In “The Housewife and the Hustler 2: The Reckoning,” Erika “Jayne” Girardi of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” meets the victims whom her estranged husband Tom Girardi allegedly defrauded over many years. It’s an awkward, and at times frosty and defensive encounter — and is the centerpiece of this new documentary that dropped on Hulu on Feb. 12.
The 90-minute “”Housewife and the Hustler 2″ is a followup to ABC News Studios’ 2021 documentary “The Housewife and the Hustler,” which examined the trials and tribulations of Jayne and legal titan Tom Girardi. Once seen as a crusading lawyer, in 2020, lawsuits revealed that Girardi had allegedly stolen millions of dollars from his clients. Girardi was disbarred in 2022, and in May, he will go on trial for federal wire charges related to his alleged theft of settlement money.
For this second installment, ABC News partnered with L.A. Times Studios to highlight how...
The 90-minute “”Housewife and the Hustler 2″ is a followup to ABC News Studios’ 2021 documentary “The Housewife and the Hustler,” which examined the trials and tribulations of Jayne and legal titan Tom Girardi. Once seen as a crusading lawyer, in 2020, lawsuits revealed that Girardi had allegedly stolen millions of dollars from his clients. Girardi was disbarred in 2022, and in May, he will go on trial for federal wire charges related to his alleged theft of settlement money.
For this second installment, ABC News partnered with L.A. Times Studios to highlight how...
- 2/12/2024
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
On Valentine’s Day 2018 the community of Parkland, Florida was irrevocably transported into the headlines. That was the day when a 19-year old gunman walked into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and took the lives of 17 of its students. In the aftermath of the horrific event news crews descended as grieving parents and children struggled to find footing in a new reality. And while a great many reporters packed up once the soundbites ran out, veteran journalists Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman stayed behind — and got to truly know the fathers and mothers and siblings, the significant […]...
- 2/11/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
On Valentine’s Day 2018 the community of Parkland, Florida was irrevocably transported into the headlines. That was the day when a 19-year old gunman walked into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and took the lives of 17 of its students. In the aftermath of the horrific event news crews descended as grieving parents and children struggled to find footing in a new reality. And while a great many reporters packed up once the soundbites ran out, veteran journalists Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman stayed behind — and got to truly know the fathers and mothers and siblings, the significant […]...
- 2/11/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In today’s film news roundup, a Mickey Rourke crime drama will premiere in Portugal, a film about the Purdue Pharma scandal is in the works and the documentary “After Parkland” will be shown at 100 locations on the second anniversary of the Parkland shootings.
Festival Opener
The world premiere of Mickey Rourke’s crime drama “Adverse” will take place on Feb. 28 as the opening film of the 40th Fantasporto Oporto Film Festival in Portugal — the country’s largest film festival.
Rourke stars as an underworld boss who hires a rideshare driver, porotrayed by Thomas Nicholas, whose younger sister is in debt to a dangerous crime syndicate. “Adverse” also stars Penelope Ann Miller, Lou Diamond Phillips, Sean Astin and Kelly Arjen.
“Adverse” is directed by Brian A. Metcalf from his own script. The film is produced by Metcalf, Nicholas, Arjen and executive produced by Scott Katzman, Lise Romanoff, Sergio Rizzuto and Ben Chan.
Festival Opener
The world premiere of Mickey Rourke’s crime drama “Adverse” will take place on Feb. 28 as the opening film of the 40th Fantasporto Oporto Film Festival in Portugal — the country’s largest film festival.
Rourke stars as an underworld boss who hires a rideshare driver, porotrayed by Thomas Nicholas, whose younger sister is in debt to a dangerous crime syndicate. “Adverse” also stars Penelope Ann Miller, Lou Diamond Phillips, Sean Astin and Kelly Arjen.
“Adverse” is directed by Brian A. Metcalf from his own script. The film is produced by Metcalf, Nicholas, Arjen and executive produced by Scott Katzman, Lise Romanoff, Sergio Rizzuto and Ben Chan.
- 1/24/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Every year, documentaries that examine crimes are made. Some, such as Ezra Edelman’s “O.J.: Made in America,” Joshua Rofe’s “Lorena” and most recently Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg’s “The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park,” study a single crime decades after the fact in hopes of establishing a greater clarity and understanding of traumatic events.
