TELL THEM YOU LOVE ME Premieres on NETFLIX Friday June 14

Winner- Best Documentary Feature- 2023 Hamptons International Film Festival 

Winner – Best Documentary Award – 2023 Montclair Film Festival 

Executive Produced by Louis Theroux, Directed by Nick August-Perna

Tell Them You Love Me explores the story of Anna Stubblefield, an esteemed Rutgers university professor who becomes embroiled in a controversial affair with Derrick Johnson, a non verbal man with cerebral palsy. Anna says she unlocked Derrick’s mind from his body by teaching him to communicate using a keyboard.  

The relationship that followed would lead to a high profile criminal trial that would challenge our perceptions of disability and the nature of consent. Through exclusive footage and interviews with those on both sides of the case, this feature documentary weaves a riveting and endlessly nuanced story about communication, race, and sex.