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(NewsNation) — Andy wasn’t the only Warhol who got a documentary.
There is a documentary in the works about the legendary pop artist’s nephew James Warhola, an illustrator and artist in his own right.
The movie “My Nephew Jamie,” which is in the editing and post-production phase, is the story of “a prolific esteemed artist whose plight is to live up to the family heritage of being the nephew of the legendary artist Andy Warhol, anything less than stardom will be a failure.”
‘Another view’ of Andy Warhol revealed in the doc
According to the site, the documentary “examines the process of the artist James Warhola coming from a rural coal mining town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the inspiring adventures with his famous Uncle Andy Warhol that lead him to become a major successful illustrator from the 1980s until the present day.”
FILE – Artist Andy Warhol poses on Feb. 1, 1978 in New York. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has announced plans to expand with a $45 million entertainment project. The proposed venue is part of the museum’s Pop District initiative and would be built on an existing museum parking lot, according to Dan Law, the museum’s associate director. Plans for the project were presented to the city’s Planning Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff, File) 
The 1964 painting Shot Sage Blue Marilyn by Andy Warhol is carried in Christie’s showroom in New York City on Sunday, May 8, 2022. The auction house predicts it will sell for $200 million on Monday, becoming the most expensive 20th-century artwork to sell at auction. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) 
FILE – In this 1976 file photo, pop artist Andy Warhol smiles in New York. The Supreme Court on Thursday, May 18, 2023, sided with a photographer who claimed the late Andy Warhol had violated her copyright on a photograph of the singer Prince. The Supreme Court sided 7-2 with photographer Lynn Goldsmith. The case involved images Warhol created of Prince as part of a 1984 commission for Vanity Fair. Warhol used a Goldsmith photograph as his starting point. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) 
American Pop artist Andy Warhol sits in front of several paintings in his ‘Endangered Species’ at his studio, the Factory, in Union Square, New York, New York, April 12, 1983. (Photo by Brownie Harris/Corbis via Getty Images) 
FILE- A pair of women look at the 1962 pop piece called “Campbell’s Soup Cans” at the exhibition, “Andy Warhol _ From A to B and Back Again, in San Francisco on May 15, 2019. Climate protesters in Australia on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022 scrawled graffiti and glued themselves to an Andy Warhol artwork depicting Campbell’s soup cans but didn’t appear to damage the piece because it’s encased in glass. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
The documentary also “reveals another view of uncle Andy through James Warhola’s storytelling, and through his two famous children’s books (he received the International Reading Association’s Award for Best Non-Fiction Picture Book for this autobiographical story): ‘Uncle Andy’s A faabbbulous visit with Andy Warhol’. He followed up with another book about Andy and his 21 cats entitled, ‘Uncle Andy’s Cats.’”
Warhola illustrated 35 children’s picture books in all.
Documentary team seeking funds to finish filming, editing
The movie will also tell about Warhola’s trips to Uncle Andy’s famed Montauk compound and the celebrities he met there (along with all their hijinks).
However the movie is not completed — and if you ever wanted to be a movie producer, here’s your chance. As the site notes: “James is a delightful person who embodies the American Dream. We are seeking funds to finish filming, edit and complete post production. Donations over $500.00 will have a film credit.”