Sony Photos Classics has acquired worldwide rights to the documentary Flip Each Web page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, on the heels of its June twelfth world premiere within the Highlight Documentary part of the Tribeca Movie Pageant.
The movie’s topics are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and legendary editor Robert Gottlieb, who’ve labored and fought collectively for 50 years, forging one among publishing’s most iconic and productive partnerships. Now 86, Caro is working to finish the ultimate quantity of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. The duty of ending their life’s work looms earlier than them.
Directed by Gottlieb’s daughter, Lizzie Gottlieb, Flip Each Web page explores Caro and Robert Gottlieb’s outstanding inventive collaboration, together with the behind-the-scenes drama of the making of Caro’s The Energy Dealer and the LBJ sequence. With humor and perception, the distinctive double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities {and professional} joys of those two ferocious intellects. It arrives on the end result of a journey that has consumed each their lives and impacted generations of politicians, activists, writers and readers, and furthered our understanding of energy and democracy.
Gottlieb, Joanne Nerenberg, Jen Small and Matter Studios produced the movie, in affiliation with Left/Proper. Christine Connor, Ryan Heller, Maria Zuckerman and Michael Bloom exec produced for Matter Studios, together with Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver and Kevin Vargas of Left/Proper, and Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman.
“I used to be extremely lucky to find the true that means of collaboration whereas making this movie, via witnessing the extraordinary partnership of Robert Caro and my father Robert Gottlieb, who’ve, individually and collectively, introduced the world literary works of outstanding affect and endurance,” mentioned Lizzie Gottlieb. “My understanding of the ability of collaboration deepened as I labored carefully with the movie’s distinctive producers, together with Joanne, Jen, and the group at Matter Studios, who so vigorously championed my imaginative and prescient for the movie and had been a continuing supply of help. And with Sony Photos Classics on board, we’ve an excellent new group of collaborators whose unmatched experience and boundless dedication will assist carry the movie to the widest attainable viewers. I couldn’t be extra thrilled.”
“The second we met Lizzie and her producing group, we had been immediate evangelists for this movie. To be let into Robert Caro’s legendarily rigorous course of, one of many nice literary mysteries, was catnip sufficient. Then to take pleasure in Gottlieb’s knowledge about enhancing and life was a real present,” mentioned Zuckerman, who serves as President of Matter Studios. “We at Matter Studios are so thrilled to associate once more with Michael, Tom, Dylan and the group at Sony Photos Classics who share our ardour for the movie and its message that on this world of bite-size, disposable content material, the pursuit of imaginative and prescient and supporting artists within the methods they want is significant to create artwork that can impression tradition and endure.”
“Lizzie Gottlieb has made a clever and in-depth love letter to probably the most unbelievable collaborations in literary historical past,” added Sony Photos Classics in a press release. “Not solely can we snoop on their working course of however revelations about Robert Moses and LBJ abound. We look ahead to working once more with Matter Studios and bringing this main American documentary to audiences in all places.”
Michael Barker and Tom Bernard function co-presidents of Sony Photos Classics—an autonomous division of Sony Photos Leisure that they based with Marcie Bloom in January 1992—which distributes, produces and acquires impartial movies from all over the world. Current releases embrace the golf comedy The Phantom of the Open with Mark Rylance, and the documentary JAZZ FEST: A New Orleans Story.
Sony Photos Classics negotiated the deal for Flip Each Web page with Cinetic Media.
