SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS: The filmmakers and author talk about new docu series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/19/2024
SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS Key Art | ©2024 National Geographic

SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS is a new three-part documentary series premiering Sunday, April 21, on the National Geographic Channel, and is thereafter available streaming on National Geographic Channel, Hulu, and Disney+. Executive-produced by James Cameron as part of his National Geographic Channel SECRETS OF documentary anthology, SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS explores previously unknown behaviors by these intelligent ocean dwellers. Paul Rudd is the show’s narrator. During National Geographic Channel’s portion of the Winter 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, Dr. Alex Schnell, executive producer Adam Geiger, and writer Sy Montgomery sit down together to talk about SECRETS OF THE […]Read On »


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QUEENS: Executive producer Vanessa Berlowitz and showrunner Chloe Sarosh talk about shaping the new docuseries

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/24/2024
An African elephant calf walks amongst the herd in QUEENS | ©2024 National Geographic / Robbie Harman

The seven-part nature documentary series QUEENS is now streaming in its entirety on both National Geographic and Disney+. Narrated by Angela Bassett, each episode focuses on matriarchal animal societies in different environments. QUEENS is also primarily made by women filmmakers. Executive producer Vanessa Berlowitz has been with QUEENS since its inception; Chloë Sarosh is the showrunner and a writer on the project. Berlowitz, an Emmy winner for FROZEN PLANET, co-founded Wildstar Films after working with the BBC’s Natural History Unit for twenty-five years. Sarosh has been a producer on other docuseries, including EARTH FROM SPACE and NATURE’S WEIRDEST EVENTS. During […]Read On »


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QUEENS: Director of Photography Sophie Darlington and producer-director Faith Musembi on new documentary series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/08/2024
QUEENS Director of Photography Justine Evans, Mentee and Filmmaker Erica Rugabandana, Series Director and Mentee Faith Musembi, and Director of Photography Sophie Darlington | ©2024 National Geographic for Disney / Andrew Thompson

QUEENS, on National Geographic and Disney+, is a seven-episode documentary series spotlighting matriarchal animal groups, made by a group of primarily women filmmakers. Different segments focus on wildlife in the savannahs, in Africa, in the rainforest, in the coasts and oceans, and in the mountains, as well as on insects and aunts. The series is narrated by Angela Bassett, one of its executive producers. The first three episodes premiered on Monday, March 4; the remaining four will debut on Monday, March 11. Sophie Darlington is, with Justine Evans, the series director of photography on QUEENS. Her previous credits include PBS […]Read On »


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QUEENS: D.P. Justine Evans and cinematographer Erin Ranney on new animal mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/01/2024
QUEENS Key Art | ©2024 National Geographic

QUEENS is National Geographic Channel’s seven-part nature documentary series, premiering with three episodes on Monday, March 4, then running the other four episodes on Monday, March 11. The series is also available on Disney+. Shot across six continents, QUEENS not only focuses on animal matriarchies, from elephants to ants, but was made by a women-led team of filmmakers and technicians, and narrated by Angela Bassett. Director of photography Justine Evans, whose previous credits include PLANET EARTH and GREAT MIGRATIONS, and cinematographer Erin Ranney, who filmed on NATURE, sit down to talk about their work on QUEENS. This conversation took place […]Read On »


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THE SPACE RACE: Filmmakers Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortes on new NASA documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/20/2024
THE SPACE RACE key art | ©2024 National Geographic

Directors Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza came together to direct and produce THE SPACE RACE, now streaming on both National Geographic and Disney+. This is the first time the filmmakers have collaborated. Separately, Cortés won an Emmy for the documentary THE APOLLO. Cortés’s other credits include ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY, THE REMIX: HIP HOP X FASHION and LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING. Hurtado de Mendoza has made documentaries including BRANDING KOSOVO and THE PEOPLE’S FIGHTERS: TEOFILO STEVENSON AND THE LEGEND OF CUBAN BOXING. Jointly Hurtado de Mendoza and Cortés have already won three awards for THE […]Read On »


