Fork Films
{{Short description|Former American film and television production company}}
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Fork Films was an American film production and television production company founded in 2007, by Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker. The company primarily produced documentary films focusing on social issues, and select narrative films.
They have produced such films as Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008), The Invisible War (2012), Cameraperson (2016), Trapped (2016), Strong Island (2017), One Child Nation (2019), Crip Camp (2020), and Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (2020).
History
In 2007, Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker launched Fork Films, a production company focusing on primarily producing documentary films focusing on social issues, and select narrative films.{{cite web|url=https://www.forkfilms.com/about/|title=About|website=Fork Films|access-date=May 31, 2021}} Apart from producing, the company gives grants to filmmakers to finish or produce their project.{{cite web|url=https://www.thewakemanagency.com/abigail-disney/|title=Abigail Disney on Film, Universal Languages of the Heart and Social Change|website=The Wakeman Agency|date=November 30, 2017|access-date=May 31, 2021}} The company was launched after Disney began working with Reticker on the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008), creating a company for licensing the film, before deciding to continue making documentary projects.{{cite web|url=https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/amicus-award-abigail-disney-crusader-change|title=Amicus Award: Abigail Disney, Crusader for Change|website=International Documentary Association|first=Franko|last=Loden|date=November 28, 2017|access-date=May 31, 2021}}
The company has produced films that have gone on to be nominated for the Academy Awards, Emmy Awards and News & Documentary Emmy Awards; Sun Come Up (2011), which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject),{{cite web|title=Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences|accessdate=May 31, 2021}} The Invisible War (2012) by Kirby Dick, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature,{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/invisible-war-nominated-for-oscar/|title=The Invisible War Nominated for Oscar|website=PBS|first=Maria|last=Goodavage|date=January 10, 2013|access-date=May 31, 2021}} The Armor of Light which won the News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary,{{cite web|url=https://itvs.org/films/armor-of-light|title=Armor of Light|website=ITVS|access-date=May 31, 2021}} and Strong Island (2017), and Crip Camp (2020), which were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/oscars/2018/01/23/oscars-yance-ford-trans-director-strong-island/|title=Yance Ford makes Oscars history as first trans director to earn nomination|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|first=Nick|last=Romano|date=January 23, 2018|access-date=May 31, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/23/crip-camp-brings-inclusion-revolution-oscars|title='Crip Camp' Brings the Inclusion Revolution to the Oscars|website=Human Rights Watch|first=Carlos|last=Rios Espinosa|date=March 23, 2021|access-date=May 31, 2021}}
Apart from documentaries, the company has produced the narrative feature films Return and Hateship, Loveship by Liza Johnson.{{cite web|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/40263-liza-johnson-return/|title=Liza Johnson, Return|website=Filmmaker Magazine|first=Brandon|last=Harris|date=February 8, 2012|access-date=May 31, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2013/09/hateship-loveship-kristen-wiig-ifc-films-588937/|title=Toronto: IFC Films Acquires Kristen Wiig-Starrer 'Hateship Loveship'|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=The|last=Deadline Team|date=February 17, 2013|access-date=May 31, 2021}}
In October 2022, it was announced the company had been shut down.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/abigail-disney-closes-fork-films-lays-off-employees-1235391907/|title=Abigail Disney Closes Fork Films, Lays Off Staff (EXCLUSIVE)|website=Variety|first1=Brent|last1=Lang|first2=Matt|last2=Donnelly|date=October 3, 2022|access-date=October 3, 2022}}
Filmography
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)
- Return (2011)
- The Invisible War (2012)
- Citizen Koch (2013)
- 1971 (2014)
- Vessel (2014)
- Food Chains (2014)
- She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)
- Hot Girls Wanted (2015)
- The Mask You Live In (2015)
- The Armor of Light (2015)
- The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015)
- Trapped (2016)
- Cameraperson (2016)
- Strong Island (2017)
- I Am Evidence (2017)
- For Ahkeem (2017)
- Tickling Giants (2017)
- Call Her Ganda (2018)
- Roll Red Roll (2018)
- Netizens (2018)
- That Way Madness Lies.. (2018)
- Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
- Same God (2018)
- Afterward (2018)
- 93Queen (2018)
- Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (2018)
- One Child Nation (2019)
- Midnight Traveler (2019)
- Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (2020)
- Crip Camp (2020)
- Mayor (2020)
- Love & Stuff (2020)
- 9to5: The Story of a Movement (2020)
- The People vs. Agent Orange (2020)
- Belly of the Beast (2020)
- Reality Winner (2021)
- The First Step (2021)
- Simple as Water (2021)
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://forkfilms.com}}
Category:Film production companies of the United States
Category:Television production companies of the United States
Category:Mass media companies established in 2007
Category:2007 establishments in New York City
Category:Entertainment companies based in New York City
Category:Defunct film and television production companies of the United States