Congratulations to Prof. Anna Deavere Smith whose film/play "Notes from the Field" (HBO) has been nominated for two Critic's Choice Awards - Best Movie Made for Television and Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television.
Tony and Pulitzer Prize nominee Anna Deavere Smith brings her acclaimed one-woman show of the same name to the screen. The HBO Film presentation dramatizes accounts of students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline, which pushes underprivileged, minority youth out of the classroom and into incarceration. Drawn from interviews with more than 200 people living and working within a challenged system, Notes From the Field shines a light on a generation of American youth being pushed into incarceration through Anna Deavere Smith’s stimulating mastery of diverse real-life characters. (HBO)