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Fork Films
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Founded2007
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Defunct2022
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Fork Films was an American film production and television production company founded in 2007, by Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker. The company primarily produced documentary films focusing on social issues, and select narrative films.

They have produced such films as Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008), The Invisible War (2012), Cameraperson (2016), Trapped (2016), Strong Island (2017), One Child Nation (2019), Crip Camp (2020), and Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (2020).

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Abigail Disney

Abigail Disney

Abigail Edna Disney is an American documentary film producer, philanthropist, and social activist. She produced the 2008 documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Disney and Kathleen Hughes are producers and directors of Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Emmy Award winning The Armor of Light (2015) and The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.

Gini Reticker

Gini Reticker

Virginia "Gini" Reticker is an American filmmaker and film producer. She directed the films The Heart of the Matter, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, and A Decade Under the Influence.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Gini Reticker and produced by Abigail Disney. The film premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Documentary. The film had its theatrical release in New York City on November 7, 2008. It had cumulative gross worldwide of $90,066.

The Invisible War

The Invisible War

The Invisible War is a 2012 American documentary film written and directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering and Tanner King Barklow about sexual assault in the United States military. It premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the U.S. Documentary Audience Award. The film has been lauded by advocates, lawmakers, and journalists for its influence on government policies to reduce the prevalence of rape in the armed forces.

Cameraperson

Cameraperson

Cameraperson is a 2016 autobiographical collage documentary film. The film is an account by director Kirsten Johnson about her life and career as a cinematographer. It relies on footage shot by Johnson across the years in numerous different countries.

Trapped (2016 American film)

Trapped (2016 American film)

Trapped is a 2016 documentary film about doctors who perform abortions in some states in the United States who have been fighting against so-called "TRAP laws" that have been enacted in their states. The film was directed by Dawn Porter, and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a special jury social impact prize. The clinics the film focuses on are mostly located in the South, where there have been a higher number of anti-abortion laws enacted than in any other region of the United States. It was released theatrically on March 4, 2016 in New York City and Washington, DC. It aired on PBS's Independent Lens in June, 2016.

Strong Island (film)

Strong Island (film)

Strong Island is an American 2017 true-crime documentary film directed by Yance Ford.

One Child Nation

One Child Nation

One Child Nation is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang about the fallout of China's one-child policy that lasted from 1979 to 2015. The documentary is made up of various interviews with former village chiefs, state officials, ex-human traffickers, artists, midwives, journalists, researchers, and victims of the one-child policy. Nanfu Wang stated, in a roundtable discussion, that when creating the film she wanted to do a "360 degree with the policy—people who carried out the policy and people who were the victims of the policy". During the film, Nanfu Wang discovers more about the ties her own family have with the one-child policy, as they unsuccessfully attempt to locate her cousin who was abandoned by her father’s sister in 1989. By the end of the film, Nanfu Wang admits that despite the horrors of the one-child policy, there is an overwhelming acceptance of the policy that remains in China, and a shared attitude that there was no other choice. The closing scenes of the film show the growing propaganda for two child families, presenting the repetition of state interference with family planning within China.

Crip Camp

Crip Camp

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is a 2020 American documentary film directed, written and co-produced by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht. Barack and Michelle Obama served as executive producers under their Higher Ground Productions banner.

Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen

Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen

Disclosure, originally subtitled Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, is a 2020 American documentary film directed and produced by Sam Feder. The film follows an in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of their stories on transgender lives and American culture. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2020. It was released on Netflix on June 19, 2020.

