SIFTer TATIANA BACCHUS has two new projects on tap:
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POST UPDATE 9.14.24 – Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Virtual Event: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 6:30pm – 8:00pm – featuring a conversation between Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Producer/Director ILANA TRACHTMAN and Documentary Maker, MacArthur Prize winner, community activist and Founder/Director of Scribe Video CenterLOUIS MASSIAH. LEARN MORE/RSVP
AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND, will premiere at the Maryland Film Festival on May 5th.
Tatiana serves as Impact Producer and was Associate Producer for the film’s shoot in Atlanta.
Synopsis: When five Howard University students rode a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, their arrests made headlines. When the Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the protest, a history-making interracial demonstration was born. These unlikely allies picketed together all summer long, attracting Nazis, Congressmen, and a press avalanche. Picketing together led to partying together and union bosses mentored student activists, producing ten 1961 Freedom Riders and future Civil Rights giants, including Stokely Carmichael. With immersive storytelling and newly discovered footage, four living protesters rescue this untold story. Featuring voiceover by Jeffrey Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Bob Balaban, Lee Grant, Peter Gallagher, and Dominique Thorne.
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round is the untold story of what is likely the first organized civil rights protest in US history, a Jewish/ Black collaboration that happened at Glen Echo Amusement Park outside Washington DC in 1960. The film is immersive, without narrators or experts, telling the personal stories of the “ordinary” people who got involved while also spotlighting the historic firsts – including the first time the American Nazi party counter-demonstrated.
Tatiana serves as Production Supervisor for the newly announced feature documentary JESSICA LANGE: SOMETHING ABOUT THE LIGHT
Cinergistik has announced production on Jessica Lange: Something About the Light, to begin filming this summer in Mexico, New York City, and along U.S. Highway 61, the north-south highway that extends into Minnesota where Lange grew up.
Lange, whose photography has been collected in multiple books, including 50 Photographs, Highway 61, and Dérive, all published by powerHouse Books, will participate in the documentary.
“There’s a cinematic quality to Jessica’s photographic work, so taking these images into the film realm feels natural,” said Alfonsi, director of the 2023 documentary Whitney Houston in Focus… READ MORE Deadline.com