>> SELECTED FILMS
REBUILDING PARADISE
Imagine Documentary Films • National Geographic, 90 min • 2020
Directed by Ron Howard
Produced by Brian Grazer, Xan Parker, Sara Bernstein & Justin Wilkes | Co-Produced by Lizz Morhaim
Edited with M. Watanabe Milmore
Premiere 2020 Sundance Film Festival
"It’s as powerful a 15 minutes as you’ll ever see open a film; Howard’s domestic answer to Steven Spielberg’s D-Day sequence in Saving Private Ryan..."
"Gladys Murphy was the editor who was really assigned all of this footage and she built it out, about a 12 minute sequence or something like that, and we looked at it and we said, 'well, there's a little repetition but we can't chop this up. This is breathtaking and heartbreaking.' ...I think it's probably the most harrowing sequence that I've ever been involved with as a director, and, of course, I shot not a frame."
// FESTIVALS
• 2020 Sundance Film Festival
• 2020 AFI Docs Official Selection
• 2020 Tribeca Film Festival
• 2020 Edinburgh Film Festival Official Selection
• 2020 SF Urban Film Festival
• 2020 Wild & Scenic Film Festival
• 2020 Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 2020 IFI Documentary Film Festival
• 2020 SFFILM Festival
• 2020 Foyle Film Festival
• 2020 Environmental Film Festival
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11/08/2020 TV WORTH WATCHING, Rebuilding Paradise: Ron Howard Talks About His Scary, Beautiful New Documentary
09/01/2020 THE TREATMENT, Ron Howard: Rebuilding Paradise
08/06/2020 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, Review: Rebuilding Paradise — Movies for the Rest of Us
02/06/2020 THAT SHELF, Sundance 2020: Rebuilding Paradise Review
01/26/2020 LAUGHING PLACE, Sundance 2020 Film Review: “Rebuilding Paradise” (National Geographic)
01/24/2020 THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 'Rebuilding Paradise': Film Review, Sundance 2020
FINDING THE WAY HOME
DCTV Films • HBO Documentary Films, 70 min • 2019
Directed by Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Produced by Larissa Bills
Executive Producers Jacqueline Glover & Sheila Nevins
Broadcast HBO Dec 2019
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01/01/2020 VULTURE, New on HBO: January 2020
12/19/2019 DECIDER, Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Finding the Way Home’ on HBO, a Heart-Wrenching Documentary About Orphaned Children
12/18/2019 FORBES, New HBO Documentary Shedding Light On Orphans Experiencing Abuse — Including Those With Disabilities — Premieres Tonight
12/17/2019 WASHINGTON POST, What to watch on Wednesday: ‘Finding the Way Home’ on HBO at 9
12/06/2019 BOSTON GLOBE, HBO’s ‘Finding the Way Home’ shows children betrayed — and rescued
11/21/2019 MEDIUM, Documentary FINDING THE WAY HOME Debuts December 18, Exclusively on HBO
LENNY
A Casual Romance Production • HBO Documentary Films, 40 min • 2018
Directed by Jason Benjamin, Assia Boundaoui, Jenny Gage, Elizabeth Ito & Christine Turner
Executive Producers Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner, Stacey Reiss, Ericka Naegle, Jason Benjamin
Premiere 2018 Sundance Film Festival
// FESTIVALS
• 2018 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
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01/23/2018 WORLD PREMIERE 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Special Events
15: A Quinceañera Story
4 PART DOCUMENTARY SERIES: Zoey, Ashley, Rosie and Jackie & Nina
DCTV Films • HBO Documentary Films • 2017
Directed by Matthew O'Neill & Thalía Sodi
Produced by Xochitl Dorsey
Executive Producers Sheila Nevins & Tommy Mottola
Premiere 2017 Hamptons International Film Festival
Broadcast HBO Dec 19 2017
Directors' Guild of America Nominee for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs
"...the episode [Ashley] puts a face and a story to American’s current immigration debate in a way very few arguments or documentaries do. "
// FESTIVALS
• 2017 Hamptons Film Festival
• 2017 TransNation Film Festival
• 2017 DOC NYC
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01/10/2018 DIRECTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA NOMINATION, Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Children's Programs
