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It is one of two documentaries on the subject, alongside 2019's Driven to Abstraction. [8] In 2020, Yahoo reported that Melbar Entertainment Group was working on a feature film adaption of the story. [9] The film was slated to premiere at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
There Are No Fakes is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jamie Kastner and released in 2019. [1] Starting with musician Kevin Hearn's lawsuit against the Maslak McLeod Gallery after being informed that a Norval Morrisseau painting he had purchased appeared to be a forgery, [2] the film expands into an exposé of a significant art fraud ring that has produced many fake Morrisseau ...
Barry Avrich’s art scandal documentary “Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art” is being adapted into a feature film by the director’s Melbar Entertainment Group (“David Foster: Off ...
My Kid Could Paint That is a 2007 documentary film by director Amir Bar-Lev.The movie follows the early artistic career of Marla Olmstead, a young girl from Binghamton, New York who gains fame first as a child prodigy painter of abstract art, and then becomes the subject of controversy concerning whether she truly completed the paintings herself or did so with her parents' assistance and/or ...
A Canadian documentary maker whose film helped police crack one of the art world’s biggest fraud cases has been forced to surrender his source material to the Ontario Provincial Police as part ...
With a knack for forming tight bonds with rightfully-elusive subjects, Spanish filmmaker Kike Maíllo, who shot to fame with sci-fi debut “Eva,” takes an engrossing and sympathetic look into ...
Art forgery can be extremely lucrative, but modern dating and analysis techniques have made the identification of forged artwork much simpler. This type of fraud is meant to mislead by creating a false provenance, or origin, of the object in order to enhance its value or prestige at the expense of the buyer.
Ann Freedman (née Fertig, born c. 1949) is an American art dealer and gallery owner. She was previously director of the now-defunct Knoedler Gallery in New York City; she resigned in 2009 after 31 years working for the gallery during a large-scale forgery scandal.