goodstory films

02/08/2024

Riley Hooper you are a force. Holy huzzah.

29/07/2024

To all my friends who are studying abroad this semester, please find out how to get your absentee ballot in place ASAP. We need your vote more than ever. https://www.usvotefoundation.org

15/02/2024

Brilliance abounds. inspiring and insightful article in VAG about Riley Hooper's movie, Vestibule which in it's final stages.

A Q&A with documentary filmmaker Riley Cooper and producer Bryn Silverman about VESTIBULE, a film that chronicles Hooper's experience with vesitbulodynia

29/11/2023

11/11/2023

the indubitable lily henderson. go see this film. it's really something.
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06/11/2023

TImes book review written by the one and only RACHEL FLEIT 11/4. It's a great read. She is incredible. Not sure how she does what she does. But she do.

Max Marshall’s “Among the Bros” investigates a multimillion-dollar crime network among fraternity brothers at the College of Charleston.

17/06/2023

9 years ago today, consistent we are.

07/11/2022

15/05/2022

See you there.

28/04/2022

Always taking one for the team folding your body into a pretzel or any other task required. And sock game always strong. Love ya.

15/04/2022

Thanks Mama Shelley Fleit. Always the best time of year to rewatch Rachel's "Gefilte". Joyous. Family.

A Jewish family finds beauty in a traditional holiday fish dish

01/04/2022

Who has a rough period or PMS? Looking for real stories of women who want to share their story and are sick of apologizing for having their periods. Shoots one day April 21st or 22nd. Get in touch for more details [email protected]

28/10/2021

The unstoppable Mo Scarpelli

The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) today announced that 14 films are longlisted in the Best Documentary category sponsored by Intermission Film. 10 of the 14 documentaries are directed or co…

28/10/2021

all the feelz Rachel Fleit

28/10/2021

https://deadline.com/2021/10/doc-nyc-shortlist-documentary-film-thom-powers-news-1234863166/

DOC NYC gave a boost to 15 Oscar-contending documentaries Tuesday, naming them to its prestigious shortlist of the year’s best nonfiction films. Early favorites Flee, Summer of Soul (…Or, When the …

13/10/2021

repost from Shelley Fleit who said it best...What an amazing day celebrating “Introducing, Selma Blair” which premiered at the Hampton International Film Festival yesterday. So proud of our daughter Rachel Fleit who directed this powerful film, an intimate collaboration made possible through the generosity, humor, commitment and soul of Selma Blair. Two stunning women made a film and countless lives will be touched, and changed ❤️
And yes, an award ❤️
FYI - Streaming on Discovery+ starting October 21 😍

P.S. AND SIGN UP FOR DISNEY+ FOR FREE THIS MONTH TO WATCH THE FILM. YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT.

22/08/2021

thanks Vitamin Enriched // Real People Casting

Vitamin Enriched, a real people casting company, is casting a Latina grandmother (60s) with her daughter or daughter in-law and granddaughter (6-10) for a TV commercial and print ad for a pharmaceutical brand. The family will be cooking together. The Grandmother will be portraying a woman who is bei...

22/08/2021

Thanks Vitamin Enriched // Real People Casting go get em!

Vitamin Enriched, a real people casting company, is casting a girls soccer team or individual soccer players (13-15 years old) to be in a TV commercial and print ad for a pharmaceutical brand. The girls will be playing soccer in the commercial. We’re looking for individual girls or a team of playe...

03/08/2021

So proud of you Mo Scarpelli!

You asked so here it is 💣
Watch EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF in a special online screening Aug 10 🔥 The event includes:
🎥 live movie screening at 3PM EST on 10 August (with option to watch up to 24 hours later)
🎥 live Q&A following screening with director + character
🎥 never-before-seen film extras + deleted scenes 🤫
🎥 special convo between the director Mo Scarpelli + Father himself, with updates on life now and how the film(s) have changed his life... this is the first time Father talks publicly about the film since it was finished 🤭

🎫 TICKETS HERE 👉 bit.ly/3iNRnqI

03/08/2021

El Father Plays Himself, directed by Mo Scarpelli. "The give and take between the two men, in which recriminations simmer beneath the surface and are never aired as they might be in a drama, is utterly engrossing... It is true that Scarpelli’s camerawork is beautiful enough to slot neatly into a feature film. In amongst the action she manages to balance a febrile intimacy – in the moments of high tension – with sumptuous and lyrical compositions. This may perhaps be most evident in her use of the light and landscape of the production’s surroundings, but also in quiet, observational moments in which her two protagonists retreat and reflect. The fact that she remains at arm’s length in these moments, refusing to force the two men into a narratively satisfying conversation, may frustrate some, but seems a perfect approach to their difficult and unknowable bond."
— a stunning review from Ben Nicholson in Sight and Sound, in their newly revamped issue ! And just ahead of the UK release 🇬🇧 at the Barbican Centre on Thursday, followed by the double-bill with Jorge's film LA FORTALEZA at the ICA on Friday 🇬🇧 more info here : https://elfatherplayshimself.com/screenings-events
https://t.co/9jh7usrB2a

The future is now for Sight and Sound. This special issue introduces an all new design, and we speak to the leading lights of cinema about the state – and future – of screens big and small.

14/06/2021

Awed.

Yesterday a Pulitzer Prize citation was awarded to Darnella Frazier of Minneapolis, MN. She is not a professional journalist or an author or a playwright. She is an 18-year old who received her Pulitzer yesterday because last year, on May 25th, when she was then 17, bravely pulled her smart phone with its built-in camera out of her pocket and began filming the police murdering George Floyd. This single act, this harrowing footage, ignited an uprising of tens of millions of citizens, the largest and longest-lasting non-stop protest in the history of this country. A hundred other countries joined in.

This would not have happened to this extent without Darnella filming this act of brutality — and she did it with such a steady eye and hand as Officer Derek Chauvin looked into her lens and glared right at her as he slowly tortured and killed George Floyd. He stared down Darnella with a vicious, steely resolve, with a look that said, “you’re next.” But she kept filming — for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. She changed the world we all live in. With a camera.

As I’ve said here before, Darnella made the most important documentary of the decade, and as an Academy member I asked that she be recognized at this year’s Oscars. That did not happen, but the Pulitzer committee has now seen fit to honor her, to proclaim that yes, an ordinary citizen, a teenager with no formal training or experience, can film one of the most important pieces of nonfiction the world has ever seen. It is, I believe, the first Pulitzer ever awarded to someone whose journalism was produced not with words, but with the moving image.

I’m sure many of you agree with me that we are now blessed with a generation of young people who are smart, fierce and very much aware of the broken world we’ve handed them. We are lucky to have them and their talent and the way they look at things with such open hearts and deep commitment to fix what we haven’t. I am filled with much hope when it comes to the millions of Darnellas we now have entering the adult world.

Thank you Darnella for the inspiration you have given us all.

19/03/2021

Brava Rachel Fleit. Special Jury Recognition for Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling. https://www.sxsw.com/festivals/film-awards/?fbclid=IwAR01NCoHYs6ErHU8LJhRr4cjyp54FjfIYimIGH5a40aWdeLZytZsIehpehw #2021

The SXSW Film Awards honors the superlative creativity and talent demonstrated by filmmakers and designers in the SXSW program.

13/03/2021

Rachel Fleit & Sloane Klevin at it again. Swelling with pride.

Enjoying its World Premiere at South by Southwest (SXSW) 2021 in the Documentary Feature Competition is Introducing, Selma Blair, a deeply intimate and raw portrait of the actress after she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and makes a valiant, risky effort to try to slow the progression of her d...