SUMMER 2015 QUARTERLY NEWS NEWS QUARTERLY ® COURTESY OF BUDDY SQUIRES, ASC Delving into the rich history of one of the world’s preeminent ballet companies, Emmy - and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns combines intimate rehearsal footage, virtuoso performances, and interviews with American Ballet Theatre’s key figures to chronicle the rise of the company from its earliest days as a small, financially struggling collective to its pinnacle as one of the most respected and revered dance companies in the world. Filmed using Phantom Flex cameras, which capture up to 2,500 frames per second and bring to life even the smallest of movements, the breathtaking footage brings a new dimension to the understanding of the extraordinary efforts made in the perfection of form—from the delicate placement of a fingertip to the perfectly executed jete. 1x90 SCREEN PBS INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ONLINE AT PBSINTERNATIONAL.ORG PBS INTERNATIONAL 10 Guest Street Boston, MA 02135 USA Phone: +1.617.208.0735 pbsinternational.org Tom Koch Vice President, PBS Distribution Phone: +1.617.208.0735 [email protected] Betsy LeBlanc Director U.S., United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Africa Phone: +1.617.208.0737 [email protected] Nanci Church Sales Manager Americas, France, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, Oceania Phone: +1.617.208.0725 [email protected] Anna Alvord Sales Manager Asia, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Middle East Phone: +1.617.208.0728 [email protected] Tracy Beckett Director, Program and Media Acquisition Phone: +1.617.659.7921 [email protected] Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk Losing( Iraq, Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched one of the most Jennifer Callahan United States of Secrets) draws on recently declassified ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Project Manager, documents and interviews with prominent political Hubble Space Telescope. NOVA tells the remarkable story Program Development © VIEW APART FOR SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Phone: +1.617.208.0727 leaders and CIA insiders in an investigation into the of the telescope that forever changed our understanding [email protected] agency’s top-secret interrogation program. From the of the cosmos and our place in it. This single telescope Daniela DesLauriers Distribution Specialist CIA’s use of black site prisons in Thailand, Lithuania, has helped astronomers pinpoint the age of the universe, Phone: +1.617.208.0732 Afghanistan, and Poland, to its destruction of nearly revealed the birthplace of stars and planets, advanced COURTESY OF NASA [email protected] 100 hours of videotaped interrogations, to the Senate’s our understanding of dark energy and cosmic expansion, Sarah Marks Project Manager, standoff with the CIA, Secrets, Politics and Torture tells and uncovered black holes lurking at the heart of galaxies. Program Management the dramatic inside story of one of the agency’s most Invisible Universe Revealed celebrates this magnificent Phone: +1.617.208.0747 [email protected] controversial programs. 1x53 machine and its astonishing discoveries. 1x53 EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE Pluto Flyby (working title) Hunting the Edge of Space On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most Hunting the Edge of Space celebrates the telescope, examining how this simple advanced spacecraft ever built, is scheduled to fly by and take the instrument has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the very first detailed images of Pluto. After a nine-year journey of three universe. What began as a curiosity—two spectacle lenses held a foot apart— billion miles, it will finally get a detailed look at this strange, icy world ultimately revolutionized human thought across science, philosophy, and at the very edge of our solar system. Back on Earth, a small group of religion. The film takes viewers on a global adventure of discovery, dramatizing planetary scientists who have spent decades working on this mission the innovations in technology and the achievements in science that have marked anxiously wait to receive a signal from their spacecraft. New Horizons the rich history of the telescope. This tale of human ingenuity involves some of stands poised to provide the first close look at a vast realm of icy the most colorful figures of the scientific world—Galileo, Kepler, Newton, bodies lurking beyond Neptune, relics of the earliest days of the solar William Herschel, George Hale, and Edwin Hubble—leading up to today’s system’s formation. But will it survive the final, treacherous leg of its colossal telescopes, housed in space-age cathedrals or orbiting high above the journey toward Pluto, which takes it through a dangerous field of Earth. At the center of an international space race, a new generation of ever-larger debris? NOVA’s cameras will be there to witness the moment, telescopes is poised to reveal answers to longstanding questions about our showing Pluto’s rocky surface in unprecedented detail and learning universe, and, in turn, to raise new questions. 