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Motto Pictures

Motto Pictures specializes in producing and executive producing documentary features

Founded by Julie Goldman in 2009, Motto secures financing, builds distribution strategies and creatively develops films with an eye toward maximizing the position of each project in the domestic and international markets.

12/16/2024

A MAN ON THE INSIDE has been renewed for a Season 2 at ! Congratulations to the entire team! Read all about it at the link in our bio.

12/11/2024

We're thrilled to share that SELENA Y LOS DINOS is premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Our film is a celebration of Selena Quintanilla's life and legacy, chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive. Join us in-person at from Jan 23–Feb 2 or watch online at festival.sundance.org.

12/02/2024

We’re thrilled to rank #1 (!!) as ’s Best New Show of 2024. Swipe for their review.💙

11/23/2024

The makers of the #1 show on ! Swipe for a message from our team at Motto.

11/21/2024

Today is the day! All 8 episodes of A MAN ON THE INSIDE are available on . Read the full review from at the link in our bio.

09/27/2024

Congratulations to the entire team. We are so grateful to everyone who worked to bring this story to light and made this film what it is.

09/21/2024

In a new interview, Mike Schur (writer/producer of The Office, creator of Parks and Recreation & The Good Place) spoke to Entertainment Weekly about A Man on the Inside. The upcoming comedy series is adapted from our Oscar-winning documentary, The Mole Agent.

“Whatever we changed or however we altered the story, I always wanted the vibe or the feeling of the documentary to be what we were aiming at.”

See the link in our bio for the full story.

08/24/2024

We’re so excited to be able to share a first look at ‘A Man on the Inside.’ The half-hour comedy starring Ted Danson has been adapted from Motto’s Oscar-nominated documentary feature, The Mole Agent. The series is executive produced by Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements of Motto, alongside Mike Schur, Morgan Sackett, David Miner, Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibañez.

07/29/2024

We are so proud to share that has been nominated for three Emmy Awards in the categories of Outstanding Investigative Documentary, Outstanding Documentary Direction, and Outstanding Documentary Research. We are incredibly grateful to all of the people who made this film possible.

04/22/2024

The Eternal Memory dir. Maite Alberdi

Huge congratulations to and the entire The Eternal Memory family on the 2024 Platino Award for Best Documentary

04/19/2024

https://deadline.com/2024/04/eternal-you-hot-docs-ai-international-deals-first-trailer-1235888824/

'Eternal You' debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

03/18/2024

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/sundances-ai-afterlife-documentary-eternal-you-u-k-germany-release-1235944460/amp/

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck’s Sundance documentary “Eternal You" is set to be theatrical released in the U.K. and Germany.

02/23/2024

02/02/2024

Everyone here at Motto Pictures is pretty excited about Mike Schur and Ted Danson's new project based on Maite Alberdi's The Mole Agent!

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has assembled the cast around Ted Danson in the upcoming Mike Schur/Ted Danson comedy series, which now has a name, A Classic Spy. Joining Danson in the project are Mary Elizabet…

12/07/2023

Happy to be part of Sundance Film Festival again!

Our documentary ETERNAL YOU by directors Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck (The Cleaners, Sundance 2018) will celebrate its world premiere in the competition program of the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival! We would like to thank the great, dedicated team behind our filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck for making this possible.

ETERNAL YOU is a gebrueder beetz filmproduktion (LEONINE Studios) in coproduction with WDR, NDR Fernsehen, BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk, SWR, rbb, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | SRG SSR, VPRO and DOCMINE Productions, in collaboration with Arte, ORF, NRK, Impact Partners Film and Motto Pictures, with the support of Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union (Creative Europe Desk Deutschland - MEDIA). Distributed by Dogwoof.

12/01/2023

Maite Alberdi's The Eternal Memory was named one of The New York Times Best Movies of 2023!

It was a terrific year for film, whether art house or mainstream, even if the main subject the movies wrestled with was deeply pessimistic.

10/26/2023

https://cinemaeyehonors.com/audience-choice-voting/

, Maite Alberdi’s moving cinematic love story, has been Long Listed for Cinema Eye Honors’ Audience Choice Prize! Vote to get it nominated at cinemaeyehonors.com/audience-choice-voting/

10/17/2023

https://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/doc-nyc-awards-short-list-the-eternal-memory-little-richard-i-am-everything-1234917771/

The DOC NYC shortlist often influences future awards for documentaries.

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“A Perfect Movie” - The Playlist. Don’t miss THE MOLE AGENT by Director Maite Alberdi, a heartwarming film available to watch now on Hulu and iTunes.

You are never too old to be a spy 🕵️‍♂️! If you haven’t already, go watch THE MOLE AGENT, by Director Maite Alberdi. Now available to stream on Hulu and PBS. @moleagentfilm @hulu @pbs @povdocs #themoleagent #hulu #ondemand

The Mole Agent

It's never too late to become a spy. Critics are raving about Chile's official Oscar submission, #TheMoleAgent🔎💛, named one of the best documentaries of 2020 by IndieWire. From director Maite Alberdi, now streaming on Hulu

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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

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