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Metropole Film Board is a not-for-profit corporation that serves as a fiscal agent for RethinkBPD and other production companies. It was originally established by Alberta & Irving Jacoby, in 1950, as the Mental Health Film Board, to produce educational films in the areas of psychiatry (The Lonely Night), child development (Angry Boy), social work (The Neglected), aging (The Steps of Age), and race (Hitch). Over the next four decades, the Film Board went on to make over a hundred ground-breaking films on these subjects, working with America’s pioneer documentary filmmakers, including Williard Van Dyke: The River (1937), The City (1939), John Ferno: The Spanish Earth (1937), Shirley Clarke (Skyscraper), and Jacoby himself, High Over the Borders (1942) and The Photographer (1948). A number of their films are available for viewing as part of the permanent film collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The film board was re-established in 1996 and re-named Metropole, to conduct a broader program for the planning, fund-raising and production of documentary films not likely to be funded or distributed through commercial channels. Recent films developed by Metropole include: The McCarthy Project, a portrait of the politician and poet Eugene McCarthy and Libraries on Fire, a documentary about the living national treasures of Indonesia.
- Trinity Boxing Gym, located in downtown New York City and West Hollywood, has helped RethinkBPD in its fund-raising event efforts and holds a special place in the producer's heart. They have helped her and many others develop into a certain kind of fighter — one who doesn't want to take life lying down and get counted out. One who believes that having abs of steel doesn't mean you have guts, and doing cardio doesn't give you heart. Their job is to teach you how to fight. How to stand on your feet, pick up your hands and defend yourself. They'll get you into "fighting" shape to become mentally, physically and emotionally prepared to take on life's challenges. Lessons learned from boxing have real life applications — developing focus, confidence and determination that will help you keep your head when everyone else is losing theirs.
