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By admin on Dec 18, 2009 in ATB News Letter, Featured, Press | 0 Comments
- CNN CALL TODAY
I received a call from CNN News this morning and tomorrow they will do a segment about the Ralph Lauren boycott and how a group of 7700 people on Facebook has the entire fashion industry taking notice.
The segment will run during the 10pm news tomorrow night (Saturday) on CNN. That’s 10pm Eastern, [...]
By admin on Nov 16, 2009 in Featured, Press, Print Coverage | 1 Comment
From Annette Espenoza / The Denver Post
Christina Stephens beamed with mama pride when her daughter, Maya, accepted an achievement award Saturday during a conference that aims to instill the importance of self-love, dignity and respect to middle-school-age black girls.
“Girls need to have their self-identity recognized at an early age because middle school can be so [...]
By admin on Oct 28, 2009 in Featured, Model Industry News, Press | 0 Comments
From Seventeen Magazine
Seventeen chatted with One Life to Live star Melissa Archer, who is working with the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) to promote awareness. See what she has to say about pressures to be thin and staying healthy! She will be participating in the first NYC NEDA walk this Sunday, and it’s not too [...]
By admin on Apr 22, 2007 in Press | 0 Comments
Our bodies beautiful
A filmmaker intrigued by fashion ideals meets a child about to confront them.
By Elizabeth Kaye McCall, Special to The Times
THEIR lives came together as surely as if it had been scripted — a 12-year-old modeling sensation on the verge of a literal “trip to fame” and a documentary filmmaker on a quest to [...]
By admin on Mar 30, 2007 in Press, TV Coverage | 0 Comments
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Actor’s Corner: Michael Beach, AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
What is pretty? Who looks good? Who are we trying to please when we scrutinize ourselves in the mirror? Darryl Roberts’ documentary AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (7:15 p.m., March 26 @ Magnolia and again at 10 p.m. on March 28) poses the big and intimate questions about [...]
By admin on Mar 30, 2007 in Press, TV Coverage | 0 Comments
AFI documentary ‘America the Beautiful’ enlightens and entertains
Samantha Urban, Associate Entertainment Editor, surban@smu.edu
Issue date: 3/30/07 Section: Entertainment
“America the Beautiful,” written, directed, narrated and produced by Darryl Roberts, is one of the most important documentary films of this decade.
In a society where “celebutantes” like Paris Hilton dominate newsstands and models who weigh less than 90 pounds [...]
By admin on Mar 28, 2007 in Press, Print Coverage | 0 Comments
I just went to a film screening at the first AFI Dallas Film Festival, for a documentary film called America the Beautiful by Darryl Roberts. The film centered around the burgeoning culture of beauty in America, it’s influence on world culture, and the dangers it presents to young women, and it’s influence on society at [...]
By admin on Mar 27, 2007 in Press, TV Coverage | 0 Comments
This entry was posted on 3/27/2007 10:28 AM and is filed under Dallas,Events.
I went to the screening of the documentary America the Beautiful last night at the Magnolia Theater for the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival. My wonderful friend Steve accompanied me and we had a wonderful time. It was a bit chaotic upon arrival [...]
By admin on Mar 19, 2007 in Press, TV Coverage | 0 Comments
Film on America’s Unhealthy Obsession With Beauty Set to Make World Premiere at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival.
Chicago, IL (BlackNews.com) – From Barbie Dolls to pop stars, America has an unquenchable thirst for physical perfection.
It’s this obsession with beauty and glamour that is the focus of America the Beautiful, making its world premiere this [...]
Miss Jennifer Evans
I believe that each person is born with a special gift and our job is to discover that gift within ourselves, develop it and give it back to the world. My gift is music and when I sing or perform music and share it with others, I feel the most fulfilled and most beautiful.
Another beauty – I have a good heart and feel great empathy toward others. For many, many years I thought there was something wrong with me because sometimes I would be so taken with another’s emotional state that I couldn’t concentrate on what was being said in a small group or even in one-on-one situations. I would feel overwhelmed by someone else’s emotional pain, insecurities or even their anger – though they might be smiling – and would clam up. Over time, I have learned to better balance this intuitive understanding with steady verbal skills so that I can participate more comfortably in the world around me and, hopefully, make others more comfortable when we speak. Now, instead of seeing this understanding of others as a curse, I see it was a gift because it allows me to reach out to those around me.
Jennifer Evans