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AJ Schnack

@ajschnack.bsky.social

Nonfiction Filmmaker (Escalation, Long Gone Summer, Speaking is Difficult, Caucus, Kurt Cobain About a Son, Gigantic). Team Cinema Eye Honors. Hosting All These Wonderful Things podcast.

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All These Wonderful Things@allthesewonderfulthings.com · 7d ago

If you missed EP. 1, hear filmmaker Margaret Brown describe the wildest interview she's ever seen, in Episode 1 of All These Wonderful Things — a new weekly podcast from Cinema Eye Honors and DSP Studios, hosted by AJ Schnack and Lisa Remington. Listen wherever you get podcasts. 🔗 in bio.

Kirstin McCudden@kamccudden.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This time, vertical: It was fascinating to look across three administrations of data in the @uspresstracker.bsky.social and pull out how subpoenas and legal orders have been used on the federal level

A vertical bar chart showing subpoenas and legal orders issued to journalists from 2017 through 2026 by year, differentiating between Department of Justice-issued orders and others.
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker@pressfreedomtracker.us · 2mo ago

Leak hunting with legal orders — we’ve already seen more subpoenas to journalists from the DOJ than any year in the last 10 years. This and more in this month’s Tracker newsletter by managing editor @kamccudden.bsky.social:

AJ Schnack@ajschnack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The success of the Hadestown proshot is pretty amazing. Biggest new release of the week - $10.2M - and now held over past an initially planned 5-day limited run.

Bleecker Street@bleeckerstfilms.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Fates knew you'd ask for an encore. 🌹👏 Due to popular demand, HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL is extending its theatrical run! Book the best seat and experience the Broadway phenomenon on the big screen before it's gone. Get your tickets now! #HadestownTheMusical https://bit.ly/4vuVkUW

Steve Held@peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 3mo ago

Police want to decide which journalists can cover the Delaney Hall protests in Newark, New Jersey. But if an officer can point at someone and declare they are not press, the First Amendment ceases to have meaning. Read more from FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social:

Police want to decide which journalists can cover the Delaney Hall protests. That’s not their job | Adam Rose

In one week, the US Press Freedom Tracker documented 30 assaults by officers on journalists near the facility

theguardian.com

AJ Schnack@ajschnack.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read this @adamrose.bsky.social piece re the ongoing attempts by law enforcement to: 1. Determine who is press 2. Push press outside of the area where they are able to observe 3. Ignore rulings that specifically exempt press from curfews 4. Assault, detain press www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Police want to decide which journalists can cover the Delaney Hall protests. That’s not their job | Adam Rose

In one week, the US Press Freedom Tracker documented 30 assaults by officers on journalists near the facility

theguardian.com

AJ Schnack@ajschnack.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thank you so much @normwilner.bsky.social. When we premiered at @sxsw.com six months after 9/11, we were still grappling with whether we’d struck the right notes. Hopeful to get Gigantic out in the world for some 25th anniversary screenings with @tmbg.bsky.social in the coming year.

Norm Wilner@normwilner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hot take: This is one of the best American movies about 9/11, along with Spike Lee's 25TH HOUR and Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS and MUNICH.

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker@pressfreedomtracker.us · 5mo ago

Minneapolis, Minn.: Join us a screening of "Escalation" about the surge of law enforcement's attacks against journalists since the murder of George Floyd. Followed by a panel discussion w/ @ajschnack.bsky.social, @kamccudden.bsky.social, @startribune.com + 📍 The Main Cinema 🗓️ Apr. 18, 11:00 am CT

Escalation - MSP Film

Screening & Panel Discussion Director AJ Schnack, Editor Jack Livingston, Kirstin McCudden from U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, and Photojournalists Tim Evans will be participating in a community conversa...

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Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 6mo ago

The Supreme Court's refusal to intervene here is an absolute travesty for press freedom rights.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. Petitioner Priscilla Villarreal is a reporter who was arrested for doing something journalists do every day: posing questions to a public official. Specifically, Villarreal twice texted with a police officer to corroborate information Villarreal already knew about events that had occurred within her community. That officer voluntarily provided the information Villarreal sought, and Villarreal published those facts, consistent with her role as a journalist. Six months later, Villarreal was arrested for asking those questions. Making matters worse, Villarreal alleges that the arrest followed a months-long effort by a police department and district attorney’s office to retaliate against her because they disliked much of her reporting on their activities. Of course, that reporting was often critical of them. It should be obvious that this arrest violated the First Amendment. Yet the Fifth Circuit held that the officials were entitled to qualified immunity, and now Villarreal is left without a remedy. The Court today makes a grave error by declining to hear this case.