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...
RPJ congratulates client Cowboy Bear Ninja LLC, who partnered with OZY Media to produce a four-part series entitled Black Women OWN the Conversation! The show premieres on OWN TV this Saturday, August 24 at 10/9c. The four one-hour-long episodes feature “intimate conversations about important issues with honest opinions and surprising solutions...
RPJ congratulates our firm's clients Alex Honnold and ITV on their 2019 Emmy nominations. Alex Honnold is the focus of the documentary Free Solo, which follows his 2017 free solo ascent of the Freerider climbing route on the El Capitan granite face in Yosemite National Park. Free Solo won the Academy Award...