Tune in this Thursday to RPJ’s Nicole Page’s webinar for Women Make Movies! A fantastic opportunity to learn about safeguarding intellectual property, contracts, and other legal aspects essential to project success for independent filmmakers. For tickets and more information, click here. This article is intended as a general discussion of these...
RPJ’s Nicole Page will host a webinar for Women Make Movies’ (WMM) on March 27 as part of WMM’s four-part series “Strategies in a Changing Media Landscape.” Ms. Page’s webinar will focus on how filmmakers can legally safeguard projects, and address considerations underpinning every step of the documentary filmmaking process....
Feature documentary “Loud Enough—Surviving Justice” follows college student Madison Smith and her tight-knit family in deep-red Kansas as they gather national advocates and take on local prosecutors to fight for justice and systemic change. Following Smith’s violent sexual assault and strangulation, and ignoring substantial forensic evidence, County Prosecutors declined to...
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...
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....
On April 8, RPJ Partner Alice Jump and Associate Liz Stork hosted a video webinar for Women Make Movies (WMM), the New York City-based leading distributor of independent films by and about women, to discuss aspects of the CARES Act most pertinent to filmmakers, production companies and other workers in...
Our client Watched Film, LLC kicks off the limited theatrical run of their film The Feeling of Being Watched at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on May 1, and Maysles Documentary Center on May 3 in New York City, followed by over a dozen screenings in cities across the country. This feature-length documentary, directed...
In an unprecedented move, eight independent film distribution companies, including Women Make Movies of which RPJ Partner Nicole Page is the President of the Board, have come together to launch a new subscription streaming service called OVID.tv. OVID.tv will provide North American viewers with access to thousands of documentaries, independent films, and notable...
On Wednesday, February 13, RPJ Partner Nicole Page and Associate Niki Bhargava will lead a workshop hosted by Women Make Movies on drafting and understanding film production legal and related agreements and more for filmmakers and production companies. The workshop, "Understanding & Drafting Contracts with Entertainment Attorney Nicole Page," will take...
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...