Following a chance encounter with Josh Safdie on the streets of New York City, real-life brothers Sage and Frey Ranaldo were cast as coleads in DADDY LONGLEGS. In this program, produced in 2022, Sage and Frey, along with their mother, Leah, and father, Lee, reflect on the making and release of th...

For Sage and Frey Ranaldo’s first meeting with Ronald Bronstein, who would play their father in DADDY LONGLEGS, Bronstein and filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie wrote a script for the session. The goal was to transfer the relationship the Safdies already had with the boys to the actor. The resultin...

This 2011 short documentary by Becky Luxani offers an impressionistic behind-the-scenes look at the making of DADDY LONGLEGS. Narrated by artist Leah Singer, mother of the films’ coleads, Sage and Frey Ranaldo, it assembles footage, photographs, and drawings by Singer, Josh Safdie, Casey Neistat,...

In this short promotional film by the Safdie brothers, Benny Safdie hits the pitiless streets of New York City in a desperate bid to drum up interest in the May 2010 theatrical release of DADDY LONGLEGS.

This 2008 short film by Josh and Benny Safdie was made in the weeks leading up to the filming of DADDY LONGLEGS. Fiction sidles up against reality in this guerrilla-theater-style experiment starring Benny as a buttoned-up, harried New York City commuter, alongside notable Safdie collaborators Ron...

DADDY LONGLEGS was the fulcrum of Josh and Benny Safdie’s work with the independent film group Red Bucket Films, a loose collective of New York–based artists who, in the early 2000s, worked together on a diverse range of moviemaking. This debut episode of the series “Talk Show,” created, directed...

Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the frenetic pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, GOOD TIME, along with several of the brothers’ early shorts.