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Feels Good Man

When adorable, trippy indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness.

Premiere Date

October 19, 2020

Length

90 minutes

Awards & Recognition

Winner

2020 News and Documentary Emmy Awards - Outstanding Research: Documentary

Winner

2020 Sundance Film Festival - U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker

filmmaker Arthur Jones
Arthur Jones

Director

FEELS GOOD MAN is Jones’s directorial debut, but he’s uniquely suited to tell the story. He’s a cartoonist who came up in the same indie comics scene as the film’s subject, Matt Furie. Jones published a book of his illustrations in 2011: Post-it Note Diaries (Penguin/Plume Paperbacks). Over his career, he’s art directed animation and motion graphics for journalists and documentary filmmakers, working with companies including The New York Times, VICE, The Center for Investigative Reporting and The International Consortium of Journalists. Recently he’s been a part of several documentary features: Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story (2015), BUNKER 77 (Amazon Studios, 2017), Owned, A Tale of Two Americas (2018) and Hal (Oscilloscope Films, 2018). Jones is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.
Giorgio Angelini

Producer

Giorgio Angelini enrolled in the Master of Architecture program at Rice University during the '08 real estate collapse. In that tumultuous time, the seeds for Giorgio’s directorial debut, Owned, took shape. He launched Ready Fictions production company with producing partner Arthur Jones, and produced Jones' film Feels Good Man.