ATX TV | The Big Cigar Q&A with Janine Sherman Barrois & Jim Hecht | ATX TV Festival @ATXTV | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
#TheBigCigar executive producers Janine Sherman Barrois and Jim Hecht join fans in at ATX TV Festival to discuss the unbelievable true story behind the Apple TV+ original series, the adaptation process, constructing a period piece, and more.

#TheBigCigar is streaming now on Apple TV+.

This conversation was recorded live at ATX TV Festival Season 13 (May 30-June 2, 2024) in Austin, TX.

PANELISTS:
Janine Sherman Barrois (Showrunner / Writer)
Jim Hecht (Executive Producer / Writer)

MODERATOR:
Jacqueline Coley (Rotten Tomatoes)

ABOUT THE SERIES
The Big Cigar tells the incredible true story of Black Panther founder Huey P. Newton escaping from the FBI to Cuba with the assistance of famed producer Bert Schneider in an impossibly elaborate plan—involving a fake movie production—that goes wrong every way it possibly can.

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