Indya Moore and Dr. Annie Farmer Join Doc ‘Watch You Rise’ as Executive Producers Ahead of Denver Film Festival Premiere

Isabella Cohn’s doc “Watch You Rise” has added Indya Moore and Dr. Annie Farmer as exec producers. The film, which probes the roots of sexual harm, makes its premiere at the Denver Film Festival in October.

The film is co-written by Maria Marrone and Cohn. Elizabeth Woodward and Marina Hunt at Willa produced. CAA is handling domestic sales.

At 17, Cohn began making “Watch You Rise,” coming of age while shooting her investigation of stories of sexual harm that shaped her mother’s generation, her peers and eventually her own life. Along the way, she meets survivors, perpetrators and experts to examine the gray areas of sex, power and consent — and asks what it might take to interrupt cycles of harm and imagine new possibilities for healing.

Farmer, who is a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, said, “I have been a part of many recent conversations with survivors of sexual crimes about how large the problem is and what can be done to address it. I am not alone in believing that changing the hearts and minds of our younger generations is key to any forward movement.”

Moore, star of “Pose” and “Father Mother Sister Brother,” noted, “This project is very personal to me. The young people in this film are the teachers I wish I’d had. They model the boundaries I never had. This film helped me access language to identify the nuanced ways we experience harm in intimate dynamics even where harm occurs unintentionally. These are the first steps to creating a framework in our own lives where we get to be honest about our impact.”

She added, “Films like this one rarely get made, precisely because the subject hits so close to home. I am inspired by their courage to hold their own weight in the room and unravel the complexities of the truth in hopes their story will not become someone else’s.”

Cohn sees the film as a document of a generation forced to navigate questions of sex and violence without necessarily being given the tools to do so: “Members of Gen Z, like myself, have been coming of age amid a relentless public reckoning with sexual violence. We were absorbing the headlines, the testimonies, and the debates at the same time we were navigating our own first sexual experiences. I kept coming back to one question: What does it mean to grow up inside a crisis that no one is teaching you how to navigate?”

Cohn praised Moore and Farmer’s participation as exec producers on the film. “Their advocacy against gender violence and their fearless work at the intersection of youth, identity and activism speak directly to what this film is trying to do: center young people not simply as subjects of these conversations, but as people with the insight and agency to shape them.”

The film will be supported with an impact campaign, “Let’s Talk Sex,” which will train Youth Ambassadors to facilitate post-screening conversations nationwide. Moore and Farmer will participate in those panels and public discussions around the film.

The campaign is working with RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization and operator of the National Sexual Assault Hotline, and YWCA USA, a national organization focused on racial justice and women’s empowerment. Additionally, they are partnering with the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, a temporary art installation and public archive organized by the Institute for Primary Fact.

The campaign comes at a moment of renewed national debate over what young people should be taught about sex, consent and healthy relationships. In 2026, the federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program retained approximately $101 million in annual funding, while the Trump administration sought to reshape how the program’s grants are administered, including new requirements that emphasized abstinence. A federal judge later blocked those new requirements while litigation continues.

“Young people are both most likely to become victims of sex crimes and to perpetrate those crimes. They need opportunities like this to engage with this complex topic in a relatable way. I know that would have been beneficial to me as a high school student,” said Farmer.

The involvement of Moore and Farmer “not only magnifies the reach and impact of the message of ‘Watch You Rise’ but also enriches the dialogue we are fostering,” said Cohn. “Youth’s voices and leadership will be the catalyst for our collective efforts to stop the cycles of sexual harm that are so interwoven into our histories both culturally and interpersonally.”

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Executive producers are Moore, Farmer, documentarian Judith Helfand, and Mary Recine.