MTV Documentary Films has released the trailer for “Pay Or Die,” a documentary about America’s soaring insulin costs that the platform acquired out of this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival.
The 90-minute film, which was executive produced by Sarah Silverman, will open theatrically at New York City’s IFC Center on November 1, the first day of National Diabetes Month. That screening will be followed by a nationwide rollout. The theatrical release of the doc will qualify it for Academy Award consideration. Paramount + will begin streaming “Pay Or Die” on World Diabetes Day – Nov. 14.
Directed by Scott Alexander Ruderman and Rachael Dyer, “Pay Or Die” follows three families struggling to afford their diabetes medications. In 2022 the American Diabetes Association reported that over 37 million Americans – about 11% of the nation – are living with diabetes and 8.4 million Americans rely on insulin to survive. According to “Pay Or Die” nearly two-million...
The 90-minute film, which was executive produced by Sarah Silverman, will open theatrically at New York City’s IFC Center on November 1, the first day of National Diabetes Month. That screening will be followed by a nationwide rollout. The theatrical release of the doc will qualify it for Academy Award consideration. Paramount + will begin streaming “Pay Or Die” on World Diabetes Day – Nov. 14.
Directed by Scott Alexander Ruderman and Rachael Dyer, “Pay Or Die” follows three families struggling to afford their diabetes medications. In 2022 the American Diabetes Association reported that over 37 million Americans – about 11% of the nation – are living with diabetes and 8.4 million Americans rely on insulin to survive. According to “Pay Or Die” nearly two-million...
- 10/5/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to Pay or Die, a heart wrenching film about Americans living with diabetes who face a cruel choice: pay the “extortionate” cost of insulin charged by pharmaceutical companies or risk death.
Scott Alexander Ruderman and Rachael Dyer directed and produced the documentary, which premiered in March at SXSW. MTV Documentary Films plans a theatrical release later this year, followed by a debut on streaming platform Paramount+.
“Today, nearly two-million Americans living with diabetes are being held hostage by the pharmaceutical industry, as many cannot afford insulin,” notes a release about the documentary. “Without this life-sustaining drug, they will be dead in days. Access to this drug has become increasingly more difficult, as the cost to patients in America soars. Pay or Die follows families struggling to afford their medications and reveals the harrowing reality of living with a chronic illness in the richest country in the world.
Scott Alexander Ruderman and Rachael Dyer directed and produced the documentary, which premiered in March at SXSW. MTV Documentary Films plans a theatrical release later this year, followed by a debut on streaming platform Paramount+.
“Today, nearly two-million Americans living with diabetes are being held hostage by the pharmaceutical industry, as many cannot afford insulin,” notes a release about the documentary. “Without this life-sustaining drug, they will be dead in days. Access to this drug has become increasingly more difficult, as the cost to patients in America soars. Pay or Die follows families struggling to afford their medications and reveals the harrowing reality of living with a chronic illness in the richest country in the world.
- 5/30/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Jewish Story Partners, the non-profit film fund that launched six months ago, announced its second round of grant recipients on Monday. The winners came after an open submissions call that saw a 226% increase in participation from the first round.
An additional $280,000 has been awarded this year, bringing Jsp’s 2021 spend to $500,000 as they identify nonfiction work telling diverse Jewish stories. International filmmakers and fiction projects will be sought in the future. The group anticipates to hand out $800,000 in 2022 and $1 million by 2023.
New funders include the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Films, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, Kronhill Pletka Foundation and Koret Foundation.
Monday’s grants will fund noted documentary filmmakers including: Kate Amend, Marilyn Ness, Pratibha Parmar, Dan Sturman and Ondi Timoner.
“Jewish documentary films are a window into the richness and complexity of the arc of Jewish history and Jewish lives today,” said Lynn and...
An additional $280,000 has been awarded this year, bringing Jsp’s 2021 spend to $500,000 as they identify nonfiction work telling diverse Jewish stories. International filmmakers and fiction projects will be sought in the future. The group anticipates to hand out $800,000 in 2022 and $1 million by 2023.
New funders include the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Films, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, Kronhill Pletka Foundation and Koret Foundation.
Monday’s grants will fund noted documentary filmmakers including: Kate Amend, Marilyn Ness, Pratibha Parmar, Dan Sturman and Ondi Timoner.
“Jewish documentary films are a window into the richness and complexity of the arc of Jewish history and Jewish lives today,” said Lynn and...
- 11/22/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Discovery Channel has set Oct. 13 as the global premiere date for Steven Spielberg’s and Alex Gibney’s docuseries, “Why We Hate,” TheWrap has learned exclusively. We’ve also got your first look at the six-part investigation into the motivation behind hatred.
“Why We Hate” hails from Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions in association with Escape Artists for Discovery Channel, and went into production earlier this year. Sam Pollard (“Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me”) and Geeta Gandbhir (“Love the Sinner”) co-direct the multi-part documentary.
