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18.12.2020 / 17:19
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‘Sesame Street’ Documentary Sold to Screen Media, Heads to Sundance
Dave McNary Film ReporterScreen Media has bought North American rights to HBO’s “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” and will premiere the title at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in January.The documentary, inspired by Michael Davis’ New York Times best-selling book, is directed by Marilyn Agrelo and produced by Trevor Crafts and Ellen Scherer Crafts. The film chronicles the improbable origins and expansion of the groundbreaking show that not only changed children’s television programming, but had real-world effects on equality, education and representation worldwide.Screen Media will release in theaters and into the home entertainment market in the spring of 2021.
