{"id":973,"date":"2008-11-10T11:28:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/npt08.wordpress.com\/?p=973"},"modified":"2008-11-10T11:28:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:28:56","slug":"lioness-premieres-on-npt-this-week-new-york-times-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2008\/11\/10\/lioness-premieres-on-npt-this-week-new-york-times-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Lioness Premieres on NPT This Week: New York Times Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sergeant Michelle Brookfield Wilmot on guard duty in Ramadi, Iraq, in April 2005.\" src=\"http:\/\/pressroom.pbs.org\/filefolder\/lioness_02.jpg\/260x174\" title=\"LIONESS\" width=\"260\" height=\"174\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergeant Michelle Brookfield Wilmot on guard duty in Ramadi, Iraq, in April 2005. Credit: Spc. Miranda Mattingly\/ITVS <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stephen T. Maing\/ITVS\" src=\"http:\/\/pressroom.pbs.org\/filefolder\/lioness_07.jpg\/260x174\" title=\"LIONESS\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Specialist Shannon Morgan on her parents&#39; porch in Mena, Arkansas. Credit: Stephen T. Maing\/ITVS   <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n\u201cThis is not an antiwar film,\u201d LIONESS co-producer <strong>Meg McLagan<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/05\/arts\/television\/05lion.html?partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">told <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. \u201cIt takes a position that we need to talk about and recognize what women are doing. The gap between the policy and the reality needs to be closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/lioness\/\">LIONESS<\/a><\/strong>, a film we screened last month as part of the <strong>ITVS Community Cinema in Nashville<\/strong> series at the downtown Nashville Public Library, makes its NPT broadcast premiere this Wednesday, November 12 at 9:00 p.m. as part of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/\"><em>Independent Lens<\/em><\/a><\/strong> series. McLagan and <strong>Daria Sommers<\/strong> have made an extraordinary documentary that gives viewers an intimate look at war through the eyes of the first women in U.S. history sent into direct ground combat, despite a policy that bans them from doing so. Specialist <strong>Shannon Morgan<\/strong>, an Arkanasas native, and other members of Team Lioness share their experiences in Iraq as well as experiences from their lives back home.  It&#8217;s an eye-opening portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the<em> New York Times<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/05\/arts\/television\/05lion.html?partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">preview<\/a><\/strong>, tune in to the <em>CBS Evening News<\/em> on Nov. 11 for interviews with four of the LIONESSES &#8212; <strong><\/strong><strong>Anastasia Breslow, Shannon Morgan, Ranie Ruthig, and Rebecca Nava<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is not an antiwar film,\u201d LIONESS co-producer Meg McLagan told The New York Times. \u201cIt takes a position that we need to talk about and recognize what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[86,109,113,143,162,1],"tags":[2333,766,2293,2296],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-nashville","category-nashville-public-television","category-public-television","category-television","category-uncategorized","tag-independent-lens","tag-lioness","tag-npt","tag-pbs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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