Over the past weeks and months, you may have found yourself asking (or dreading to ask): what aspect of free speech will Florida target next? It started with the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, followed by the “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act’s efforts to ban books (including “woke” math text books), and the...
RPJ partner Nicole Page will be featured in Women Make Movies’ (WMM) upcoming webinar series The Business of Film Production. The series is designed to guide both first feature and seasoned independent filmmakers as they navigate legal, accounting and business issues that may arise. Ms. Page, who is also Board...
On October 5, 2017, five years ago today, The New York Times published a bombshell expose revealing decades of sexual harassment, discrimination and abuse by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, launching the #MeToo movement. See Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades - The New York Times (nytimes.com). In...
This week's TikTok features RPJ Partner Nicole Page as she discusses a situation that may be all too familiar: a hostile work environment. Commonly used as a phrase referring to an unpleasant workplace, a hostile work environment is actually a legal term that is far more complex than most people...
Congratulations to Mija produced by RPJ clients Tabitha Breese and Yesenia Tlahuel for being selected as the New York Times' Critic’s Pick! The documentary follows the stories of Doris Munoz and Jacks Haupt, the daughters of undocumented Mexican immigrants as they navigate the challenges of the music industry. The two...
Roni Selig and Marcie Mule of RonMar Studios' have received a nomination in the category of NY Regionals Children/Youth (12 and under) - Long Form Content for their All Arts program's Young People's Chorus of NYC Once Upon the Holidays, Part 1. Once Upon the Holidays was conceptualized in response to...
Pray Away produced by Multitude Films has been nominated for an Emmy Award under the category Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. The film explores the “ex-gay movement” and how former leaders of Exodus International, once the largest conversion therapy organization in the world, have since come out as LGBTQ. The documentary sheds...
RPJ Partner Nicole Page will be moderating a panel at the Offshore Film Festival in Montauk on Friday, July 15 featuring a dynamic group of female filmmakers and artists to discuss storytelling and art made by women, and the importance of presenting the female perspective in these mediums, especially now....
By Nicole Page and Bilal Mubarack Is having a miscarriage a crime? The terrifying answer is: maybe. The California Penal Code § 187 defines murder as “the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought.” The addition of “fetus” in this definition stems from the 1970...
On November 18, RPJ Partner Nicole Page and Associate Michelle Lamardo moderated a dynamic conversation at DOC NYC 2021 on New Trends in Ethics and Documentaries. Nicole and Michelle were joined by filmmakers Rudy Valdez (The Sentence, We Are: The Brooklyn Saints) and Jessica Devaney, founder of Multitude Films. They...