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