Re-Emerging Films is an award-winning producer and distributor of entertaining and informative content, founded by Journalist, Producer and Documentary Filmmaker, Jeff L. Lieberman. The company’s Feature Films have appeared in theatres internationally, and its TV Specials, News Stories and Documentaries have appeared on CBS, HBO, CNN, FOX and on the websites of Yahoo!, The New York Post, CBS Moneywatch, and The Huffington Post.
The company’s feature-length documentary film "Bella!" is about the life and political achievements of the groundbreaking feminist, activist and pioneering congresswoman, Bella Abzug. Bella’s inspiring story and crusading work on behalf of women, the working class, and the LGBT community is told through brand new interviews with Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Hillary Clinton, Lily Tomlin, Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, Maxine Waters, Phil Donahue and many more. The film premiered in 2020 to coincide with the historic 100-year anniversary of the women's right to vote.
The company's previous film, “The Amazing Nina Simone”, premiered in 2015 to sold-out audiences and has played in over 100 cinemas in more than 10 countries, remaining in theatres for 4 weeks in several cities. The award-winning film has been called the best of the three Nina Simone films by The New Yorker Magazine, and “The Nina Simone film we should all be watching” by Blavity. It features Eric Burdon, Nikki Giovanni, Billy Vera, Roscoe Dellums and many more.
The company's Academy Award-Qualifying documentary film, “Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria” premiered in theatres in 2013, gaining rave reviews from The New York Times, NPR, The Hollywood Reporter & Village Voice, with New York’s Amsterdam News proclaiming the film as “one of the must-see documentaries of 2013”.
The company's next project is a feature indie narrative delving into the thorny issue of gentrification, entitled "My Harlem".