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Writer & Director 🎥 The Slightest Touch / Bama Rush / Introducing, Selma Blair / Sugar Babies

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What a night, what a team, what a film! THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH coming later this year to @hbo.

Bring your tissues and be ready to laugh, cry and feel every emotion. You will fall in love with Emma and Colin, just as we all have. Brought to life via the beautiful mind and direction of @rachelfleit and lot of really wonderful humans.

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Dublin International Film Festival 2026 🎬
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Spent the last few days photographing some amazing people on DIFF red carpets 🍿 From international stars at world premieres, to homegrown talent returning for special screenings, this was a fun one 🤩 Big thanks to all at DIFF 🎞️ Sure we’ll do it all again next year 👀
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I have so much to say but I feel lost for words 🥹
The slightest touch 💕

What that showed the world wasn’t just EB I feel it finally showed you. Our caring; strong, cheeky, hilarious, endearing, funny, kind, intelligent, BEAUTIFUL Emma.

It showed the world the power that happens when people show up for each other in the good times & the bad. I’m jealous your best friend is Colin, but it makes more sense than cheese and chutney 🥰

It showed a family unit who has suffered but in all of it still found their normal & drove love, hope, prayer and fun into a home.

It showed the shit hand of cards you were dealt with and what was robbed from you. It made me sad and angry🥲

It showed the most beautiful and I don’t even think the word friendship covers yourself and Colin. Two beautiful, vulnerable souls who are exactly what friendship should be.

Of all the things EB has done and yes all of them are horrendous, I’m gonna do what you do and see the positive. I’m gonna say , only for your bitch ass EB face, I wouldn’t have what I would call one of the most important people in my life. So take that and for the rest you can go f””k yourself. I don’t hate a lot but EB , I hate you.

To the government - never get into this stuff, but I’m really sad at how you have left these families down. For less than 700k a year, you could save these families so much trauma and get them a public health nurse in to change the bandages so that families can do their job, comfort and love instead of bursting blisters and cleaning horrific wounds. If someone they loved had this, it would be done so fast.😭

This movie isn’t sad. At times when I felt like my eyes were gonna burst with tears I found myself roaring laughing, I found my jaw sore from smiling and I found myself wishing it wasn’t gonna end. It was genuinely unreal🥹 I left feeling uplifted that amazing people and love exists.

My only regret is I didn’t meet you sooner in my life, but then again. Considering I took ya for a walk in your chair at the start of our friendship and genuinely nearly killed you, it may have been best off.

My Prosecco drinking , marathon running, movie star friend. I fucking adore you . X

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Clip from our conversation with the glorious @rachelfleit *****LINK IN BIO FOR FULL EPISODES!!! 🎥🎤

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Link in bio for full episode of LOL with the inimitable @rachelfleit!

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It’s going GREAT 👍

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@rachelfleit 👏😍❤️ #repost • @legacyofloud We had the BEST CONVERSATION with filmmaker @rachelfleit whose path to directing was anything but linear. Before making her first feature, she worked in experimental theater, nonprofit fundraising, fashion, and producing — all while quietly wanting to tell her own stories. At 26 she thought it was too late to pivot. At 40, she made her first feature film. We talk about making her most recent documentary, perfectionism, starting over (more than once), and the moment someone told her, “You’re not a producer — you’re a director.” If you’ve ever felt behind or scared to leap, this episode is for you.
Full episode drops tomorrow. Groovy linktree in bio with all the places and things!

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Rachel Fleit is an award-winning director and writer with a focus on telling intimate and authentic stories through the lens of cinéma verité. Known for her thorough and respectful examination of her subjects, Fleit has quickly risen as an auteur with nuance in telling stories of people from all backgrounds.

Recently from Fleit is Sugar Babies which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Notably from Fleit is the hit Max documentary Bama Rush, documenting the viral sorority recruitment week at the University of Alabama. The film has received critical praise from across the mediasphere and is currently the #1 documentary launch in the history of Max (fka HBO Max). Bama Rush follows four young women as they prepare to rush at the university in 2022. In the revealing documentary, Fleit explores the emotional complexities and stakes of belonging during this crucial window into womanhood.

#sugarbabies #motherdaughterpodcast #genzgenxpodcast

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We had the BEST CONVERSATION with filmmaker @rachelfleit whose path to directing was anything but linear. Before making her first feature, she worked in experimental theater, nonprofit fundraising, fashion, and producing — all while quietly wanting to tell her own stories. At 26 she thought it was too late to pivot. At 40, she made her first feature film. We talk about making her most recent documentary, perfectionism, starting over (more than once), and the moment someone told her, “You’re not a producer — you’re a director.” If you’ve ever felt behind or scared to leap, this episode is for you.
Full episode drops tomorrow. Groovy linktree in bio with all the places and things!

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Rachel Fleit is an award-winning director and writer with a focus on telling intimate and authentic stories through the lens of cinéma verité. Known for her thorough and respectful examination of her subjects, Fleit has quickly risen as an auteur with nuance in telling stories of people from all backgrounds.

Recently from Fleit is Sugar Babies which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Notably from Fleit is the hit Max documentary Bama Rush, documenting the viral sorority recruitment week at the University of Alabama. The film has received critical praise from across the mediasphere and is currently the #1 documentary launch in the history of Max (fka HBO Max). Bama Rush follows four young women as they prepare to rush at the university in 2022. In the revealing documentary, Fleit explores the emotional complexities and stakes of belonging during this crucial window into womanhood.

#sugarbabies #motherdaughterpodcast #genzgenxpodcast #documentaryfilmmaking

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Before the snow came Jennie Lee…..Luteal Elements and Grooves, just like Jennie-a piece of grace that drifted right into my life. Thank you @jenniejieunlee for the beautiful art and bringing us together. I love you. ❤️ @thealdrich

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How @robertdowneyjr inadvertently helped the filmmakers of @67bombstoenid break the ice with some of the Marshallese kids during production ##67bombstoenid #67 #robertdowneyjr

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Incredible night at Village East Cinema 12/1/25 screening @67bombstoenid with friends, colleagues, and others who showed up to everyone else who showed up to support! #67bombstoenid #67

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Thank you New York! Special thanks to director @rachelfleit for moderating. Her film Introducing, @selmablair (whom i’ve always admired and cast) inspired me in the making of my doc.

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