Updated with new release date in New York of Nov. 3.
Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment is maintaining a brisk pace of acquisitions. A day after picking up North American rights to the TIFF premiere documentary Sorry/Not Sorry, the independent distributor announced it has partnered with Kanopy to acquire U.S. and Canadian rights to the feature doc Subject.
Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall produced and directed the film, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. Greenwich plans to open the film in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 3, while Kanopy will host a pre-theatrical screening and Q&a with the filmmakers online through public and college libraries. Tvod/DVD, college and public library streaming kicks off December 5.
“Subject goes behind the scenes of such famous nonfiction stories as Hoop Dreams, Capturing the Friedmans, The Wolfpack, The Square and The Staircase to explore the often murky ethical dilemmas and complex...
Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment is maintaining a brisk pace of acquisitions. A day after picking up North American rights to the TIFF premiere documentary Sorry/Not Sorry, the independent distributor announced it has partnered with Kanopy to acquire U.S. and Canadian rights to the feature doc Subject.
Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall produced and directed the film, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. Greenwich plans to open the film in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 3, while Kanopy will host a pre-theatrical screening and Q&a with the filmmakers online through public and college libraries. Tvod/DVD, college and public library streaming kicks off December 5.
“Subject goes behind the scenes of such famous nonfiction stories as Hoop Dreams, Capturing the Friedmans, The Wolfpack, The Square and The Staircase to explore the often murky ethical dilemmas and complex...
- 9/12/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Over the course of 10 seasons, Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules” has evolved into something no one could possibly have imagined when it premiered in 2013. A chronicle of the personal lives of restauranteur (and “Real Housewife“) Lisa Vanderpump’s young employees, the series is not only the first truly great work of art to emerge from the reality TV genre but one of the most involving and expertly assembled shows on television, period. What began as a soapy account of attractive 20somethings trying to make it in Hollywood (a sort of mashup between the “Real Housewives” franchise and MTV’s “The Hills”) has become a layered, poignant meditation on what it means to grow up, acquiring the breadth and depth of a great novel without abandoning its fizzy pop surface.
Series creator Alex Baskin is the first person to admit that the filmmakers can’t take credit for a lot of the...
Series creator Alex Baskin is the first person to admit that the filmmakers can’t take credit for a lot of the...
- 8/14/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
We all construct narratives about our lives, drafting and redrafting them with friends, family and ourselves. But what if they were packaged by a documentarian and broadcast on Netflix, a streaming platform with 230 million subscribers across 190 countries? How would it affect you, and would anyone care? This is the subject of Subject, a documentary about documentaries, and it is a process that Margie Ratliff knows all too well.
Ratliff was in her early twenties when she appeared in The Staircase, a documentary series about the trial of her father Michael Peterson, who was charged, convicted, and then released for the murder of his wife, Kathleen. In the interest of ‘transparency’, Peterson invited cameras into the trial and into Ratliff’s life, exposing her confusion and anguish for all to see. “I can’t tell you how painful it is,” says Ratliff, now in her 40s, “…reliving my mum’s death over and over again.
Ratliff was in her early twenties when she appeared in The Staircase, a documentary series about the trial of her father Michael Peterson, who was charged, convicted, and then released for the murder of his wife, Kathleen. In the interest of ‘transparency’, Peterson invited cameras into the trial and into Ratliff’s life, exposing her confusion and anguish for all to see. “I can’t tell you how painful it is,” says Ratliff, now in her 40s, “…reliving my mum’s death over and over again.
- 3/3/2023
- by Jack Hawkins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The relationship between documentary subject and documentarian has been fraught with conflict since the genre’s evolution beyond “actualities” and into a narrative format pioneered by Robert Flaherty. Interrogating what it means to become a “subject” in a documentary film that ultimately takes on a life and a folklore of its own, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall have created an essential exploration of ethics with Subject.
It’s a code of ethics that some of the film’s scholars, critics, and festival programmers argue is needed more than ever in an era when nonfiction content is more in demand from all major streamers. For some, their story grows over time—like Margaret Ratliff, who as a teen agreed to participate in a documentary about the death of her mother and the murder conviction of her father, novelist Michael Peterson. She originally agreed to participate in the series to support her...
It’s a code of ethics that some of the film’s scholars, critics, and festival programmers argue is needed more than ever in an era when nonfiction content is more in demand from all major streamers. For some, their story grows over time—like Margaret Ratliff, who as a teen agreed to participate in a documentary about the death of her mother and the murder conviction of her father, novelist Michael Peterson. She originally agreed to participate in the series to support her...
- 6/27/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
For anyone aiming to be a documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall’s 90-minute doc “Subject” should be required viewing. “Subject” explores the ethical responsibilities nonfiction filmmakers face when they decide to capture people, often at their most vulnerable, thereby forever locking them in a moment in time that will live on through the ages no matter how much a person grows or changes.
