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The filmmakers behind Julia, the in-depth exploration of iconic television cooking show host Julia Child, said her profound impact on the culture was felt far beyond introducing lovingly prepared French cuisine to a mass American audience.

The late African American civil rights activist, author and legal scholar Pauli Murray spent a lifetime taking on the system—fighting inequality, institutionalized racism and gender bias.

Sony Pictures Classics releases Telluride-darling documentary Julia with a national TV push, culinary events and virtual screenings through November hosted by famous chefs from Alice Waters (San Francisco) and Johnny Spero (Boston) to Jamie Bissonnette (Houston) and luminaries from New York, LA, Philly and Miami.

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Why did I not know about Pauli Murray?

The original queen of cuisine, the first rock star foodie, Julia Child became a cooking phenomenon throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, thanks to her PBS series and cookbooks. A trailblazer for sharing her love and enthusiasm for cooking and food in the mediums of books and TV, Child paved the way for today’s culture of 24/7 food programming, passing away before seeing the influx of reality TV cooking, Food Networks, and foodie social media.

“Today, you have rock star chefs; Julia Child was the first,” says renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson (who you might recognize from the cooking reality show “Chopped“) at the beginning of the trailer for “Julia,” a new documentary from Sony Pictures Classics.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAmazon Studios has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film “My Name is Pauli Murray,” about the trailblazing LGBTQ and civil rights activist, which premiered this year at Sundance.Participant, Drexler Films, and Storyville Films produced the doc, directed by Oscar nominees Betsy West and Julie Cohen (“RBG”).The film follows the overlooked history of Murray, a gender-nonconforming scholar and ordained minister who championed the rights of people of

Directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West first came across the name Pauli Murray while working on their Oscar-nominated documentary “RBG.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg had written “Pauli Murray” on the front cover of her first women’s rights brief before the Supreme Court to give credit for the idea she'd be arguing. Murray had, in 1965, written a law journal article positing that the 14th Amendment could be used to protect gender equality.

Three years ago, filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West got a dream Sundance debut. They premiered their film “RBG” to a sold-out crowd with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg not only in attendance but seeing it for the first time.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whether women know it or not, has had a big impact on all of us," documentarian Julie Cohen told ET. Associate Justice Ginsburg was only the second woman ever confirmed to the Supreme Court, of four total, and a pioneer of women's rights and gender equality, long before her scorching dissents launched her into pop culture icon-dom as the Notorious R.B.G.Justice Ginsburg died on Friday, Sept.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorBetsy West and Julie Cohen, who directed RBG, the feature-length documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reacted Friday to Ginsburg’s death Friday at age 87.“Like so many Americans, we are crushed by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” West and Cohen said in a joint statement. “Even had she not become a Supreme Court Justice, Ginsburg earned a place in history for what she did to win equality for American women.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the worldwide rights to the Imagine Documentaries and CNN Films documentary Julia,about Julia Child, the celebrity TV chef and cookbook author. The film, directed by Oscar-nominated RBG filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, will be executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.

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