{"id":541456,"date":"2023-01-20T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-doug-liman-directed-a-brett-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-doc-in-secret\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:00:00","slug":"how-doug-liman-directed-a-brett-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-doc-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-doug-liman-directed-a-brett-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-doc-in-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Doug Liman Directed a\u00a0Brett Kavanaugh FBI Investigation Doc in Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25b5a11aae1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25b5a11aae1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-doug-liman-directed-a-brett-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-doc-in-secret\/#How_Doug_Liman_Directed_a_Brett_Kavanaugh_FBI_Investigation_Doc_in_Secret\" >How Doug Liman Directed a\u00a0Brett Kavanaugh FBI Investigation Doc in Secret<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_Doug_Liman_Directed_a_Brett_Kavanaugh_FBI_Investigation_Doc_in_Secret\"><\/span>How Doug Liman Directed a\u00a0Brett Kavanaugh FBI Investigation Doc in Secret<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Doug Liman \u2014 the sought-after features director behind titles like <em>Swingers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith<\/em> and <em>The Bourne Identity<\/em> \u2014 spent all of 2022 making his documentary debut about the government investigation into now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Non-fiction stalwarts Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus backed the doc, which will now debut at the Sundance Film Festival after being successfully kept a secret for over a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    This may all sound like a project produced via a particularly unbelievable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of Mad Libs but allow Liman to explain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThe Supreme Court, which is sacred for all of us, holds special meaning for me,\u201d says Liman, who spoke with <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> ahead of the festival. His father <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/07\/18\/nyregion\/arthur-l-liman-a-masterly-lawyer-dies-at-64.html\">Arthur L. Liman<\/a> was a revered lawyer and activist who helped lead investigations into the Iran-contra affair and the Attica prison uprising, among other notable cases. Liman\u2019s older<strong> <\/strong>brother, Lewis, is a longtime lawyer and now a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, who once clerked for the Supreme Court. Lewis Liman eventually tried a case in front of the Supreme Court, with his filmmaker brother and other family members flying into Washington to attend. Says Liman, \u201cEven though I\u2019m not a lawyer, I\u2019ve held the court in a kind of reverence that\u2019s very personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It was with this reverence that Liman, like many in the country, watched the September 2018 confirmation hearings of Kavanaugh, where Christine Blasey Ford testified about her allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers in Maryland. The FBI investigated and later released its report citing, \u201cno corroboration of the allegations\u201d of sexual misconduct, leveled by Ford and Deborah Ramirez, who alleged Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a dorm party at Yale University. It was later revealed in 2021 that the FBI received some <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/20210630%20FBI%20Response%20to%20Sen%20Whitehouse%20Sen%20Coons.pdf\">4,500 tips <\/a>while investigating Kavanaugh that went largely uninvestigated. The tips deemed most relevant were referred to President Donald Trump\u2019s White House; the administration would later push through Kavanaugh\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment. \u201cI can\u2019t stress enough how personally significant the Supreme Court is and how important it is that we vet the people who sit on it,\u201d says Liman. \u201cWe were promised an investigation that never happened.\u201d Liman wanted to fill in the blanks, and dig into what the FBI had reportedly ignored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Heading into his first doc, Liman sought out a practiced producing partner. Investigative veteran Amy Herdy\u2019s credits include the college campus sexual assault doc <em>The Hunting Ground<\/em> and the Russell Simmons sexual misconduct doc <em>On the Record<\/em>. \u201cWhen I was initially approached, I was intrigued,\u201d says Herdy, who serves as a producer on <em>Justice<\/em>. In 2018, she had reached out to Ford\u2019s attorney about the possibility of following her throughout and in the aftermath of the public hearings. \u201cI was very politely told, \u2018No.\u2019\u201d<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Prep on <em>Justice<\/em> began at the beginning of 2022 with Herdy and her investigative team, including former investigative journalist Cali Bagby and retired federal intelligence and security agent Noel Engels, diving into the publicly known allegations against Kavanaugh and tracking down the sources of the uninvestigated FBI tips. Filming began in earnest in the spring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>Justice<\/em> includes testimonials from Ramirez, as well as friends of Ford\u2019s and college contemporaries of Ramirez\u2019 and Kavanaugh\u2019s, among many others. The doc also features new information that filmmakers say was submitted as tips to the FBI that is presented in the film as corroborating evidence to both Ford\u2019s and Ramirez\u2019 accounts. It also dives into a third incident that was submitted to the FBI \u2014 and, was later revealed, went uninvestigated \u2014<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/14\/sunday-review\/brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez-yale.