ASK E. JEAN, A Film by Ivy Meeropol
ASK E. JEAN
An Abramorama North American Theatrical Release
An intimate documentary about the pioneering writer, advice columnist, and cultural icon who won two lawsuits against Donald J. Trump
Coming soon to the San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas, Houston and Washington, DC
Abramorama, the theatrical division of AB2 Media Group, is proud to release in theaters across the United States and Canada, the award-winning documentary Ask E. Jean, following the thrilling and adventurous life of beloved advice columnist and gonzo journalist E. Jean Carroll, the only woman to beat Donald J. Trump in court. Twice. Abramorama continues the film's nationwide release coming soon to the San Francisco on June 26 and 27 at The Roxie Theater and in other theaters in the Bay Area, Dallas on June 29 and July 2 at Angelika Film Center & Café , Houston on July 7 at The River Oaks Theatre, and Washington, DC, (where it will have a week-long executive engagement from July 24-30 at Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market.
“E. Jean Carroll is one of the most remarkable and original voices in American life,” said Karol Martesko-Fenster, CEO / President of AB2 Media Group / Abramorama, “and Ivy Meeropol has made a film that is as fearless and funny as its subject. Ask E. Jean is exactly the kind of story we love to bring to audiences — bold, necessary, and completely unforgettable.”
Directed and produced by award winning filmmaker Ivy Meeropol (After the Bite, Heir to An Execution) and produced by award winning filmmakers Laura Bickford (Traffic, Beasts of No Nation) and Annabelle Dunne (Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Everything Is Copy), Ask E. Jean is the riveting story of E. Jean Carroll’s life, from her early days as Miss Cheerleader USA to her rise as a trailblazing journalist, author, and beloved advice columnist. Carroll broke barriers as the first female editor at Esquire, Playboy, and Outside, helping to redefine women’s roles in media with her sharp wit and fearless voice. In recent years, she reignited public discourse by standing up to power, becoming the only woman to beat Donald Trump twice in court, and sparking a national conversation about truth, accountability, and resilience. This film is a portrait of an indomitable woman who proved it’s never too late to reclaim your voice, rewrite your story, and change the world.
“Getting to know and create a film about E. Jean Carroll has been one of the greatest experiences of my life," said Director Ivy Meeropol. “She is surprising and hilarious, incredibly determined and an absolute inspiration. Her story, and her larger-than-life character, should play on big screens in theaters across the country, and I am beyond thrilled that Abramorama shares that conviction. I cannot wait for audiences to meet E. Jean.”
Ask E. Jean premiered at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival and has gone on to play at more than a dozen film festivals around the world, picking up the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at the 2025 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Sun Valley Film Festival. Other festival selections include DOC NYC, Hamptons International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, and SFFILM Doc Stories, among others.
AB2 Media Group’s theatrical division, ABRAMORAMA, has continued its streak of successful releases, led by The Last Class, the #5 highest-grossing documentary of 2025, and Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It, which opened at Film Forum in February with the #1 per-screen average of the weekend. It was held over multiple weeks due to popular demand and went on to sell out screenings nationwide. The company recently partnered with Sobey Road Entertainment, National Geographic and Disney+ on Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants, which launched with a coast-to-coast theatrical screening event and live Q&A simulcast to more than 115 theaters before streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. Other notable releases include 2DIE4, the company’s first IMAX exclusive feature, as well as Benjamin Flaherty’s Shuffle and Alexis Lloyd's Group – both New York Times Critics’ Picks – and Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere, the documentary on the legendary photojournalist executive produced by Michael Rosenberg, Sid Ganis, and Rob Friedman.
ASK E. JEAN (United States, 91 Minutes – English). Abramorama and Impact Partners present a Flora Films and Red 50 production of an Ivy Meeropol film “Ask E. Jean”. Executive Producers Graydon Carter, Ruth Ann Harnisch - The Harnisch Foundation, Geralyn White Dreyfous, MKR Sternlicht, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Sheila Nevins, Jenny Warburg, Alexia Blaze, Jenny Raskin, Mitch Solomon and Emily Lansbury. Co-Executive Producers Ann Lovell/Valley Fund and Kelsey Koenig. Developed with the support of Concordia Studios and Authentic Management Productions. Made with the generous support of Impact Partners and its members. Written by Ivy Meeropol, Leah Goudsmit and Ferne Pearlstein. Main Themes by Laura Karpman. Score by Amelia Allen and Elena Pinderhughes. Cinematography by Martina Radwan. Edited by Ferne Pearlstein and Leah Goudsmit. Supervising Producer Marc Zahakos. Post-Production Producer A.W. Ashcroft. Post-Production Supervisor Amanda Rose. Produced by Laura Bickford and Annabelle Dunne. Produced & Directed by Ivy Meeropol. An Abramorama United States Theatrical Release. For more information, visit: askejeanfilm.com.
