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FESTIVAL ARTICLE: INDIEWIRE

“Taking on the Establishment in ‘Flynt’”

FESTIVAL ARTICLE: VARIETY

“Docs Dock at Fest”

INTERVIEW: IDA WEBSITE

“Meet the Filmmaker: Joan Brooker-Marks”

Over the next couple of weeks, we at ida will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work will be represented in the DocuWeek™ Theatrical Documentary Showcase, August 17-23. We asked the filmmakers to share the stories behind their films—the inspirations, the challenges and obstacles, the goals and objectives, the reactions to their films so far. So, to kick off this series of conversations, here is Joan Brooker-Marks, director/producer of Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone.

FESTIVAL ARTICLE: VARIETY

“FLYNT AT DOCUWEEK”

Docuweek, the IDA’s annual LA-based doc fest, began last night with a screening of Jon Alpert amd Ellen Goosenberg Kent’s “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq.” At the Arclight opening night party, Executive Director of the IDA Sandra Ruch, her colleague Nancy Willen, and Larry Flynt. Flynt is the subject of another film at the fest, “Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone.”

REVIEW: HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

By Kirk Honeycutt
“Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone” is an impressionistic documentary portrait of America’s most famous smut peddler, where the focus is less on his life and legacy as on his First Amendment court battles over the past 30 years. Larry Flynt has spent more time in court than many lawyers. He also has spent time in jail for his beliefs. So when this man talks about the meaning of democracy, he has earned the right to be heard.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Legal Fights Uncovered in Docu on Skin’s Flynt article by Larry Kilday – Aug 17, 2007

Flynt…is the subject of a new documentary, “Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone,” which will screen as part of the International Documentary Assn.’s DocuWeek, which gets under way today and runs through Thursday at the ArcLight Hollywood and the Landmark Theatre in Los Angeles.