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GENIUS: MLK/X: Actor Aaron Pierre on playing Malcolm X – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/16/2024
GENIUS MLK X key art | ©2024 National Geographic

GENIUS: MLK/X is the fourth installment of National Geographic’s anthology series GENIUS. Airing Thursday nights and then available on demand, MLK/X dramatizes the parallel rise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Both men spent most of their lives immersed in the struggle for civil rights and in religion (Christianity for King, Islam for Malcolm X), and both were assassinated in the 1960s. They only met in person once, but it was a mutually significant encounter, shown in MLK/X. British actor Aaron Pierre portrays Malcolm X in MLK/X. Jayme Lawson plays his wife, Betty Shabazz; Kelvin Harrison Jr. […]Read On »


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THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT: Actors Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen talk the new STAR WARS series – Interviews

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/26/2022
THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT Key Art - Boba Fett | ©2022 Disney+/StarWars

THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT is the newest live-action series entry in the STAR WARS franchise. New episodes of the seven-part first season debut weekly on Disney+. Boba Fett, as all STAR WARS aficionados know, is the enigmatic, helmeted bounty hunter (originally played by the late Jeremy Bulloch) who captured Han Solo in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and then was apparently killed by a Sarlacc in THE RETURN OF THE JEDI. In THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT, created by Disney+ by Jon Favreau (who co-created Disney+’s other live-action STAR WARS series, THE MANDALORIAN), we learn how Boba Fett, now played […]Read On »


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SHARKFEST: Expert Valerie Taylor and filmmaker Sally Aitken on SHARK BEACH and PLAYING WITH SHARKS – Exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/03/2021
Chris Hemsworth in SHARK BEACH WITH CHRIS HEMSWORTH |©2021 National Geographic/Craig Parry

SHARKFEST kicks off its ninth edition on Monday, July 5, with its biggest celebration of the marine predators so far. This SHARKFEST last for six weeks, with programming across four cable networks – National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Mundo, and Disney XD – as well as Disney+. First up is SHARK BEACH WITH CHRIS HEMSWORTH, premiering Monday, July 5. The actor teams up with expert Valerie Taylor to swim with some sharks off the Australian coast, as well as talking with various scientists and authorities on the animals. On Friday, July 13, PLAYING WITH SHARKS: THE VALERIE TAYLOR […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SOUL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/11/2021
SOUL movie poster | ©2020 Disney/Pixar

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Angela Bassett, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Wes Studi, Fort une Feirnster, Zenobia Shroff Writers: Pete Docter & Mike Jones & Kemp Powers Director: Pete Docter Co-Director: Kemp Powers Distributor: Disney Release Date: December 25, 2020 SOUL has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Animated Motion Picture and Best Score (by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, with jazz compositions and arrangements by Jon Batiste), and will no doubt get some Oscar nods as well. The title of SOUL comes from both the spirit of jazz music, dear to the heart […]Read On »


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THE RIGHT STUFF: Actor Jake McDorman talks about how astronauts deal with fear – Exclusive Interview – Part 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/09/2020
Jake McDorman as Alan Shepard in THE RIGHT STUFF | ©2020 National Geographic/Gene Page

In Part 2 of our exclusive interview with actor Jake McDorman, he talks more about portraying real-life astronaut Alan Shepard in Disney+’s new series THE RIGHT STUFF. Based on Tom Wolfe’s nonfiction book about the beginnings of the NASA space program, the first season of THE RIGHT STUFF focuses on the Mercury 7 mission. The series premieres on Disney+ on Friday, October 9. ASSIGNMENT X: Of the various astronauts’ achievements, is there one that you particularly would have liked to have done yourself – first man in space, first man on the moon, longest in orbit? JAKE McDORMAN: I’ve got […]Read On »


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