The Discovery Go platform gets “Why We Hate” one week ahead of cable TV, boasting an Oct. 6 debut, we’re told. Linearly, the docuseries airs Sundays at 10 p.m.
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Watch TheWrap’s exclusive sneak peek via the video above.
“Why We Hate” hails from Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions in association with Escape Artists for Discovery Channel, and went into production earlier this year. Sam Pollard (“Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me”) and Geeta Gandbhir (“Love the Sinner”) co-direct the multi-part documentary.
The Discovery Go platform gets “Why We Hate” one week ahead of cable TV, boasting an Oct. 6 debut, we’re told. Linearly, the docuseries airs Sundays at 10 p.m.
Also Read: 'Flip or Flop' Star Tarek El Moussa on Why He and Ex-Wife Christina Agreed to Do Another Season
Watch TheWrap’s exclusive sneak peek via the video above.
- 8/26/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney are teaming to executive produce Why We Hate (working title), a six-part television event series the probes the human capacity for hatred and how we can overcome it. It’s slated for a 2019 premiere on Discovery Channel.
Drawing on research in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and history, the series traces the evolutionary basis of hate and uses stories from both past and present to reveal the nature of the primal and universal emotion.
Why We Hate is directed by Emmy winners Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard (When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts).
“This is not a series that simply documents something that’s happening, it’s an inquiry – an attempt to understand why we hate, through the science, and through a sense of common humanity,” said Gibney. “Hate is in our DNA. If we begin to understand this, that’s how we begin...
Drawing on research in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and history, the series traces the evolutionary basis of hate and uses stories from both past and present to reveal the nature of the primal and universal emotion.
Why We Hate is directed by Emmy winners Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard (When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts).
“This is not a series that simply documents something that’s happening, it’s an inquiry – an attempt to understand why we hate, through the science, and through a sense of common humanity,” said Gibney. “Hate is in our DNA. If we begin to understand this, that’s how we begin...
- 4/6/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The Discovery Channel is about to tackle a tricky topic with filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney: hatred.
The network has ordered a six-part docuseries, with the working title “Why We Hate,” from the pair, which examines the origins and dangers of hate, Discovery announced Friday.
“Getting to the root of the human condition is something I find not only fascinating, but absolutely necessary in understanding who we are,” states Spielberg. “With the team in place, we delve into historical and modern-day stories of hate, traveling around the globe to uncover its mystery in others and in ourselves. If we understand why we act the way we do, we can change the way we act. That is what we are uniquely capable of as human beings.”
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The project hails from Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions in association with Escape Artists for Discovery Channel, and went into production earlier this year. Sam Pollard (“Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me”) and Geeta Gandbhir (“Love the Sinner”) will co-direct the docuseries, which is slated to air on Discovery in 2019.
“When I think about the name of the network Discovery, it connotes a sense of curiosity about the world,” said Gibney. “This is not a series that simply documents something that’s happening, it’s an inquiry – an attempt to understand why we hate, through the science, and through a sense of common humanity. Hate is in our DNA. If we begin to understand this, that’s how we begin to get to a point of being able to hope that we can overcome hate.”
“Why We Hate” will draw on research in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and history, to trace the evolutionary basis of hate and use stories from both the past and present to reveal the nature of this primal and universal emotion.
Also Read: Discovery Boss David Zaslav's Pay Rose Above $42 Million Last Year
The television event aims to reveal contemporary links to ancient behavior and use science as a basis for explaining the nature of hatred and the human mind. At the heart of the show is this question: If we can figure out why we hate, where hate originates, and how it is amplified, can we find a way to prevent it?
“This is exactly the kind of story Discovery should be telling,” said David Zaslav, president and CEO, Discovery, Inc. “‘Why We Hate’ has been a four-year discussion with Steven and Alex on how to best capture the domestic and global trends that are growing around the world and bring those facts and stories to a worldwide audience. Our aspiration is to be working with great storytellers like Steven and Alex all over the world on the most important and consequential stories and issues. ‘Why We Hate’ is even more relevant today, and the Discovery team and I are “all in” on this project. It is Discovery’s commitment and a critical part of our heritage and mission. I really look forward to collaborating on such an important topic and bringing it to over 1 billion people across our domestic and global platforms in over 220 countries.”
“To say we are excited to work with Steven, Alex, Geeta, and Sam is an understatement,” said Nancy Daniels, chief brand officer, Discovery and Factual. “Understanding the why behind our actions can help us change those actions. That leads to a hopeful future for us and generations to come.”
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“Why We Hate” is executive produced by Spielberg, Gibney, Frank Marshall, Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Yael Melamede, Erica Sashin and Steve Tisch. Jon Bardin and David McKillop will executive produce for Discovery.
Variety first reported the news.
Read original story Discovery Orders Steven Spielberg, Alex Gibney Docuseries ‘Why We Hate’ At TheWrap...
