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VARIETY: How the LuLaRoe Pyramid Scheme Became the Explosive Amazon Docuseries ‘LuLaRich’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason had only been working for a few months on “LuLaRich,” their docuseries about the clothing company LuLaRoe — which operates as a multi-level marketing company, a.k.a. a pyramid scheme — when they learned the company’s co-founders, DeAnne and Mark Stidham, were willing to sit down with them.
THE GUARDIAN: Survivors of California’s forced sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything’
It wasn’t until years after Kelli Dillon went into surgery while incarcerated in the California state prison system that she realized her reproductive capacity had been stripped away without her knowledge.
VARIETY: Peabody Awards 2021 Nominations, including Belly of The Beast
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors on Tuesday announced this year’s nominees for entertainment, documentaries, news, podcast/radio, children’s & youth, public service and arts. A total of 60 nominees were revealed as representing “the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2020.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Belly of the Beast Review: Fighting for Incarcerated Women
When Kelli Dillon was 24 years old, a doctor at the California facility where she was incarcerated sterilized her without consent. That experience, and the way it galvanized Dillon to bring attention to this human rights violation anchors Erika Cohn’s timely and bracing new documentary “Belly of the Beast.
SCREENDAILY: Watchmen director Nicole Kassell, Participant team on fishing industry exposé
It is the same award won by The Boston Globe team in 2003 that inspired Participant’s Spotlight, which won the best picture Oscar in 2016. In addition to Participant, Blye Faust and Nicole Rocklin – who were among the producers on Spotlight – will produce Silver Seas alongside Cori Shepherd Stern (Open Heart).
DEADLINE: Documentary About Controversial LuLaRoe Clothing Empire In Works From ‘Fyre Fraud’ Team
We hear that Cinemart, the documentary team of directors Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby Nason and producer Mike Gasparro, is partnering on the documentary LuLaRich with Based on Media’s Blye Faust and Cori Shepherd Stern.
DEADLINE: Riva Levinson-Inspired Drama In Works At Uni TV From Blye Faust, Cori Shepherd Stern, Karyn Usher & Lisa Zwerling
Oscar-winning Spotlight producer Blye Faust and Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning producer Cori Shepherd Stern (Bending the Arc, Warm Bodies) have acquired the exclusive rights to Beltway strategist Riva Levinson’s life story for a TV series.
VARIETY: A-List Producers, Executives Pledge to Mentor Women Directors With ReFrame Rise
A group of A-list producers and executives are combating Hollywood gender inequality in a pledge to mentor women directors in the middle of their careers. That’s a time when, at least one prominent study suggests, they disappear from show business entirely.
AP: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck hope Bending the Arc inspires millennials
The story of the global nonprofit Partners in Health is the story of a few young idealists who couldn’t have started any smaller — trying to delivery primary health care in rural Haiti 30 years ago.
VARIETY: Why Spotlight’s Best Picture Win Is a Triumph of Excellence Over Ego
It may take its name from the real-life Boston Globe investigating team, but “Spotlight” is in some respects a curious title for a film that so determinedly refuses to call attention to itself.
ABC NEWS: Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley Recognizes Impact of Spotlight
After "Spotlight" took home the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday night, Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley, who currently serves as the Archbishop of Boston, addressed the impact he believes the film and its real-life investigation have had on the Catholic Church…
TIME: Warm Bodies: A Hot-Zom Rom-Com
Warm Bodies is the first movie worth paying to see in theaters this year. It’s an inventive charmer that visits all the typical movie scenarios of young love amid chaos and disaster, but with a new dimension: one of the romantic leads is a zombie.