Chicago Women Produces, Directs and Writes Award Winning Rom Com

Chicago Women Produces, Directs and Writes Award Winning Rom Com

Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 star Jason George is offering fans the chance to walk the Emmys red carpet with him and attend the 70th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles as a VIP guest. You can download his video invitation at vimeo.com/281556768/ec5c832b21.

This opportunity of a lifetime is available through an Emmys Sweepstakes at prizeo.com/EMMYS benefiting the Television Academy Foundation.

With just a $10 donation to the Foundation via prizeo.com/EMMYS, made now through Sept. 1, 2018, fans will automatically be entered to win the ultimate Emmy Awards experience in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2018, which includes:

• Two (2) VIP tickets to the 2018 Emmy Awards telecast, hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost and Michael Che.

• Emmy Awards red carpet access.

• Two (2) VIP tickets to the Governors Ball, the Official Emmy Awards After-Party.

• Backstage tour and rehearsal access.

• Round-trip airfare and accommodations for two guests.

“The Television Academy Foundation is doing vital work to create a more inclusive industry through their fantastic education programs,” said Jason George. “That greater diversity on both sides of the camera will change the way the next generation sees the world and themselves. I’m proud to partner with the Foundation to get the public engaged with their efforts and take one lucky winner and a guest to the Emmys!”

About the Television Academy Foundation: Established in 1959 as the charitable arm of the Television Academy, the Television Academy Foundation is dedicated to preserving the legacy of television while educating and inspiring those who will shape its future. For more information on the Foundation, please visit TelevisionAcademy.com/Foundation.

Black Public Media (BPM), the nation’s only nonprofit dedicated solely to media content about the black experience, has issued an open call to producers for nonfiction broadcast projects (individual programs or series pilots) and scripted or nonfiction digital web series.

The third round of BPM’s 360 Incubator+ will see as many as 10 teams contend for up to $150,000 in funding to help produce the pilots or funding reels of their broadcast or digital projects.

The program is designed to get quality programming and content into the pipeline and help move it to market.

“We are excited to offer the third round of the 360 Incubator+. With the success of past winning projects like My Africa Is and POPS, and the recent release of Read Awakening, we hope this round brings just as many exciting new projects and talented artists to public media,” said BPM Executive Director Leslie Fields-Cruz.

The 360 Incubator+ is a competition for development funds. Participants get tailored training and mentorship in proposal development, script writing, fundraising, distribution options, outreach, and more and work to complete a pilot or funding reel, a full project proposal and a robust fundraising strategy.

Producers with projects currently in the preproduction phase—on areas in BPM’s current content priorities of health in black communities, environment, mass incarceration, LGBTQ issues and immigration—can compete in the current round.

The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2018, at 11:59 p.m. Those selected to participate as fellows will be announced on Friday, November 30, 2018. To apply and for additional rules and guidelines, visit https://blackpublicmedia.org/360-incubator-fund.

Chicago native Nancy Goodman’s new award - winning movie, Surprise Me, is the first romantic comedy to address emotional eating and binging. Written, directed and produced by Goodman the feature film looks at what is behind emotional eating, and how it affects our decisions, lives and love.

Inspired by her fictional novel, Surprise Me, about a surprise party planner who hates surprises, Goodman describes the film as a “Romantic Comedy Diet”. She sees it as her crusade to help women turn their focus from dieting (which she calls a set up to binge and overeat) to their feelings, choices, strength, pain, joy, goals, and new passions beyond their taste buds.

Of all mental illnesses, eating disorders represent the highest cause of death. 45 million Americans diet every year. 25 million women binge. The movie’s intention is to start a conversation about the food and weight obsessions existing in our country,” she states.

My strategies to manage emotional eating and binging, led to the book and movie. Through therapy, I learned to use cravings as a radar detector for feelings I was not aware of. Catching the feelings before they send us to food is the “diet.”

“When we turn our back on cravings, not only do we set ourselves up to overeat and binge, but we’re essentially running from our feelings. Listen to your cravings. Feel your feelings. Make all food and life choices from there. It’s the winning weight loss and life management combo,” she advised.

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