The network has ordered a six-part docuseries, with the working title “Why We Hate,” from the pair, which examines the origins and dangers of hate, Discovery announced Friday.
“Getting to the root of the human condition is something I find not only fascinating, but absolutely necessary in understanding who we are,” states Spielberg. “With the team in place, we delve into historical and modern-day stories of hate, traveling around the globe to uncover its mystery in others and in ourselves. If we understand why we act the way we do, we can change the way we act. That is what we are uniquely capable of as human beings.”
Also Read: TLC to Bring Back 'This Is Life Live' Week, Sets Mother's Day Premiere (Exclusive)
The project hails from Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions in association with Escape Artists for Discovery Channel, and went into production earlier this year. Sam Pollard (“Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me”) and Geeta Gandbhir (“Love the Sinner”) will co-direct the docuseries, which is slated to air on Discovery in 2019.
“When I think about the name of the network Discovery, it connotes a sense of curiosity about the world,” said Gibney. “This is not a series that simply documents something that’s happening, it’s an inquiry – an attempt to understand why we hate, through the science, and through a sense of common humanity. Hate is in our DNA. If we begin to understand this, that’s how we begin to get to a point of being able to hope that we can overcome hate.”
“Why We Hate” will draw on research in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and history, to trace the evolutionary basis of hate and use stories from both the past and present to reveal the nature of this primal and universal emotion.
Also Read: Discovery Boss David Zaslav's Pay Rose Above $42 Million Last Year
The television event aims to reveal contemporary links to ancient behavior and use science as a basis for explaining the nature of hatred and the human mind. At the heart of the show is this question: If we can figure out why we hate, where hate originates, and how it is amplified, can we find a way to prevent it?
“This is exactly the kind of story Discovery should be telling,” said David Zaslav, president and CEO, Discovery, Inc. “‘Why We Hate’ has been a four-year discussion with Steven and Alex on how to best capture the domestic and global trends that are growing around the world and bring those facts and stories to a worldwide audience. Our aspiration is to be working with great storytellers like Steven and Alex all over the world on the most important and consequential stories and issues. ‘Why We Hate’ is even more relevant today, and the Discovery team and I are “all in” on this project. It is Discovery’s commitment and a critical part of our heritage and mission. I really look forward to collaborating on such an important topic and bringing it to over 1 billion people across our domestic and global platforms in over 220 countries.”
“To say we are excited to work with Steven, Alex, Geeta, and Sam is an understatement,” said Nancy Daniels, chief brand officer, Discovery and Factual. “Understanding the why behind our actions can help us change those actions. That leads to a hopeful future for us and generations to come.”
Also Read: Watch the Longest Snake on Earth Eat a Friggin' Deer Whole (Video)
“Why We Hate” is executive produced by Spielberg, Gibney, Frank Marshall, Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Yael Melamede, Erica Sashin and Steve Tisch. Jon Bardin and David McKillop will executive produce for Discovery.
Variety first reported the news.
Read original story Discovery Orders Steven Spielberg, Alex Gibney Docuseries ‘Why We Hate’ At TheWrap...
- 4/6/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney have teamed to produce a docu-series for Discovery Channel examining the origins and dangers of hate.
The two Oscar winners will executive produce the six-part series tentatively titled “Why We Hate.”
Spielberg’s Amblin Television partnered with Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions on the project, which began production earlier this year and will air on Discovery in 2019. Geeta Gandbhir (“Love the Sinner”) and Sam Pollard (“Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me”) are co-directing the project.
The series will investigate the human capacity for hatred and how we can overcome it. The subject is a topic Spielberg has been longing to explore.
“Getting to the root of the human condition is something I find not only fascinating, but absolutely necessary in understanding who we are,” Spielberg told Variety. “With the team in place, we delve into historical and modern-day stories of hate, traveling...
The two Oscar winners will executive produce the six-part series tentatively titled “Why We Hate.”
Spielberg’s Amblin Television partnered with Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions on the project, which began production earlier this year and will air on Discovery in 2019. Geeta Gandbhir (“Love the Sinner”) and Sam Pollard (“Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me”) are co-directing the project.
The series will investigate the human capacity for hatred and how we can overcome it. The subject is a topic Spielberg has been longing to explore.
“Getting to the root of the human condition is something I find not only fascinating, but absolutely necessary in understanding who we are,” Spielberg told Variety. “With the team in place, we delve into historical and modern-day stories of hate, traveling...
- 4/6/2018
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
We humans like to believe certain things about ourselves: that we are good and honest people, for one. Sure, we might innocently add a few inches to our...height on online dating sites, or fudge our taxes, but we are essentially virtuous. (Dis)Honesty, a documentary by Yael Melamede about why we lie, shows the extent to which we fib (almost everybody does, it turns out, across nations and gender and social class). Perhaps most interestingly, (Dis)Honesty shows us how we rationalize that mendacity. Guiding us through the many forms of deceit is Duke University psychologist (and founder of the Center for Advanced Hindsight) Dan Ariely, a highly engaging and affable researcher whose lecture anchors us in the great web of fabrication that is humanity. ...
