Sundance Channel Greenlights ‘One Punk, Under God’.
Sundance Channel has given the green-light to ‘One Punk, Under God,’ an eccentric six-part observational documentary Series on the alternate Christian reverend Jay Bakker. Produced by World of Wonder, the Series takes a behind-the-scenes Appearance at the effervescence of Bakker as he faces the Professional, zealous and pecuniary struggles of operation his Revolution church in Atlanta, Georgia. The disclosure was made Today by Laura Michalchyshyn, Executive Vice President, Programming & Marketing, Sundance Channel. The Series will debut on Sundance Channel in December 2006. Jay Bakker, the only son of last Praise The Lord leaders, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner, a tattooed and pierced preacher, is not ineluctably the symbol of an American evangelist.
His resolutely maverick carriage and yawning variation for possibility lifestyle choices up well-known churchgoing leaders and come to keeping his Church afloat challenging. But by fusing together tough and Christian values to contrive a non-denominational and general parish, he is Working to show the time just how hip and welcoming Today’s churches can be. ‘In the hands of World of Wonder, this Series on Jay Bakker and his church – with a nave on his substitute access to the ministry and open questioning of what it means to be Christian — will give rise to for provocative programming that will preoccupy and entertain the current Sundance Channel audience while potentially bringing in unique viewers,’ commented Michalchyshyn. World of Wonder principals Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey said ’since we inception met Jay eight years ago while filming The Eyes of Tammy Faye we have wanted to fetch a veil about him.
Thanks to the Sundance Channel’s courageous materialization and commitment to documentary filmmaking, and thanks also to the talents of Jeremy Simmons and Thairin Smothers we now have that opportunity.’ The headman and supervising impresario of ‘One Punk, Under God’ is Jeremy Simmons, whose credits cover the box documentaries Sundance Channel’s ‘TransGeneration’ (produced in tie with LOGO) and MTV’s ‘School’s Out: The Life of a Gay High School in Texas‘ (both GLAAD Award nominees for Outstanding Documentary) and AMC’s ‘Gay Hollywood.’ ‘One Punk, Under God’ is produced by Thairin Smothers and manager produced by award-winning filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, founders of flick and TV development assembly World of Wonder.
As directors/producers, their credits subsume the documentaries Inside Deep Throat, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and Party Monster: The Michael Alig Story , as well as the 2003 histrionics Party Monster. Executive producers for Sundance Channel are Laura Michalchyshyn and Lynne Kirby. Ann Rose is the supervising producer. Based in both Los Angeles and London, World of Wonder most recently produced ‘TransGeneration’ for Sundance Channel in intimacy with LOGO.
The corporation is best known for award-winning films and documentaries such as The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Party Monster (both Sundance Film Festival favorites) ‘Monica in Black and White‘ (HBO) and ‘The Hidden Fuhrer’ (Cinemax). World of Wonder has a lengthy and pre-eminent follow itemize making delicate and friendly films about union and sexuality from ‘Gay Hollywood‘ (AMC) to ‘Schools Out’ (MTV) to ‘Plushies and Furries’ (MTV). Most recently World of Wonder have created and produced the hit Series ‘Show Biz Moms and Dads’ and the standard follow-up ‘Show Dog Moms & Dads’ for Bravo. World of Wonder has also produced and created numerous documentaries and non-fiction programs for Court TV, VH1, MTV and A&E, as well as BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and ITV in the UK. World of Wonder also publishes a day after day blog The Wow Report at http://www.worldofwonder.net with half a million only visitors per month.
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