Reviews & Press
Selected Reviews:
"A major achievement in documentary filmmaking." — Newsday
"Instantly one of the great war documentaries." — The Times of the U.K.
"[A] finely cut gem of a documentary about one family’s journey." — Variety
"Novelistic in its sweep and complexity." — Wall Street Journal
"Father Soldier Son’ is a brutally necessary window into the lives of an Army family shaped by war" — Task and Purpose
“Father Soldier Son” is a demanding film, a sometimes brutal story told with immense empathy — Los Angeles Times
"Bracing and often deeply moving" — Time
"a pure, focused look into the complex relationship between one family and the country they serve." — Boston Globe
"Pack some Kleenex, "Father Soldier Son" is an American heartbreaker." —The Detroit News
"Davis and Einhorn let us make up our own minds about Brian's view of masculinity, and by doing so, they encourage us to challenge our own." — RogerEbert.com
"Moving, sincere, soulful" — The New York Times
"A deeply revealing and non-judgmental cinematic family portrait" — The Hollywood Reporter
"In its outcomes and politics, this film is almost begging to be oversimplified, but it's well worth staying on the alert for the ironies, the complexities and the tacit questions it finds a host of ways to express." — The Daily Telegraph
"It's well-crafted, yet completely frustrating as you sympathize with those affected" — Mashable
Selected Press:
Dec. 16, 2020 — The Best Movies of 2020 — Esquire
Aug. 5, 2020 UTA Signs 'Father Soldier Son' Filmmaker — Hollywood Reporter
July 24, 2020 KCRW Interview — Press Play With Madeleine Brand
July 26, 2020 Interview — Women and Hollywood
July 17, 2020 Interview — WBUR Here and Now
July 17, 2020 — "The Times Story That Grew Into a Movie, Over 10 Years" — The New York Times
Jan. 3, 2017 — Forbes 30 Under 30 For Media — Forbes
Dec. 26, 2017 - A Boy, His Mother and the Human Being Behind The Camera — The New York Times
Speaking
Cornell University “Documenting Local Lives” | Feb. 13, 2024
Yale Journalism Institute | Feb. 8, 2024
The Night Editor, talk hosted by Dave Gauvey Herbert | October 26, 2022
Double Exposure Film Festival, The Short to Feature Pipeline | October 14, 2021
Real to Reel hosted by Vanity Fair | Dec. 11, 2020
Atlanta PJ Seminar 2021 | Nov. 14, 2020
DOC NYC's "Journalism + Documentary" | Sept. 16, 2020
Realscreen & Westdocs Episode 60 | Aug. 31, 2020
Double Exposure Film Festival Film and TV at The New York Times Panel | Oct. 15, 2020
Yale Veterans Association and the Yale Alumni Journalism Association | Dec. 15, 2020
U. of Oregon "Better Together" Series Q&A | Sept. 26, 2020
USC School of Cinematic Arts Q&A | Aug 5, 2020
BAFTA Filmmaker Q&A, Aug. 4, 2020
Montclair Film Festival Q&A, Aug. 1, 2020
Bertha DocHouse Q&A, July 30, 2020
Hire Heros Q&A July 22, 2020
CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Lecture, May 7, 2019
Dupont Underground - “In Conversation,” Nov. 16, 2017
SVA, MFA Lecture Social Documentary Film, Feb. 20, 2016
U. of Oregon’s Agora Journalism Center - VR Panel, Jan. 23, 2016
New York University - Advanced Multimedia Lecture, Oct. 28, 2015
Mountain Workshops - Making the Story Visually Unique, Oct. 22, 2015
Columbia University - Documentary Video Journalism Lecture, Apr. 24, 2015
The New School - The Old Weird America, Dec. 11, 2014