- 5/20/2015
- Village Voice
The New York-based distributor will release Giovanna Morales Vargas’ feature directorial debut documentary currently in production.
A Perfect 14 examines the controversial term “plus-size” and the divisive influence it has on society and the fashion industry.
James Earl O’Brien produces and founder and CEO Marc Schiller will serve as executive producer.
Bond/260 plans a 2016 release. The recent slate includes Particle Fever and Advanced Style.
The company served as producer on Deep Web, Alex Winter’s film about the Ross Ulbricht Silk Road trial that premiered recently at SXSW and Epix will broadcast on May 31.
Bond/360 also served as executive producer on Yael Melamede’s upcoming debut feature (Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies that will be released theatrically and digitally on May 22.
A Perfect 14 examines the controversial term “plus-size” and the divisive influence it has on society and the fashion industry.
James Earl O’Brien produces and founder and CEO Marc Schiller will serve as executive producer.
Bond/260 plans a 2016 release. The recent slate includes Particle Fever and Advanced Style.
The company served as producer on Deep Web, Alex Winter’s film about the Ross Ulbricht Silk Road trial that premiered recently at SXSW and Epix will broadcast on May 31.
Bond/360 also served as executive producer on Yael Melamede’s upcoming debut feature (Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies that will be released theatrically and digitally on May 22.
- 4/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Watch: Tribeca Doc 'TransFatty Lives' Battles Als In Emotional Trailer This documentary is for everyone who has ever lied or been lied to. So, everyone. In "(Dis)Honesty - The Truth About Lies," behavioral economist Dan Ariely takes a look at the complex ways lies both big and small influence our lives and shape the world around us. In particular, it focuses on individuals whose lives are based in part or in whole on lies, and what happens when those lies are revealed. Director Yael Melamede said of working on the project, "[it] has helped me better understand the road to dishonesty, cheating and corruption - and how winding, slippery and dangerous it can be." The film will have its Us premiere at Full Frame, followed by Hot Docs and Montclair. Said Ariely of the timing, "Is there a better time to introduce a movie on dishonesty than in...
- 4/2/2015
- by Elizabeth Logan
- Indiewire
Garnering fund and lab support on both sides of the Atlantic, Down By Law has been tailored with BFI coin support and with the giving hands of three recent Institute initiatives: Sundance’s 2013 Documentary Film Grant, 2014 July Documentary Edit and Story Lab, and the 2014 Creative Producing Summit. George Amponsah’s third docu film looks to be an explosive, observational hybrid type docu that is surely being readied for the World Docu section and Mark Duggan’s story might echo some of the issues that have been brought up with Ferguson, Missouri.
Gist: This follows several years in the lives of two of the closest friends of Mark Duggan, the man whose death at the hands of armed police sparked the UK riots of 2011.
Production Co./Producers: Dionne Walker.
Prediction: World Documentary Competition.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Tbd (international)
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Gist: This follows several years in the lives of two of the closest friends of Mark Duggan, the man whose death at the hands of armed police sparked the UK riots of 2011.
Production Co./Producers: Dionne Walker.
Prediction: World Documentary Competition.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Tbd (international)
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- 11/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
When you think of the overall Sundance docu selections, programmers may want to balance the hard-hitting slate with this, the curiously titled (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies. Thanks to Dan Ariely’s bookshelf favorite “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty – How We Lie To Everyone, Especially Ourselves,” it benefits from an already built-in aud and via the smart talking heads package, it comes across as an intriguing-sounding “lite” docu experiment. In a Moneyball-ian kind of way, it treats moral and ethical flaws in making minor and major fibs almost in a data analysis argumentative measuring stick. Why finger point when everyone is accountable? Having recently landed some kickstarter funds for completion, we’re not sure if this talking heads package is in the final innings of the edit, but fittingly this is producer Yael Melamede’s (see pic above) first outing as a director – she produced a dozen of items...
- 11/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Guess who’s turning 10? Joe Swanberg has had a “fire” in his belly for, give or take a decade, and his latest in the interpersonal thread was shot in April and appears ripe for another double-billing in January-set Sundance and March SXSW fests. It may also be, his most sophisticated film to date. Moving from the Sundance featured, shot on 16mm Happy Christmas, Swanberg adds to his nucleus of players and reteams with cinematographer Ben Richardson for Digging for Fire. Shot on handsomely old-school 35mm, Swanberg has built himself an all-star team here with first line players Jake Johnson (who co-writes and produces) and Rosemarie DeWitt with a spoonful of supporting and minor bits from the likes of Sam Rockwell, Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Orlando Bloom, Jenny Slate, Mike Birbiglia, Chris Messina, Sam Elliott, Ron Livingston, Jane Adams and Tom Bower.