12/20/2017 DECIDER ‘15: A Quinceañera Story’ Covers Some Of America’s Most Polarizing Debates Through Hope
12/19/2017 NBCNEWS Five Quinceañeras Shine In New HBO Series '15: A Quinceañera Story'
12/12/2017 THE TODAY SHOW Tommy Mottola and Thalia team up for ’15: A Quinceañera Story’
12/12/2017 TEEN VOGUE HBO's "A Quinceañera Story" Shows There's More Than One Way to Celebrate the Rite of Passage
11/21/2017 PEOPLE Thalía to Release HBO Documentary That Shares the Stories of Five Different Quinceañeras
11/10/2017 NYC PREMIERE DOC NYC
11/02/2017 BILLBOARD Tommy Mottola, Thalia Set Quinceañera Documentaries at HBO
10/15/2017 WEST COAST PREMIERE 2017 TransNation Film Festival
10/05/2017 WORLD PREMIERE 2017 Hamptons Film Festival
Beware The Slenderman
Vermillion Films • HBO Documentary Films, 114 min • 2017
Directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky
Produced by Sophie Harris
Premiere 2017 SXSW
Broadcast HBO Jan 23 2017
News and Documentary Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
Critics Choice Documentary Nominee for Best Documentary
DocuWest Fest Winner, Women Who Doc Best Feature Award
Nantucket Film Festival Winner, Adrienne Shelley Excellence in Filmmaking
"I must mention the editor Gladys Mae Murphy: I could not have made this film without her sense of structure and story"
- Irene Taylor Brodsky in SCREENDAILY
"... editor Gladys Murphy masterfully interweave a combination of home videos, YouTube clips, interviews with family members and Slender Man aficionados, and trial and interrogation footage. What results is a thought-provoking cautionary tale covering just about every imaginable angle of this shocking story"
- LATFUSA
"The assembly is unfussily well-judged on all levels"
- Variety
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• 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW), Documentary Spotlight
• 2016 Hot Docs International Canadian Film Festival
• 2016 International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) Amsterdam
• 2016 DOC NYC
• 2016 Sydney Underground Film Festival
• 2016 Melbourne Film Festival
• 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival
• 2016 Sidewalk Film Festival
• 2016 New Zealand International Film Festival
• 2016 Niagara Integrated Film Festival
• 2016 Fantasia Festival
• 2016 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
• 2016 Seattle International Film Festival Festival
• 2016 Montclair Film Festival
• 2016 Northwest Filmmakers Festival
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07/26/2018 39th ANNUAL NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS Nomination: Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
10/03/2017 CRITICS' CHOICE DOCUMENTARY NOMINEE: Best Documentary, Best Director
01/23/2017 GQ: 'Beware the Slenderman' Is More Disturbing Than a Horror Movie
01/23/2017 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: 'Beware the Slenderman:' EW Review
01/23/2017 THE ATLANTIC: There Are No Easy Answers in 'Beware the Slenderman'
01/21/2017 THE LA TIMES: 'Beware The Slenderman' is a chilling look at a crime inspired by the internet
01/19/2017 ROLLING STONE: 'Beware the Slenderman': Inside Chilling New Doc on Internet Murder Meme
11/12/2016 NYC PREMIERE 2016 DOC NYC
05/31/2016 LATFUSA: Mammoth Lakes Film Fest: An Internet Meme Turns Deadly in 'Beware the Slenderman'
05/27/2016 VARIETY: Film Review: 'Beware the Slenderman'
03/17/2016 SCREENDAILY: Irene Taylor Brodsky, 'Beware the Slenderman'
03/12/2016 INDIEWIRE: 'Beware the Slenderman' is a Horrifying Look at the Power of the Internet
03/12/2016 DAILY BEAST: 'Murder For a Meme: The Horrifying Story of Two 12-Year-Old Girls Who Tried to Kill For Slenderman'
03/12/2016 CONSEQUENCES OF SOUND: Film Review: 'Beware the Slenderman
03/12/2016 MASHABLE: 'Beware the Slenderman' is your next 'Making A Murderer' obsession
03/11/2016 AUSTIN CHRONICLE: The Strange Case of 'Beware the Slenderman'
03/11/2016 WORLD PREMIERE 2016 SXSW Film Festival
