The rustbelt rebound story American Factory won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight, earning gold for the first collaboration between Netflix and Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground, which produced with Participant Media.
Directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert and producer Jeff…
Showtime has given a straight-to-series order to one-hour drama First Ladies, whose first season stars Viola Davis as former first lady Michelle Obama. Davis also executive produces the series, which was put on fast-track development at the premium cabler last August with a three-script commitment.
It hails from…
UPDATED with complete list of winners:Billie Eilish swept the marquee Record, Album, Song and New Artist categories Sunday at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, with the 18-year old dominating the ceremony dubbed music’s biggest night.
The live ceremony at Staples Center in Los Angeles was hosted by Alicia Keys the same…
Many emotional moments are expected at tonight’s opening of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival with Crip Camp, but few will top an elegant farewell offered by Robert Redford.
With a declaration of “much love to you,” the festival founder praised outgoing festival director John Cooper onstage Thursday at a packed Eccles…
EXCLUSIVE: Check out the first look at Crip Camp, the Netflix documentary that explores the revolution of an unorthodox summer camp for teenagers with disabilities in the early 1970s that transformed their lives and ignited a landmark movement.
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, whose Higher Ground production company…
The first installment of the new YouTube Originals series Creators For Change, making its debut in March, is still missing one piece of the puzzle: An interview with former First Lady Michelle Obama.
The first installment is "Creators for Change with Michelle Obama: Girls' Education." At today's TCA panel on the…
It was a good Oscar nomination day for the Obamas as the documentary American Factory earned a was included on the list of nominees alongside The Cave, The Edge of Democracy, For Sama and Honeyland. The original Netflix docu was presented by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media and takes a dive…
Michelle Obama and her initiative Reach Higher have teamed with ATTN: onA Year of Firsts, a new IGTV series that aims to empower and inspire first-year college students across the country.
The first episode in the six-episode series will premiere mid-January on IGTV; the series will wrap in June.
Each episode will…
YouTube Originals has partnered with former first lady Michelle Obama for a special focusing on educating girls in Vietnam.
The special titled Creators for Change with Michelle Obama: Girls' Education will follow Obama, YouTube creator and actress Liza Koshy, Julia Roberts, Lana Condor, Jenna Bush Hager, and Ngô Thanh…
Higher Ground, the production company founded by President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, has hired Ada Chiaghana as VP Development and Production. Chiaghana moves over from HBO, where she has been a creative executive in the original programming department, working on half-hour series including Los Espookys and S…
Viola Davis is set to portray Michelle Obama in First Ladies, a one-hour White House drama that has been put on fast-track development at Showtime with a three-script commitment. Davis will executive produce the project, which hails from writer Aaron Cooley (novels Four Seats: A Thriller of the Supreme Court, The Guns…