2x53 new secrets about other alien worlds at the far limits of our solar system. 1x53 Finding Life Beyond Earth Scientists are on the verge of answering one of the greatest questions in history: The Pluto Files are we alone? Combining the latest telescope images with dazzling CGI, Finding Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has held a warm place in the public Life Beyond Earth immerses audiences in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, imagination. So, when the American Museum of Natural History’s while top astrobiologists explain how these places are changing how we think about Hayden Planetarium stopped calling Pluto a planet, director Neil the potential for life in our solar system. We used to think our neighboring planets deGrasse Tyson found himself at the center of a firestorm led by and moons were fairly boring—mostly cold, dead rocks where life could never take angry, Pluto-loving elementary school students. NOVA joins deGrasse hold. Today however, the solar system looks wilder than we ever imagined. Powerful Tyson on a quest to find out why this cold and distant rock has telescopes and unmanned space missions have revealed a wide range of dynamic captured so many hearts. From the scientists trying to classify Pluto environments—atmospheres thick with organic molecules, active volcanoes and COURTESY OF NASA to die-hard “Pluto-philes,” NOVA introduces viewers to a fascinating vast saltwater oceans. This ongoing revolution is forcing scientists to expand their cast of characters with just one thing in common: strong opinions ideas about what kinds of worlds could support life. If primitive life forms are about Pluto. 1x53 found elsewhere in the solar system, it may well be that extraterrestrial life common in the universe is the rule, and not the exception. 2x53 NEW RELEASES Current Affairs Human Interest Science, Human Interest DAVID GRUBIN PRODUCTIONS © ISTOCK.COM The Trouble with Chicken Every year, Salmonella causes more hospitaliza- Language Matters tions and deaths than any other foodborne CRANEPAUL illness, with about one in four pieces of raw with Bob Holman There are more than 6,000 unique languages chicken contaminated with Salmonella today. remaining in the world, but we lose one every Why isn’t the U.S. food safety system stopping Twice Born – Stories From two weeks and hundreds will be lost within the the threat? FRONTLINE investigates how and next generation. Follow poet Bob Holman as why the standards and laws around Salmonella The Special Delivery Unit he travels to a remote island off the coast of have failed to keep up with the increasing danger Twice Born takes an intimate, inside look at Australia to visit with aboriginal people who posed by some strains of the bacteria. The film rare surgeries done on babies still inside their speak 10 different languages, then to Wales looks closely at the largest Salmonella poultry mothers’ wombs. With exclusive access to the where Welsh is making a comeback, and on to outbreak in history, when more than 600 people elite Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Hawaii, where a group of activists are fighting were sickened over 16 months. Delving into the at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and to save their native tongue. This two-hour complex world of food safety, through interviews its Special Delivery Unit, this gripping series documentary asks: What do we lose when a with local and national public health officials, as features rarely seen, real-time footage of language dies, and what does it take to save a well as victims and a top-level poultry industry operations on fetuses. The featured parents all language? Language Matters includes interviews executive, the film reveals the discrepancies that face a gut-wrenching decision: should they take with song men, linguists, and poets, including exist when it comes to foodborne bacteria— a leap of faith to repair birth defects with risky Charlie Mangulda, the only living speaker of contrasting how regulators cracked down hard pre-natal surgery, even if it means they might Amurdak, an Aboriginal language once common on E. coli 0157 in raw beef and banned it outright lose their child? Twice Born serves up non-stop in Australia’s Northern Territory. The film also after a deadly outbreak at Jack-in-the-Box two drama with high-stakes stories and uncertain features original music and songs in Welsh, decades ago, but have not taken such decisive outcomes in a perfect blend of narrative and Hawaiian, and Aboriginal languages. action with dangerous kinds of Salmonella, leaving fact. 3x56 1x109, 2x55 consumers to protect themselves. 1x54 2 pbsinternational.org NEW RELEASES continued History Current Affairs Art & Culture REUTERS/ARKO DATTA © BETTMAN/CORBIS © COLLABORATION WITH THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS ALLEN THOMAS WITH COLLABORATION COURTESY OF LYLE ASHTON HARRIS IN Last Days in Vietnam American Terrorist “Observant, incisive, and at times both FRONTLINE investigates American-born heartrending and inspiring.