New York City has a new Mayor … while you’re waiting to see how things work out for him, check out the wild ride one of his predecessors had.  ”Fun City Revisited: The Lindsay Years” tells the story of John Lindsay’s two turbulent terms (1966-73) as mayor of the city during one of its most challenging eras.  Watch it on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/53560997 Featuring interviews with Rudolph Giuliani, David Dinkins, Ed Koch, Jeffrey Katzenberg (a Lindsay volunteer in his youth), Eleanor Holmes Norton, Charles Rangel, Jimmy Breslin and many more who were there to witness the exciting times.  Executive Produced by Tom Casciato; produced by Rob Issen; written by Tom Casciato and Rob Issen; Field Producer, Rawan Jabaji; Interview Producer, Michael Epstein; Edited by Judith Starr Wolff; narrated by Jay O. Sanders.

Jeffrey Kimball’s Birders: The Central Park Effect – executive produced by Pamela Hogan and Tom Casciato, is now available on demand? Check out all the places you can watch it via Music Box Films: http://www.musicboxfilms.com/birders–the-central-park-effect-movies-60.php?page_id=17&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=light span

David Rohde calls TWO AMERICAN FAMILIES “extraordinary.”  Read his whole post in The Atlantic about the film and how it informs the current debate about American’s middle class.

Salon’s Alex Pareene says, “It’s one of the best, and most heartbreaking, documentaries I’ve seen this year.”  Read the whole piece here:  http://www.salon.com/2013/07/10/watch_two_american_families_now/singleton/

“Produced by filmmakers Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes, Two American Families is the third must-see documentary in the past year—along with American Winter and A Place at the Table— about how “regular folks” are surviving in today’s economy.”  Watch it, and if your blood isn’t boiling by the end, check your pulse.”

Read the whole story here.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc-morning_joe/vp/52428290#52428290

Tom and Kathleen will be appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, and Current TV’s The War Room with Michael Shure this evening to discuss their new film, TWO AMERICAN FAMILIES.  Below, in a scene from the film, Milwaukee’s Terry Neumann and correspondent Bill Moyers.

On Wednesday, July 10 at 2 PM ET, Frontline and BillMoyers.com will be hosting a live chat about Two American Families, a 90-minute Frontline documentary narrated by Bill Moyers.

On hand to answer your questions will be Kathleen Hughes and Tom Casciato, the filmmakers who’ve been following the two families and their stories for over two decades, and Keith Stanley, a member of one of the families documented in the film. David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and columnist for Reuters, The New York Times and The Atlantic who’s written about the hollowing out of Milwaukee’s middle class, will facilitate the discussion.

Watch it here:  http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-surviving-the-new-american-economy/

“Usually, one is well advised to be wary of TV’s micro portraits devised to illustrate macro trends. Yet “Two American Families” is such a potent treatise on the U.S.’ struggling middle class — as captured through Milwaukee families, chronicled over more than two decades — it works on both levels … it demands to be seen and discussed.” Read the whole review here!  http://variety.com/2013/tv/reviews/two-american-families-review-1200504070/