at sundance there were six films that were women writing for themselves. tavis: an african-american woman won for the first time at sundance, which is a big deal. >> there is a wave of women creating their own material, their own work to act in, direct, produce. that is the only way that things will change. there are no good roles for women. and there are no good stories geared towards women. we are responsible for that. so many women and girls are doing that now. tavis: she became the first black woman to win at sundance this year. congratulations to her. back to you. it is called "friends with kids." come back any time. john, too. that is our show for tonight. until next time, keep the faith. >> you want to come in your room. >> can you do me a favor and keep him with you guys tonight? between that and the positions that we do, i do not want to scare him. >> right, right. sometimes, we can be loud, too. great, we will keep him for the night. >> you are the best. >> for more information on today'show, visit tavis smiley. tavis: i am tavis smiley. to me fo

at some point sundance got so big that somebody said we need a sundance for sundance. >> right. >> doy need a day trotter for day trotter? >> probably not. we just recently started having other branchs as far as other studios that we work out of. places we have gone to record in the past, that we've gotten to like the people and feel we can get as good as a sound as we get back home tp there's a couple of places we just started our london studio a couple weeks ago. we do things out here frequently. we have a studio in austin. a studio in nashville and a place we use every once in a while in montreal. >> how did you get started doing this? are you a musician? >> i was writing back home. i went to university of iowa for journalism. and started -- >> you're not doing this. >> i did it for a long time. i started in high school answering phones. like how a lot of people get started in the newspaper business. i worked in the sports department for a long time. i would come back from school in the summer, winter breaks or whatever, christmas. and write. and i worked there for like 12 years. a

>> well, at sundance, it was mixed, to be honest with you.. and a large, older woman ran out with her two daughters and looked at me and said, you call this creativity? i spent money on this bull [ bleep ]. and i said, would you mind if i just film you doing this? so, it's not for everyone. >> 25% walkout rate. >> jimmy: really? is that high? >> that's about average. most movies -- how many people here have gone to see a movie before in the theaters? >> a lot of people. >> a lot of people. and some people walked out, right? usually, 25% of people walk out. >> jimmy: somewhere like that. >> it's -- people have a lot of things to do. so, they want to move on. >> jimmy: you guys -- you've done something pretty big. you were hired to do promos for the super bowl, which is a pretty big thing and a great thing, right? >> we're huge football guys. >> jimmy: you are? i never would have imagined that you were big football guys. >> absolutely. when abc came to us -- >> nbc. >> nbc. yeah. take two? >> jimmy: it's -- we're just rolling here. there's no r

people gathered this afternoon for a day of remembrance at the kabuki sundance cinema. it is remarking the exec tive order that led to the mass incarceration of japanese-americans on the west coast in 1942. the event is dedicated to a man who defied the order to evacuate and was a life-long advocate for civil rights. community members say today's event is to make sure the american people don't forget what happened to the japanese-americans during world war ii. >> i'm embarrassed for the country. i may have been angry at some point, but not now. but the main thing is that we haven't forgotten. we remember and we feel that it's our responsibility now to be the guardians of that kind of activity. >> reporter: today's event was followed bay candle light march and reception at the japanese cultural and community center of northern california. >>> in the east bay, a small plane and helicopter collided in midair in solano county today but remarkably the two pilots survived and suffered just minor injuries. the collision happened around 7:00 tonight at the reno owe vista airpor

we were at sundance film festival and it was on television. it's being used in many classrooms and corporate seminar across the country to make people more aware of the legacy of the slave trade and it's opened a lot of doors of discussion that need to happen around awareness of this history and the impact still today. >> we find ourselves divided still it seems. >> absolutely. >> and sometimes it's based on economics, sometimes on race. how do you see that in terms of the film and in terms of what you're trying to do? >> i see the film as an opportunity for dialogue and also for actually seeing slavery through the eyes of a white family that is willing to put out there, guess what our family was the largest slave holding family of 10,000 africans. we traded 10,000 africans. that is usually something that you say from a white person willing to put up on the big screen and it tells their story. it's a different story than coming from a black family. however, it also sheds light on just some of the pieces missing in telling the story. in the leg

people gathered for a day of remembrance at the kabuki sundance cinema. it marks the anniversary of the executive order that led to the mass incarceration of japanese-americans on the west coast in 1941. this year's event is dedicated to a man who defied the order to evacuate and was a life-long advocate for the civil rights. community members say the event is to make sure the american people don't forget what happened to the japanese-americans during world war ii. >> i am embarrassed for the country. i may have been ath angry at some point, but not now. the main thing is that we haven't forgotten. we remember and we feel that it's our responsibility to be the guardians of that kind of activity. >> today's event was followed by a candle light march and reception at the japanese culture community center of northern california. >>> just as the issue of contraception is becoming a hotly debated top nick the presidential race, here in california a new program is sparking controversy. a non-profit group is mailing free condoms to youth as young as 12 years old

