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EXCLUSIVE: Newly formed accumulation and financing institution Laurel Canyon Pictures, founded by shaper Dan Fried, has officially launched pinch a attraction connected financing and producing a slate of premium documentaries each year.
The company’s inaugural title, Jean-Michel, directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson and Viridiana Lieberman, will make its world premiere successful nan Documentary Competition astatine nan Tribeca Festival this Friday, June 5.
The movie marks nan first documentary astir Jean-Michel Basquiat made pinch nan afloat information and support of nan Basquiat family and is told chiefly done nan eyes of Basquiat’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux. Fried serves arsenic an executive shaper connected nan film, which was co-financed by Laurel Canyon Pictures.
The doc explores nan artist’s roots arsenic a first-generation Puerto Rican and Haitian creator raised successful Brooklyn, tracing his emergence from New York’s downtown punk segment done his meteoric emergence wrong nan world creation world.
Fried’s credits arsenic an executive shaper include Are We Good?, nan SXSW and Tribeca doc astir comedian, actor, and podcaster Marc Maron; The Trial of Alec Baldwin, Rory Kennedy’s documentary chronicling nan character successful nan aftermath of nan 2021 Rust set tragedy, which premiered astatine DOC NYC; arsenic good arsenic nan communicative feature Chasing Summer, directed by Josephine Decker and starring Iliza Shlesinger, which premiered astatine Sundance and SXSW.
“Laurel Canyon Pictures was built astir nan thought that nan champion documentaries tin run astatine nan aforesaid taste level arsenic awesome communicative films,” said Fried. “We’re focused connected filmmaker-driven projects pinch lasting relevance, beardown imaginative identity, and a chopped constituent of view. Jean-Michel represents precisely nan benignant of eager storytelling we want to champion.”
