Sundance Creates Web Offering For 'Dream School' Series

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Sundance Channel will launch an original web series based on its upcoming new non-fiction series Dream School. 

The weekly web series, which will be available on Sundancechannel.com and the network’s social media platforms via Facebook and Twitter, will feature interviews with the innovators and leaders from Dream School as they discuss their experience as mentors while appearing in the new series. The six-episode series Dream School, which premieres Oct. 7, follows 15 teenage dropouts as they enroll in a school featuring celebrities and notable educators as teachers.

Personalities featured in the web series include director Oliver Stone, musician Swizz Beatz, financial guru Suze Orman, TV journalist Soledad O'Brien, and actor David Arquette, said network officials.

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.