Moxie Films, Los Angeles, Ca, info@moxiefilms.com | Moxie Films has produced highly respected, award-winning documentaries for broadcast and cable networks, including Netflix, HBO, PBS, A&E, National Geographic, Showtime, Discovery Channel, MTV, TLC, Lifetime Television, the Oxygen Network, Sundance Channel, as well as for educational foundations and philanthropic organizations.
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Rory Kennedy
director / producer
Rory Kennedy is one of America’s most prolific documentary filmmakers. An Academy Award-nominated, Primetime Emmy Award-winning director/producer, Kennedy’s work deals with some of the world’s most pressing issues—poverty, political corruption, domestic abuse, drug addiction, human rights and mental illness. Kennedy has made more than 30 highly acclaimed documentaries. Her films have appeared on HBO, PBS, National Geographic, Lifetime Television, A&E, Court TV, the Oxygen Network and TLC. Kennedy is a governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Mark Bailey
writer / producer
Mark Bailey is a four-time Emmy-nominated writer and producer who has worked on a variety of award-winning documentaries. Bailey’s films have been broadcast on HBO, PBS, National Geographic, Hulu, Discovery Channel, Lifetime Television, A & E, Court TV and TLC. His films have been shown at numerous festivals including Sundance, NY Film Festival, Tribeca, AFI, Hot Docs and Full Frame.
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A Boy’s Life
This film delves into the turbulent life of seven-year-old Robert Oliver and his family in impoverished Europa, Mississippi. Robert’s mother turned over custody of both Robert and his brother to their grandmother, Anna, who granted filmmaker Rory Kennedy exceptional access to their lives. Suffering from extreme personality and behavior disorders and potently medicated, Robert has attempted suicide and killed several of the family’s cats and dogs. As the film unfolds over the course of two years, we learn that Anna has mental problems of her own—in one chilling scene she taunts Robert to fire a gun—complicating the efforts of Robert’s therapist and teachers to unearth the origins of his disorders. At times difficult to watch, the film reveals painful intersections between mental illness and emotional abuse, and encourages us to question the point at which society ought to intervene.
