Motto Pictures Explained

Motto Pictures is a documentary production company based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in producing and executive producing documentary features. Motto secures financing, builds distribution strategies, and creatively develops films, and has produced over 25 feature documentaries and won numerous awards.^[1]

History

Motto Pictures was founded in 2009 by Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producers of documentary feature films.^[2]

Films

Year	Film	Director(s)	Awards	Notes
2009	Sergio
2011	Buck
2011	Koran By Heart
2011	Our School	Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma
2011	Better This World	Kelly Duane, Katie Galloway
2012	Beware of Mr. Baker
2012	A Place at the Table	Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush
2012		Alison Klayman
2013
2013	The Kill Team
2013	God Loves Uganda
2013	Gideon's Army	Dawn Porter
2014	The Great Invisible
2014	1971	Johanna Hamilton
2014	Art and Craft	Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman
2014	We Are the Giant
2014	The Yes Men Are Revolting	Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Laura Nix
2015	Blackface	Roger Ross Williams	Premiered on CNN[3]
2015	Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble	Morgan Neville
2015	The 100 Years Show	Alison Klayman
2015	3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets	Marc Silver
2015	Best of Enemies
2015	Indian Point		Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Premiere[4] Key West Film Festival: 2015 Best Documentary Award[5]
2016	Homegrown	Greg Barker	Premiered on HBO[6]
2016		Deborah S. Esquenazi
2016	Solitary	Kristi Jacobson
2016	Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray	Jenny Carchman	Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Premiere [7]
2016	Extremis	Dan Krauss
2016	Life, Animated
2016	Weiner	Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
2016		Steve James
2017	The Family I Had	Katie Green, Carlye Rubin	Tribeca Film Festival 2017 Premiere[8]
2017	Shadowman	Oren Jacoby	Tribeca Film Festival 2017 Premiere[9]
2017	When God Sleeps	Till Schauder
2017	The Final Year	Greg Barker	Toronto International Film Festival 2017 Premiere[10]
2018	The Cleaners	Moritz Riesewieck, Hans Block	Sundance Film Festival 2018 Premiere[11] International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights: Winner of the Gilda Vieira De Mello Award[12]
2018	Inventing Tomorrow	Laura Nix	Sundance Film Festival 2018 Premiere[13] Seattle International Film Festival: 2018 Grand Jury Prize[14]
2018	Take Your Pills	Alison Klayman	SXSW Film Festival 2018 Premiere[15]
2018	The Raft	Marcus Lindeen	CPH:DOX 2018 Premiere and Dox:Award Winner[16]
2018	Charm City	Marilyn Ness	Tribeca Film Festival 2018 Premiere[17]
2018	Love, Gilda	Lisa D'Apolito	Tribeca Film Festival 2018 Premiere[18]
2018	Take Back the Harbor	Kristi Jacobson, Roger Ross Williams
2019	One Child Nation	Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang
2019	Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn	Ivy Meeropol	New York Film Festival 2019 Premiere
2019		Ric Burns	Telluride Film Festival 2019 Premiere
2019	The Apollo	Roger Ross Williams	Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Premiere
2019	Ringside	André Hörmann
2019	The Raft	Marcus Lindeen
2020	Socks on Fire	Bo McGuire
2020	The Mole Agent	Maite Alberdi
2020	A Thousand Cuts	Ramona S. Diaz
2021	In the Same Breath	Nanfu Wang
2021	The Velvet Underground	Todd Haynes
2022		Kathlyn Horan
2022	American Pain	Darren Foster	Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Premiere
2022	Unfinished Business	Alison Klayman	Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Premiere
2023	Victim/Suspect	Nancy Schwartzman	2023 Sundance Film Festival 2023 Premiere
2024	Eternal You	Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck	2024 Sundance Film Festival 2024 premiere

Notes and References

1. http://mottopictures.com/about-2/ Motto Pictures » About
2. http://www.emmys.com/shows/manhunt-inside-story-hunt-bin-laden Manhunt: The Inside Story Of The Hunt For Bin Laden | Television Academy
3. News: 'Blackface': Dutch holiday tradition or racism?. Todd Leopold. CNN. 2017-05-30.
4. https://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/archive/indian-point-2015 Indian Point | Tribeca Film Festival
5. News: 2015 Key West Film Festival Awards - Key West Film Festival. Key West Film Festival. 2017-05-30. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20160130154332/http://kwfilmfest.com/2015-awards/. 2016-01-30. dead.
6. Web site: Peter Bergen - HBO Documentary HOMEGROWN Premieres February 8th. peterbergen.com. en-US. 2017-05-30.
7. News: Tribeca Film Festival Sets 'Hologram for the King,' 'Elvis & Nixon' World Premieres. The Hollywood Reporter. 2017-05-25. en.
8. Web site: Motto Pictures » THE FAMILY I HAD. mottopictures.com. en-US. 2018-01-31.
9. Web site: Motto Pictures » SHADOWMAN. mottopictures.com. en-US. 2018-01-31.
10. Web site: Motto Pictures » THE FINAL YEAR. mottopictures.com. en-US. 2018-01-31.
11. Web site: Motto Pictures » THE CLEANERS. mottopictures.com. en-US. 2018-01-31.
12. Web site: International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, Geneva. www.fifdh.org. en. 2018-06-18.
13. Web site: Motto Pictures » INVENTING TOMORROW. mottopictures.com. en-US. 2018-01-31.
14. Web site: Eighth Grade, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, WIN TOP AWARDS AT THE 44TH SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. www.siff.net. en. 2018-06-18.
15. Web site: SXSW 2018 Schedule. schedule.sxsw.com. en. 2018-06-18.
16. News: And the winners of CPH:DOX 2018 are.... CPH:DOX. 2018-06-18. en-US.
17. Web site: Charm City 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Tribeca. 2018-06-18.
18. Web site: Love, Gilda 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Tribeca. 2018-06-18.