Last night, Sunday, February 24, at the 91st Annual Academy Awards, Free Solo won the Oscar for Best Documentary for co-producers and directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. The film features professional climber Alex Honnold and his 2017 free solo ascent and the first-ever successful completion of the Freerider climbing...
On January 30, RPJ Partner Nicole Page moderated a panel at the Realscreen Summit 2019 discussing new laws affecting production companies and examining legislative changes effective since #MeToo. “The More You Know: Avoiding Liability in the Production Workplace” covered new laws on sexual harassment, paid family leave, pay equity and worker misclassification for production companies who...
On Sunday, February 10, Free Solo won the award for Best Documentary at the 72nd Annual British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs). The National Geographic documentary features professional climber Alex Honnold and his 2017 free solo ascent and the first-ever successful free solo completion of the Freerider climbing route on El...
On January 30, RPJ Partner Nicole Page will moderate a panel for the Realscreen Summit 2019. The panel, "The More You Know: Avoiding Liability in the Production Workplace," will cover the many new laws at the federal and state level, specifically for New York and California, on sexual harassment, paid family leave, pay...
This week, our client, documentary filmmaker Kate Webber, celebrates the worldwide release of her multi-award winning documentary Kim Swims. The film tells the inspiring story of Kim Chambers, an accomplished open water swimmer, as she became the first woman to swim 30 miles through a stretch of cold, rough and shark-inhabited...
On September 26, RPJ Partner Nicole Page will moderate the “After #MeToo” panel at IDA’s Getting Real ’18 Conference. The panel will cover the effect of the #MeToo movement and resulting sweep of sexual harassment allegations and convictions on the documentary industry. Panelists will discuss the progress they have observed...
Premiering on September 28 is Free Solo, a documentary feature about professional rock climber and RPJ client Alex Honnold's completion of the first free solo climb in history of Yosemite National Park's granite rock face El Capitan in June 2017, hailed by The New York Times as "one of the great athletic...
RPJ is thrilled to congratulate our client Kate Webber, whose multi-award winning documentary film Kim Swims has recently been acquired by the leading distribution platform Gravitas Ventures. Through Gravitas Ventures the film will be released and available for viewing on October 2, 2018, on iTunes, Amazon Video, Vimeo, Google Play/YouTube and...