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...
“Call Center Blues”, a documentary short film produced by RPJ client Multitude Films LLC and directed by Geeta Gandbhir has been shortlisted for an Oscar. The film is a cinematic tale of deportation, migration and displacement featuring a small community of deportees and their loved ones in Tijuana, Mexico. A...
RPJ client, Lucy Walker, is the director, screenwriter and producer of the documentary film Bring Your Own Brigade, which will be having its world premiere today at the Sundance Film Festival. The film follows firefighters and residents struggling to understand and survive massive wildfires. We are elated to share this...
We are happy to announce the upcoming release of Cargo Film and Releasing’s new documentary film They Call Me Dr. Miami on February 11, 2021 on Discovery Plus. The documentary follows plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer as he explores how to balance his social media celebrity status with his conservative...
Wrapping up the year on December 31, 2020 (when not inciting riots via Twitter), President Trump signed into law the bipartisan Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act, which provides funding to state and local governments, medical offices, humanitarian organizations, and forensics labs, that respond to migrant deaths on a daily...