Iowa Filmmaker Nik Heftman, an Emmy Award-winning producer, joined forces with The Iowa Mercury for a preview of tonight’s Academy Awards. We ran through the films with our thoughts on who should win, and who will win.
We also offered our takes on the snubs — and spotlighted Iowa films and other cinema we took in over the last year.
Join us next Sunday at 10 a.m. CST for the second installment our live program.
Please comment and tell us what you think, offer suggestions for our upcoming live broadcasts.
A huge, from-the-rooftops shout out to
— the visionary behind the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative and Okoboji Writers’ Retreat for building the platforms that allowed for this programming.Thank you
, , , and many others for tuning into our live video with — Nik Heftman’s multi-media platform spotlighting small Black-owned businesses across the United States.Heftman is also the director of the documentary, “The Negro Artist,” chronicling the life of prominent spoken-word artist Caleb Rainey.
About The Iowa Mercury
(Douglas Burns, founder of The Iowa Mercury and a fourth-generation Iowa journalist from Carroll, is a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative. Read dozens of the most talented writers in Iowa in just one place. The Iowa Writers' Collaborative spans the full state. It’s one of the biggest things going in Iowa journalism and writing now — and you don’t want to miss. This collaborative is — as the outstanding Quad Cities journalist Ed Tibbetts says — YOUR SUNDAY IOWA newspaper. )
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