Legendary former CBS News anchor Dan Rather expressed disappointment at Paramount Global‘s decision to pay $16 million to the Trump administration and settle its lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” report:
“It’s a sad day for journalism. It’s a sad day for ’60 Minutes’ and CBS News. I hope people will read the details of this and understand what it was. It was distortion by the President and a kneeling down and saying, ‘yes, sir,’ by billionaire corporate owners.”
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Lauryn Darden & Ragan Henderson are our final 2025 WAVE Grant winners! Lauryn’s The Later Years centers older Black lives & won at the National Black Film Fest. Ragan’s work—featured in Vogue & at the MET—humanizes the marginalized. Together they made When They’re Gone.
Daniel Minahan's bisexual romance eschews conventional tropes to tell a story of love, horse racing, and how even our best efforts are seldom enough to secure fairytale endings. Read our review for "On Swift Horses," now in theaters: https://t.co/MSpztfDt68
This week’s WAVE Grant recipient is Erika Yang. A Brooklyn-based filmmaker and software engineer, she is a Computer Science and Film Studies grad from MIT. Her short film Pit Stops follows a family road trip through the eyes of a child.
Ana Chavez is our next WAVE Grant recipient. She is an LA-based filmmaker whose work blends identity, sexuality, and memory. She won Best Screenplay at the SBFF’s 10-10-10 Program and her latest short, Blush, captures the lives of teen girls growing up in Singapore.
Our next WAVE Grant recipient is Shanice Brette. A writer/director from Saint Lucia, she is now based in NYC, whose work centers Afro-Caribbean immigrant women. She’s currently developing Mumma, a film about an immigrant navigating motherhood, family, & a yearning for her roots.
A fashionable way to celebrate Autism Acceptance Month: Let Me Be Me is now streaming for free on Wavelength’s YouTube! 🍿
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Meet Pratima Mani, our first 2025 WAVE Grant recipient: a three-time Emmy-nominated writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert whose latest short, Bug, follows a woman facing an unexpected twist at her green card interview.