The Janson Media Pressroom

Janson Media’s DVD, Xavier: Missionary & Saint, was highly recommended by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Office For Film & Broadcasting in its DVD/Video reviews for the week of March 3rd. Said the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of Xavier: “Warm and informative hour-long biography of the saint often regarded as the most […]

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Janson Media’s DVD, Jacques Pepin’s Easter Celebration, is a special one-hour program adapted from the television series, Jacques Pepin Celebrates! Throughout the series Pepin and his daughter, Claudine, give creative and elegant culinary ideas for every occasion.

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Janson Media’s DVD, The Gateway Arch: A Reflection of America, earned a rave review in the March/April issue of Video Librarian. Said reviewer J. Shannon, “Boasting excellent production values (including beautifully restored archival footage) and no less than 24 on-camera interviews with architects, authors, engineers, and ironworkers, The Gateway Arch — a beautiful hour-long […]

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Janson Media’s DVD, St. Patrick: Apostle of Ireland, delves beneath the myth of Ireland’s patron saint to reveal that the patron saint was an ordinary man who accomplished the extraordinary by placing his faith in God. Filmmaker David Tennant explores St. Patrick, from his birth to his death.

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Janson Media’s Meltdown: In the Shadow of Nepal’s Lost Glaciers, a documentary film about the effects of global warming on Nepal’s glaciers, will be screened at the MIPDOC marketplace and conference (April 5-6) in Cannes, France.

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Janson Media’s DVD, The Gateway Arch: A Reflection of America, earned a rave review in the upcoming March 1st, 2008 issue of Booklist Magazine. Said reviewer Elliot Mandel of the DVD, “Narrated by St. Louis native Kevin Kline, this lively documentary profiles the history, design, and construction of the Gateway Arch. The film initially […]

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Janson Media’s new DVD, John Paul the Great: A Pope Who Made History, earned a rave review from School Library Journal in its February 1, 2008 issue. Reviewer Lisa Hubler of Memorial Junior High School in South Euclid, Ohio, wrote, “The life of Karol Jósef Wojtyla — from his birth in Poland in 1920 to […]

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Jim Knox, host of the Janson Media television series, Jim Knox’s Wild Zoofari, appeared on the December 4th, 2007 episode of Martha Stewart Live, along with his special guests — a pair of adult reindeer nicknamed “Donner” and “Blitzen.” Jim chatted with Martha about the animals, his work at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo, […]

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Janson Media today announced that Richard Bangs, renowned travel author and host of the adventure series, Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose, received the First Place Prize for Best Travel Book of 2007 by the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA). Bangs won for his book, Adventures With Purpose, the companion piece to his program, Egypt: […]

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Janson Media announced today that the four-part documentary series, GlobeRiders Silk Road Adventures: Motorcycle Journey, won a Historic Digital Cinema Festival “Deffie”Award for best director in an HD documentary. Director and producer, Sterling Noren, has traveled to more than 40 countries around the world — shooting, editing and producing independent documentaries and other non-fiction programming.

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Janson Media is pleased to announce its support of the first World Content Market, to be held February 25th through 27th, in Prague. The company will participate as an advertiser and will be promoting several of its programs and series at the on-site DVD Market Screenings. The World Content Market is a three-day […]

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Janson Media today announced that its new one-hour biography, Xavier: Missionary & Saint, has been scheduled by public television stations in five of the top-10 television markets across the United States. Including PBS stations such as Dallas, Houston, Detroit and Tampa, which plan to schedule the documentary as part of their Easter programming in April […]

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Today, September 14th, 2007, marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of the legendary actress, Grace Kelly. A beautiful queen of the silver screen, Grace Kelly was once one of the most sought-after movie stars Hollywood. Twenty-five years after her death, Grace Kelly still remains an icon of glamour, style, and class.

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Janson Media’s Jacques Pepin Fast Food My Way received a rave review in the September/October 2007 issue of American Fitness Magazine. In the two-disc, 4-hour DVD set “renowned chef, Jacques Pepin, dispenses advice freely,” said D.K. Howe of American Fitness.

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June 25, 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of the last exposition of the Shroud of Turin. The Janson Media DVD, simply titled, Shroud, presents the places, the written evidence, the changes of ownership, the various expositions and the first 1898 photograph that changed everything - and brought the Holy Shroud into the realm of modern […]

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Janson Media today marks the 40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War with its Collector’s Edition DVD of The Impossible Spy. The Six-Day War between Israel and four Arab nations began on June 5th, 1967. 

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Sixty years ago, on April 28, 1947, Norwegian biologist Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members embarked from Peru on their daring voyage to the Marquesas Islands, on a balsa wood raft which was built according to the traditions of South America’s pre-Columbian Indians. The Kon Tiki expedition, as it became known, was hailed as […]

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The Miraculous Mission and Portrait of Courage: The Untold Story of Flight 93 together garnered seven Crown Awards bestowed by the International Christian Visual Media Association (ICVMA) at its recent conference in Denver.

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Janson Media’s feature film, The Impossible Spy, has begun a season of festival and digital theater screenings. The film’s executive producer Harvey Chertok is touring with the film to provide commentary and lead panel discussions in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and four Arab nations.

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Janson Media and Media Ventures are pleased to announce that Higher Ambitions, a film by Tim Boelter, has won a prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award. Higher Ambitions is a remarkable tale of adventure where beating the odds and a dogged persistence to overcome death-defying obstacles results in a history-making ascent of China’s Mt. Siguniang.

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