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About Ivy Meeropol
IVY MEEROPOL premiered Ask E. Jean, her feature documentary film about the advice columnist and journalist E. Jean Carroll who sued Donald Trump for rape and defamation and won, at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival. The film has gone on to show at festivals across the country, winning the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at The Hot Springs International Documentary Festival, and audience awards at Key West, Sun Valley, and Palm Springs. Ask E. Jean was the closing night film at DOCNYC, and Opening Night film at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. Her previous feature documentary AFTER THE BITE, about the explosion of great white sharks and seals on Cape Cod, premiered July 2023 on HBO. She premiered her HBO documentary ROY COHN: BULLY, COWARD, VICTIM at the 2019 New York Film Festival and in 2020 the film was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Historical Documentary. She was the Senior Story Producer on the CNNFilms documentary THE END: INSIDE THE LAST DAYS OF THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE, which premiered at the National Archives in Washington, DC, and was one of the highest rated of CNN’s Original films. She directed and produced the feature INDIAN POINT, about an aging nuclear power plant close to New York City, which was honored with the Frontline Award for Journalism in a Documentary Film and aired on NHK during the anniversary of Fukushima in Japan. Ivy created and directed the nonfiction series THE HILL (Sundance Channel), about Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) and his young staff (nominated for best series by the International Documentary Association). She produced the feature documentary MUSEUM TOWN, which premiered at SXSW, and has produced and directed for the Emmy Award winning climate change series YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (National Geographic) and for DEATH ROW STORIES (CNN), Executive Produced by Alex Gibney and Robert Redford. Ivy’s debut film, HEIR TO AN EXECUTION (HBO), explored the legacy of her grandparents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. It premiered at Sundance and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Ivy was a Sundance Institute Fellow and has been awarded grants from the Sundance Documentary Fund, the NY State Council for the Arts, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.
About Impact Partners
Impact Partners is a Brooklyn-based film fund dedicated to supporting independent documentary storytelling that entertains audiences, engages with pressing social issues, and propels the art of cinema forward. In 2007, Impact Partners pioneered a unique model of funding that brings together a community of investors with filmmakers to tell powerful stories about critical issues facing our world. Over the span of 19 years, Impact Partners has been involved in the financing of over 150 films, including: Academy Award ® winners and nominees like ICARUS, SUGARCANE, OF FATHERS AND SONS, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, and HELL AND BACK AGAIN; Peabody Award winners AFTERSHOCK, IMMIGRATION NATION, AUDRIE & DAISY and THE NEWBURGH STING; Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner and IDA Best Documentary Feature winner DINA, and Independent Spirit Award winner WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Recent releases include APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS, FOLKTALES, MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE, MISTRESS DISPELLER and SONGS FROM THE HOLE.
About AB2 Media Group / ABRAMORAMA
AB2 Media Group (AB2) provides best-in-class strategic advisory and rights management services to intellectual property stakeholders, including acclaimed filmmakers, major networks, premier record labels, digital platforms and high-profile artists. Abramorama, the theatrical releasing division of AB2, is a preeminent global distribution and marketing partner for nonfiction, narrative, sports/adventure, science and music films and is recognized for the consistent high quality of its work.
Over the course of more than 25 years, Abramorama has successfully distributed and marketed hundreds of films, including the record breaking Hello, Love, Again directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana and The Last Class directed by Elliot Kirschner; Oliver Stone’s Nuclear Now; Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants, Sam Green’s 32 Sounds, Vanessa & Ted Hope’s Invisible Nation; Ron Howard’s Grammy Award®-winning The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years; Stanley Nelson’s Miles Davis: Birth of The Cool; Atlantic Records and Melanie Martinez’ K-12; John McDermott’s Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church; Amir Bar-Lev's Long Strange Trip – The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead; Corbett Redford and Green Day’s Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk; Brett Bern's BANG! The Bert Berns Story; Brett Morgen and National Geographic’s seminal Jane; Asif Kapadia’s Senna; Neil Young’s vast catalog of Bernard Shakey Productions; Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam Twenty; Sacha Gervasi’s Spirit Award-winning Anvil! The Story of Anvil; Banksy’s Academy Award® nominated & Spirit Award-winning Exit Through the Gift Shop; and the episodic theatrical series Deconstructing The Beatles.
In January of 2019, AB2 launched ABCinemaNOW with a live multicast streaming program from Paris, France for a 55-country release of Roberta Grossman and Nancy Spielberg’s Who Will Write Our History. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic AB2 released 24 feature films as appointment viewing live virtual cinema events simultaneously across multiple digital platforms and launched the first paid feature film to premiere globally on META in 2021.
For more information, please visit www.AB2mediagroup.com.
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