Joshuah Bearman
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Biography
Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist. He has written for Rolling Stone, Harper's, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and McSweeney's, and contributes to This American Life. Bearman was a contributing producer on the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Bearman is an advisory board member of 826LA, a non-profit tutoring organisation in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Several of Bearman's articles have been optioned for film and television adaptation. His 2007 Wired article about a CIA mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis was adapted into the 2012 film Argo, with George Clooney producing, Ben Affleck directing, and starring. The screenplay, based on Bearman's article, won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Bearman was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2014 for his article, "Coronado High, the Story of America's First Drug Empire." It was co-published in GQ and Atavist. His writing has appeared in the Best American Non-Required Reading and Best American Technology Writing anthologies. Bearman is a former staff writer and editor for the LA Weekly. He was one half of Team USA in Walleyball, a short film by Brent Hoff about a pick-up game of volleyball at the US-Mexico border. He was the editor-in-chief of Yeti Researcher, a journal in the field of cryptic hominid investigation, published by McSweeney's. He produced and directed McSweeney's Presents, a live comedy series, as a fundraiser for 826LA, a tutoring organisation for children. In 2014, Bearman co-founded Epic, a digital publication of narrative non-fiction and a film and television production company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joshuah Bearman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Argo
Observe the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring, and surprising stories of immigrants in America.
Little America
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential... and perhaps even their genius.
Radical
Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton enlists an unlikely ally—Hollywood producer Bert Schneider—to elude an FBI manhunt and escape to Cuba.
The Big Cigar
Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police.
Breaking
A nine-part documentary Web series about the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP).
Moon Shot
It’s This American Life’s wildest, most ambitious live show ever! Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians and comedians joined Ira Glass onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House on June 7th, 2014 to try some things they'd never tried before. The result? Journalism turned into opera, into plays, into a Broadway musical. Comedy from Mike Birbiglia, and SNL’s Sasheer Zamata. Songs from Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. Dance from Monica Bill Barnes & Company.
This American Life: Live at BAM
In the city that never sleeps, five families hustle each winter to turn sidewalks into holiday outposts.
The Merchants of Joy
Behind the scenes of Sarah McLachlan’s legendary all-women music festival and features interviews with performers including Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu, Olivia Rodrigo, and Emmylou Harris.
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
A young Korean-American woman defies her family's wishes to compete in a televised competition to find the next K-pop girl group.
K-Pop: The Debut
A look at the lives of young American football players in a small town Del Rio, Texas. A remake of the 2004 film.
Friday Night Lights
In 2007, a mass hysteria epidemic with supernatural roots spreads through Villa de las Niñas, an all-girls Catholic boarding school on the outskirts of Mexico City.