{"id":97064,"date":"2022-04-30T03:46:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T22:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/hyperobject-industries-director-adam-mckay-boards-the-holly\/"},"modified":"2022-04-30T03:46:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T22:16:02","slug":"hyperobject-industries-director-adam-mckay-boards-the-holly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/hyperobject-industries-director-adam-mckay-boards-the-holly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperobject Industries\u2019 Director Adam McKay Boards \u2018The Holly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Writer, director, and award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein\u2019s highly anticipated anti-gang war documentary, The Holly <\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0has tapped <\/span>Academy Award-winning filmmaker and Hyperobject Industries founder, <\/span>Adam McKay (Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em>) and <\/span>Emmy-nominated filmmaker <\/span>Todd Schulman (<\/span>Borat<\/span><\/em>)<\/em> as executive producers ahead of its world premiere at Telluride\u2019s <\/span>Mountainfilm<\/span><\/a> this Memorial Day weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

Executive producing alongside McKay and Schulman are Trygve Myhren, Kayvan Khalatbari, Chad Asarch, and K. Nicole Robinson Asarch,<\/span> and Co-Executive Producer David Sirota (Don\u2019t Look Up)<\/em>. The film is produced by Emmy-winning filmmaker and theater company founder Donnie l. Betts (Music Is My Life<\/em>), Sarah Dowland (The Crime Of The Century<\/em>), and Dia Sokol Savage (Finding Kendrick Johnson<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was completely blown away after seeing the rough cut of <\/span>The Holly,<\/span><\/i>\u201d states executive producer Adam McKay, \u201cFrom income inequality, race, gun violence and corruption, this film is the macro of America in the micro.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on Rubinstein\u2019s<\/span> New York Times <\/span><\/i>Editor\u2019s Choice pick, <\/span>The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood <\/span><\/i>(FSG, 2021)<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>The Holly<\/em> takes place in the historic \u201cHolly\u201d neighborhood of Denver and highlights anti-gang activist Terrance Roberts. When the film starts, Roberts\u2014whose anti-gang work won him grants and awards\u2014is facing life in prison. In an incident that shocked the city of Denver, Roberts shot someone at his own peace rally. The shooting happened in the so-called \u201cHolly,\u201d a section of a neighborhood that was once at the center of Denver\u2019s civil rights movement, and later became Roberts\u2019 turf back when he was a gang member.<\/span> The high-profile case becomes an unexpected window into the machinations of the gang war.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter eight years of work, I\u2019m honored that maverick thinkers and filmmakers like Adam McKay and Todd Schulman saw the significance of what we captured on camera.\u201d says Julian Rubinstein, \u201cThe Holly<\/em> shines a light on the usually unseen connections between gentrification, strategic law enforcement efforts and street violence. As violence and activism in vulnerable communities rises, misconduct by informants and law enforcement\u2019s questionable use of active gang members in undercover operations\u2014demand public oversight and understanding. This is not only happening in Denver \u2013 we just had access to one such story as it played out in real time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Holly<\/em> will world premiere at Telluride\u2019s intimate Mountainfilm.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director, and award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein\u2019s highly anticipated anti-gang war documentary, The Holly \u00a0has tapped Academy Award-winning filmmaker and Hyperobject Industries founder, Adam McKay (Don\u2019t Look Up) and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Todd Schulman (Borat) as executive producers ahead of its world premiere at Telluride\u2019s Mountainfilm this Memorial Day weekend. Executive producing alongside McKay and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":97065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hyperobject-Industries-Director-Adam-McKay-Boards-\u2018The-Holly.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}