Barbara Irwin, PhD, professor emerita, communication, will give a brief talk/Q&A following the screening of “Butterfly in the Sky,” a nostalgic documentary about the PBS series Reading Rainbow.
Screenings are at the AMC Maple Ridge theater in Amherst on Sunday, March 17, 4:00 p.m. and Wednesday, March 20, 7:00 p.m. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2022.
Irwin worked on the series and appears in the film, as do series co-creator Tony Buttino and producer Pam Johnson, who will also be on hand for the talk. Together, they’ve written a book about the early history of the series, Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children’s Series, set to be released June 18, 2024. Reading Rainbow was co-produced by WNED-TV, the public television station right here in Buffalo.
Submitted by: Barbara Irwin, Professor Emerita, Communication Department
