FILM & TV

Music history is often remembered through albums, performances, and artists. What frequently gets overlooked are the unlikely stories, impossible circumstances, and determined individuals working...

Cultural preservation organizations often face a difficult challenge in the modern media environment. Attention spans have shortened, digital content moves at extraordinary speed, and meaningful historical storytelling frequently gets buried beneath viral trends, political noise, and fragmented online discourse. Yet throughout New Jersey, a growing number of arts, heritage, and educational organizations are finding new ways to preserve cultural history while adapting to modern audiences increasingly consuming information in condensed digital formats. One of the strongest examples emerging from the Garden State is the continuing expansion of the Italian American One Voice Coalition’s “The One Voice Minute©” series, a short-form educational video initiative designed to spotlight major Italian American contributions to science, arts, politics, entertainment, sports,...

Music history is often remembered through albums, performances, and artists. What frequently gets overlooked are the unlikely stories, impossible circumstances, and determined individuals working behind the scenes who make those moments happen in the first place. Some of the greatest recordings ever captured exist because someone refused to give up when everything appeared to be falling apart. That reality sits at the heart of Köln 75, director Ido Fluk’s energetic, inventive, and unexpectedly moving new film that revisits one of the most celebrated events in modern jazz history. Rather than delivering a conventional artist biography focused solely on legendary pianist Keith Jarrett, Köln 75 takes a far more interesting route. The film shifts its attention to...