Jane Fonda Joins Documentary ‘Steal This Story, Please!’ as Executive Producer

Jane Fonda attends the 20th Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden in Los Angeles on May 17, 2025. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Steal This Story, Please!, the documentary about dogged political journalist Amy Goodman from directors Carl Dean and Tia Lessin, has a new executive producer in Jane Fonda.

The iconic actress and activist has boarded the film and joined a roster of executive producers that includes Rosario Dawson, Rage Against the Machine rocker Tom Morello, Oscar nominee Julie Cohen, Dominique Bravo, Bill Haney, Jonathan Logan, Steve Silberstein and Tony Tabatznik. Deal, Lessin, Karen Ranucci, Diana Cohn and Caren Spruch produced the film.

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Steal This Story, Please! focuses a lens on the life and career of Goodman, a veteran investigative journalist and host of the daily news show Democracy Now!, an independent, global weekday news hour anchored by Goodman and Juan González. The show has north of 3.2 million subscribers on YouTube. The doc has made the rounds at a long list of festivals, and picked up handfuls of audience award trophies along the way, including honors from the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Santa Fe International Film Festival, DIFF Doc Fest, and more.

“Steal This Story, Please! is a powerful film about the brave and brilliant Amy Goodman, a truth teller who will enter your heart and inspire you,” Fonda said in a statement. “As each day brings escalating attacks on free speech and media, this exhilarating film reminds us that silence is complicity. Everyone must see it.”

Steal This Story, Please! will be independently released on April 10 at New York’s IFC Center with a national rollout planned. Following the New York debut, Goodman and the filmmaking team will travel to support the theatrical rollout in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Minneapolis, Houston, Denver, Boston, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and more.

Fonda has long been committed to political causes and freedom of the press. In October 2025, she relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a coalition of entertainment industry professionals seeking to combat government censorship and intimidation amid threats from the current administration of President Donald Trump. The coalition was originally formed by her father, Henry Fonda, in 1947 alongside Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and others.