Gist: Co-written by Swanberg and Johnson, this is a...
Gist: Co-written by Swanberg and Johnson, this is a...
- 11/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Smush Media’s ultramarathon documentary to receive its world premiere at the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Desert Runners, produced in association with Salty Features and Spoken Media, follows a diverse cast of non-professional runners as they attempt to complete the four toughest ultramarathon races on Earth.
Directed, produced and edited by Jennifer Steinman, it has been produced by Oscar-winning producer Yael Melamede and Diana Iles Parker.
“Desert Runners is about running, but it is also about so much more,” said Steinman.
“It’s an exploration into the perceived limitations that people place upon themselves, and the mind-set necessary for some people to complete ‘impossible’ challenges.”
Desert Runners follows Steinman’s previous Motherland; which won an Emerging Visions Audience Award at SXSW.
Salty Features co-founder and producer Yael Melamede said: “This is a film that gives viewers a front row seat to see what it really takes – heart and soul – to attempt the extraordinary.”
Melamede’s producer...
Desert Runners, produced in association with Salty Features and Spoken Media, follows a diverse cast of non-professional runners as they attempt to complete the four toughest ultramarathon races on Earth.
Directed, produced and edited by Jennifer Steinman, it has been produced by Oscar-winning producer Yael Melamede and Diana Iles Parker.
“Desert Runners is about running, but it is also about so much more,” said Steinman.
“It’s an exploration into the perceived limitations that people place upon themselves, and the mind-set necessary for some people to complete ‘impossible’ challenges.”
Desert Runners follows Steinman’s previous Motherland; which won an Emerging Visions Audience Award at SXSW.
Salty Features co-founder and producer Yael Melamede said: “This is a film that gives viewers a front row seat to see what it really takes – heart and soul – to attempt the extraordinary.”
Melamede’s producer...
- 6/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
Jennifer Lawrence isn't the only incredible young artist we'll be rooting for at this year's Academy Awards: The academy has nominated an MTV film “Inocente,” starring 17-year-old homeless artist Inocente Izucar, for Best Documentary Short.
The film chronicles the struggles and hardships of Izucar’s journey as a homeless teenager and undocumented Latina who moved around 30 times within nine years with her mother and siblings, mostly calling the streets of San Diego home, according to ABC Channel 10 News.
When she was 12 years old, Izucar got involved with a local non-profit group called Arts, A Reason To Survive, which encourages young people to use art as a form of therapy. The teen experimented with photography and painting and successfully turned her coping method into talent. Directors discovered Izucar’s story after she was profiled in a local newspaper, then began the two-year filming process when she was 15.
Watch the video above...
The film chronicles the struggles and hardships of Izucar’s journey as a homeless teenager and undocumented Latina who moved around 30 times within nine years with her mother and siblings, mostly calling the streets of San Diego home, according to ABC Channel 10 News.
When she was 12 years old, Izucar got involved with a local non-profit group called Arts, A Reason To Survive, which encourages young people to use art as a form of therapy. The teen experimented with photography and painting and successfully turned her coping method into talent. Directors discovered Izucar’s story after she was profiled in a local newspaper, then began the two-year filming process when she was 15.
Watch the video above...
- 1/15/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to John Krasinski's directorial debut "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men." Krasinski also wrote and stars in the dark comedy, based on the book by David Foster Wallace.
"Interviews," which premiered at Sundance in January, stars Julianne Nicholson as a graduate student interviewing a series of men for her thesis project. Krasinski plays one of the interview subjects, alongside Will Arnett, Dominic Cooper, Bobby Cannavale, Timothy Hutton, Christopher Meloni, Max Minghella and Ben Shenkman. The film was produced by Krasinski, Eva Kolodner, Yael Melamede and James Suskin and exec produced by Kevin Connors.
IFC will release "Hideous Men" theatrically Sept. 25 day-and-date with its VOD bow. The film also will go through IFC's exclusive deal with Blockbuster.
The acquisition deal was negotiated by CAA and Arianna Bocco, vp acquisitions and co-productions at IFC.
"Interviews," which premiered at Sundance in January, stars Julianne Nicholson as a graduate student interviewing a series of men for her thesis project. Krasinski plays one of the interview subjects, alongside Will Arnett, Dominic Cooper, Bobby Cannavale, Timothy Hutton, Christopher Meloni, Max Minghella and Ben Shenkman. The film was produced by Krasinski, Eva Kolodner, Yael Melamede and James Suskin and exec produced by Kevin Connors.
IFC will release "Hideous Men" theatrically Sept. 25 day-and-date with its VOD bow. The film also will go through IFC's exclusive deal with Blockbuster.
The acquisition deal was negotiated by CAA and Arianna Bocco, vp acquisitions and co-productions at IFC.
