The Hoy Boys

Documentary - 2022 - USA - English - 72 minutes

“The Hoy Boys,” directed by David Simonds, brings alive - through archival footage and other never before seen treasures alongside interviews with Carl Bernstein and other luminaries - the world of photojournalism as it used to be. Frank Hoy and Tom Hoy, twin brothers who came of age in the 50’s each managed to secure jobs at the two most prominent DC newspapers:The Washington Post and The Evening Star. With no more than a high school degree, each was able to work his way to becoming the leading White House photographers for each of their respective papers, taking the now iconic shots of JFK and his family, Lyndon Johnson and other world leaders including Churchill and Martin Luther King. As their fame and prominence grew, their fraternal relationship frayed leading to a result no one could have imagined. This is a film which looks back to help make sense of our current day news cycle, questions of reliability, assessment of truth, journalistic freedom and integrity and the role of the Fourth Estate in our modern world. To understand the present, often we must look to the past.