History

In 2007, Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker launched Fork Films a production company focusing on primarily producing documentary films focusing on social issues, and select narrative films.[1] Apart from producing, the company gives grants to filmmakers to finish or produce their project.[2] The company was launched after Disney began working with Reticker on the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008), creating a company for licensing the film, before deciding to continue making documentary projects.[3]

The company has produced films that have gone on to be nominated for the Academy Awards, Emmy Awards and News & Documentary Emmy Awards; Sun Come Up (2011), which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject),[4] The Invisible War (2012) by Kirby Dick, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature,[5] The Armor of Light which won the News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary,[6] and Strong Island (2017), and Crip Camp (2020), which were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[7][8]

Apart from documentaries, the company has produced the narrative feature films Return and Hateship, Loveship by Liza Johnson.[9][10]

In October 2022, it was announced the company had been shut down.[11]

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Abigail Disney

Abigail Disney

Abigail Edna Disney is an American documentary film producer, philanthropist, and social activist. She produced the 2008 documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Disney and Kathleen Hughes are producers and directors of Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Emmy Award winning The Armor of Light (2015) and The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.

Gini Reticker

Gini Reticker

Virginia "Gini" Reticker is an American filmmaker and film producer. She directed the films The Heart of the Matter, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, and A Decade Under the Influence.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Gini Reticker and produced by Abigail Disney. The film premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Documentary. The film had its theatrical release in New York City on November 7, 2008. It had cumulative gross worldwide of $90,066.

Academy Awards

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The Academy Awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry in the United States and worldwide. The Oscar statuette depicts a knight rendered in the Art Deco style.

Emmy Awards

Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with their own set of rules and award categories. The two events that receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards, which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming, respectively. Other notable U.S. national Emmy events include the Children's & Family Emmy Awards for children's and family-oriented television programming, the Sports Emmy Awards for sports programming, News & Documentary Emmy Awards for news and documentary shows, and the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for technological and engineering achievements. Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, the International Emmy Awards honor excellence in TV programming produced and initially aired outside the United States.

Sun Come Up (film)

Sun Come Up (film)

Sun Come Up is a 2010 documentary film on the effect of global warming on the Carteret Islands. The film showed at the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival on April 8. It was named as a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 83rd Academy Awards on January 25, 2011, but lost to Strangers No More.

Kirby Dick

Kirby Dick

Kirby Bryan Dick is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best known for directing documentary films. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature for directing Twist of Faith (2005) and The Invisible War (2012). He has also received numerous awards from film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival.

Strong Island (film)

Strong Island (film)

Strong Island is an American 2017 true-crime documentary film directed by Yance Ford.

Crip Camp

Crip Camp

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is a 2020 American documentary film directed, written and co-produced by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht. Barack and Michelle Obama served as executive producers under their Higher Ground Productions banner.

Return (2011 film)

Return (2011 film)

Return is a 2011 independent film about an American reservist, wife and mother returning home from her tour of duty in the Middle East. The film was written and directed by Liza Johnson, and stars Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon and John Slattery. It is Johnson's first feature-length film, and received good reviews at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight. Linda Cardellini was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in the film.

Hateship, Loveship

Hateship, Loveship

Hateship, Loveship is an American drama film directed by Liza Johnson and written by Mark Poirier, based on the 2001 short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" by Alice Munro. The film stars Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nick Nolte. It premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2013.

Liza Johnson

Liza Johnson

Liza Johnson is an American film director, producer, and writer.

Filmography

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Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Gini Reticker and produced by Abigail Disney. The film premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Documentary. The film had its theatrical release in New York City on November 7, 2008. It had cumulative gross worldwide of $90,066.

Return (2011 film)

Return (2011 film)

Return is a 2011 independent film about an American reservist, wife and mother returning home from her tour of duty in the Middle East. The film was written and directed by Liza Johnson, and stars Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon and John Slattery. It is Johnson's first feature-length film, and received good reviews at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight. Linda Cardellini was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in the film.

Citizen Koch

Citizen Koch

Citizen Koch is a 2013 film produced and directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, concerning the political influence of American plutocrats on the political process following the US Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC which granted corporations the ability to anonymously spend unlimited money to influence public policy and elections. The film focuses on the eponymous Koch brothers, in particular, and their political and financial support for Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who represents the Citizen Koch in the title. The film chronicles the rise of the Tea Party movement in response to the election of the first African-American President in 2008, and the strategic attacks on organized labor by Gov. Walker and Koch political operatives in other states as a strategy to eliminate liberal opposition.

1971 (2014 film)

1971 (2014 film)

1971 is a 2014 American documentary film and the directorial debut of producer Johanna Hamilton, who also co-wrote the film. The film had its world premiere on 18 April 2014 at the Tribeca Film Festival and focuses on the break-in of an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania on Monday, March 8, 1971, to steal over 1000 classified documents. It was pitched at the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011 MeetMarket preceding its debut. The break-in took place on the night of the first Ali-Frazier boxing title fight dubbed the Fight of the Century.

Food Chains

Food Chains

Food Chains is a 2014 American documentary film about agricultural labor in the United States directed by Sanjay Rawal. It was the Recipient of the 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for Special/Documentary.

Hot Girls Wanted

Hot Girls Wanted

Hot Girls Wanted is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus. The film follows the lives of several 18- and 19-year-old pornographic actresses. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was released on Netflix on May 29, 2015.

Cameraperson

Cameraperson

Cameraperson is a 2016 autobiographical collage documentary film. The film is an account by director Kirsten Johnson about her life and career as a cinematographer. It relies on footage shot by Johnson across the years in numerous different countries.

I Am Evidence

I Am Evidence

I Am Evidence is an 2017 American documentary film, directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir. It focuses on an investigation into thousands upon thousands of rape kits sitting in storage in various police departments being untested. Mariska Hargitay served as a producer on the film.

For Ahkeem

For Ahkeem

For Ahkeem is a 2017 documentary film directed by Landon Van Soest and Jeremy S. Levine. The film centers on a North St. Louis-based teenager, Daje Shelton, and her experience in school and in her personal relationships. For Ahkeem received positive critical reception and garnered awards from festivals such as the Independent Film Festival Boston and the Indie Memphis Film Festival.

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché is a 2018 documentary about the first female filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché, directed by Pamela B. Green. It was screened out of competition at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Classics category. It was nominated for the festival's L'Œil d'or documentary prize. Be Natural went on to screen at Telluride, Deauville American Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and London BFI Film Festival.

93Queen

93Queen

93Queen is a 2018 documentary film on Hasidic women in Borough Park, Brooklyn who form Ezras Nashim, an all-female ambulance corps. The film follows Judge Rachel Freier, a Hasidic lawyer running for public office as a New York Judge, and mother of six who is determined to shake up the “boys club” in her Hasidic community by creating the first all-female ambulance corps in the United States, as she negotiates her community initiative within the context of a male-dominated Hasidic community.

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Cooked: Survival by Zipcode is a 2018 American documentary film, directed and produced by Judith Helfand. It follows the 1995 Chicago heat wave which resulted in the deaths of 739 people, primarily affecting poor and disadvantaged communities.

Source: "Fork Films", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 6th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_Films.

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References
  1. ^ "About". Fork Films. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  2. ^ "Abigail Disney on Film, Universal Languages of the Heart and Social Change". The Wakeman Agency. November 30, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  3. ^ Loden, Franko (November 28, 2017). "Amicus Award: Abigail Disney, Crusader for Change". International Documentary Association. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  4. ^ "Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  5. ^ Goodavage, Maria (January 10, 2013). "The Invisible War Nominated for Oscar". PBS. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  6. ^ "Armor of Light". ITVS. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  7. ^ Romano, Nick (January 23, 2018). "Yance Ford makes Oscars history as first trans director to earn nomination". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  8. ^ Rios Espinosa, Carlos (March 23, 2021). "'Crip Camp' Brings the Inclusion Revolution to the Oscars". Human Rights Watch. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  9. ^ Harris, Brandon (February 8, 2012). "Liza Johnson, Return". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  10. ^ Deadline Team, The (February 17, 2013). "Toronto: IFC Films Acquires Kristen Wiig-Starrer 'Hateship Loveship'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  11. ^ Lang, Brent; Donnelly, Matt (October 3, 2022). "Abigail Disney Closes Fork Films, Lays Off Staff (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
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