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title: "New Special Explores the Myth, Meaning and Allure of Angels"
date: 2010-10-24T23:43:03-05:00
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# New Special Explores the Myth, Meaning and Allure of Angels 

Janson Media today announced the release of the award winning documentary [*In Search of Angels: The Meaning, Myth and Allure of Angels*](http://www.janson.com/rights/2010/09/23/in-search-of-angels-the-meaning-myth-and-allure-of-angels/) (1 x 60') to worldwide Television, VOD, New Media, and Non-Theatric markets. Narrated by Debra Winger, *In Search of Angels* explores the myth, meaning and allure of angels, both in history and popular culture, in a visually stunning program filmed on location in major cities, museums and art galleries in Europe and America.

*In Search of Angels* brings the most comprehensive collection of angel images ever assembled for television, with an abundance of treasured angelic works: Gian Lorenzo Bernini"s Ponte Sant"Angelo, Ecstasy of St. Teresa at Cornaro Chapel; baldacchino at St. Peter"s Basilica; Louis Tiffany"s Chapel of the Angels; seven great lancet windows representing St. Michael"s Victory in Heaven at St. Michael"s Church in New York; Otto Wagner"s art nouveau masterpiece Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna; Marc Chagall"s luminous ceiling of musical; and winged beings at Opera Garnier in Paris, to name a few.

*In Search of Angels* explores how the idea and regard for angels in human life persists, through venerated stories and depictions as well as in ever-new interpretations. John Milton"s tumultuous "War of Heaven" from *Paradise Lost* - and Winger"s potent reading of it - posits striking contrast to film clips of the gentle, angelic longings in post cold-war Berlin from Wim Wender"s acclaimed films *Wings of Desire* and *Faraway So Close.*

*In Search of Angels* effects a beautiful, dense, rich visual tapestry for each narrative chapter: Angels in Popular Culture; the Celestial Hierarchy of Angels; Guardian Angels; archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael; The Annunciation and The Assumption of Mary; Angels as Intermediaries, Divine messengers, and Recorders; Angel of the Waters, and more. The film features interviews with prominent personalities include *Angels in America* Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner, recording artist and songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, America"s preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom, and best-selling author of *A Book of Angels* Sophy Burnham, among others.

*In Search of Angels* presents a bright musical palette; from classic choral works to contemporary instrumental and vocal works; with original theme music by Tim Story, from the Music soundtrack CD for Windham Hill Records.