutions. Us & Them host Trey Kay recently partnered with West Virginia University's Reed College of Media for a conversation focusing on diminished trust in journalism and the news media. He spoke with special guests Raney Aronson-Rath, editor-in-chief and executive producer of PBS Frontline, and June Cross, director of the documentary journalism program at the Columbia Journalism School. The panelists agreed that the rise of social media and the hollowing out of local news have been part of the problem. The event included thought-provoking audience questions and comments about who and what they trust. This episode of Us & Them draws from that live event as we figure out where to turn for reliable information.
June Cross is a documentary filmmaker and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she founded the documentary specialization. She graduated from Harvard Radcliffe College and has worked as a reporter and producer in addition to making a film and authoring a book about her life, both titled Secret Daughter. She has won numerous awards, including a Peabody and 2 Emmy Awards. June now lives in New York, New York with her husband.
As America chooses its next president in the midst of a historic pandemic, Whose Vote Counts, a new documentary from FRONTLINE, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia Journalism Investigations and USA TODAY NETWORK reporters, looks at whose vote counts — and whose might not. Tune in or stream on PBS this Tuesday, 10/20. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support
This week, two stories of facing the different sides of ourselves. This week’s episode of All Together Now is hosted by Anna Roberts, the Manager of the Mothworks program. Storytellers: Shannon Cason, June Cross Hosted by: Anna Roberts
"Don't do it unless there is nothing else you could possible spend your life doing... because journalism is a calling and a commitment." -June CrossWelcome to Sword and Pen, a podcast about journalism, military veterans, and military veterans in journalism. In this episode we welcome June Cross, a professor of journalism at Columbia University. Cross won 2 EMMY Awards, first in 1983 for her coverage of the U.S. Invasion of Grenada and again in 1997 for her documentary, "Secret Daughter." Over her career she has worked for Frontline, CBS News and the Boston Globe.Sword and Pen is a production of Military Veteran in Journalism, a professional association that builds community for vets, supports their career growth, and advocates for diversifying newsrooms through hiring and promoting more vets.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr)
Filmmaker and Journalist June Cross along with MIT Professor and Award winning Director, Charlotte Brathwaite discusses voter suppression in America and their work in examining our future in the struggle for democracy and justice.
Revisit directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, with executive producer Amy Entelis, as they talk about their blockbuster documentary RBG. Hear them tout the power of optimism and other helpful tips they learned while making their 2019 duPont award winning film. Moderated by professor June Cross.
Oscar-winning director John Ridley and veteran ABC News producer Jeanmarie Condon wove together intimate first person accounts and archival footage to create a stunning, cinematic portrait of the events preceding the 1992 Los Angeles riots in the new documentary 'Let It Fall.' Ridley and Condon visited the Columbia Journalism School to discuss the film with professor June Cross.
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On Assignment’s season finale features accomplished filmmaker and the founder of Columbia Journalism School’s Documentary Program June Cross. She took the stage at a recent Film Friday screening with producer Lisa Desai to discuss their latest film - Wilhemina’s War, available on PBS until June 1st, then for sale online at Women Make Movies. In this podcast, June walks our audience through the film’s exhaustive five year production, which traces the impact of HIV through three generations of women in a rural South Carolina community. Hear June and Lisa on the successes and pitfalls of documentary filmmaking and the difficulties of covering such an emotionally painful subject.
Carol Jenkins sits down with multiple Emmy and duPont award recipient, documentary filmmaker June Cross and discusses her film 'Wilhemina's War'.
Documentary filmmaker, professor and journalist June Cross visits The Context of White Supremacy. She uses her skill to "tell stories about the people other people think don't matter." She's a tenured professor at the Columbia Journalism School and produced a large body of fine work with PBS' NewsHour. We'll investigate her 2009 documentary, The Old Man And The Storm. She narrates the extraordinary story of the the Gettridge family. Cross and many other media outlets met Herbert Gettridge when he was 82-years-old and amongst the debris of the epic catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina and the levee failure. Mr. Gettridge worked tirelessly - and mostly without assistance - to rebuild his house in the Lower Ninth Ward. Cross records Mr. Gettridge's monumental strength and gets his commentary on the state of the recovery in New Orleans. It's easily once of the top films made on Katrina. We're eager to hear her views on ten years of reconstruction in the Crescent City. #AnswersForMiriamCarey INVEST in The COWS - http://tiny.cc/ledjb CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p