Galisteo Media Arts Develops Documentary on Karl Marx in America
Galisteo Media Arts has acquired the adaptation rights to "Karl Marx in America," a 2025 book by the historian Andrew Hartman, and is developing a documentary based on it. Variety reported the project on 10 November 2026.
Adaptation rights are the permission to turn a book into another kind of work, in this case a film. The documentary is titled "American Boogeyman: Karl Marx in America."
Hartman will serve as an adviser on the film and will also appear as a key interview subject. Historians and authors often take on that kind of role in documentaries, sharing their research on camera while helping shape the story.
Galisteo is led by Robert Rosenheck, who is its chief executive and a producer. Rosenheck and Cindy Capobianco founded the Galisteo Group in 2020. The group was set up to back projects with social and environmental impact.
On the representation side, Galisteo Media Arts works with Howie Sanders of Anonymous Content and Alla Savranskaia of Greenberg Glusker LLP, according to the same report.
For readers new to the business, a documentary often starts this way: a company secures the rights to a book, then lines up people to appear on screen and a route to audiences. This project has moved through the first of those steps, and the book's author is already part of it.
