The Women’s City Club will confer its Eleanor Roosevelt “Moving History Forward” Award on Dr. Michelle Bachelet, a long-time champion of gender equality, at its annual reception and lecture on October 31, 2012. A former President of Chile, Dr. Bachelet serves as the first Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN...
The Oscar®-nominated documentary The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306, produced by RPL Client Margaret Hyde for the National Civil Rights Museum, will air nationally on the Documentary Channel through January 2013. Through the recollections of civil rights activists, including Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles, Maxine Smith and Dr....
RPL clients Rebecca Wiegand and Jessica Massa, authors of The Gaggle — How The Guys You Know Will Help You Find the Love You Want, were the subject of a New York Times Article discussing their modern approach to relationships. RPL attorneys Nicole Page and Niki Cubides provided legal services...
RPL client and founder of Brunchcritic.com Andrea Pappas invited RPL staff to its annual Orange Event on October 21st in Manhattan’s Flatiron district. The occasion had added significance as a portion of the proceeds was donated to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research as a tribute to Brunch...
On Wednesday October 17th, 2012, two NOVA documentaries produced by RPL Client Time Frame Films, will premiere on PBS. Forensics on Trial and Can Science Stop Crime? form part of a crime night double header featuring virtual autopsy tables in Sweden, vultures at a body farm in Texas, and 3D fingerprints. RPL...
The Metro Theater, an historic theater on upper Broadway in Manhattan, owned by RPL client Broadway Metro Associates L.P., is officially the new home to Austin-based movie company Alamo Drafthouse. Community Board 7's Business and Consumer Issues committee approved Alamo's two-year liquor license application and the facility is set to open...
The Brennan Center for Justice is hosting a screening of the feature documentary Electoral Dysfunction on Wednesday October 10th at 6:30 pm in the Rosenthal Pavilion, NYU Kimmel Center in New York. Electoral Dysfunction is a feature-length documentary, starring political humorist Mo Rocca, which provides both entertaining and nonpartisan insight...
RPL eagerly anticipates the screening of Ann Richards' Texas on Friday October 19th at The Paley Center for Media in New York. The film centers around the rise of the late Ann Richards in Democratic politics and her stint as first woman Governor of Texas and includes interviews with Dolly...
RPL congratulates firm client Patrick Sammon on the New York theatrical premiere of his film, CODEBREAKER on Thursday, October 25th at the AMC Empire in New York City. CODEBREAKER tells the story of Alan Turing, the genius mathematician credited as the driving intellectual force behind the development of the computer in...
New York State recently enacted a law increasing the percentage of tax credits available for post-production film work performed in New York State. The tax credit is expected to incentivize more production companies to do business in New York. New York State began offering tax credits to support the film and...