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Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Debbie Nightingale, Hot Docs Festival Co-Founder, Dies at 71
Debbie Nightingale, a co-founder of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, which eventually became the largest documentary event in North America, died July 10 after a bout with cancer. She was 71. 'Every part of the Hot Docs we know today grew from what Debbie helped establish,' execs at the Toronto-based festival said in a statement. 'She recognized the importance of documentary filmmaking and providing a place where filmmakers, funders and audiences could connect. Without her, we wouldn't be here. Her legacy will be forever felt, and she will be truly missed.' More from The Hollywood Reporter Three Six Zero Names Aimee Jessiman U.K. Head of Management Locarno Director on 'Dracula,' Jackie Chan and Hosting a Film Festival With the World "in Flames" Connie Francis, 'Where the Boys Are' Singer and Actress, Dies at 87 Nightingale and veteran documentary maker Paul Jay in 1993 launched a documentary showcase that would eventually become Hot Docs. She helped raise the initial $100,000 to get the festival off the ground and served as its first festival manager and later as executive director. Born in Toronto on Oct. 14, 1953, Nightingale had been producing the Trade Forum at the Festival of Festivals, the forerunner of the Toronto International Film Festival, when Jay urged her to explore the launch of a documentary showcase for the Canadian Independent Film Caucus, today known as the Documentary Organization of Canada. 'It was because of her involvement, on spec, that the festival flew,' Jay told the POV Magazine in a 2007 interview. Nightingale went on to become a prolific film and TV producer, with such credits as the TV series Living in Your Car, the hockey movie Chicks With Sticks and the animal adventure comedy Bailey's Billion$, which starred Jennifer Tilly and Dean Cain. She eventually left the Canadian film and TV industry to run the Haute Goat Farm as a farmer. 'Debbie was not only the founder but the true heart and soul of Haute Goat — a dreamer, a doer and an inspiration to all who crossed her path. Her love for animals, people and the land was the magic behind every visit, every experience and every smile on the farm,' the Facebook page for the farm in Port Hope, Ontario, wrote in remembrance. Nightingale is survived by her husband, Shain Jaffe, a retired literary agent, and her children, Sarah, Leland and Noah. The family asks that donations in her memory be made to the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Solve the daily Crossword
Hamilton Spectator
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Hot Docs film festival co-founder Debbie Nightingale dies
Hot Docs film festival co-founder Debbie Nightingale has died at 71. The organization says the veteran Toronto film producer died on July 10. Her obituary says she fought cancer with the 'fierce determination' she had brought to all other aspects of her life. In 1993, Nightingale teamed up with veteran documentary filmmaker Paul Jay to launch a showcase that would evolve into Hot Docs, Canada's largest documentary film festival. She helped raise the initial $100,000 that got the organization off the ground and served as its first festival manager and later as executive director. She also produced several films, TV shows and documentaries, including 2004 hockey dramedy 'Chicks with Sticks' and 2010's series 'Living in Your Car,' a darkly comic look at corporate downfall. Hot Docs said in a statement that Nightingale 'recognized the importance of documentary filmmaking' and provided 'a place where filmmakers, funders and audiences could connect.' Her obituary notes that she also operated Haute Goat Farm, a 200-acre property in Port Hope, Ont. 'Debbie was not only the founder but the true heart and soul of Haute Goat — a dreamer, a doer, and an inspiration to all who crossed her path,' said a statement on the farm's Facebook page. 'Her love for animals, people, and the land was the magic behind every visit, every experience, and every smile on the farm.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 17, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Hot Docs film festival co-founder Debbie Nightingale dies
Hot Docs film festival co-founder Debbie Nightingale has died at 71. The organization says the veteran Toronto film producer died on July 10. Her obituary says she fought cancer with the 'fierce determination' she had brought to all other aspects of her life. In 1993, Nightingale teamed up with veteran documentary filmmaker Paul Jay to launch a showcase that would evolve into Hot Docs, Canada's largest documentary film festival. She helped raise the initial $100,000 that got the organization off the ground and served as its first festival manager and later as executive director. She also produced several films, TV shows and documentaries, including 2004 hockey dramedy 'Chicks with Sticks' and 2010's series 'Living in Your Car,' a darkly comic look at corporate downfall. Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. Hot Docs said in a statement that Nightingale 'recognized the importance of documentary filmmaking' and provided 'a place where filmmakers, funders and audiences could connect.' Her obituary notes that she also operated Haute Goat Farm, a 200-acre property in Port Hope, Ont. 'Debbie was not only the founder but the true heart and soul of Haute Goat — a dreamer, a doer, and an inspiration to all who crossed her path,' said a statement on the farm's Facebook page. 'Her love for animals, people, and the land was the magic behind every visit, every experience, and every smile on the farm.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 17, 2025.
