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May 17, 2023 · The actor, 65, will star in Kent State, a film about the May 4, 1970, tragedy when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on the Kent State University campus during protests of the Vietnam...
May 17, 2023 · The movie, written and directed by Karen Slade, depicts the tragic events of May 4, 1970, when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on an anti-Vietnam War student protest at Kent State...
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Slade, the director, could not be reached for comment. She is not the same Karen Slade who graduated from Kent State in 1977 with a degree in telecommunications and is now a radio executive in Los Angeles. The director has a master’s degree from Harvard in cultural anthropology. Before focusing on motion pictures, she worked in advertising. Accordi...
Kent State spokesman Eric Mansfield, executive director of university media relations, said the producers approached the administration in 2019 about filming on campus and sent a proposal, but there was never a formal contract in play. “There were phone calls and emails, but I think the biggest sticking point was they wanted to be able to film duri...
The public might be surprised to know how many productions are filmed at Kent State. The Liam Neeson action movie “The Marksman,” released in 2021, rented space at the university and filmed scenes there, even though the bulk of the movie is set along the Arizona-Mexico border. Recently, Netflix wrapped up the apocalyptic comedy “White Noise,” starr...
Roseann “Chic” Canfora, a professional in residence and assistant professor of media and journalism at Kent State, was surprised to learn that her alma mater will be the subject of a new motion picture. She was an eyewitness to the 1970 shootings. “I haven’t talked to anybody associated with May 4 that knows anything about this,” she said. Her brot...
She is interested in seeing the new movie when it is released and hopes it’s a good film if not a great one. With the right treatment, it could be an extremely powerful movie, she said. “I do want to know how other storytellers are telling our story,” Canfora said. She is concerned, though, that it will be a fictionalized account of a 1970 guardsma...
May 18, 2023 · CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Alec Baldwin will play former Kent State president Robert I. White in a new feature film inspired by the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University, according to...
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May 18, 2023 · The actor is set to star in Kent State, a feature film about the 1970 Vietnam War protests at Kent State University that resulted in the fatal shooting of four students, per The Hollywood...
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May 4, 2017 · The Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of unarmed student protesters at Kent State University On May 4, 1970, and a witness to events leading up to shootings that left four students...
Kent State brings to life a family's buried past that links them to one of them most significant events in US history: when four students were shot and killed by the National Guard during a campus protest of Vietnam in May of 1970. Director. Karen Slade. Writer. Karen Slade. Stars. Clancy Brown. Alec Baldwin. Zachary Gordon.
