{"id":109399,"date":"2025-08-25T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109399\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:02:08","slug":"natalie-portman-joins-carol-joy-documentary-as-executive-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109399\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Portman Joins ‘Carol & Joy’ Documentary As Executive Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: MountainA production company founders Natalie Portman<\/a> and Sophie Mas<\/a> have signed on as executive producers of Carol & Joy, a documentary about actress Carol Kane<\/a> and her 98-year-old mom, Joy.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe short film directed by Nathan Silver<\/a> will make its New York premiere at the New York Film Festival<\/a>, which begins September 26 (details on the world premiere are pending). On Carol & Joy, Portman \u2014 the Oscar-winning actor and producer \u2014 and Mas join producers Jamie Gon\u00e7alves, C. Mason Wells, Dweck Productions\u2019 Hannah Dweck and Theodore Schaefer, and Brian Liebman.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film paints \u201ca portrait of Kane and her 98-year-old mother Joy, an active music teacher, former dancer, and lifelong Francophile who live together on New York\u2019s Upper West Side,\u201d according to a synopsis. \u201cIn this intimate v\u00e9rit\u00e9 documentary shot on 16mm in the tradition of nonfiction classics from the \u201960s and \u201970s, Silver visits Carol and Joy in their home for an afternoon of music and friends and stories, covering decades of family, history, art, and a truly special mother-daughter relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t(L-R) Jason Schwartzman, director Nathan Silver and Carol Kane attend the \u2018Between The Temples\u2019 premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tThe project reunites Silver with Kane, who starred in the director\u2019s 2024 narrative feature Between the Temples, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It went on to earn Kane the Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics Circle.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Natalie<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t(L-R) Natalie Portman and Sophie Mas<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Frederic Auerbach; Samuel Kirszenbaum<\/p>\n

\n\tMountainA, launched in 2020 by Portman and Mas, has produced several high-profile projects including the Todd Haynes feature May December (starring Portman, Charles Melton and Julianne Moore) and the HBO original docuseries Angel City. Portman and Mas also produced Lady in the Lake, the Apple TV+ limited series from writer-director Alma Har\u2019el.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to have Natalie and Sophie join the Carol & Joy family,\u201d Silver said in a statement. \u201cOur film is straight from the heart, a handmade portrait of two grand women. We couldn\u2019t ask for better partners than MountainA in our efforts to bring Carol and Joy\u2019s remarkable stories beyond New York City and to the wider world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUpcoming projects for MountainA include the animated feature Arco by Ugo Bienvenu, which premiered in Cannes and won the Cristal Award for best film at Annecy 2025; art world satire The Gallerist, written and directed by Cathy Yan; and Good Sex, an original feature for Netflix written and directed by Lena Dunham and starring Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Rashida Jones, Meg Ryan, Tucker Pillsbury and Tramell Tillman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: MountainA production company founders Natalie Portman and Sophie Mas have signed on as executive producers of Carol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[71822,71823,236,88,59853,71824,45374,71825],"class_list":["post-109399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-carol-joy","tag-carol-kane","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-natalie-portman","tag-nathan-silver","tag-new-york-film-festival","tag-sophie-mas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}