December is the most popular month for charitable giving by Americans – accounting for about a third of all donations made per year. Call it the spirit of the holidays, repeated viewings of A Christmas Carol, or a rush to get in tax-deductible gifts before the calendar year runs out.
That makes this a particularly timely moment to encounter one of this year’s Oscar-contending documentaries, UnCharitable, directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. It argues we are applying misguided standards to charities – monitoring their overhead expenses like hawks and shaming any nonprofits that dare to spend money on staff salaries or fundraising.
“The movie is demanding that we look at it in a new way, really,” Gyllenhaal said in a recent Q&a (you can watch the conversation below). Under the existing paradigm, charitable nonprofits have learned to operate bare bones style, at the expense of solving the social problems they ostensibly are meant to address.
That makes this a particularly timely moment to encounter one of this year’s Oscar-contending documentaries, UnCharitable, directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. It argues we are applying misguided standards to charities – monitoring their overhead expenses like hawks and shaming any nonprofits that dare to spend money on staff salaries or fundraising.
“The movie is demanding that we look at it in a new way, really,” Gyllenhaal said in a recent Q&a (you can watch the conversation below). Under the existing paradigm, charitable nonprofits have learned to operate bare bones style, at the expense of solving the social problems they ostensibly are meant to address.
- 12/18/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Film director Stephen Gyllenhaal shared what he learned from making his new documentary, UnCharitable, in his new uInterview.
UnCharitable highlights three of the most successful U.S. charities, which were shut down by watchdogs. It questions the traditional constraints on salaries and marketing that are put on nonprofit organizations and demand a change in the system.
Gyllenhaal, who is the father of famed actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, explained what drove him to make the documentary when he heard the story of his friend Dan Pallotta, whose AIDS Ride charity was shut down due to negative reports about its high overhead costs.
“I really love documentaries and how important they are,” Gyllenhaal told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “I had just finished a documentary called In Utero, which was all about the science from conception to birth… it became very important in the pre-natal, perinatal world and, in fact, led me...
UnCharitable highlights three of the most successful U.S. charities, which were shut down by watchdogs. It questions the traditional constraints on salaries and marketing that are put on nonprofit organizations and demand a change in the system.
Gyllenhaal, who is the father of famed actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, explained what drove him to make the documentary when he heard the story of his friend Dan Pallotta, whose AIDS Ride charity was shut down due to negative reports about its high overhead costs.
“I really love documentaries and how important they are,” Gyllenhaal told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “I had just finished a documentary called In Utero, which was all about the science from conception to birth… it became very important in the pre-natal, perinatal world and, in fact, led me...
- 10/12/2023
- by Ava Lombardi
- Uinterview
"What is a world that works for everyone, what does that world look like?" Abramorama has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary film titled UnCharitable, made by filmmaker Stephen Gyllenhaal. It will be opening in theaters later in September, after playing at a few summits and conferences earlier this year already. UnCharitable is a timely and crucial documentary that uncovers the realities of philanthropy (it's bad) and introduces a radical new way of giving. In an emotional call to action, this invigorating film demands that charities be freed from traditional constraints so they can truly change the world. Featuring Dan Pallotta, Chris Anderson (CEO of Ted), Steve Nardizzi (Co-Founder of Wounded Warrior Project), Darren Walker (President of the Ford Foundation), Edward Norton (Actor & Founder of Crowdrise) and more. This actually looks really powerful and hard-hitting, not at all cheesy or sappy, it's honest and saying – things need to change,...
- 8/21/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has nabbed VOD rights to the hybrid fiction/non-fiction coming-of-age drama The Other Kids from writer-director Chris Brown, slating it for release September 19th.
Pic is billed as a raw, intimate look into the struggles of teenagers on the verge of high school graduation, following six as they struggle through their final days of school in the small Gold Rush town of Sonora, California. The cast includes Isaac Sanchez, Torq Stewart, Kai Kellerman, Sienna Lampi, Savannah Bailey, Joe McGee, Natasha Lombardi, and Hunter Gilmore. Darren Dean, Brad Marshland, and Jonathan Sanford served as producers
The deal was negotiated between Freestyle and indie sales rep and distribution consultant, Liz Manashil. View a trailer for The Other Kids below.
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Exclusive: Deadline has a new trailer for Uncharitable, a documentary based on the book and Ted talk by AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer Walk founder Dan Pallotta, which hits theaters September 22nd.
Pic is billed as a raw, intimate look into the struggles of teenagers on the verge of high school graduation, following six as they struggle through their final days of school in the small Gold Rush town of Sonora, California. The cast includes Isaac Sanchez, Torq Stewart, Kai Kellerman, Sienna Lampi, Savannah Bailey, Joe McGee, Natasha Lombardi, and Hunter Gilmore. Darren Dean, Brad Marshland, and Jonathan Sanford served as producers
The deal was negotiated between Freestyle and indie sales rep and distribution consultant, Liz Manashil. View a trailer for The Other Kids below.
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Exclusive: Deadline has a new trailer for Uncharitable, a documentary based on the book and Ted talk by AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer Walk founder Dan Pallotta, which hits theaters September 22nd.
- 8/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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