of remembrance tomorrow will be celebrated in san jose's japantown and in san francisco, at the sundance. where they'll pay tribute to a man who became famous when he openly defied the internment orders 70 years ago and he passed away last month. live in san jose, stephanie trong, diane, back to you. >>> espn is in crisis management mode tonight after an online article used a racial slur in its headline referring to recent chinese-american nba star, jeremy lin. it was part of an online headline, referring to lin's nine turnovers in the knicks's loss. the headline said "chink in the armor" it was up for 30 minutes before being taken down. espn is apologizing, saying we're are determining appropriate disciplinary action to insure this does not happen again and we regret and apologize for this mistake. the same slur was reportedly used on espn a few days ago as well. san francisco's senator, leland yi responded to the espn headline. here's part of his statement. this incident harkins back to 1947 when jackie robinson heard some of the ugliest racial epithets as it broke the color barrier. e

the park city utah has a sundance film festival and san jose has a film festival. last night the kickoff at the san jose athletic club. our own christina lorn was on hand to get the party started. she also emceed the event. nearly 200 films will be shown this year in and around downtown san jose. it runs february 28 through march 11. they had a pretty good turnout last night. holy smokes! >> you look stunning in that red dress. >> oh, thank you! >> i'd have just worn that today. >> i love talking to other media partners about how they watch us in the morning. so it is really cool to get together with the media and get some feedback about our show. they like the ladies in the morning so we're doing okay. we've got some great weather for the second half of the day and we're going to see a spectacular -- i mean spectacular super bowl sunday weekend for outdoor activities. the end of my seven-day i'm actually bringing showers back in as well. we're pretty much bypassing our chance for any significant rainfall at this point. what we are expecting maybe little post-front

day of remembrance tomorrow there will be a lot of events here and san jose and a big one in the sundancehere they will pay tribute to a man named gordan hirobiashi who became famous when he defied the internment orders 70 years ago and he passed away last month. >>> stephanie, thank you. coming up next at 6:00 more fall out from a racist headline targeted at bay area native jeremy lin and politicians are weighing in as well. >> the bar scene, has the stigma of i am still partying, still playing, not ready to settle town and start a family. >> is there a new trend pushing singles out of the bars and into church? we'll plain. [ teen ] times are good, aren't they, kids? it's nice having u-verse, isn't it? see back in my day, we didn't have these newfangled wireless receivers. fangled? no, we watched march madness in the living room... that's where the tv outlet was. what is he talking about? and if mom was hosting her book club that day, guess what...you missed it! we couldn't just move the tv all willy-nilly all over the house. ohh! ohh! kids today have it so good. ok. [ male announcer ] t

the film about sexual assault in the military won the audience award at the sundance film festival.women and men recounted their experiences. >> every thing came to a complete change the day that i was raped. >> i got there in february, by april i was drugged and raped for the first time. >> i had like a cold or pneumonia like symptoms so they sent me to get check the out. and while i was waiting to be examined he came in and he helped himself. >> he said he was going to the bathroom and he came in to my room and that's when he raped me. >> the entire time i was screaming and yelling for help and for him to stop, nobody came to the door, nobody came to help me, came to my rescue or anything. >> they made it very, very clear that if i said anything they were going to kill me. you know, then of course i didn't have 1999 go talk to because the people that were perpetrating me were the police. it. >> was my first time ever and it was -- had tough time convincing myself that i'm still a virgin. >> if this is happening to me, you know, i can only -- surely i'm not the only one. which i fo

. >> we have a trip to park city utah for next year's sundance film festival, two bedroom condo, right on main street, and that comes with flight also. >> that is awesome. great. great job. meg, for people who want to get involved, who want to get tickets for tomorrow night, how do they do that? >> the best thing is to come today to the wrecker theater at the box office and saturday they can buy them at the door. >> that is terrific. every dollar goes to families facing cancer. >> that's right. >> thanks, meg, john, great to see you. >> thank you. >> come in out, the 6th annual concert for hope. don and marty, have a great weekend and speaking of music we will see you monday for manic monday. >> we will see you. >> a friend of mine is in the gypsy dogs just put that in there, still to come on wjz. >> bald eagles almost driven to extinction now rebounding. i am adam may, the unlikely place we saw more than 100 ,,,,, >>> 6:22 and 1/2. the american bald eagle now back from extinction is literally flocking to an unlikely spot here. this morning adam may reveals a new threat and a critical

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it was shown at the sundance film festival.hy would you quite honestly a white man from the south take on this particular topic? >> i grew up in a place in mississippi that was -- where there were more black people than there were white. i went to schools where overwhelming they were black in the public school in the 1970s primarily and for whatever reason from really early on in life i was sort of possessed with trying to understand why were things the way they were. why were all the black people i knew facing such greater difficulty in their lives than i faced in mine. i began to write about civil rights at an early age and have been doing it for a long, long time. >> your book is an investigation of american corporations using slave labor after slaves were free. what did you learn? >> i learned after the civil war when the emancipated slaves were, indeed, free for a period of time, they were in tough times, but they were authentically free, but then began this great campaign all across the southern states to essentially reen

