In her first fiction feature The Tale, acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox approaches the subject of her own childhood sexual abuse with an unfathomable amount of honesty and unequaled bravery in a film which is set to become a seminal cinematic events in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
Starring Laura Dern as a taller and blonder Jennifer Fox, the film plays on our own perception of memory and what we choose to remember and opt to subconsciously forget from traumatic events. Presenting its audience with a narrative which challenges its own subject’s recollection of events, The Tale is likely to leave a lasting impression on our collective memories as one of the most important stories ever told by a female filmmaker.
Jenny (Laura Dern), is an accomplished documentary director and university professor whose work has taken her all the around the world, and has often put her in some very dangerous situations.
Starring Laura Dern as a taller and blonder Jennifer Fox, the film plays on our own perception of memory and what we choose to remember and opt to subconsciously forget from traumatic events. Presenting its audience with a narrative which challenges its own subject’s recollection of events, The Tale is likely to leave a lasting impression on our collective memories as one of the most important stories ever told by a female filmmaker.
Jenny (Laura Dern), is an accomplished documentary director and university professor whose work has taken her all the around the world, and has often put her in some very dangerous situations.
- 5/31/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Mongrel International has boarded sales on Blackbird Film's The Tale, written and directed by Beirut: The Last Home Movie's Jennifer Fox. Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Sebastian Koch and Elizabeth Debicki star in the drama that begins principal photography this summer. It's produced by Lawrence Inglee and Oren Moverman (The Messenger, Rampart), along with Fox. The story sees Jennifer, a globetrotting journalist living in New York City, who effortlessly balances work and life…...
- 5/5/2015
- Deadline
We imagine that for plenty of docu-helmers (take the tumultuous past couple of years in that Laura Poitras had to undergo) that sometimes life is indeed truer than fiction. A documentarian who has made several trips to Sundance (Beirut: The Last Home Movie, An American Love Story and Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman) is now turning the lenses on her own experience….one that digs into childhood and adulthood. Screen reports that will direct Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Sebastien Koch (The Danish Girl) and Elizabeth Debicki (Kurzel’s Macbeth) in an investigative thriller called The Tale. Principal photography is set for this summer, with the multi-talented Oren Moverman producing alongside Lawrence Inglee and Fox. Marc Almon and Sol Bondy serve as co-producers.
Gist: Based on an episode from her own life, Jennifer (Dern?), a globetrotting journalist living in New York whose mother finds a story she wrote aged 13 describing...
Gist: Based on an episode from her own life, Jennifer (Dern?), a globetrotting journalist living in New York whose mother finds a story she wrote aged 13 describing...
- 5/5/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Recent Oscar nominee Laura Dern will star alongside Ellen Burstyn and Sebastian Koch in Jennifer Fox’s investigative thriller The Tale that Charlotte Mickie and her team will introduce to the Croisette.
Fox, who earned the Sundance grand jury best documentary prize in 1988 for Beirut: The Last Home Movie, will fly into Cannes to talk to buyers about the project, based on an episode from her own life.
Principal photography is set for this summer, with Oren Moverman producing alongside Lawrence Inglee and Fox. Marc Almon and Sol Bondy serve as co-producers.
The Tale centres on Jennifer, a globetrotting journalist living in New York whose mother finds a story she wrote aged 13 describing a sexual triangle with two adult coaches.
When Jennifer attempts to locate everyone connected to the story, she discovers her recollection of events are far removed from her teenage account. Elizabeth Debicki also stars.
Fox plans to shoot The Tale with a “fresh...
Fox, who earned the Sundance grand jury best documentary prize in 1988 for Beirut: The Last Home Movie, will fly into Cannes to talk to buyers about the project, based on an episode from her own life.
Principal photography is set for this summer, with Oren Moverman producing alongside Lawrence Inglee and Fox. Marc Almon and Sol Bondy serve as co-producers.
The Tale centres on Jennifer, a globetrotting journalist living in New York whose mother finds a story she wrote aged 13 describing a sexual triangle with two adult coaches.
When Jennifer attempts to locate everyone connected to the story, she discovers her recollection of events are far removed from her teenage account. Elizabeth Debicki also stars.
Fox plans to shoot The Tale with a “fresh...
- 5/5/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Recent Oscar nominee Laura Dern will star alongside Ellen Burstyn and Sebastien Koch in Jennifer Fox’s investigative thriller that Charlotte Mickie and her team will introduce to the Croisette.
Fox, who earned the Sundance grand jury best documentary prize in 1988 for Beirut: The Last Home Movie, will fly into Cannes to talk to buyers about the project, based on an episode from her own life.
Principal photography is set for this summer, with Oren Moverman producing alongside Lawrence Inglee and Fox. Marc Almon and Sol Bondy serve as co-producers.
The Tale centres on Jennifer, a globetrotting journalist living in New York whose mother finds a story she wrote aged 13 describing a sexual triangle with two adult coaches.
When Jennifer attempts to locate everyone connected to the story, she discovers her recollection of events are far removed from her teenage account. Elizabeth Debicki also stars.
Fox said she planned to shoot The Tale with a “fresh...
Fox, who earned the Sundance grand jury best documentary prize in 1988 for Beirut: The Last Home Movie, will fly into Cannes to talk to buyers about the project, based on an episode from her own life.
Principal photography is set for this summer, with Oren Moverman producing alongside Lawrence Inglee and Fox. Marc Almon and Sol Bondy serve as co-producers.
The Tale centres on Jennifer, a globetrotting journalist living in New York whose mother finds a story she wrote aged 13 describing a sexual triangle with two adult coaches.
When Jennifer attempts to locate everyone connected to the story, she discovers her recollection of events are far removed from her teenage account. Elizabeth Debicki also stars.
Fox said she planned to shoot The Tale with a “fresh...
- 5/5/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tiff documentary programmer Thom Powers curates a monthly Doc Club series for the On Demand service SundanceNow entitled "Spin the Globe," and May's spotlight film is Jennifer Fox's six-hour, Danish-funded documentary "Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman." The film, which Fox culled from her own life, shooting with a special video camera to create a survey of female dynamics across disparate cultures, originally premiered at Sundance in 2007. As Fox -- whose filmography includes 1987's Sundance award winner "Beirut: The Last Home Movie" -- pursues her career as a documentary filmmaker, she encounters and interviews various women from South Africa and Cambodia to India and Pakistan. Read more about the film in Toh's past coverage of Jennifer Fox here, and an Indiewire interview here. "Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman" will begin streaming for SundanceNow subscribers on May 1. Trailer below.
- 4/24/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
- The Sundance Institute have picked projects from the likes of Carol Dysinger, Gayle Ferraro, Robin Hessman, Tomáš Kudrna, Mona Nicoară and Laura Poitras (along with their editors) as 2009's Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellows - a one week "intensive artist-to-artist collaborative experience". This next batch of documentary films that are most likely going to be featured at the 2010 edition of the festival - I've already pegged a couple of the titles below as future item to cover. This year's mentors include: editors: Kate Amend (Academy Award–winner Into the Arms of Strangers and The Long Way Home), Joe Bini (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Grizzly Man) Richard Hankin (Home Front, Capturing the Friedmans) and Mary Lampson (Harlan County, A Lion in the House), Directors: Greg Barker (Sergio, Ghosts of Rwanda) and Jennifer Fox (Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, Beirut: The Last Home Movie). The films selected for
- 6/9/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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