Congratulations to RPJ client Cowboy Bear Ninja on their nomination for “Best Documentary” for their film Hummingbirds for the upcoming 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards. This punk-rock film follows the lived experience of its two directors as young women in a queer coming-of-age-story set on the Texas-Mexico border. The documentary...
Preconceived, the award-winning documentary that premiered at SXSW, is now live on Kinema as of September 10! As we head into a crucial election with reproductive rights in focus, this film offers a vital look at crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) and their role in the anti-abortion movement. Beginning on September...
Rolling Stone recently featured a discussion of Ayenda, a documentary focused on the harrowing tale of the Under-18 Afghan National Women’s Football Team's escape from Kabul after it fell to the Taliban. Ayenda was produced by RPJ client Words and Pictures and will premiere on MSNBC on August 27. Read...
Congratulations to RPJ Clients Tabitha Breese and Yesenia Tlahuel on the nomination of their film, Mija, for Best Feature Documentary in the 2022 IDA Documentary Awards! Mija follows 26-year-old music manager Doris Muñoz, as she works to launch the career of Chicanx pop stars while navigating her own family’s undocumented...
Warm congratulations to RPJ Client Words and Pictures Productions on the premiere of Jeanette Lee Vs. Following decorated and iconic billiards player, Jeanette Lee, known for her confident, locked in demeanor, and “Black Widow” persona, the films presents the coda to her journey as a top ranked pool player. Battling...
This Friday 11/11, RPJ Partner Nicole Page and Senior Associate Daniel Ain will be leading a panel on the current state of defamation law and its impact on documentary filmmaking at Producing Day at DOC NYC. They will be joined by Jessica Devaney, founder of Multitude Films, and Phil Bertelsen,...
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...
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...
Women and Hollywood has named Pray Away, directed by Kristine Stolakis and produced by Multitude Films, one of 2021’s best women-centric documentaries. The film explores the “ex-gay movement” and how former leaders of Exodus International, the largest conversion therapy organization in the world, have since come out as LGBTQ. Taking...