Ask E. Jean
Guests Expected
Director Ivy Meeropol will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
Description
“He called me a liar, and I couldn’t let it stand,” says E. Jean Carroll when asked why she sued Donald Trump for rape and defamation – and then sued him again. In this scintillating portrait of the writer, advice columnist, and TV personality, Carroll emerges as a multifaceted person who advocated for strong women in her titular column and TV show and yet also waited more than 20 years to bring charges against the man who assaulted her. Carroll presents her story unflinchingly and with brio, replete with biographical details, favorite profiles from her career, and lengthy sequences from the first trial’s deposition which is full of discomfiting questions from Trump’s team. She has the perspicacity to acknowledge her generation’s imperative to “get over it and move on,” while also admitting to significant lingering trauma from the crime. In standing up for truth against a man who cares little for anything but vengeance, Ms. Carroll is a warrior of our time. – Rod Armstrong
Ivy Meeropol is a director and producer of documentaries for film and television, including Indian Point (2015) and Heir to an Execution (2004). In 2006, she directed a six-part series for the Sundance Channel called The Hill and in 2019, she directed and produced Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn noting, “I want people to understand why Donald Trump’s relationship with Cohn is critically important, and help audiences to gain a deeper insight into how Cohn helped set Trump on a path that reverberates today.”
Film Details
LanguageEnglish
Year2025
Runtime91
CountryUSA
DirectorIvy Meeropol
ProducerLaura Bickford, Annabelle Dunne, Ivy Meeropol
Executive ProducerGraydon Carter, Ruth Ann Harnisch - The Harnsich Foundation, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Sheila Nevins, Jenny Warburg, Alexia Blaze, Jenny Raskin, Mitch Solomon, Emily Lansbury
EditorFerne Pearlstein, Leah Goudsmit
CinematographerMartina Radwan
MusicLaura Karpman, Amelia Allen, Elena Pinderhughes
Print SourceFlora Films
Closed CaptionsClosed Captions are confirmed for this film
Audio DescriptionAudio Descriptions aren’t currently confirmed for this film
American Sign Language (ASL) InterpretationAmerican Sign Language Interpretation isn’t currently scheduled for this film