New Britain Museum of American Art Hosts Connecticut Premiere of New Film on the Arts of the Gilded Age
*** Reserve tickets at this link *** Connecticut Filmmakers Debut New Film Celebrating the Art of America’s Gilded Age: Features only known film footage of Mark Twain, who gave the Gilded Age its name ASHFORD, CONNECTICUT (March 9, 2017) – Independent filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films in Ashford announce the Connecticut premiere […]
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age
Director’s Statement By Michael Maglaras View clips from America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age When I begin a film, I generally have a rough idea of how it will begin and how it will end. I’m usually not sure of much else, except the music I will use, since my films are constructed […]
World Premiere Screening: America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age
The Avenue in the Rain, 1917,Childe Hassam. Courtesy of the White House. I’m delighted to announce that the world premiere screening of “America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age” will be held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on January 20, 2017. Terri and I had been fielding inquiries for the premiere’s […]
Shooting the New Film
We just concluded a day of shooting for the new film “America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age” in Lewiston, Maine. What a joy it was to be back again with our crew: Ramsey, Phil, Tom, Jayson, Lesley, and Andrea…and, of course, my executive producer, Terri, without whom nothing happens. Let’s be clear, no […]
My Meeting with Tom Sawyer
“TOM!” No answer. “TOM!” No answer. “What’s gone with that boy, I wonder?” What you may not know is that that telling and appropriate phrase…the last sentence above…was not what Twain originally wrote. The original phrase was: “Where can that boy be, I wonder?” Page 1 of Tom Sawyer in the hand of Mark Twain. […]
New documentary film celebrates the art of America’s Gilded Age
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, detail of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, 1897. Courtesy of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial. Connecticut-based independent filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films announce a new film project – their seventh in ten years and their sixth “essay in film” – highlighting the arts of the American renaissance…what Mark Twain described as […]