| GN-50579-05 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Educational Broadcasting Corporation | Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story | 7/1/2005 - 6/30/2010 | $800,000.00 | Margaret | | Smilow | | | | Educational Broadcasting Corporation | New York | NY | 10019-7416 | USA | 2005 | History, General | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 700000 | 100000 | 700000 | 100000 | Production of a 90-minute documentary film about a community of African American jazz musicians in Paris from 1918-49.
HARLEM IN MONTMARTRE: A PARIS JAZZ STORY is a 90-minute documentary of how a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians crossed the Atlantic and settled in Montmartre, creating a vibrant expatriate music scene and introducing jazz to the French during the years between the world wars. A co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York, Ideale Audience and Vanguard Documentaries, the film will show how jazz music---a quintessential American art form---had an impact on French culture and how the core of this energy was black America. The film will be broadcast in primetime on PBS as part of GREAT PERFORMANCES. |