- 7/14/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMC Entertainment Inc. has pacted with the producers behind Evergreen to release the indie drama Sept. 10 in 27 major U.S. markets. The unique partnership will see AMC Theatres carry the film digitally at 115 locations on its top-performing screens using AMC's proprietary Digital Theatre Distribution System. Written and directed by freshman filmmaker Enid Zentelis, Evergreen centers on Henri, a poor teenage girl who goes to great lengths to become part of her boyfriend's affluent family. Mary Kay Place, Cara Seymour, Bruce Davison and Addie Land star. Norma Jean Straw, Zentelis, Yael Melamede and Eva Kolodner produced the film, which was developed by the Sundance Institute and screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
- 8/27/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screened
Mill Valley Film Festival
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- Nathaniel Kahn, illegitimate son of the architect Louis I. Kahn, has created a beautiful, moving documentary about his father that should attract the same fervid audiences as Thomas Riedelsheimer's film on artist Andy Goldsworthy, "Rivers and Tides".
Like "Rivers and Tides" (or Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I"), "My Architect" examines an artist's aesthetic, but Nathaniel Kahn also is searching for the artist himself and trying to define a relationship with a father he little knew. Louis Kahn died ignobly in 1974 of a heart attack in a Penn Station bathroom, deep in debt. He left behind a wife and a daughter, a mistress and another daughter and a second mistress and a son, Nathaniel.
Louis Kahn was trained in the Beaux-Arts style at Yale, but it was ancient architecture that inspired his own vision. Kahn felt that architecture should be monumental, ceremonial, even holy. His Salk Institute for Biological Sciences overlooks the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, Calif., like some ancient maritime temple. The arched corridors of the Kimbell Art Center in Fort Worth, Texas, unfold behind a tranquil reflecting pool like mystical berms.
His difficult personality and work style may have severely limited the number of commissions Kahn received. "Artists don't get jobs", the architect Philip Johnson explains to Nathaniel. Frank Gehry proclaims that Lou was "a mystic who couldn't speak the language of business." The genial I.M. Pei reassures Nathaniel that "three or four masterpieces are better than 50 or 60 buildings." The filmmaker later shows a gorgeous stop-motion sunset over the Salk Institute that reiterates these artists' praise.
To paraphrase what Pauline Kael wrote of the young Nicolas Cage, Louis Kahn was an architect before he was a human being. His son suffered for this, yet Nathaniel's picture isn't about anger. "My Architect" is tinged with sorrow, compassion, forgiveness and, ultimately, love. More than 25 years after his father's death, Nathaniel visits his father's architectural works and speaks to the people who knew him: cabbies, colleagues, lovers and relatives. Kahn possesses a gentle but firm interviewing style and a generosity with his subjects that lets them open up.
Nathaniel continually attempts to define family, meeting with his two half sisters and asking if they are a family. "Yes", they answer, "if we choose to care about each other, then we're a family." And when he interviews his own mother, Harriet Pattison, he learns something essential about love and the mysterious forms it takes.
The movie is a tad long at 116 minutes, and there are one or two questionable music choices (Beethoven's Ninth, playing over images of the Kimbell museum, is too bombastic for the tone of the film), but the film captures the immense importance of architecture to the people it serves. The Bangladeshi architect Shamsul Wares, who worked with Kahn on the phenomenal National Assembly Hall in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a serene and mighty citadel, proclaims that Louis "gave us democracy." Louis, Wares explains, "loved everybody, but to love everybody, sometimes you don't see the closest ones." Nathaniel Kahn tries his best to love one who should have been closer, and ends up loving everybody right along with his father.
MY ARCHITECT
New Yorker Films
Louis Kahn Project
Credits:
Director-writer: Nathaniel Kahn
Producers: Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr, Yael Melamede, John Hochroth, Judy Moon, Phyllis Kaufman
Executive producers: Susan Rose Behr, Andrew Clayman, Darrell Friedman
Director of photography: Bob Richman
Music: Joseph Vitarelli: Editor: Sabine Krayenbuhl
Narrator: Nathaniel Kahn
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Mill Valley Film Festival
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- Nathaniel Kahn, illegitimate son of the architect Louis I. Kahn, has created a beautiful, moving documentary about his father that should attract the same fervid audiences as Thomas Riedelsheimer's film on artist Andy Goldsworthy, "Rivers and Tides".
Like "Rivers and Tides" (or Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I"), "My Architect" examines an artist's aesthetic, but Nathaniel Kahn also is searching for the artist himself and trying to define a relationship with a father he little knew. Louis Kahn died ignobly in 1974 of a heart attack in a Penn Station bathroom, deep in debt. He left behind a wife and a daughter, a mistress and another daughter and a second mistress and a son, Nathaniel.
Louis Kahn was trained in the Beaux-Arts style at Yale, but it was ancient architecture that inspired his own vision. Kahn felt that architecture should be monumental, ceremonial, even holy. His Salk Institute for Biological Sciences overlooks the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, Calif., like some ancient maritime temple. The arched corridors of the Kimbell Art Center in Fort Worth, Texas, unfold behind a tranquil reflecting pool like mystical berms.
