On November 18, RPJ Partner Nicole Page and Associate Michelle Lamardo moderated a dynamic conversation at DOC NYC 2021 on New Trends in Ethics and Documentaries. Nicole and Michelle were joined by filmmakers Rudy Valdez (The Sentence, We Are: The Brooklyn Saints) and Jessica Devaney, founder of Multitude Films. They...
This Thursday, November 18, RPJ Partner Nicole Page and Associate Michelle Lamardo will lead an engaging discussion at DOC NYC, the largest documentary festival in the United States, on New Trends in Ethics and Documentaries. The panel is held as part of the festival’s “Legal for Docs Day” to explore...
New York City Council is working on tackling the city’s affordable housing shortage by converting vacant office space, Natalie Sachmechi wrote in Crain’s New York Business yesterday. While the plan is largely supported by members of the real estate community, numerous barriers stand in the way. A state law enacted...
On October 29, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation (S.4394-A/A.5144-A) which enhances protections for private sector employees from retaliation by their employers for reporting illegal or dangerous business activities. According to Senator Jessica Ramos, a sponsor of the bill, the new law “expands the same whistleblower protections available...
In a glowing review of Beauty and the Beast by Mark Fisher in The Guardian, production designer and RPJ client Stanley Meyer was recognized for his stunning two-dimensional set. According to Fisher, who attended the Edinburgh Playhouse production, the set is complemented by old-fashioned mix-and-match costumes by Ann Hould-Ward and...
RPJ is thrilled to congratulate our team and client Engel Entertainment on well-deserved recognition for Missing in Brooks County and its powerful depiction of the human toll of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, just nominated for “Best Political Documentary” at the 2021 Critics Choice Doc Awards. This empathetic and...
The award-winning documentary “Not Going Quietly,” produced by RPJ client People’s Television is now widely available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube and Vice Worldwide. The film follows Ady Barkan, who was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 32, and his campaign against rising federal healthcare...
Today, The New Yorker featured the documentary “Radical Love” produced by RPJ client Caroline Waterlow, in an article entitled The Romance of American Activism in “Radical Love.” Directed by William Kirkley, the documentary follows the marriage and activism of Michael and Eleanora Kennedy during the 1960s and 1970s. Eleanora and...
RPJ client Story Center Films LLC is debuting “Cured” tonight on PBS and the PBS video app on National Coming Out Day at 10/9c. The documentary follows the fight to overturn the medical establishment’s labeling of homosexuality as a mental illness. Before 1973, homosexuality was listed in the Diagnostic and...
Today BBC News reported as its primary Feature the first meeting of a “citizen’s grand jury” convened by 23-year-old Madison Smith, citing a rarely used nineteenth-century law to bring charges against her rapist, after the County DA refused to prosecute stating violence related to “immature sex” was not worthy of...