We are thrilled to congratulate director/producer Nancy Schwartzman on the recent nomination of her film Roll Red Roll for a Peabody Award! The Peabody Awards recognize exceptional storytelling in news, television, documentary film, radio and public service programming, and are known as one of the highest honors in media. Roll Red Roll, which tells the...
On Sunday, April 26, RPJ client Engel Entertainment celebrated the premiere of its eighth season of North Woods Law on Discovery’s Animal Planet. The special two-hour premiere kicked off the season with the dramatic rescue of a hiker lost in the New Hampshire mountains for five days without food or...
RPJ client and production company Multitude Films' newest feature-length documentary Pray Away will have its world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival in Documentary Competition, as announced last week. Directed by Kristine Stolakis, the film goes in depth to reveal the lasting damage inflicted on individuals in gay conversion programs,...
RPJ is excited to congratulate our client Multitude Films on the announcement that its latest documentary short, Call Center Blues, will premiere at SXSW Film Festival this March. SXSW revealed the film’s premiere last week. Directed by Emmy Award-winner Geeta Gandbhir and produced by Jessica Devaney, Call Center Blues is...
Earlier this week and kicking off the new year, on January 22, RPJ co-sponsored a free screening of producer Mick Caouette’s film, Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare, at UBS in honor of the 100th anniversary in 2020 of women’s suffrage and Women Creating Change’s Founders Day, as Perkins...
RPJ client and production company Engel Entertainment will premiere its newest original series, Alaska PD, on A&E Networks to ring in the New Year. The show follows police departments in the diverse areas of Fairbanks, Kodiak, Kotzebue and Petersburg that face the extreme weather, wild animals and weapon-wielding vigilantes, all...
Yesterday, the International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the shortlist for its 35th Annual IDA Documentary Awards, and two films by RPJ clients made the cut for Best Documentary Feature. The first, Roll Red Roll, directed by Nancy Schwartzman and produced by Jessica Devaney and Steven Lake, follows the story of high school...
Assia Boundaoui’s acclaimed documentary, The Feeling of Being Watched, will be broadcast on POV next week, October 14 at 10:00 p.m. The film follows Ms. Boundaoui as she investigates rumors that her Arab-American neighborhood has long been under FBI surveillance. The documentary has been described as a “courageous, eye-opening documentary...
In June, the independent film company Cinereach announced its 2019 Producer Award recipients as part of the Cinereach Producers Initiative, naming RPJ client Jessica Devaney, Producer and Founder of Multitude Films, as one of this year’s four award winners who have demonstrated vision and integrity, contributed as leaders to the...
After winning the Oscar for Best Documentary and earning seven Emmy nominations, the documentary film Free Solo, featuring our firm’s client, professional rock climber Alex Honnold, already deserved plenty of praise and congratulations. Then, on September 14 at the 2019 Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, Free Solo won all seven...