Executive produced by Steve Buscemi, Emergency! icons Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe, and directed by award-winning filmmaker Tom Putnam (BURN), INTO THE UNKNOWN goes inside the lives of the paramedics, dispatchers, and families who form the largely unseen backbone of America’s emergency medical system. With extraordinary access, the film follows first responders from the adrenaline of the call to the quieter moments afterward, revealing the skill, humor, sacrifice, and humanity required to do a job where every shift can mean the difference between life and death. But behind the heroism lies another story: the cumulative impact of trauma, exhaustion, and loss on the people society depends upon in its worst moments. Moving between the front lines and the lives responders return to when the sirens stop, INTO THE UNKNOWN examines both the profound rewards and the personal cost of answering the call. The result is a deeply human portrait of a profession most of us will depend on someday, but few of us truly understand.
Through cinematic reenactments that span salvation history and intimate modern-day interviews from around the world, this film explores the transforming power of meeting the Creator of the Universe face to face. From encountering the Ark of the Covenant as it traveled across the wilderness to bumping into Jesus as he taught in the marketplace, this story builds to a culmination in the Eucharist, and today millions are finding out how much God truly loves them as they adore Him in the Blessed Sacrament. He is here. Will you come?
The Met: Live in HD season continues with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love. Phelim McDermott’s “colorful, inventive” (The New York Times) staging, inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, sets the uproarious story at a boardwalk amusement park, where the two pairs of lovers at the heart of the tale find themselves on one emotional—and literal—thrill ride after another. Soprano Federica Lombardi and mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey sing Fiordiligi and Dorabella, opposite tenor Duke Kim and baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky as Ferrando and Guglielmo. Bass-baritone Gerald Finley reprises his portrayal of the cynical Don Alfonso, with soprano Ana María Martínez as the witty maid Despina.