But some crimes against humanity deserve immediate dissection and magnification, including mass shootings, sexual abuse and data-mining manipulation. Each is an offense that has directly and indirectly affected millions of Americans in recent years and each is an offense that continues to play out in our society. In these cases, documentarians take on crimes that need immediate absorption and contemplation.
Just four days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman traveled to Parkland, Fla., on assignment for ABC’s “Nightline.” Initially the duo...
But some crimes against humanity deserve immediate dissection and magnification, including mass shootings, sexual abuse and data-mining manipulation. Each is an offense that has directly and indirectly affected millions of Americans in recent years and each is an offense that continues to play out in our society. In these cases, documentarians take on crimes that need immediate absorption and contemplation.
Just four days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman traveled to Parkland, Fla., on assignment for ABC’s “Nightline.” Initially the duo...
- 12/7/2019
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman were already well versed in covering mass shootings around the country by the time they made it to Parkland, Florida. But in talking with the students and the families who had lived through the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting, they could tell the members of this community were ready to speak out about something more.
Taguchi and Lefferman are both producers on ABC’s “Nightline,” but for their documentary “After Parkland,” they go beyond the breaking news heartbreak and got intimate access to families at the center of the tragedy who were still there long after the other news crews had left.
“We’ve gone to these communities in those awful moments and maybe felt some guilt, as many in the media do, that you descend on a community, and you’re there, and then the story moves on, and the nation sort of forgets.
Taguchi and Lefferman are both producers on ABC’s “Nightline,” but for their documentary “After Parkland,” they go beyond the breaking news heartbreak and got intimate access to families at the center of the tragedy who were still there long after the other news crews had left.
“We’ve gone to these communities in those awful moments and maybe felt some guilt, as many in the media do, that you descend on a community, and you’re there, and then the story moves on, and the nation sort of forgets.
- 12/6/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Nightline producers Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi keep a bag packed at all times, ready to respond to breaking news. This being the United States, where mass shootings occur with alarming frequency, their destination is often a major crime scene. Like Pittsburgh in October 2018, site of a shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue that left 11 dead, or El Paso, Texas earlier this year where a gunman killed 22 people at a Walmart.
“In all of these situations we have that really difficult job of having to go into a community in one of their hardest, darkest moments,” Lefferman tells Deadline. “And then…the news cycle moves on. People forget, but for that community the wounds of what happened really stay forever.”
On Valentine’s Day 2018 news broke of a devastating shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Once on the ground, Lefferman and Taguchi met with teenagers...
“In all of these situations we have that really difficult job of having to go into a community in one of their hardest, darkest moments,” Lefferman tells Deadline. “And then…the news cycle moves on. People forget, but for that community the wounds of what happened really stay forever.”
On Valentine’s Day 2018 news broke of a devastating shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Once on the ground, Lefferman and Taguchi met with teenagers...
- 11/29/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
In “After Parkland,” a documentary about the school shooting that took place on Feb. 14, 2018, in Parkland, Florida, leaving 17 high-school students dead and injuring 17 others, there’s a scene set at the Trump White House that bristles with personal grief and political rage. It’s one week after the shooting, and several students who survived the massacre, along with the parents of those who were murdered, have been invited to attend a meeting with President Trump. The purpose of the meeting is to translate tragedy into legislative action, and Trump knows it. Early on, he says, “We’re going to be very strong on background checks.” Which, of course, is a scandalous lie, since within months it became clear that Trump, in full alliance with the NRA, had no intention of taking any action on background checks.
But you knew that already. What the footage in “After Parkland” reveals is a...
But you knew that already. What the footage in “After Parkland” reveals is a...
- 11/27/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
School shootings happen with such regularity in America now that they barely get reported, or if they are reported, they are swiftly forgotten.
That has not been the case with the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which happened on Valentine’s Day of 2018, because some of the survivors — notably David Hogg and Emma González — led protests and put themselves forward to the media as the faces of a new generation who were not going to settle for “thoughts and prayers” for a day.
“After Parkland” is a documentary that follows several of the survivors of the shooting. Filmmakers Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi were given access to Hogg and his family, but González is only seen at a rally in Washington, D.C. where she reads out all 17 of the victim’s names. She says something personal about all of them before stopping and remaining silent for six minutes,...
That has not been the case with the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which happened on Valentine’s Day of 2018, because some of the survivors — notably David Hogg and Emma González — led protests and put themselves forward to the media as the faces of a new generation who were not going to settle for “thoughts and prayers” for a day.