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Frobin-pogrebin&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=undefined&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=collection\"> by a former Yale classmate<\/a> that claimed he witnessed Kavanaugh at drunken dorm party where friends forced his penis into the hand of a female student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cWhat Doug and Amy were getting to was a lot of new information, and also a stunning look at the absence of diligence for one of the most important jobs in our country,\u201d says Garbus, the documentary veteran who heads prolific non-fiction production company Story Syndicate with Dan Cogan. Herdy is a longtime collaborator of Garbus and Cogan\u2019s, working on projects like <em>On the Record<\/em> and <em>Allen v. Farrow. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    When the film started to come together, Liman reached out to Garbus, a friend since they attended college together at Brown University, and Cogan. Liman wanted advice on directing a potentially explosive documentary that tackles both sexual politics and the inner workings of Washington, D.C. Cogan was not surprised by Liman\u2019s interest in non-fiction filmmaking, saying, \u201cEven the huge Hollywood films he made always \u2014 even when they were having fun \u2014 tried to be about something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    After advising on Liman\u2019s rough cuts of the project, Story Syndicate boarded the film in an official capacity with Garbus and Cogan serving as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Everyone working on <em>Justice<\/em>, from Cogan and Garbus to the colorist, signed non-disclosure agreements. Liman, who also spent part of 2022 directing a remake of action classic <em>Road House<\/em>, thought it was for the best that the project stay secret<strong> <\/strong>for the safety of those working on the film.<strong> <\/strong>(A number of documentary insiders who spoke with <em>THR <\/em>after the announcement the doc would screen at Sundance were surprised that a production of this size was kept under wraps.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Partially as an attempt to maintain the projects\u2019 secrecy but largely to maintain complete independence, Liman self-financed the entire production. \u201cIf you want to know who put the money up for the movie, look no further than me,\u201d says Liman. But had he considered getting outside funding? \u201cWhoever I went to to put money into the movie, suddenly their motives might be suspect or might color how people view the movie,\u201d he says, adding emphatically, \u201cI don\u2019t have a political ax to grind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Herdy notes that the director never turned down a request when additional funds were needed for the investigative team to continue their work. Liman says that, as a director, he is the one often in the position of asking a studio for more money: \u201cWhen you get a director who\u2019s also funding [their film], they pretty much just always say yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cNobody else would\u2019ve done that,\u201d says Cogan of Liman\u2019s financing. Herdy adds that Liman\u2019s decision \u201cmade a difference when you\u2019re reaching out to a subject\u201d that might be concerned about where the money behind the project was coming from, as they weighed whether or not they would participate. She says, \u201cWhen you say, \u2018Doug Liman is the person funding the film.\u2019 The first reaction usually is: \u2018Doug Liman is making a documentary?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    When asked what <em>Justice<\/em> will offer potential audiences, Liman says, \u201cIt was important for me to create a film that lets people come to their own conclusions about the truth and to hear voices that were silenced in 2018 that should not have been silenced in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Herdy asserts: \u201cI\u2019ll go one step further. I believe that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, and I believe that the new evidence that this film has shows that he sexually assaulted at least two other women. And the graphic details are heartbreaking.\u201d She continues, \u201cIt points to a pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>Justice<\/em> is described as a \u201cfestival cut\u201d with Liman and the filmmakers still tinkering with the edit. \u201cWe still have people who are contacting us,\u201d says Herdy. \u201cAt some point, you have to say \u2018pencils down.\u2019\u201d Currently, the filmmakers have two ongoing lawsuits against the Department of Justice for FOIAs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It was announced on Thursday afternoon that the doc, which is being sold by CAA, will screen on Friday night in Park City. \u201cWe saw it, practically, yesterday,\u201d said head programmer Kim Yutani when making the announcement, adding that <em>Justice<\/em> \u201cchallenges existing narratives and asks tough questions.\u201d Sundance has long been a launchpad for politically charged non-fiction features, including last year\u2019s <em>Navalny<\/em> about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Garbus highlights what she sees as the existential question that <em>Justice<\/em> poses, saying, \u201cIf documentary filmmakers can turn up the amount of information on a single individual\u2019s budget that people hadn\u2019t heard about, imagine what would\u2019ve actually come out if there had been a full governmental investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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