Tiexiera (“P.S. Burn This Letter Please”) and Hall (“Copwatch”) focus on some of the most successful documentaries of the past three decades and the “stars” they created and left in their wake. The directing duo explore the psychological impact of being unpaid key participants in commercially successful projects including “The Staircase,” “Hoop Dreams,” ” Wolfpack,” “The Square” and “Capturing the Friedmans.” Below, Tiexiera and Hall discuss the making of the documentary before its June 11 premiere at Tribeca.
What made you want to make this documentary?...
Tiexiera (“P.S. Burn This Letter Please”) and Hall (“Copwatch”) focus on some of the most successful documentaries of the past three decades and the “stars” they created and left in their wake. The directing duo explore the psychological impact of being unpaid key participants in commercially successful projects including “The Staircase,” “Hoop Dreams,” ” Wolfpack,” “The Square” and “Capturing the Friedmans.” Below, Tiexiera and Hall discuss the making of the documentary before its June 11 premiere at Tribeca.
What made you want to make this documentary?...
- 6/11/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
New York -- The lawyer for the Long Island man at the heart of the documentary film "Capturing the Friedmans" thinks there are signs that a probe led by Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice will not exonerate him of the child molestation charges he pled guilty to as a teenager in 1988.
Ron Kuby, the lawyer for Jesse Friedman, said it now appears the probe could close as soon as April. He is troubled by his impression that Rice's office will not decide in his client's favor.
"Every sign and signal portends doom in this case. And every conversation any of us have with the prosecutor's office is one worse thing after another," Kuby said Tuesday, speaking at a gathering of Friedman's supporters in Manhattan.
The only reason he holds out any hope, he said, is the involvement of Barry Scheck, the defense lawyer and director of the Innocence Project.
Ron Kuby, the lawyer for Jesse Friedman, said it now appears the probe could close as soon as April. He is troubled by his impression that Rice's office will not decide in his client's favor.
"Every sign and signal portends doom in this case. And every conversation any of us have with the prosecutor's office is one worse thing after another," Kuby said Tuesday, speaking at a gathering of Friedman's supporters in Manhattan.
The only reason he holds out any hope, he said, is the involvement of Barry Scheck, the defense lawyer and director of the Innocence Project.
- 3/6/2013
- by Matt Sledge
- Huffington Post
Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the Friedmans (2003) is a stunning piece of documentary journalism that is particularly memorable for following through in its act of walking the tight rope of impartiality. Unlike Errol Morris's equally wonderful The Thin Blue Line (1988), which combines noir, documentary, and dark comedy into a thought provoking and infuriating defense of convicted (yet innocent) murderer Randall Dale Adams, Jarecki's film does not attempt to exonerate Arnold Friedman, a high school science teacher who gave computer lessons in his free time, of sexual child abuse. When the film begins we feel a gaze much like Morris's; the Friedmans are an eccentric family: throughout the accusations, trial, and sentencing, one of Arnold's children, birthday clown David Friedman, filmed the family. Jarecki's documentary consists of interviews and David's original footage. We begin the film, after discovering that federal officials were drawn to Arnold after monitoring his mail for an order of child pornography,...
- 7/22/2011
- by Drew Morton
During her failed campaign to become New York’s attorney general, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice promised to re-examine a notorious Long Island sex-abuse case from the 1980s. The case, depicted in the documentary film “Capturing the Friedmans,” ended in the conviction of 18-year-old Jesse Friedman and his father Arnold for molesting children attending a computer school run out of the family’s home in Great Neck, N.Y.
- 11/8/2010
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Viewers of the Oscar-winning documentary Capturing the Friedmans will likely remember that Jesse Friedman, the son of Arnold Friedman, was accused and convicted in 1988 of molesting 13 children at a computer class in Great Neck, New York. It's pretty hard to forget the Friedmans' harrowing case as presented by Capturing the Friedmans, which points out that much of the case against the Friedmans' was based on the testimony of easily manipulated kids that were encouraged to testify against the Friedmans. It's a case that led to both Arnold and Jesse's conviction and eventually to Arnold's suicide in prison.
Now Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice plans on revisiting the case that probably wrongfully convicted Jesse Friedman, now 40 years old and paroled in 2001. According to the Huffington Post, Rice's decision "comes a day after a federal appeals court criticized police, prosecutors and the judge who handled the case against Arnold and Jesse Friedman.
Now Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice plans on revisiting the case that probably wrongfully convicted Jesse Friedman, now 40 years old and paroled in 2001. According to the Huffington Post, Rice's decision "comes a day after a federal appeals court criticized police, prosecutors and the judge who handled the case against Arnold and Jesse Friedman.
- 8/18/2010
- by Simon Abrams
- Cinematical
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