New Statesman
09-07-2025
- Politics
- New Statesman
Can jury-less trials save our justice system?
Illustration by Gary Waters / Ikon Images It's hard to establish quite where the legal maxim 'justice delayed is justice denied' comes from. The Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, likes saying it, as did her predecessor, Alex Chalk, and his predecessor-but-one, Brandon Lewis. It's often attributed to William Gladstone, but the notion that the timely conclusion of a legal issue is fundamental to a functioning justice system pre-dates the Victorian prime minister by hundreds of years. One such variation can even be found in the Magna Carta: 'To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.' Echoing the sentiment is the retired judge Brian Leveson, who is chairing the government's review into a broken courts system. Leveson recently warned that radical reform is required to tackle a backlog of almost 80,000 cases that is causing trials for serious criminal offences to be postponed until as late as 2029. Picking up on a theme trailed in recent months by the justice minister, Sarah Sackman, one of the review's key recommendations will be to scale back a pillar of the legal system also enshrined in the Magna Carta: the right to a trial by jury. There is precedent. Less serious 'summary offences' such as driving violations and minor assaults are already heard not by 12 of a defendant's peers but by a panel, including a district judge and two magistrates (who are unpaid and do not require legal qualifications). Serious offences, such as murder or rape, can only be heard by a Crown court with a jury. In the middle sit offences – burglary, drug possession, fraud – where the defendant can choose where they would like their case to be heard. Leveson's proposal is to restrict these defendants' right to a jury, setting up an intermediate court to hear some of these 'either way' cases. 'There's no choice. We cannot carry on with the present system,' he told the Observer. 'Justice delayed is justice denied.' The disintegration of the justice system is one of the most underexamined crises of the past decade. In December 2019, before reports of coronavirus hit the headlines, the Crown court backlog was more than 37,400, and it already took more than a year for the most serious cases to come to trial. Then, in the early months of the pandemic, hearings were suspended completely. This came after a decade in which the Ministry of Justice became a poster department for austerity, its budget slashed and a third of court buildings sold off between 2010 and 2019 in the name of economy. The money received into government coffers in return was pitiful: the sale of 126 courts yielded just £34m. Several of these buildings subsequently became film sets for legal dramas. In January 2021, when the court backlog was more than 54,000 and so-called Nightingale courts were being hurriedly set up to deal with it, Blackfriars Crown Court was filled not with judges, defendants and legal personnel, but with Netflix producers shooting the crime thriller Top Boy. Her Majesty's Court & Tribunal Service even inquired about hiring the building it had once owned to hear actual cases, rather than fictional ones. The consequences of this catastrophe are lives put on hold: defendants losing jobs and relationships as they await the chance to clear their name; victims trapped in limbo, unable to process their trauma. As trials are listed far in the future, witnesses withdraw and cases collapse, enabling dangerous perpetrators to walk free and reoffend. The witness attrition rate for rape and sexual assault is particularly dire, with 325 out of 4,317 prosecutions derailed last year – a fivefold increase since 2019. This national scandal should be a source of shame for the Tories – but no one wants to relitigate the Covid era now, any more than they want to look too hard at whose decision it was to scale back access to justice, as though fewer courthouses would lead to a decline in crime. It is the job of Mahmood to mitigate the damage inflicted by the likes of Chris Grayling. