{"id":283748,"date":"2025-11-10T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/283748\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:50:09","slug":"brendan-fraser-joins-as-ep-on-documentary-short-saving-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/283748\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser Joins as EP on Documentary Short ‘Saving Superman’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAcademy Award winner Brendan Fraser<\/a> has joined the Oscar-qualifying short documentary \u201cSaving Superman<\/a>\u201d as an executive producer, revealed to Variety exclusively. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSaving Superman\u201d chronicles the remarkable true story of Jonathan, a 57-year-old man with autism spectrum disorder and longtime resident of Glen Ellyn, a small suburb outside Chicago. Known for his larger-than-life spirit and signature Superman persona, Jonathan has been a fixture in the town\u2019s Fourth of July Parade for nearly three decades. When his home was threatened by a new property owner, the community \u2014 led by his best friend Julie \u2014 banded together to launch a grassroots campaign to save it.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Adam Oppenheim and Samuel-Ali Mirpoorian, the Critics Choice Documentary Award-nominated short was released today by Switchboard Magazine and is now available to stream free of charge on the outlet\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJonathan is the hero to ask for. And he is the one we need,\u201d Fraser said in a statement. \u201cIt has been said that not all of them wear capes. But this one does. And with dignity as he stands his ground, a vision of determination in crimson and azure blue. Not only does he save his home from apathy but he rescues us all in the name of truth and justice. Not with brute strength but with the only real super power there is, empathy. That is the clarion call for The American Way. I stand shoulder to shoulder with Jonathan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFraser\u2019s involvement with the project comes as he is in the Oscar race himself as a best actor contender for his moving turn in Hikari\u2019s acclaimed dramedy \u201cRental Family.\u201d Distributed by Searchlight Pictures, the film has earned several audience awards on the festival circuit thus far, and has become another celebrated turn for the actor who won his first Oscar for his performance in \u201cThe Whale\u201d (2022). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe documentary has been one of the most celebrated shorts on the festival circuit, screening at more than 60 festivals \u2014 including 18 Oscar-qualifying events \u2014 and winning over 10 awards, the most of any documentary short in its year. Notable stops include the Chicago International Film Festival, Indy Shorts (where it earned jury honors), Mountainfilm, Cleveland International, and DOC NYC.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Oppenheim, Mirpoorian and Julie Spiller, \u201cSaving Superman\u201d also counts Celia Aniskovich and Duncan Lindsay (for Switchboard Magazine), John Hoffman (\u201cThe Barber of Little Rock\u201d), Ryan Mazie, Marjon Javadi, Mike Tudeen, Marcella Tudeen, Stephen Shaya, and Gary Burkhart among its executive producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this year, Mirpoorian received a Television Academy Honors Award for his feature-length debut \u201cGreener Pastures,\u201d which aired as part of PBS\u2019 Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning \u201cIndependent Lens\u201d series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser has joined the Oscar-qualifying short documentary \u201cSaving Superman\u201d as an executive producer, revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[45895,44884,88,206,29506,149887],"class_list":{"0":"post-283748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brendan-fraser","9":"tag-documentaries-to-watch","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-oscars","13":"tag-saving-superman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283748","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=283748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}