His difficult personality and work style may have severely limited the number of commissions Kahn received. "Artists don't get jobs", the architect Philip Johnson explains to Nathaniel. Frank Gehry proclaims that Lou was "a mystic who couldn't speak the language of business." The genial I.M. Pei reassures Nathaniel that "three or four masterpieces are better than 50 or 60 buildings." The filmmaker later shows a gorgeous stop-motion sunset over the Salk Institute that reiterates these artists' praise.
To paraphrase what Pauline Kael wrote of the young Nicolas Cage, Louis Kahn was an architect before he was a human being. His son suffered for this, yet Nathaniel's picture isn't about anger. "My Architect" is tinged with sorrow, compassion, forgiveness and, ultimately, love. More than 25 years after his father's death, Nathaniel visits his father's architectural works and speaks to the people who knew him: cabbies, colleagues, lovers and relatives. Kahn possesses a gentle but firm interviewing style and a generosity with his subjects that lets them open up.
Nathaniel continually attempts to define family, meeting with his two half sisters and asking if they are a family. "Yes", they answer, "if we choose to care about each other, then we're a family." And when he interviews his own mother, Harriet Pattison, he learns something essential about love and the mysterious forms it takes.
The movie is a tad long at 116 minutes, and there are one or two questionable music choices (Beethoven's Ninth, playing over images of the Kimbell museum, is too bombastic for the tone of the film), but the film captures the immense importance of architecture to the people it serves. The Bangladeshi architect Shamsul Wares, who worked with Kahn on the phenomenal National Assembly Hall in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a serene and mighty citadel, proclaims that Louis "gave us democracy." Louis, Wares explains, "loved everybody, but to love everybody, sometimes you don't see the closest ones." Nathaniel Kahn tries his best to love one who should have been closer, and ends up loving everybody right along with his father.
MY ARCHITECT
New Yorker Films
Louis Kahn Project
Credits:
Director-writer: Nathaniel Kahn
Producers: Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr, Yael Melamede, John Hochroth, Judy Moon, Phyllis Kaufman
Executive producers: Susan Rose Behr, Andrew Clayman, Darrell Friedman
Director of photography: Bob Richman
Music: Joseph Vitarelli: Editor: Sabine Krayenbuhl
Narrator: Nathaniel Kahn
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Screened
Mill Valley Film Festival
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- Nathaniel Kahn, illegitimate son of the architect Louis I. Kahn, has created a beautiful, moving documentary about his father that should attract the same fervid audiences as Thomas Riedelsheimer's film on artist Andy Goldsworthy, "Rivers and Tides".
Like "Rivers and Tides" (or Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I"), "My Architect" examines an artist's aesthetic, but Nathaniel Kahn also is searching for the artist himself and trying to define a relationship with a father he little knew. Louis Kahn died ignobly in 1974 of a heart attack in a Penn Station bathroom, deep in debt. He left behind a wife and a daughter, a mistress and another daughter and a second mistress and a son, Nathaniel.
Louis Kahn was trained in the Beaux-Arts style at Yale, but it was ancient architecture that inspired his own vision. Kahn felt that architecture should be monumental, ceremonial, even holy. His Salk Institute for Biological Sciences overlooks the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, Calif., like some ancient maritime temple. The arched corridors of the Kimbell Art Center in Fort Worth, Texas, unfold behind a tranquil reflecting pool like mystical berms.
His difficult personality and work style may have severely limited the number of commissions Kahn received. "Artists don't get jobs", the architect Philip Johnson explains to Nathaniel. Frank Gehry proclaims that Lou was "a mystic who couldn't speak the language of business." The genial I.M. Pei reassures Nathaniel that "three or four masterpieces are better than 50 or 60 buildings." The filmmaker later shows a gorgeous stop-motion sunset over the Salk Institute that reiterates these artists' praise.
To paraphrase what Pauline Kael wrote of the young Nicolas Cage, Louis Kahn was an architect before he was a human being. His son suffered for this, yet Nathaniel's picture isn't about anger. "My Architect" is tinged with sorrow, compassion, forgiveness and, ultimately, love. More than 25 years after his father's death, Nathaniel visits his father's architectural works and speaks to the people who knew him: cabbies, colleagues, lovers and relatives. Kahn possesses a gentle but firm interviewing style and a generosity with his subjects that lets them open up.
Nathaniel continually attempts to define family, meeting with his two half sisters and asking if they are a family. "Yes", they answer, "if we choose to care about each other, then we're a family." And when he interviews his own mother, Harriet Pattison, he learns something essential about love and the mysterious forms it takes.
