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Filmmakers Talk ‘RBG’ and Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Impact on the “Next Generation of Activists”
The Hollywood Reporter
By Joelle Goldstein
April 24, 2018
Photo Credit: Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images
“Her life story is cinematic,” explained co-director Julie Cohen. “It has everything; it’s got obstacles, it’s got a heroine overcoming the odds, it’s got a beautiful love story, it’s got a message. She’s just perfectly deserving of full movie treatment and it just seems like how could you not turn her story into a film?”
After premiering at the Sundance Festival in January, RBG made its L.A. screening debut on Monday night at The London in West Hollywood. The documentary, co-produced by Storyville Films and CNN Films, tells the story of Ginsburg’s life and her rise to fame as a political icon, becoming the second woman in history to sit as an U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Read more.