“It takes more than a really talented con man to pull off a forgery of this magnitude.” Said crime was an $80 million fraud that rocked the art world, and filmmaker Barry Avrich is telling the story in Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, which opens the virtual Hot Docs at Home fest this week. Check out the…
Editors Note: Barry Avrich is a filmmaker who has made dozens of high-profile documentaries including The Last Mogul, Blurred Lines, Prosecuting Evil and is currently in production on Made You Look, a film about the largest art fraud in U.S. history.
As Harvey Weinstein finds himself cast in the most anticipated…
The docu David Foster: Off the Record will make its World Premiere at Toronto in a gala premiere and follow with a tribute to the musician, composer and producer. Directed by Barry Avrich, the film covers a career that has seen half a billion records sold and collaborations with such artists as Chicago, Barbra…
EXCLUSIVE: Following the documentary, Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World Of Ben Ferencz, producers Barry Avrich and Patrice Theroux are continuing to tell the story of the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz by acquiring the film and television rights to Ferencz’s story for an upcoming scripted…
In 2010, filmmaker Barry Avrich wrote, directed and produced Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, a documentary about the micro-managing, hair-trigger tempered but ultimately genius Hollywood producer. Now Avrich and producer Melissa Hood's new documentary The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret will have…
EXCLUSIVE:Barry Avrich, the filmmaker behind over 35 documentaries including The Last Mogul, Filthy Gorgeous: Bob Guccione and Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project (2011), has pulled his latest doc from TWCÂ and said he’s planning to re-edit and re-release the Unauthorized doc in light of the current…
The Weinstein Company has acquired worldwide rights outside Canada to Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz, Barry Avrich’s documentary about the life of Benjamin Ferencz, the Chief Prosecutor for the U.S. in the Einsatzgruppen Case during the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. Later, after…
EXCLUSIVE: Level 1 Entertainment, which had set Michael Steinberger’s wine counterfeiting Vanity Fair article A Vintage Crime as a dramatic feature, is being rebottled. The story will be told as a documentary to be helmed by Barry Avrich. His docus include The Last Mogul on Lew Wasserman, Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Gucci…