‘Justice,’ Doug Liman’s Explosive Sundance Doc, Reinvestigates Sexual Assault Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh; Filmmakers Say New Tips Pouring In
deadline.comDirector Doug Liman says his self-funded Brett Kavanaugh documentary Justice, which premiered at Sundance Friday night, might be far from finished as new tips started pouring within a half hour of the highly-secretive project being announced on Thursday. “I thought the film was done… I thought I was off the hook.
I’m in Sundance, I thought, I can sell the movie,” Liman said ruefully at a Q&A following the world premiere of his first documentary, which re-examines sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh raised during his confirmation hearings in 2018.
The film follows up tips the FBI apparently ignored in an investigation launched after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were both high school students in Maryland.
Justice gives extensive attention to allegations from another woman, Deborah Ramirez, who also came forward in the midst of the hearings to say that a drunken Kavanaugh, then a freshman at Yale University, had exposed himself to her at a gathering of several young people on campus.
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