The Holly finished its award season winning the Heartland Emmy for Best Documentary, as well as the University Film and Video Association’s award for Outstanding Merit for a documentary feature. The awards were the 8th and 9th for the project, which includes the book...
THE HOLLY has been named the Winner of the 2023 IRE (investigative Reporters and Editors) Award for Best Documentary! From the Judges: “This documentary provided a raw, rare window into the politics of gang-controlled neighborhoods. The filmmaker’s ability to build...
Watch the discussion of The Holly at Columbia Journalism School.
As reported in Deadline.com, The Holly was selected to play the International Documentary Assocation's FallDocs Series - "a curated collection of the most acclaimed documentary films of the year." Our screening will be Tues Nov 7 at the Culver Theater in Culver City....
The Impact Campaign is underway with recent screenings and conversations in Durham, NC; Detroit; Basalt, CO; and next up History Colorado in Denver, sponsored by the RMN NAACP, and more to come.
The connection between these men, powerful politicians and both street violence and politically connected violence, is particularly disturbing. It was equally disturbing if not surprising to have my life threatened for bringing this story to light.
THE HOLLY picks up its third festival prize and a distribution deal
“I ask you to step outside the echo chamber created by powerful interests, which neither serves democracy nor bends toward justice.”
I spoke about the film and efforts to suppress the findings with Bret Saunders of KBCO
Plaintiffs admitted that they had not even seen the film they were suing us over. The Holly survives yet another attempt to derail it—precisely because of the truths it contains.
In advance of our Sold Out event at the Denver Press Club, the Denver Post’s arts writer John Wenzel did a piece about the project,
THE HOLLY wins the Audience Choice Award at its premiere
