Cinemax to air 'Raymond' doc

Cinemax has acquired privileges to Phil Rosenthal's "Conveying Raymond" and can premiere the feature documentary February. 16. "Conveying" stories the efforts of Rosenthal to evolve the hit sitcom he produced, "Everyone Loves Raymond" (starring Ray Romano) for any Russian TV audience in '09, compelling Rosenthal to call themself "the Mission Impossible of Jewish television authors." The project won audience honours in the Austin Film Festival and also at Edinburgh. Rosenthal authored and directed "Conveying," that was professional created by John Woldenberg. "Conveying" made slightly below $100,000 in a 3 week period of release this past year. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com