This month marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which occurred at the Stonewall Inn in downtown New York City on June 27 and 28, 1969. The 1984 documentary Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community, directed by RPJ client Greta Schiller and co-directed by Robert Rosenberg, chronicles...
In the post-#MeToo era, New York and California lead the way with new workplace anti-harassment legislation. Those states are also the primary locations for the majority of film and television production in the country. In such an industry where the lines between work and social environments are frequently and easily...
On Monday, April 29, RPJ Associate Niki Bhargava will moderate a panel for the Industry Conference at Hot Docs 2019, the largest annual North American documentary film festival, in Toronto, Canada. This year's panel, "Beyond #MeToo, Cont.," will follow up on RPJ Partner Nicole Page's panel from last year's conference...
RPJ congratulates Engel Entertainment colleagues Dana Schwartz and Tylor Norwood on their film, "The United States of Detroit," being Winner of the Greenpoint Documentary Film Festival. The film follows residents of Detroit's neighborhoods as they fight for survival and growth in a city with an uncertain future, working tirelessly to improve...
On Friday, May 4, AltaClaro, an experiential learning platform for lawyers, again featured RPJ Partner Nicole Page on their Ascension blog, where they share stories, tips and secrets to success from top lawyers in all fields. In Ms. Page’s second #AscensionStory, entitled “What Does It Look Like to 'Do What You Love?',” she describes...
RPJ is proud to congratulate our client, production company Engel Entertainment, on the success of its newest documentary feature Sea Change. The film follows Afrikaners Riaan Manser and Vasti Geldenhuys on their epic journey by row boat across the Atlantic Ocean from the shores of Morocco to New York City, as they test...
On April 30, RPJ Partner Nicole Page will be attending and moderating "Now What, Documentarians?: Beyond #MeToo" at Hot Docs, the largest North American documentary film festival, in Toronto, Canada. The panel will address the #MeToo movement in the context of the documentary film industry, and panelists will discuss a range...
From February 22nd to 25th, the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College and Women and Hollywood will host their 8th Annual Athena Film Festival, a yearly celebration of women’s leadership on view in an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries, and short films that highlight powerful and courageous...
RPL Client Watched Film, LLC has been gearing up for the 2018 release of its feature-length documentary, The Feeling of Being Watched, directed by Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui. The film tells the story of Ms. Boundaoui's investigation into the rumors of government surveillance in her childhood neighborhood outside...
Earlier this year, RPL client Jessica Devaney, producer and founder of Multitude Films, premiered her newest documentary, Love the Sinner, at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film, which Ms. Devaney co-directed with Geeta Gandbhir, explores the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub in...