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‘Tell Them You Love Me’ Became The No. 1 Title On Netflix. So Why Did So Many Film Festivals Reject It?


'Tell Them You Love Me' became a huge hit on Netflix. So why did film festivals reject it?

The film explores the unsettling case of Dr. Anna Stubblefield, a white Rutgers University philosophy professor and disability theorist who began working with D.J. But on appeal, a higher court ruled the trial judge had erred in not allowing FC evidence because, without it, a jury could not assess D.J.’s level of consent to the sexual liaison. Topic and Kino Lorber came on board the project, and then sales agent Submarine approached Netflix about making a home for the film.

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