This Thursday, February 29, through Sunday, March 3, Barnard College will be hosting the 14th annual Athena Film Festival (AFF). The Festival will feature an incredible line-up of narratives, documentaries, and short films featuring women leaders. We wish the AFF a successful long weekend run of these crucial and compelling...
“The ABCs of Book Banning,” produced and co-directed by Trish Adlesic, explores the surge of book banning across US schools, examining the history as well as the impacts of this practice. Adlesic’s eye opening film gives a platform to the students being denied access to these books, and aims to...
Free Solo, which follows RPJ client Alex Honnold's ascent of the Freerider route of El Capitan, has seen continued success at the box office. Crossing the $10 Million mark, Free Solo "now ranks as the fourth highest grossing documentary of the year." RPJ is proud to congratulate our client Alex Honnold...
On September 26, RPJ Partner Nicole Page moderated a panel entitled "After #MeToo" at the IDA's Getting Real '18 Conference. The panelists addressed the effect of the #MeToo movement and the resulting sweep of sexual harassment allegations on the documentary industry. They discussed the ways in which the industry is...
It was announced last week that the documentary film Unrest, produced by RPJ client Lindsey Dryden, is on the shortlist for the 2018 Academy Awards. Unrest is a personal documentary about Harvard PhD candidate Jennifer Brea's journey with the largely unknown myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), more commonly called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,...