Latin Explosion: A New America
DCTV Films • HBO Documentary Films, 65min • 2015
Directed by Matthew O'Neill & Jon Alpert
Produced by Xochitl Dorsey
Edited with David Meneses
Executive Producers Tommy Mottola & Sheila Nevins
Broadcast HBO Nov 16 2015
Imagen Award Winner for Best Documentary for Film & Television
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09/09/2016 IMAGEN AWARD WINNER, Best Documentary for Film & Television
11/18/2015 BILLBOARD: HBO's 'The Latin Explosion' Highlights A Musical History Still Packed With Surprises
08/25/2015 ROLLING STONE: Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull Set For HBO Doc 'Latin Explosion'
Larry Kramer: In Love & Anger
Cresting Moon Production • HBO Documentary Films, 82 min • 2015
Directed by Jean Carlomusto
Produced by Ellin Baumel
Edited with Geof Bartz, ACE
Premiere 2017 Sundance Film Festival
Broadcast HBO Jun 29 2015
News and Documentary Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Historical Programming
News and Documentary Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Editing
"Carlomusto and editors Geof Bartz and Gladys Mae Murphy effectively frame the biography with footage shot during Kramer's hospitalization in 2013 while recovering from complications following a liver transplant... Even more so is the hospital-room ceremony in which Kramer and his longtime partner, David Webster, are married."
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06/26/2015 LA TIMES: 'Larry Kramer in Love & Anger': At 80, the film's subject reveals a complex heart
01/21/2015 HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: 'Larry Kramer: In Love & Anger' Sundance Review
CRISIS HOTLINE: VETERANS PRESS 1
HBO Documentary Films, 40 min • 2014
Directed by Ellen Goosenberg-Kent
Produced by Dana Perry
Edited with Geof Bartz, ACE
Broadcast HBO Nov 11 2013
2015 Academy Award® Winner for Best Documentary Short Subject
News and Documentary Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Historical Programming
"Emotionally powerful and simply presented, Crisis Hotline perfectly presents an inside look into the heroic job that is suicide prevention while also revealing the trauma that can come with being a veteran in America."
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02/22/2015 OSCARS Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Short Subject
02/20/2015 WASHINGTON POST This Documentary About The VA’s Crisis Hotline Is Among Sunday’s Oscar Nominees
01/29/2015 CINEFILES Reviews Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
01/15/2015 OSCARS Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 Gets An Oscar Nomination For Documentary Short Subject
10/20/2014 OSCARS 8 Doc Shorts On Oscar's 2014 Shortlist
07/15/2014 35th ANNUAL NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS Nomination, Outstanding Historical Programming: Long Form
11/08/2013 VARIETY TV Review: HBO Docs ‘Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1’
11/06/2013 WORLD PREMIERE 2013 Seattle International Film Festival
11/01/2013 BUSINESS INSIDER Heartbreaking HBO Documentary Sheds Light On The Hidden Cost Of War
PRISON TERMINAL: THE LAST DAYS OF PRIVATE JACK HALL
HBO Documentary Films, 40min • 2014
Directed by Edgar Barens
Edited with Geof Bartz, ACE
Broadcast HBO Mar 31 2014
2014 Academy Award® Nominee for Best Documentary Short Subject
2014 IDA Documentary Awards Nominee for Best Short Award
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10/29/2014 IDA DOCUMENTARY AWARDS Nomination for Best Short Award
02/28/2014 VARIETY Film Review: ‘The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentary’
02/26/2014 INDIEWIRE Here’s How This Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shot in a Maximum Security Prison
01/16/2014 OSCARS Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack hall Gets an Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary Short
12/18/2013 ABCNEWS 'Prison Terminal': Kidnappers Care for Murderers at End of Life
10/10/2013 OSCARS 8 Doc Shorts On Oscar's 2013 Shortlist
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