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blackman's book is titled "slavery by another name" turned into a feature documentary and shown at the sundancehad a chance to talk with him in tonight's "what matters" segment. why would you quite honestly a white man from the south take on this particular topic? >> well, i grew up in a place in mississippi that was -- where there were more black people than there were white and went to schools that were overwhelmingly black in public school in the 1970s primarily and for whatever reason from early on in life, i was sort of possessed with trying to understand why were things the way they were, why were all the black people i knew facing such greater difficulty in their lives than i faced in mine and so i began to write about civil rights and questions of race at a very early age and been doing it for a long, long time. >> your book is an investigation of american corporations using slave labor after slaves were free. what did you learn? >> i learned that after the civil war after a period of time right after the civil war when the emancipated slaves were indeed free for a period of time, they

with additional funding for this program from the sundance institute documentary fund and the richard h. driehaus foundation. >> it was a violent night in chicago. nine people were shot in just five hours, one person died. >> gregory robinson is the 28th chicago public school student killed this school year... >> he died last friday... >> 124 people have been killed so far this year-- about the number of americans killed in iraq and afghanistan. >> sadly, in another sign of the times, members of ceasefire were also at today's memorial service, hoping to stop any thoughts of retaliation for greg's murder. >> twelve, 13-year-olds are walking around with bulletproof vests on up under their clothes. >> give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation. >> all right, let's close up. everybody that's in the meeting, this is serious now, okay? we're in a crisis mode, and we need people to step up to this table and go over and beyond. guys are getting killed for just anything. have there been any conflic

park city utah has the sundance film festival, san jose has the civic quest film festival. event kicked off with a media event last night at the san jose athletic club. take a look. there to get the party started, our very own meteorologist christina loren. she walk the red carpet and mingled with the crowd. think they mingled with you. nearly 200 films will be shown at this year's festival. what a dress! civic quest opens on february 28th and runs through march 11th. >> it looked like a pretty good crowd there as well. >> yeah, great crowd. we'll be bringing you updates everything that has to do with cinequest as it gets rarmd up. as we head through the day today, rain chances ramping down. a front came through the area overnight. golden gate bridge got some pretty good moisture. as we head throughout the day today, we'll lose that shower chance quickly by mid morning, as a matter of fact. 1:00 p.m. the sun is out breaking through those clouds. we'll see a really nice second half of the day. as we head through the next three days we warm up. we've got a great weekend to ge

our next guest is an emmy-nominated actor of stage and screen who starred in the sundance hit "marthaoadway in one of the most acclaimed plays of the season, "venus in fur." please welcome back to our show, the very talented hugh dancy. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: got the name hugh and dancy in there. they're the best. you can't beat -- that was a double whammy on that one. >> jimmy: was it hugh should be dancing? >> hugh should be dancing. >> jimmy: yeah. very good. its very good. >> beautiful. >> jimmy: you never thought of that, right? >> never. >> jimmy: even now, are you thinking of it? >> i still don't understand it. >> jimmy: yeah me neither. broadway, you are killing it in "venus in fur." oh, my gosh. congratulations. broadway week here. have you ever done a musical or anything? >> no i might audition for the "jimmy fallon" musical. >> jimmy: yeah. it is getting good reviews. >> i hear it's amazing. yeah. >> jimmy: a couple twists i don't get. but, yeah -- a couple of the wordings. >> no, no, no. i sing in the shower that's about it. >> jimmy: you are not a musical --

now tracy was at the sundance film festival and he got a little altitude sickness and dehydration.s just like -- [ as tracy morgan ] "elvis presley says hello, everybody." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's pretty good. he talked to elvis. >> yeah. >> jimmy: he says he talked to elvis. >> yeah. >> jimmy: everyone's thinking of how, of course, you don't want the show to end but how could "30 rock" end? and alec baldwin has said he thinks that your character, kenneth the page, should take over nbc. >> oh, that would go over real good. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> plus, i mean, you know, nbc is facing some obstacles so maybe he's running it all ready. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no, no, no. no, that's not what they're doing at all. oh my gosh. but i mean -- so we have a super-fun clip up here, coming up. it's you -- yelling at the writers. >> okay. >> jimmy: you as kenneth. >> i believe you. >> jimmy: yeah. enjoy it. [ laughter ] just watch it. >> uh, hello, i'm back. >> what do you mean you're back? >> i wasn't here yesterday. >> yes you were. you were in the kitchen all day. right over, oh

the actress is being treated at the circ lodge in sundance utah for an eating disorder and issues. the rehab center is known for its one-on-one approach to addiction treatment. >>> now the trouble on the high seas. two princess cruise ships en route to fort lauderdale have been hit by a fast-moving virus. more than 200 passengers got sick from an outbreak of norovirus last week on the ruby princess and the crown princess. luckily, everyone is recovering. >>> and finally, we all know the giants are super confident they're going to win the super bowl. i guess they are, sorry, guys. their official website made the declaration on saturday. it was an accident, of course. the ad was quickly taken down. and in case you haven't heard, today's match-up between the giants and the patriots happens right here on nbc. that's the news. now back to ann, al, natalie and savannah in indy. i'm rooting for the giants, i'm proud to say. what about you guys? >> okay. well, that didn't make -- that didn't sound like you were being objective. >> i know, i know. >> okay. we'll kind of carry that baton. th