“After Parkland” is a documentary that follows several of the survivors of the shooting. Filmmakers Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi were given access to Hogg and his family, but González is only seen at a rally in Washington, D.C. where she reads out all 17 of the victim’s names. She says something personal about all of them before stopping and remaining silent for six minutes,...
- 11/27/2019
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
“It was certainly a story that wasn’t going away and the community wasn’t letting the nation forget what happened,” explains Jake Lefferman about the heartbreaking new documentary “After Parkland.” The ABC Documentaries film, co-directed by Emily Taguchi, explores the immediate aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School which killed seventeen people and became the deadliest school shooting in American history. In our exclusive interview (watch the video above), Lefferman and Taguchi explain the film’s impact as well as their approach to capturing the devastating impact of the tragedy on the survivors and the victims’ families.
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The film focuses on the grief of the victims’ families, particularly the parents of several murdered students. Taguchi says that her goal was to be as respectful as possible to the families as they mourned the loss of their children. “I...
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The film focuses on the grief of the victims’ families, particularly the parents of several murdered students. Taguchi says that her goal was to be as respectful as possible to the families as they mourned the loss of their children. “I...
- 11/21/2019
- by Tony Ruiz
- Gold Derby
"How do you make sense of the senseless?" Kino Lorber & ABC Docs have debuted an official trailer for the documentary film After Parkland, which first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. In the aftermath of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman traveled to Parkland and began filming with students who endured gunfire and the parents who lost their children in the crosshairs. After Parkland is an intimate chronicle of various families as they navigate their way through the unthinkable; reckoning with unexpected loss, journeying through grief, and searching for new meaning. Follows in the footsteps of the documentary Newtown, taking a raw, heartfelt, truthful look at how a community moves on after such horrible tragedies. Here's the trailer (+ poster) for Emily Taguchi & Jake Lefferman's doc After Parkland, from YouTube: After Parkland tells the...
- 11/13/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Updated with Doc NYC winners, 6:30 Pm: CNN Films has acquired the documentary feature Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice and set its television premiere for New Year’s Day on CNN.
Ronstadt was 21 when she first hit the national charts with the Stone Poneys’ “Different Drum,” and her plaintive vocal leapt off the radio from the opening line. By the mid-’70s, she was cranking out smash singles and multiplatinum albums as fast as the public could consume them. Three of her LPs hit No. 1 en route to her becoming the most successful female singer of the decade.
Two-time Oscar winner Rob Epstein and Oscar nominee Jeffrey Friedman directed the docu from Greenwich Entertainment, 1091 and CNN Films and also produce alongside James Keach and Michele Farinola. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice premieres at 9 p.m. Wednesday, January 1.
‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice...
Ronstadt was 21 when she first hit the national charts with the Stone Poneys’ “Different Drum,” and her plaintive vocal leapt off the radio from the opening line. By the mid-’70s, she was cranking out smash singles and multiplatinum albums as fast as the public could consume them. Three of her LPs hit No. 1 en route to her becoming the most successful female singer of the decade.
Two-time Oscar winner Rob Epstein and Oscar nominee Jeffrey Friedman directed the docu from Greenwich Entertainment, 1091 and CNN Films and also produce alongside James Keach and Michele Farinola. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice premieres at 9 p.m. Wednesday, January 1.
‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice...
- 11/13/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, “A Good Woman Is Hard to Find” and “After Parkland” find homes, Jack Johnson is honored, Agc closes deals on Neill Blomkamp’s latest and Paramount is in talks for a “Power to the People” project.
Acquisitions
Film Movement has bought North American rights to the thriller “A Good Woman Is Hard to Find,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Sarah Bolger stars as a widowed young mother in Northern Ireland desperate to discover who brutally murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Dismissing the crime as thugs killing each other, the police won’t help. After being coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer, she’s forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving into a take-charge vigilante.
“A Good Woman Is Hard to Find” will be released day-and-date in theaters and on digital and cable VOD platforms...
Acquisitions
Film Movement has bought North American rights to the thriller “A Good Woman Is Hard to Find,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Sarah Bolger stars as a widowed young mother in Northern Ireland desperate to discover who brutally murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Dismissing the crime as thugs killing each other, the police won’t help. After being coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer, she’s forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving into a take-charge vigilante.
“A Good Woman Is Hard to Find” will be released day-and-date in theaters and on digital and cable VOD platforms...
- 11/13/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
A whopping 159 feature documentaries have been submitted for consideration to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the 2020 documentary feature Oscar race, the organization revealed Tuesday.
