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...
The award-winning documentary “Not Going Quietly,” produced by RPJ client People’s Television is now widely available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube and Vice Worldwide. The film follows Ady Barkan, who was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 32, and his campaign against rising federal healthcare...
Today, The New Yorker featured the documentary “Radical Love” produced by RPJ client Caroline Waterlow, in an article entitled The Romance of American Activism in “Radical Love.” Directed by William Kirkley, the documentary follows the marriage and activism of Michael and Eleanora Kennedy during the 1960s and 1970s. Eleanora and...
RPJ client Story Center Films LLC is debuting “Cured” tonight on PBS and the PBS video app on National Coming Out Day at 10/9c. The documentary follows the fight to overturn the medical establishment’s labeling of homosexuality as a mental illness. Before 1973, homosexuality was listed in the Diagnostic and...
Journalist and filmmaker Daizy Gedeon was honored at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her latest documentary, Enough!: Lebanon’s Darkest Hour, which received the Cannes Film Festival’s “Movie That Matters Award” in association with the Better World Fund. Profiling the state of systemic corruption within Lebanon’s kleptocratic government, Enough! warns of...
Netflix has released the official trailer for Pray Away—directed by Kristine Stolakis and produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Television—scheduled to release on Tuesday, August 3. The documentary chronicles the polarity and popularity of Exodus International, an evangelical church group founded in the 1970’s, most known for...
Gay conversion therapy, a product of the “pray the gay away” movement, notably purported by Exodus International, one of the largest and most controversial conversion therapy organizations in the world, has become a pervasive instrument of the religious right, wielded to the disadvantage of many LGBTQ+ youth, and even some...
The compelling human rights documentary, Missing in Brooks County, chronicling the humanitarian crisis along the US/Mexico border, has been a great success across the country ever since its release. Just in the past few months, the film has won Best Documentary Feature at the Thin Line Documentary Film Festival, and...