Bay Street Theater

Sun, 12/8, 8:00pm, 94 min
DIRECTOR: Ivy Meeropol

PRODUCERS: Christopher Clements, Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn, Ivy Meeropol
EDITORS: Anne Alvergue, Adam Kurnitz
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Daniel B. Gold

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn offers a uniquely personal look at one of the most ruinous figures of the 20th century. From a young age, Director Ivy Meeropol was taught that Cohn, as the assistant prosecutor responsible for the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, was the man who effectively murdered her grandparents. This film is not merely a depiction of a brutal, ideologically diseased man—it’s an interrogatory work in search of the true character behind an icon of the political right in a deeply troubled America.

Ivy Meeropol was the senior story producer for the 2017 CNN Films documentaryThe End: The Final Days Inside the Obama White House.In 2016, she produced and directed two short films for the Emmy Award-winning climate change documentary seriesYears of Living Dangerously. She also directed and producedIndian Point,which won Best Documentary at the Key West Film Festival and received the 2016 Frontline Award for Journalism in a Documentary Film. Other television credits includeThe Hill,a six-part series she created, directed and produced. Meeropol’s documentary feature debut wasHeir To An Execution,which explored the legacy of her grandparents.