New film directed by Alexander Olch and scored by Michael Montes.

Richard P. Rogers (1943-2001) was a NYC baby boomer, born to privilege: a Harvard-educated WASP who became a first-rate independent filmmaker and a gifted film teacher. But he was also a tortured, neurotic soul who freely admitted to bring jealous of Steven Spielberg and was simultaneously ashamed of the impulse. Torn between narrow class loyalties and broader professional goals and political values, Rogers found the time to juggle multiple relationships with the skill of a world-class Lothario, but was unable to complete an autobiographical film he had worked on for 25 years. His former student Alexander Olch collages a trove of material, including extraordinary scenes of Rogers’s mink-coated Gorgon-mom, and new fictional sequences with Wallace Shawn.

Opens at THE FILM FORUM NYC June 17th and cities nationwide in July.

Here’s the website.

Here’s the trailer: