From Clowning to PBS: An Activist Artist’s Journey Through Media and Justice

Who would have thought that running away with the circus could lead to a career as a successful filmmaker. Gary Glassman's path to filmmaking also, includes, street theater, teaching, prison work, and media technology. The through-line for Gary's creative adventure has been asking questions and, what else, telling stories.&nbsp;BioGary Glassman believes television can change the world. He comes to television through street and circus performing – clowning, fire-eating, tight rope and stilt walking. His earliest media work is participatory projects with prisoners and the criminally insane, hospitalized children, and developmentally challenged adults. Prisoners, his first documentary, is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. He started Providence Pictures in 1996 and as executive producer/director makes films for the world’s leading broadcasters including PBS, Discovery, History, National Geographic, BBC, and Arte. His films consistently achieve the highest ratings and have won and been honored with nominations for the industry’s most prestigious awards including seven Emmys, two Writers Guild Award, the AAA Science Journalism Prize, the CINE Golden Eagle, and the International Archaeology Film Festival Award. Glassman received a BA from Goddard College, and an MFA in Directing from UCLA.Notable MentionsSpalding Gray&nbsp;(June 5, 1941 – January 11, 2004) was an American actor and writer. He is best known for the autobiographical&nbsp;monologues&nbsp;that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors. Theater critics&nbsp;John Willis&nbsp;and Ben Hodges called Gray's monologues "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry,&nbsp;WASP, quiet mania."[1]: 316 Providence Pictures: “Since 1996, Providence Pictures has been collaborating with the world's leading broadcasters on more than fifty films seen by millions of people around the globe and honored with television's most prestigious awards.Providence Pictures is building on our foundation of innovative premium documentaries, expanding our repertoire with feature films that stir hearts and inspire action, and venturing into the ultimate sci-fi dream with an augmented reality time travel app. We believe stories can change the world.”:&nbsp;Building the Wonders of the World: A Providence Pictures series that explores the secrets of the Parthenon, Riddles of the Sphinx, Building the Great Cathedrals, Colosseum Roman Death Trap, Hagia Sophia Istanbuls Ancient Mystery, Petra Lost City of Stone. The series received nominations for Outstanding Writing, Outstanding Science and Technology Programming, Outstanding Cinematography, Writers Guild of America Award, Best Film of the International Archaeological Film Festival, CINE Special Jury AwardNative America: is a four-part PBS series that challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe. It travels through 15,000-years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents. The series reveals some of the most advanced cultures in human history and the Native American people who created it.&nbsp;Goddard College:&nbsp;is a liberal arts college with campuses in Vermont and Washington with&nbsp;Bachelors&nbsp;and&nbsp;Masters&nbsp;degrees. Explore our&nbsp;full program offerings&nbsp;and learn how&nbsp;Goddard College is different. We blend remote learning and real life experiences.&nbsp;1973 Chilean coup d’état: was a military coup in&nbsp;Chile&nbsp;that deposed the&nbsp;Popular Unity&nbsp;government of&nbsp;President&nbsp;Salvador Allende. On&nbsp;11 September&nbsp;1973, after an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition-controlled&nbsp;Congress&nbsp;and the&nbsp;socialist&nbsp;President, as well as&nbsp;economic war&nbsp;ordered by&nbsp;U.S. President&nbsp;Richard Nixon,[9]&nbsp;a group of military officers led by General&nbsp;Augusto Pinochet&nbsp;seized power in a coup, ending civilian rule. The&nbsp;Nixon administration, which had worked to create the conditions for the coup,[11][12][13]&nbsp;promptly recognized the&nbsp;junta&nbsp;government and supported it in consolidating power.[14]UCLA ArtsReach Susan Hill: Change the Story / Change the World: Episode 30: Artsreach, is a UCLA Extension programs that has served a wide variety of community constituencies and the range of arts disciplines. Artsreach worksites have included youth and adult prisons, service agencies for seriously developmentally challenged adults, community centers in marginalized areas of South Central, Watts and East Los Angeles.&nbsp;Traveling&nbsp;Energy Band was comprised of Gary Glassman, his brother Steven, and friend, Eugene Palmer.&nbsp;The Band created large environmental spectacles, site-and specific performance pieces used stilts and puppets and masks.&nbsp;&nbsp;Video Home System, is a&nbsp;standard&nbsp;for consumer-level&nbsp;analog&nbsp;video recording&nbsp;on tape&nbsp;cassettes.&nbsp;Jonathan Borofsky: is an American&nbsp;sculptor&nbsp;and&nbsp;printmaker&nbsp;who lives and works in&nbsp;<a...