Don’t get me wrong – I love rainbow sprinkles and Kate Bush and Pose, but I’m reminded every time I talk to my family in Florida that the fuzzy feeling of June in the city isn’t shared by all in this hot, hot mess of a country. So I am...
Peacock has acquired the civil rights documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power produced by RPJ client Multitude Films ahead of its world premiere this week at the Tribeca Festival – release date to be announced at a later date. The film is told through first person accounts and...
On June 6th, 2022, longtime RPJ friend and client Sonny Vaccaro sat down for an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to discuss his life and career, his advocacy for the rights of college athletes, Michael Jordan, and the future of college sports. The basketball impresario is best known for his...
This month, New York federal district court Judge Laura Taylor Swain gave what is expected to be her final substantive ruling on the dispute between Sketchworks Industrial Strength Comedy Inc. and the copyright owners of the musical Grease, which Sketchworks’ musical Vape parodies. In her ruling, Judge Swain held that...
Doc10, Chicago’s only all-documentary film festival, announced its first-ever awards program, which honored documentary filmmakers. Among this year’s winners is RPJ Client Jessica Devaney, who was presented with the Vanguard Award, created to honor innovative documentary filmmakers, for her production of 17 shorts and features, including Pray Away. The award...
At the upcoming 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, three of RPJ’s clients will premiere documentary feature films as part of the Festival’s Spotlight Documentary, Viewpoints and Documentary Competition selections. Tickets are available for purchase here. Naked Gardens, directed by Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan and produced by Tabs Breese, follows the...
On May 5, Variety featured Milisuthando Bongela's self-titled documentary on Black middle-class women in post-apartheid South Africa, as part of the 2022 Hot Docs Forum. The film, for which RPJ provides production legal services, is produced by Marion Isaacs for The Good Black Project, in co-production with Sonia Barrera and...
Talking about the Metaverse is like having a discussion about what “the internet” is in the 1970s or what “the cloud” is in the early 2000s. So what exactly is the Metaverse and what is all the hype about? Simply put, the Metaverse is a new iteration of the internet...
The FCC won’t let me be or let me be me so let me see…they wouldn’t let Will use profanity, but it felt so empty on live TV. Watching TV with people who make TV (or at least know how the sausage is made, in my case) is either a...
RPJ Client Minnow Films Ltd. is debuting Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King tomorrow, March 30th, on Netflix. The crime documentary follows the story of investors-turned-sleuths as they attempt to uncover the mystery behind the suspicious death of multimillionaire Gerry Cotten, and the missing $250 million they...