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Who Says I Can't: TV Pilot

Who Says I Can’t: TV Pilot

Positive and inspirational, Who Says I Can’t is a television show that tells the story of brave and determined men and women as they overcome disabilities and become athletes. “Who Says I Can’t” is a television show hosted by cancer survivor, entrepreneur and extreme disabled athlete Jothy Rosenberg, that tells the story of brave and determined people as they overcome disabilities and become athletes. view clip     Maureen McKinnon is a Paralympic Gold Medal winner in sailing—the first American to do so. Maureen became paralyzed from the waist down from a fall. Her life reached a severe low before she discovered the joy of—and her passion for—sailing. view clip     Hugh Herr is a renowned climber. Hugh lost both legs below the knees ice climbing when he was 17. Hugh is one of the world’s leading developers of bionic prosthetics and runs a lab at MIT while he...
Peter's Pans

Peter’s Pans

Peter Yurasits has been a private chef/Caterer for 20 years in NYC. He knows the art of offering healthy local food choices and organized preparation. He also knows that kids (he has one of his own) function better on good food and enjoy the simple preparation that foods need to attain maximum flavor. He wants to bring that expertise to TV to show parents how to teach their kids how to cook simple delicious foods.
Celebrity Roots: Olympia Dukakis

Celebrity Roots: Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis tells us where her family is from and recalls stories about her family
Finding Paddy: The Story of Captain Patrick Brown FDNY

Finding Paddy: The Story of Captain Patrick Brown FDNY

Filmmaker Steve McCarthy explores the meaning of heroism by discovering the life of his friend, Captain Paddy Brown, NYC’s most decorated fireman who died on 9/11. McCarthy starts with Brown’s incredible acts of heroism, saving people from flames, breathing life into fire victims. Eventually, McCarthy finds a more complicated subtext: Brown’s childhood in an alcoholic home, his abuse by priests, his traumatic tour of duty as a Marine in Vietnam, his string of lovers. Paddy emerges as a classic hero—one profoundly flawed and driven to acts of bravery by complex motives, including a drive for penance, self-destruction, and the creation of his own legacy. Ultimately, Captain Brown seeks inner peace and in the course of that quest touches innumerable lives. At his moment of redemption, he climbs the stairs of the North Tower and dies comforting burn victims on an upper floor.