Spotlight on Public Broadcasting: Filmmakers
| DATE | PORT | ARRIVE DEPART |
| Apr03 Sun | Travel Day USA – Overnight – Barcelona- Monday | PM Departure |
| Apr 04 Mon | Hotel Day | AM Arrival |
| Apr 05Tue | BARCELONA, SPAIN | 6:00 PM |
| Apr 06Wed | MONTE CARLO, MONACO | 12:00 PM 9:00 PMAM – #1 |
| Apr 07Thu | TUSCANY (LIVORNO), ITALY | 8:00 AM 8:00 PM |
| Apr 08Fri | ROME (CIVITAVECCHIA), ITALY | 8:00 AM 8:00 PM |
Apr 09Sat | CRUISING THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA | AM – #2 PM – #3 3PM Screening |
Apr 10Sun | PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN | 8:00 AM 5:00 PM3PM Screening 5PMCocktails and Conversation |
Apr 11Mon Apr 12Tue | CARTAGENA, SPAIN MÁLAGA, SPAIN | 9:00 AM 6:00 PM3Pm Screening Group Dinner 8:00 AM 7:00 PM |
Apr 13Wed | SEVILLE (CÁDIZ), SPAIN | 8:00 AM 6:00 PM3PM Screening 5PM Cocktails and Conversation |
Apr 14Thu | LISBON, PORTUGAL | 11:00 AMAM – #4 |
Apr 15Fri | LISBON, PORTUGAL |
Spotlight on Public Broadcasting: The Art of Filmmaking
From Ken Burns to Rory Kennedy to Louis Gates Jr., PBS has been the home to some of the world’s best filmmakers. Programs like American Experience, FRONTLINE, American Masters,Independent Lens and Great Performances, feature the very best storytellers who educate and entertain a curious public broadcasting audience. This Spotlight cruise will showcase the writers, directors and producers who produce documentaries, independent features and investigative programs on PBS’s Independant Lens. Our featured speakers will share their journey as a professional filmmaker; what brought them to filmmaking and how they are navigating the broadcast and streaming world in funding, producing and promoting their future projects. We will screen their most recent work and conduct “talk back” sessions along with private dinners and cocktail receptions which allow for one-on-one interaction during this unforgettable voyage. All this while we experience the best of the Mediterranean and Middle East.
Spotlight programming and events: Beginning with a festive Welcome Reception, guests will have the opportunity to greet speakers in-person, register for fascinating private dinners and hear more about the acclaimed work of public broadcasting entities. Lectures and special screenings will be offered on sea days and certain afternoons in port. Several PBS films will be screened in the Constellation Theater and on 2 broadcast channels in guest cabins. A special Group Dinner mid-way through the voyage will allow for an exclusive opportunity to meet other passengers with similar interests and also engage closely with speakers following their time on stage. Both a Mid-cruise Reception and a Farewell Reception are also offered during this unique offering. Additional on-board activities and custom shore excursions will be added soon.
To join the group: Spotlight lectures, dinners, and cocktail parties, all unrivaled experiences – are open to all Regent guests at no extra charge. Join our “community at sea” by mentioning the group code “SPO” (for Spotlight) at the time of booking or add this experience to your “On Board Options” via Destination Services to reflect your interest in attending Spotlight on Public Broadcasting events. A programming agenda will be delivered to your suite upon embarkation and along with exclusive invitations to activities and events that will be sent to your suite throughout the journey.
OUR SPEAKERS:
LOIS VOSSEN
Lois Vossen is the founding executive producer of Independent Lens, a PBS series that each season coproduces 20+ original documentaries, documentary shorts for PBS Voices YouTube Channel, journalism shorts, and docuseries including Philly D.A., A Lion in the House, and Have You Heard From Johannesburg (both Primetime Emmy Award winners). Independent Lens has received 25 Emmy Awards, 23 Peabody Awards, 6 duPont Columbia Journalism Awards, 10 Academy Award nominations, and was honored with the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 International Documentary Association (IDA) Best Series Award, with 3 additional nominations. Previously, Lois was Associate Managing Director of the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Labs. She serves on the Television Academy Board of Governors Executive Committee and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). She’s been a juror for DOC New Zealand, Toronto International Film Festival, Shanghai International Festival, SXSW, Palm Springs International Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival. Independent Lens documentaries include Try Harder!, One Child Nation, I Am Not Your Negro, Belly of the Beast, When Claude Got Shot, Always in Season, Bedlam, TOWER, Trapped, (T)ERROR, The Invisible War, The House I Live In, Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution, The Trials of Muhammad Ali, among many others.
BETH LEVINSON
Beth Levison is a NYC-based Emmy and Peabody-winning producer/director. Her most recent producing effort, THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (dirs. Anne Alvergue/Debra McClutchy, producing partner Judith Mizrachy), a 40-minute short about Watergate whistleblower and Republican cabinet wife Martha Mitchell, will World Premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and launch on Netflix. Her previous film, STORM LAKE, which she directed/produced alongside director/DP Jerry Risius, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, won the Audience Award at AFI DOCS, and broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. Other producing credits include WOMEN IN BLUE (Independent Lens, 2020), Emmy-nominated MADE IN BOISE (Independent Lens, 2019), Emmy-nominated PERSONAL STATEMENT (PBS, 2018), and 32 PILLS (HBO, 2017). Levison is the founder of Hazel Pictures, a co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance, producing faculty with the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Social Documentary Film, and a member of the Academy.
PATRICK SAMMON
Patrick Sammon is the Founder and President of Story Center Films, LLC. He is the Co-Director and Co-Producer, with Bennett Singer, of a documentary about the remarkable and little-known story of the LGBT activists who successfully battled the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. Previously, Sammon was the Creator and Executive Producer of “Codebreaker,” a “superb” (The Telegraph) ), “imaginative” (Sunday Times), award-winning drama-documentary that “artfully explored” (The Mail) the life and legacy of Alan Turing, one of the 20th century’s most important people. Turing helped win World War II through his codebreaking and laid the intellectual foundation for the computer age. Instead of being celebrated, however, he faced brutal persecution from the British government. Sammon turned his idea for “Codebreaker” into a highly acclaimed film that has reached all corners of the globe. More than three million viewers around the world have seen the film through television broadcasts and a 12-city U.S. theatrical release, film festivals, digital outlets. Sammon started his career as an award-winning television news reporter at two local CBS affiliates in Northern New York and Northeast Tennessee.
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