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Title: Documentary "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria," receves emmy
Post by: Kate Thomas on May 25, 2006, 10:28:13 AM
Post by: Kate Thomas on May 25, 2006, 10:28:13 AM
check your local listings
http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20060523.162044&time=06%2000%20PDT&year=2006&public=1
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Wed May 24 06:00:01 2006 Pacific Time
Pomona College Professor Wins Northern California Emmy Award; Documentary 'Screaming Queens' to Air Nationally on PBS in June
CLAREMONT, Calif., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Victor Silverman, a Pomona College history professor, won a prestigious Northern California Emmy Award in the category of Historical/Cultural Program or Special, for the documentary "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria," which tells the story of the long-forgotten, but first-known act of militant transsexual resistance to social oppression.
The award was presented to Silverman and his co-producers Susan Stryker and Jack Walsh, at the 35th Annual Northern California Emmy Awards ceremony, of the National Academy of Television Arts and Science - San Francisco/Northern California Chapter. The event was held at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre and Exploratorium in San Francisco, on May 20, 2006.
Screaming Queens will have a national broadcast on PBS stations in June 2006. Regional stations that have announced air-dates include WETA Television 26 in Washington, DC; WGBH Television 44 in Boston; KQED Television, the documentary's Bay Area partner, in Northern California; and WNET Television 13 in New York City
As more dates are announced, the producers will post them on their website www.screamingqueensmovie.com