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...
Missing in Brooks County, the influential feature documentary that follows two families as they search for missing children in Brooks County, Texas, and puts a human face on the fatal crossings by undocumented Mexican immigrants that has created the “largest cemetery” in the United States, will be premiering on PBS’s...
Yesterday, the Sundance Film Festival announced that Mija, directed by Isabel Castro and produced by Tabitha Breese, will participate in its World Cinema Documentary Competition. The feature follows 26-year-old music manager Doris Muñoz, as she works to launch the career of Chicanx pop stars while navigating her family’s undocumented legal...
New York Times film critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis have named documentary “Bring Your Own Brigade” one of the best films of the year. Following the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history, the film tells the story of the towns struggling to rebuild...