{"id":616077,"date":"2026-09-06T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616077\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:56:09","slug":"judith-blum-reddy-doc-everything-is-not-ok-acquired-by-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616077\/","title":{"rendered":"Judith Blum Reddy Doc ‘Everything Is Not OK’ Acquired by Watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWatermelon Pictures has acquired \u201cEverything Is Not OK<\/a>,\u201d a documentary from director Dev Benegal<\/a> chronicling the life of artist Judith Blum Reddy<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film will stream exclusively on Watermelon+, the distributor\u2019s streaming platform.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe producing team pairs Benegal with Min(d) Studio\u2019s Maya S. Patel and Neeraj Jain, while Annemarie Jacir (\u201cPalestine 36\u201d) has signed on as executive producer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEverything Is Not OK\u201d follows Reddy, whose work as an artist has been shaped by the Holocaust and by displacements that carried her from New York to Paris and ultimately India. The documentary threads Reddy\u2019s story together with those of fellow artists Nil Yalter, Zarina and Camille Billops, each of whom channeled displacement into their art. Palestinian, Kashmiri and Indian poets are interwoven throughout, framing the film as a meditation on remembering what has been erased from home and pushing back once staying quiet stops being an option.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor Judy, making art is an act of confrontation. An act of liberation. A refusal to let erasure win,\u201d Benegal said. \u201c\u2018Everything Is Not OK\u2019 is not only a portrait of an artist \u2014 it is a meditation on what it means to create, remember and resist through art when silence is no longer an option.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJacir signed on as executive producer after connecting with the film\u2019s exploration of memory and resistance. \u201cIn a moment when the world tilts towards intolerance, Judy\u2019s story is a reminder that memory refuses to disappear and art can still be an act of resistance,\u201d Jacir said.<\/p>\n

\n\tJacir and actor Adam Bakri both lend their voices to the film\u2019s readings of revolutionary poetry.<\/p>\n

\n\tBenegal is also known for directing \u201cEnglish, August\u201d and \u201cRoad, Movie.\u201d A restored version of \u201cEnglish, August,\u201d undertaken by the Film Heritage Foundation, is playing at the Venice Film Festival<\/a>. The 1994 film is based on Upamanyu Chatterjee\u2019s novel \u201cEnglish, August: An Indian Story\u201d and stars Rahul Bose.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe creative team behind \u201cEverything Is Not OK\u201d includes Jain doubling as producer and additional cinematography; Patel as producer; Dhruv Goel composing the music; Jean-Luc Panda as cinematographer; Mona Gesbel as editor; Anurag Jadhao on sound design; and Rob Sciarratta as colorist.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatermelon Pictures launched in 2024. Its distribution and production credits include \u201cFrom Ground Zero\u201d and \u201cAll That\u2019s Left of You\u201d alongside \u201cPalestine 36,\u201d all three shortlisted in the Academy Award\u2019s international feature category, plus the Oscar-nominated \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab.\u201d Hamza Ali and co-founder Badie Ali brought the Watermelon+ platform online in May 2025, positioning it as the largest single collection of Palestinian film ever assembled in one place.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the trailer for \u201cEverything Is Not OK\u201d here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watermelon Pictures has acquired \u201cEverything Is Not OK,\u201d a documentary from director Dev Benegal chronicling the life of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[261398,93,261399,61,60,261400,270,802],"class_list":["post-616077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dev-benegal","tag-entertainment","tag-everything-is-not-ok","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-judith-blum-reddy","tag-movies","tag-venice-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}