Sony Photos Classics has acquired the worldwide rights to Lizzie Gottlieb’s doc “Flip Each Web page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,” which simply had its world premiere at Tribeca Movie Competition. Deadline confirmed the information.
Centering on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and legendary editor Robert Gottlieb, the latter of whom is the director’s father, the doc explores the lads’s 50-year publishing partnership. “Flip Each Web page” sees Caro and Gottlieb taking up the the duty of ending their life’s work with Caro, 86, engaged on the ultimate quantity of his masterwork, “The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” whereas Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it.
“Lizzie Gottlieb has made a clever and in-depth love letter to probably the most unbelievable collaborations in literary historical past. Not solely will we snoop on their working course of however revelations about Robert Moses and LBJ abound. We sit up for working once more with [production company] Matter Studios and bringing this main American documentary to audiences in all places,” stated Sony Photos Classics stated in an announcement on the acquisition:
Gottlieb beforehand defined in an interview with us that she “wished to make this movie to attempt to perceive a wildly productive, oddly contentious, vastly necessary collaboration, and thru that, to open a window right into a secretive inventive course of, a vanishing world of e book publishing, and the best way truths about energy in America are revealed.”
The filmmaker added, “I believe at coronary heart this can be a story about what it takes to make works that endure. About integrity and mortality and legacy. About what my technology and my kids’s technology ought to maintain onto from this world that’s disappearing earlier than our eyes.”
Gottlieb’s earlier directing credit embrace the documentaries “Immediately’s Man,” a portrait of her brother, a former baby genius who was identified with Asperger Syndrome on the age of 21, and “Romeo Romeo,” the story of two married ladies’s makes an attempt to conceive.
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