The movie is a tad long at 116 minutes, and there are one or two questionable music choices (Beethoven's Ninth, playing over images of the Kimbell museum, is too bombastic for the tone of the film), but the film captures the immense importance of architecture to the people it serves. The Bangladeshi architect Shamsul Wares, who worked with Kahn on the phenomenal National Assembly Hall in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a serene and mighty citadel, proclaims that Louis "gave us democracy." Louis, Wares explains, "loved everybody, but to love everybody, sometimes you don't see the closest ones." Nathaniel Kahn tries his best to love one who should have been closer, and ends up loving everybody right along with his father.
MY ARCHITECT
New Yorker Films
Louis Kahn Project
Credits:
Director-writer: Nathaniel Kahn
Producers: Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr, Yael Melamede, John Hochroth, Judy Moon, Phyllis Kaufman
Executive producers: Susan Rose Behr, Andrew Clayman, Darrell Friedman
Director of photography: Bob Richman
Music: Joseph Vitarelli: Editor: Sabine Krayenbuhl
Narrator: Nathaniel Kahn
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Mill Valley Film Festival
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- Nathaniel Kahn, illegitimate son of the architect Louis I. Kahn, has created a beautiful, moving documentary about his father that should attract the same fervid audiences as Thomas Riedelsheimer's film on artist Andy Goldsworthy, "Rivers and Tides".
Like "Rivers and Tides" (or Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I"), "My Architect" examines an artist's aesthetic, but Nathaniel Kahn also is searching for the artist himself and trying to define a relationship with a father he little knew. Louis Kahn died ignobly in 1974 of a heart attack in a Penn Station bathroom, deep in debt. He left behind a wife and a daughter, a mistress and another daughter and a second mistress and a son, Nathaniel.
Louis Kahn was trained in the Beaux-Arts style at Yale, but it was ancient architecture that inspired his own vision. Kahn felt that architecture should be monumental, ceremonial, even holy. His Salk Institute for Biological Sciences overlooks the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, Calif., like some ancient maritime temple. The arched corridors of the Kimbell Art Center in Fort Worth, Texas, unfold behind a tranquil reflecting pool like mystical berms.
His difficult personality and work style may have severely limited the number of commissions Kahn received. "Artists don't get jobs", the architect Philip Johnson explains to Nathaniel. Frank Gehry proclaims that Lou was "a mystic who couldn't speak the language of business." The genial I.M. Pei reassures Nathaniel that "three or four masterpieces are better than 50 or 60 buildings." The filmmaker later shows a gorgeous stop-motion sunset over the Salk Institute that reiterates these artists' praise.
To paraphrase what Pauline Kael wrote of the young Nicolas Cage, Louis Kahn was an architect before he was a human being. His son suffered for this, yet Nathaniel's picture isn't about anger. "My Architect" is tinged with sorrow, compassion, forgiveness and, ultimately, love. More than 25 years after his father's death, Nathaniel visits his father's architectural works and speaks to the people who knew him: cabbies, colleagues, lovers and relatives. Kahn possesses a gentle but firm interviewing style and a generosity with his subjects that lets them open up.
Nathaniel continually attempts to define family, meeting with his two half sisters and asking if they are a family. "Yes", they answer, "if we choose to care about each other, then we're a family." And when he interviews his own mother, Harriet Pattison, he learns something essential about love and the mysterious forms it takes.
The movie is a tad long at 116 minutes, and there are one or two questionable music choices (Beethoven's Ninth, playing over images of the Kimbell museum, is too bombastic for the tone of the film), but the film captures the immense importance of architecture to the people it serves. The Bangladeshi architect Shamsul Wares, who worked with Kahn on the phenomenal National Assembly Hall in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a serene and mighty citadel, proclaims that Louis "gave us democracy." Louis, Wares explains, "loved everybody, but to love everybody, sometimes you don't see the closest ones." Nathaniel Kahn tries his best to love one who should have been closer, and ends up loving everybody right along with his father.
MY ARCHITECT
New Yorker Films
Louis Kahn Project
Credits:
Director-writer: Nathaniel Kahn
Producers: Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr, Yael Melamede, John Hochroth, Judy Moon, Phyllis Kaufman
Executive producers: Susan Rose Behr, Andrew Clayman, Darrell Friedman
Director of photography: Bob Richman
Music: Joseph Vitarelli: Editor: Sabine Krayenbuhl
Narrator: Nathaniel Kahn
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/13/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Former Madstone Films production executives Eva Kolodner and Yael Melamede have teamed to launch New York-based production outfit Salty Features, with projects in the works by comedian Margaret Cho and Pulitzer Prize winner Don DeLillo. Kolodner was a development director at Killer Films and produced the Oscar-winning Boys Don't Cry. Melamede has worked on such projects as Wayne Wang's Center of the World and Paul Schrader's Forever Mine. Already in development at Salty is Cho's script Bam Bam and Celeste, with Lorene Machado attached to direct and Cho slated to topline the road-trip picture. Cho will play Celeste, who sets out for New York with her best friend Bam Bam, taking on sexism, racism and homophobia along the way.
- 4/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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