The films span a wide spectrum of topics, from gun violence in Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi's After Parkland and the 1969 moon landing in Todd Douglas Miller's Apollo 11, to figures such as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona in Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona and the life of author Toni Morrison in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' Toni Morrison: The Pieces I ...
The films span a wide spectrum of topics, from gun violence in Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi's After Parkland and the 1969 moon landing in Todd Douglas Miller's Apollo 11, to figures such as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona in Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona and the life of author Toni Morrison in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' Toni Morrison: The Pieces I ...
- 11/12/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A whopping 159 feature documentaries have been submitted for consideration to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the 2020 documentary feature Oscar race, the organization revealed Tuesday.
The films span a wide spectrum of topics, from gun violence in Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi's After Parkland and the 1969 moon landing in Todd Douglas Miller's Apollo 11, to figures such as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona in Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona and the life of author Toni Morrison in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' Toni Morrison: The Pieces I ...
The films span a wide spectrum of topics, from gun violence in Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi's After Parkland and the 1969 moon landing in Todd Douglas Miller's Apollo 11, to figures such as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona in Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona and the life of author Toni Morrison in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' Toni Morrison: The Pieces I ...
- 11/12/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The AFI Docs Festival has selected the Steven Bognar-Julia Reichert documentary “American Factory” as its centerpiece film, screening on June 21.
The event will take place at the Warner Bros. Theater at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
“American Factory” centers on the aftermath of the 2014 purchase of a General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio, which had closed in 2008. A Chinese billionaire reopened the facility as Fuyao Glass America, with the promise of giving work to more than 2,000 local residents, along with bringing hundreds of Chinese workers to Ohio. Tensions mount among the Americans due to low wages and concerns about safety.
The festival revealed its full slate of films Wednesday for the 2019 edition, the 17th year, with 72 films representing 17 countries. The festival runs June 19–23 in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, Md.
As previously announced, the festival will open with the world premiere of...
The event will take place at the Warner Bros. Theater at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
“American Factory” centers on the aftermath of the 2014 purchase of a General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio, which had closed in 2008. A Chinese billionaire reopened the facility as Fuyao Glass America, with the promise of giving work to more than 2,000 local residents, along with bringing hundreds of Chinese workers to Ohio. Tensions mount among the Americans due to low wages and concerns about safety.
The festival revealed its full slate of films Wednesday for the 2019 edition, the 17th year, with 72 films representing 17 countries. The festival runs June 19–23 in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, Md.
As previously announced, the festival will open with the world premiere of...
- 5/15/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In this modern glut of round-the-clock lousy news, it’s easy to ensconce oneself in a false layer of unflappability. If you’ve heard/read/watched one report of murder/rape/brutality, you’ve heard/read/watched them all. We lose track of what marginalized people have been targeted in what country; what seemingly innocuous product or person is actually, in fact, very dangerous; which public venue gave way to carnage this week. “After Parkland,” a documentary by Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, aims to cut through the numbness.
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- 5/6/2019
- by Lena Wilson
- The Playlist
The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday with a slate of movies from up-and-coming filmmakers and established directors that tackle hot-button issues such as gun violence, homophobia, and gender discrimination.
The annual celebration of film was originally founded by Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal to encourage people to return to a corner of Manhattan that was still reeling from the 9/11 attacks. Well, downtown is largely rebuilt, but the festival is still going strong, with a particular emphasis on inclusion and representation. Of the more than 100 features that will debut at this edition of Tribeca, 40% are directed by women, 29% by people of color and 13% by Lgbtq filmmakers.
Now in its 18th year, Tribeca has grown to encompass television series, shorts, gaming, and virtual reality. But it’s the indie movies that provide the biggest sizzle. Here’s a look at nine acquisition titles that could have buyers circling.
The annual celebration of film was originally founded by Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal to encourage people to return to a corner of Manhattan that was still reeling from the 9/11 attacks. Well, downtown is largely rebuilt, but the festival is still going strong, with a particular emphasis on inclusion and representation. Of the more than 100 features that will debut at this edition of Tribeca, 40% are directed by women, 29% by people of color and 13% by Lgbtq filmmakers.
Now in its 18th year, Tribeca has grown to encompass television series, shorts, gaming, and virtual reality. But it’s the indie movies that provide the biggest sizzle. Here’s a look at nine acquisition titles that could have buyers circling.
- 4/24/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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