Producer Jenny Gersten On Francis Ford Coppola’s DISTANT VISION – Brandy McDonnell Interviews

June 11, 2015June 8, 2020 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments distant vision, francis ford coppola, jenny gersten, live cinema, the week in women

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Producer Jenny Gersten talks about Francis Ford Coppola’s latest movie production, Distant Vision, an innovative live semi-autobiographical 52-minute cinematic performance created in real time on the 6,000-square-foot soundstage at Oklahoma City Community College’s Visual and Performing Arts Center and screened simultaneously in select theaters around the world — as near as Oklahoma City’s Bricktown entertainment district and far away as Paris, France. Read more>>

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.