Justin Wilkes (President of Imagine Documentaries) and Sara Bernstein (Co-President of Imagine Documentaries) speaks with NOIAFT founder Taylor Taglianetti at the 2021 Tribeca Festival premiere of their latest producing venture, Paper & Glue.
Interview shot by Melissa Batista
Produced by Giò Crisafulli and Taylor Taglianetti
About The Film: For French visual artist JR, the world is his canvas. Taking on the moniker of a photograffeur (French for a photographer/graffiti artist), JR’s large-scale mural portraiture has adorned streets from Paris to Rio, and was memorably captured in his 2017 Academy Award®-nominated collaboration with French New Wave icon Agnès Varda, Faces Places.
With his follow up Paper & Glue, JR turns the camera on his own work, as he undertakes massive installation efforts on the US-Mexico border, inside the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, on the courtyard of a supermax prison, and more. In each location, JR captures images of residents of these unique communities and memorializes them in striking, massive, black-and-white photo installations, in the process turning some of the most provocative spaces of the world into eye-catching immersive art that challenges perspectives and unites communities.
CAST & CREDITS:
DIRECTOR: JR
PRODUCERS: Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Dallas Brennan Rexer, Marc Azoulay
COMPOSER: Adam Peters
EDITOR: Keiko Deguchi, ACE
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Jenny Raskin, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Lauren Haber, Ian Darling, Regina K. Scully, Jim Swartz, Susan Swartz, Patty Quillin, Lynne Benioff, Marc Benioff, Ian Orefice, Marco Berrebi
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Camille Pajot, Julie Pugeat, Meredith Kaulfers, Paula Froehle, Steve Cohen, Nina & David Fialkow
POST PRODUCER: Jeremy Zerechak
LINE PRODUCER: Travis Eilerson
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