Gia'na Garel is a writer, producer, filmmaker, composer and entertainment consultant based in New York City. From 2005 to 2009, she co-hosted an entertainment-oriented Air America Radio program, On the Real, with pioneer rap artist Chuck D.[1][2]
In addition to screenwriting, she is author of the essay "The Sound of Freedom", co-wrote the essay "Record of Failure" with Chuck D, and had a show transcript: DMC; published in the 2006 New York Times bestselling anthology The Air America Playbook...[3] alongside such personalities as Rachel Maddow, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, David Bender, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
She was mentioned in a roll call of female filmmakers in the books Black American Cinema[4] by Manthia Diawara;[5] and in Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, & Conversations[6] by Toni Cade Bambara – edited by Toni Morrison.[7]
Traveling internationally from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, she compiled audio documentaries and interviews, such as with Holocaust survivor Eva Kor on forgiveness and world peace,[8] for her indie radio segments—"Everywhere with Gia’na Garel", in addition to others on music.[9][10]
As of 2014, she also began announcing and voicing for Progressive Voices Network.[11][12][13]
References
edit- ^ Zirin, Dave; D, Chuck (2007), Welcome to the Terrordome: the pain, politics, and promise of sports, Haymarket Books, p. flyleaf profile, ISBN 978-1-931859-41-7
- ^ Bender, David; Radio, Air America (2006), Air America: the playbook : what a bunch of left-wing media types have to say about a world gone right, Rodale, p. 166, ISBN 978-1-59486-514-5
- ^ nytimes.com
- ^ Diawara, Manthia (1993). Black American Cinema. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415903974. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
- ^ Diawara, Manthia (1993). Black American Cinema. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415903974.
- ^ Bambara, Toni Cade (26 August 2009). Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. ISBN 9780307555564. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
- ^ Bambara, Toni Cade (26 August 2009). Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations By Toni Cade Bambara. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. ISBN 9780307555564.
- ^ Eva Kor EWGG Interview with Holocaust Survivor/Author. YouTube. 26 March 2010. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
- ^ "Everywhere Giana Garel with Karen White". 100.3 The Beat. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
- ^ "1003 The Beat".
- ^ "Progressive Voices". TuneIn. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
- ^ "Progressive Voice Website".
- ^ "TuneIn Radio".
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