FilmRise Acquires Rights to Rewind Documentary

FilmRise has secured the North American distribution rights to the documentary Rewind, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.

Rewind is an intimate family portrait utilizing an uncovered home movie archive that offers unique glimpses into family dynamics and sexual offenders, a stark contrast to the state of the family today. The film will be released in select theaters in New York in March 2020.

An autobiographical film years in the making, Rewind is Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s directorial debut. As long as Neulinger can remember, a video camera was ever-present, with his father constantly filming—from birthday parties to hockey games to holidays. But his father’s camera, trained on the frequent gatherings of a tight-knit family, was also documenting a hidden secret, the revelation of which would lead to a media firestorm, a high-stakes court battle and a generational reckoning.

Drawing upon an incredibly revealing home video archive, Neulinger revisits these events 20 years later to piece together an unflinching story of the cycles and consequences of abuse, to examine what it means to heal and to use those experiences to effect positive change in the world. Rewind probes the gap between image and reality, showing both how little, and how much, a camera can capture.

Rewind is an unflinching and moving personal narrative documentary that reconstructs the disturbing story of Neulinger’s boyhood and bravely exposes the insidious abuse passed along through generations. The movie was produced by Step 1 Films and Grizzly Creek Films in association with Cedar Creek Productions.