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Celebrities Like Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Thompson Are Going to Bat for Indie Docs
Celebrities Like Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Thompson are helping documentaries get seen and sold by lending their names and expertise.
In April, Apple Original Films acquired global rights to “Bread & Roses,” which was fortuitous given some major streamer’s recent avoidance of political content. The actor served as an executive producer of the doc about a group of artists who created a secret apartment inside a busy mall in Rhode Island in 2003. “I’m thrilled to email people out of the blue because it feels like I’m doing something to kind of correct the balance of power in the industry and give something attention that deserves it but has a harder time finding it.”
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