{"id":9569,"date":"2017-01-05T13:28:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T18:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-casting-jonbenet-doc\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:06:29","slug":"netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Lines Up Casting JonBenet Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has acquired worldwide rights for\u00a0Kitty Green\u2019s documentary <em>Casting JonBenet<\/em>, which will be available for streaming this year.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary will also have a limited theatrical release in the spring. The documentary hybrid examines the legacy of murdered 6-year-old beauty queen JonBen\u00e9t Ramsey. <em>Casting JonBenet <\/em>examines how her murder has shaped the attitudes and behavior of parents and children. It is produced by Green (<em>Ukraine is Not a Brothel<\/em>, <em>The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul<\/em>), Scott Macaulay (<em>Raising Victor Vargas<\/em>, <em>Gummo<\/em>) and James Schamus (<em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em>, <em>The Ice Storm<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The film was financed by Meridian Entertainment through its production deal with Schamus\u2019s Symbolic Exchange, with additional support from Screen Australia, Film Victoria, the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Cinereach, Rooftop Films and Garbo NYC. <em>Casting JonBenet<\/em> is a production of Forensic Films, Matricide Pictures and Symbolic Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Scott and me, working with Kitty, a visionary filmmaker whose originality is matched by her empathy, has been one of the great privileges of our careers,\u201d said James Schamus of Symbolic Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Macaulay of Forensic Films added: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more excited to now have Netflix on her team, continuing their bold nonfiction roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKitty boldly embraces the tradition of innovative risk-taking within the documentary filmmaking mode with her remarkable work on <em>Casting JonBenet<\/em>,\u201d Netflix\u2019s VP of original documentary programming, Lisa Nishimura, commented. \u201cNetflix is the ideal home for showcasing Kitty\u2019s sharply rendered vision of a mythic American tragedy to a global audience, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has acquired worldwide rights for Kitty Green\u2019s documentary Casting JonBenet, which will be available for streaming this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":9570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1826,269],"class_list":["post-9569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-casting-jonbenet","tag-netflix","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Netflix Lines Up Casting JonBenet Doc - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Netflix Lines Up Casting JonBenet Doc - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has acquired worldwide rights for Kitty Green\u2019s documentary Casting JonBenet, which will be available for streaming this year.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-01-05T18:28:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-01-05T19:06:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/09\/CastingJonBenet-Netflix-117.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/\",\"name\":\"Netflix Lines Up Casting JonBenet Doc - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-01-05T18:28:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-01-05T19:06:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Netflix Lines Up Casting JonBenet Doc\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. She can be reached at salessi@worldscreen.com.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/author\/salessiworldscreen-com\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Netflix Lines Up Casting JonBenet Doc - TVREAL","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Netflix Lines Up Casting JonBenet Doc - TVREAL","og_description":"BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has acquired worldwide rights for Kitty Green\u2019s documentary Casting JonBenet, which will be available for streaming this year.","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/","og_site_name":"TVREAL","article_published_time":"2017-01-05T18:28:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-01-05T19:06:29+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/09\/CastingJonBenet-Netflix-117.jpg","width":1,"height":1,"type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sara Alessi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sara Alessi","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/","name":"Netflix Lines Up Casting JonBenet Doc - TVREAL","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-01-05T18:28:38+00:00","dateModified":"2017-01-05T19:06:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/netflix-lines-up-casting-jonbenet-doc\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Netflix Lines Up Casting JonBenet Doc"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/","name":"TVREAL","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418","name":"Sara Alessi","description":"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. She can be reached at salessi@worldscreen.com.","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/author\/salessiworldscreen-com\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}