Lesley Topping may have worked on movies like “Missing in Action” and “Year of the Dragon” in the 1980s and many documentaries since then in her long career as a filmmaker, but the most rewarding, she said, have been the seven films she’s collaborated on as director, editor and writer with t…
The Lyndhurst mansion in Tarrytown and Glenview mansion in Yonkers proved to be ideal locations for “The Gilded Age,” the new HBO drama created, written and produced by Julian Fellowes of “Downton Abbey” fame. The nine-episode series premiered Monday, Jan. 24.
For Scarsdale’s Jordan Cascade, Sam Friedman, Jake Lubin and Jeremy Suzman, the third time truly is a charm. Their most recent film, “The Kiss Script,” stands out by far compared to their previous two collaborations.
Long before DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion — started becoming a household term, people longed to fit in. They wanted role models who looked or sounded like them, whether they were in real life or someone’s imagination. Through the now 25 movies released since 2008 that make up the Mar…
Twenty percent of our country’s population identifies as disabled. Yet only 2% of all characters on screen have a disability and, 95% of the time, nondisabled actors play those roles. Behind the screen, the statistics are even more abysmal: less than 1% of the writers penning scripts are disabled.
It’s easy to assume that Scarsdale’s tidy homes and parks have been around for ages. In fact, well established though they are today, many of them didn’t exist as recently as a century ago. Instead, most of this area was rolling farmland, until capitalistic initiative, technological advancem…
By day, she produces political stories and breaking news for CNN’s biggest names. By night, she writes Lifetime thrillers that draw viewers in, hooking them until the very end.
When you think of Fox Meadow, what comes to mind? Probably stately, leafy streets graced by Tudors and Colonial-style homes. A hundred years ago, though, you’d have conjured very different mental images: of peacocks, for example, and sprawling tennis courts. Not to mention asparagus.
Scarsdale High School graduate Sam Friedman (’20) and SHS junior Jake Lubin are the recipients of the 2020 Best Shorts Film Competition Award of Merit for their production, “Boy on the Moon,” a 10-minute dramatic vignette about three teenagers in a dicey situation and facing feelings of frie…
When Jordan Cascade, Jake Lubin and Will Reed set out to document the COVID-19 pandemic through the “lens” of Scarsdale, their hometown, little did they know what they would come away with.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Emily Driscoll hopes to inspire the next generation of women in science and show how researchers’ challenges actually can lead to motivation.
It may not always be easy growing up in a competitive place like Scarsdale but, on the other hand, the struggles and the magic of a sheltered youth can be great fodder for creative art.
When Owen Elliott moved from Sydney, Australia to Scarsdale in November of 2018, he had of course never heard of the Yonkers Film Festival, also known as YoFiFest. He was in the middle of editing and polishing a movie that had been shot in Sydney during the move, however, and continued editi…
“Me, The ‘Other’” is a film that doesn’t mince words. The documentary, produced by Scarsdale residents Sherry and Saeid Mirafzali and co-produced and directed by Shidan Majidi, is described as being about “hate.” More specifically, it sets 12 people in front of the camera and invites them to…
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the premiere of “The Wizard of Oz.”
When consumers watch a new movie in theaters or stream one at home, it’s not often they do so just to hear the music. More often than not, the music played in the background of a movie might not even be noticed by an audience.
It was around 6 a.m. CT when Rodney Rothman and his wife learned his film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” was a 2019 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature. The pair sat in the dark and in bed quietly celebrating, hoping not to wake their 4-year-old son and 4-month-old daughter.
When Team Israel qualified for the World Baseball Classic — called the World Cup of baseball — in fall 2016, they were 200-to-1 favorites to win. The motley crew of Major and Minor League players, all Jewish-American, included free agents and players on the last leg of their careers. No one …
Documentary filmmaker Élie Séonnet marinates questions of culture and identity in his newest project, “Wax in the City.” Shot in Benin, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Holland, France and the Ivory Coast, the film considers the ways in which fashion can both shape and express identity, with a focus o…
Last year, 12-year-old Scarsdale native Jake Lippmann had a rather interesting summer.
