EXCLUSIVE: Newly formed production and financing company Laurel Canyon Pictures, founded by producer Dan Fried, has officially launched with a focus on financing and producing a slate of premium documentaries each year. The company’s inaugural title, Jean-Michel, directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson and Viridiana Lieberman, will make its world premiere in the Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Festival this Friday, […]

"Jean-Michel," directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson and Viridiana Lieberman (it just premiered at the Tribeca Festival and was bought by Netflix), is the first movie to penetrate the Basquiat mystique and give you a full-scale portrait of who he was: New York child of privilege, driven prodigy, bohemian scavenger, downtown rock star, thrill-seeking junkie, media celebrity, meditative soul, spiky and timeless art genius.