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe And so jury trials, which cost ten times that of magistrate hearings, are in the firing line. Replacing them with a judge will not be an easy case to make (not least as there is a 300,000-case backlog in magistrates courts too). Back in June 2020 when I interviewed legal professionals about the impact of the pandemic, one leading barrister warned that the 'jury trial has a Magna Carterish Brexity resonance to it that brings liberals and traditionalists together; restricting it would be picking a fight with Keir Starmer and Jacob Rees-Mogg at the same time'. Five years and a doubled courts backlog later, expect the backlash to Leveson's proposals to be furious. There will be much railing about 'two-tier justice' – a favourite phrase of the shadow justice secretary, Robert Jenrick. It will be interpreted as yet another Labour betrayal, a sign of this country's decline, the hacking away at public services to save cash. The government will be hoping that radical reform can speed up cases and thus restore faith in a system that is failing everyone except criminals. The status quo is both unjust and unjustifiable, and the idea of trading the right to a jury for swifter trials has been backed by many legal specialists, among them five former lord chancellors (several of them Tories) and two former lord chief justices. But the public may not be so easily convinced. The risk is that, with confidence already damaged by years of deterioration, this creates the perception of justice on the cheap, removing a right etched into the British consciousness by centuries of tradition and cemented there by legal dramas filmed in the very courthouses we sold off. [See also: Robert Jenrick and the myth of 'two-tier justice'] Related
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Nightingale Ice Cream Expands Presence in Whole Foods Market with Addition of Four New U.S. Regions
RICHMOND, Va., July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Nightingale Ice Cream, the woman-owned, chef-founded brand known for its handcrafted ice cream sandwiches, is proud to announce its continued growth in select Whole Foods Market locations nationwide. Beginning this July, Nightingale will expand its presence into four additional Whole Foods Market regions: Midwest, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and Florida. This milestone positions Nightingale's premium ice cream sandwiches in over 400 Whole Foods Market stores across the U.S. by the end of summer 2025, significantly increasing the brand's national footprint and bringing its nostalgic-meets-culinary treats to new audiences. "We're thrilled to expand our collaboration with Nightingale Ice Cream across four new regions, bringing their exceptional handcrafted ice cream sandwiches to even more of our customers," said Daniella Cady, Senior Bakery Category Merchant at Whole Foods Market. "Their commitment to innovative flavors perfectly aligns with what our shoppers are looking for in premium frozen treats. The brand's impressive growth and customer feedback in existing markets made this expansion a natural next step in our relationship" "We love working with Whole Foods Market because they truly care about the things that matter to us— quality ingredients and a commitment to premium, innovative offerings," said Hannah Pollack, founder of Nightingale Ice Cream. "It's incredibly rewarding to partner with a retailer that shares our values and to see our sandwiches reach even more communities across the country." Founded in Richmond, Virginia, Nightingale Ice Cream has gained a loyal following for its bold flavors, distinctive textures, and commitment to quality ingredients. Popular flavors like Banana Pudding, Cookie Monster, and Strawberry Shortcake will be available in these new regions, offering consumers a fresh take on the classic ice cream sandwich. This expansion marks a natural alignment between Nightingale Ice Cream and Whole Foods Market—two brands united by a deep commitment to quality, transparency, and real ingredients. As Nightingale continues to experience strong performance and growing consumer demand, the addition of these new regions underscores a shared dedication to offering thoughtfully crafted, premium products that delight. To locate Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches at a Whole Foods Market near you, please visit: About Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches Founded in 2016 from the humble beginnings of a now-closed restaurant pool hall, Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches quickly became a Richmond, Virginia staple. Today, this burgeoning ice cream empire, led by culinary duo Hannah Pollack and Xavier Meers, is expanding into major retailers, restaurants, and event venues across the United States. Handcrafted in small batches, Nightingale ice cream sandwiches include 14% butterfat ice cream, freshly baked cookies & homemade inclusions. Joyful & indulgent, Nightingale is incomparable to any other ice cream novelty, evoking tastes of childhood with elevated flavors & sophistication. Nightingale is now found at over 5,200 chain and independent grocers nationwide, including Whole Foods Market, Costco, Kroger, Ralph's, The Fresh Market, and Harris Teeter. Learn more at PR CONTACT: Molly Szkotak, Director of Brand Marketing 718.501.4015 View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
