Open Book Television

This is the pilot episode of Open Book, a new weekly television series about global books and culture created and hosted by Ina Howard Parker.

OPEN BOOK is a new weekly half-hour television program about books and storytelling around the world. Each episode travels to a different spot on the planet to introduce you to writers and other artists— musicians, actors, filmmakers and more— living and creating there.

In the premiere episode, we visit Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with a rich cultural heritage, to meet some of the writers and artists who live there including former child soldier Ishmael Beah, award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, legendary jazz musician Bill Lee, Walt Whitman devotee Daryl Blaine Ford, creative genius Carl Hancock Rux, Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad, singer Nucomme, and star of stage and screen, actor Jeffrey Wright.

CREDITS:
Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Ina Howard Parker
Executive Producer: Rod Alleyne
Director, Editor, Camera: Diane Paragas
Director of Photography: Francisco Aliwalas

The talented and beautiful singer-songwriter Nucomme performing from Ft. Greene's favorite Senegalese restaurant, Abistro, on Open Book, a new national TV series created and hosted by Ina Howard-Parker.

OPEN BOOK is a new weekly half-hour television program about books and storytelling around the world. Each episode travels to a different spot on the planet to introduce you to writers and other artists— musicians, actors, filmmakers and more— living and creating there.

In the premiere episode, we visit Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with a rich cultural heritage, to meet some of the writers and artists who live there including former child soldier Ishmael Beah, award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, legendary jazz musician Bill Lee, Walt Whitman devotee Daryl Blaine Ford, creative genius Carl Hancock Rux, Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad, singer Nucomme, and star of stage and screen, actor Jeffrey Wright.

CREDITS:
Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Ina Howard Parker
Executive Producer: Rod Alleyne
Director, Editor, Camera: Diane Paragas
Director of Photography: Francisco Aliwalas

Jennifer Egan, author of The Keep, and creator of a new oral history project about women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Open Book, a new national TV series created and hosted by Ina Howard-Parker.

OPEN BOOK is a new weekly half-hour television program about books and storytelling around the world. Each episode travels to a different spot on the planet to introduce you to writers and other artists— musicians, actors, filmmakers and more— living and creating there.

In the premiere episode, we visit Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with a rich cultural heritage, to meet some of the writers and artists who live there including former child soldier Ishmael Beah, award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, legendary jazz musician Bill Lee, Walt Whitman devotee Daryl Blaine Ford, creative genius Carl Hancock Rux, Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad, singer Nucomme, and star of stage and screen, actor Jeffrey Wright.

CREDITS:
Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Ina Howard Parker
Executive Producer: Rod Alleyne
Director, Editor, Camera: Diane Paragas
Director of Photography: Francisco Aliwalas

Poet Suheir Hammad performs her poem, "Brooklyn" from Ft. Greene Brooklyn's historic Masonic Temple on Open Book, a new weekly television series created and hosted by Ina Howard Parker.

OPEN BOOK is a new weekly half-hour television program about books and storytelling around the world. Each episode travels to a different spot on the planet to introduce you to writers and other artists— musicians, actors, filmmakers and more— living and creating there.

In the premiere episode, we visit Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with a rich cultural heritage, to meet some of the writers and artists who live there including former child soldier Ishmael Beah, award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, legendary jazz musician Bill Lee, Walt Whitman devotee Daryl Blaine Ford, creative genius Carl Hancock Rux, Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad, singer Nucomme, and star of stage and screen, actor Jeffrey Wright.

CREDITS:
Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Ina Howard Parker
Executive Producer: Rod Alleyne
Director, Editor, Camera: Diane Paragas
Director of Photography: Francisco Aliwalas

Darryl Blaine Ford, a Walt Whitman devotee for 70 years, talks about his idol and reads from Leaves of Grass on Open Book, a new weekly television series created and hosted by Ina Howard Parker.

OPEN BOOK is a new weekly half-hour television program about books and storytelling around the world. Each episode travels to a different spot on the planet to introduce you to writers and other artists— musicians, actors, filmmakers and more— living and creating there.

In the premiere episode, we visit Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with a rich cultural heritage, to meet some of the writers and artists who live there including former child soldier Ishmael Beah, award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, legendary jazz musician Bill Lee, Walt Whitman devotee Daryl Blaine Ford, creative genius Carl Hancock Rux, Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad, singer Nucomme, and star of stage and screen, actor Jeffrey Wright.

CREDITS:
Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Ina Howard Parker
Executive Producer: Rod Alleyne
Director, Editor, Camera: Diane Paragas
Director of Photography: Francisco Aliwalas