After a year of positive reviews and feedback, and in the backdrop of yet another spike in indie-flick interest amongst critics, Netflix embraces another potential hit that reality pictures is proud to have a hand in producing. 


Released in 2010, and starring reality Pictures own Kim Takal's talented daughter, Sophia Takal, Gabi on the Roof in July offers a portrait of a generation much like that of Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture: the under stimulated and over educated youth of an apathetic generation starving for art, love, life and a long anticipated adulthood in an unforgivably fast pace city scape.  As the filmmaker's own synopsis wittingly describes it, Gabi on the Roof in July is "a portrait of young New York and the misguided hopefuls who can't afford to live there but do anyway... an ensemble comedy about ex-girlfriends, sibling rivalry and whipped cream in a city that's constantly in flux."*

Well written by Lawrence Levine, and appropriately timed, Gabi not only offers a portrait of a generation screaming for a voice, but more technically elaborates on a modern style of improv acting that critics can't get enough of. Following in the footsteps of it's Mumblecore influences, Gabi offers a glimpse in to the lives of "hipsters in stasis"** with an intensive analysis of characters and their relationships with their city, their friends, family and selves. As Slantmagezine.com phrases it, "Gabi on the Roof in July projects its transparent character flaws far in advance, but the actual betrayals aren't what make this film interesting. It's the way that Levine stages the incredibly lengthy confrontations between characters after the fact that indelibly connects theme with evolving patterns of personality."

After a voice such as Dunham's has hit the critic's table, it is no wonder this portrait of a generation - which also features the talented director of the outrageously popular show GIRLS - would make its way on to the Netflix screen.

RPL is proud to help produce this piece while also taking a moment to contribute to this generation's journey to find its voice in contemporary art and media. While staying strong and active in our exciting new corporate projects with influential companies such as BMW, Ingersoll Rand and Time Warner Cable. RPL looks forward to continuing its role in supporting the indie-flick world with such worthy projects as Gabi on the Roof in July.