RPL is proud to congratulate our client, Director and Producer Kate Webber, on the upcoming premiere of her new documentary Kim Swims! The film will have its world premiere on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at the Mill Valley Film Festival in Mill Valley, California. Kim Swims is a feature documentary about the story of...
On Saturday, February 11th, RPL Associate Allison ("Ally") M. Grein led a workshop entitled "Contract Landmines: How to Navigate and Negotiate the Legal Side of Filmmaking" as part of the 7th Annual Athena Film Festival at Barnard College. Ms. Grein helped participants understand the legal landscape of the business, including when to engage counsel and how to...
On Saturday, February 11th, RPL Partner and principal entertainment attorney Nicole Page will lead a workshop with Associate Allison ("Ally") M. Grein entitled "Contract Landmines: How to Navigate and Negotiate the Legal Side of Filmmaking" as part of the 7th Annual Athena Film Festival at Barnard College. Ms. Page will help participants understand the legal landscape...
From February 9th to 12th, the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College and Women and Hollywood will host their 7th Annual Athena Film Festival, a yearly celebration of women's leadership on view in an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries, and short films that highlight powerful and courageous women in real life and in...
After discovering her grandfather’s diary, written in the Holocaust-era village of Sokal (formerly in Poland, now considered part of Ukraine), Israeli-American documentarian Judy Maltz traveled to an address recorded in the diary—the home of Francizska Halamajowa, a woman who offered safe haven to Maltz’ grandfather, three Jewish families and a German soldier...
Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP congratulates client Molly Bernstein on the opening of her newest film, An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell, at Film Forum. The film has earned the designation of New York Times Critics’ Pick and has received glowing reviews from numerous industry publications, including The...
March 31, 2016, New York, NY — Yesterday, Indiewire.com featured an article by RPL Partner Nicole Page on the legal and business aspects of documentary filmmaking. Ms. Page emphasizes the critical importance of negotiating and signing legal agreements early on in the filmmaking process. "Documentary filmmaking cannot be a sustainable business...
Event Dates: January 31- February 3, 2011 Location: Renaissance Washington DC Hotel Nicole Page is currently attending the Realscreen Summit in Washington, D.C. The Realscreen Summit is an annual event that is currently in its 13th year and is a highly regarded non-fiction film and television event. The event had...
RPL Partner Deena R. Merlen and George Norfleet, Director of the State of Connecticut's Office of Film, Television and Digital Media, are among the speakers tapped to moderate panels at the 5th Annual Film Industry Mixer in Hartford, Connecticut, on Saturday, August 28, 2010. For further details, please see http://www.filmindustrymixer.com/contacts_moderators.htm