‘Beneath the Fold’ Goes to Press on Digital, VOD, DVD Oct. 8

Set at the tail end of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, a team of local news people cope with the realities of a changing world, waning resources, and a clash of personalities. A gritty story about the dying days of print media.

Directed by: Neil Thomas Kirby
Starring: Jamie Lee, Scott Cohen, Frederick Weller, Jelani Alladin
Written by: Neil Thomas Kirby
Genre: Newspaper Drama Thriller
Country: US
Studio: Freestyle Digital Media

Gritty story about the dying days of print media, which takes place entirely within the conference room of a financially struggling upstate New York newspaper at the height of the 2007-2009 recession. The plot involves a team of local news people who cope with the realities of a changing world, waning resources, and a clash of personalities. The time and circumstances are detrimental to the staff in all ways but one — unbeknownst to them, their managing editor was involved in a hit-and-run, and their lack of resources gives him hope he can escape justice not only by the police but by his reporters. As the journalists attempt to investigate the accident that left a special needs man in critical condition, their editor tries to block their pathways to reporting on what he conveys to them as a relatively minor story. Will they uncover one of their own as the guilty? Or bury the lead?