Libby Geist加入Connor Schell的单词 +图片作为Docu Banner Ramp up Productions（独家）
Libby Geist Joins Connor Schell’s Words + Pictures as Docu Banner Ramps Up Productions (EXCLUSIVE)
前ESPN内容负责人Connor Schell引入了前同事Libby Geist，以帮助运行其新的非小说类旗帜 +图片，因为它加强了纪录片的作品。LibbyGeist将担任制作公司的执行副总裁和纪录片主管，以监督开发项目。这家总部位于纽约的公司的一次性纪录片和纪录片于2021年2月与切尔宁娱乐公司（Chernin Entertainment）成立，是其唯一的投资者。盖斯特（Geist）在ESPN与Schell一起工作了十多年，在那里她担任ESPN电影和原创内容的副总裁兼执行制片人，直到2020年。在ESPN电影任职期间，Geist Execucie制作了几个开创性的非小说类项目，包括“最后的舞蹈”，包括“最后一支舞蹈”，“ 30 for 30”系列和“ O.J。：美国制造”，该系列在2017年获得了奥斯卡金像奖。作为“ 30 for 30”系列的执行制片人，Schell于2007年与Bill Simmons共同创立了Geist的Bill Simmons与该行业最著名的文档一起工作U型电影制片人在内，包括Alex Gibney，Barbara Kopple和已故的Albert Maysles。单词 + Pictures，Schell和Geist将开发和生产非小说类内容，专注于各种主题。最近，Netflix于9月发布的《缩影：Insperation4 Mission 4 to Space》（Inspiration4 Mission 4 to Space”与Time Studios合作。 （Hehir导演了所有10集的“最后一支舞蹈”。）“创办一家制作公司是我想到的，很长一段时间都想做，” Schell说。他指出：“原因之一是要回到开发，生产和创建非小说内容的过程中。“这也是市场上真正独特的时光。” “平台和买家的扩散发生在像脚本一样播放的无脚本内容的兴起，但不是基于现实的电视或格式。在ESPN，我们看到了这一点，并了解了观众如何对“ 30持续30”的反应，然后向“ O.J。：在美国制造”。然后E是“最后的舞蹈”，不仅在ESPN上，而且在Netflix上引起了共鸣。还有许多其他项目，电影和纪录片，我们与观众以相同的方式与众不同。在有很多买家的时候，这使需求刺激了。虽然切尔宁娱乐公司（Chernin Entertainment）与Netflix有了首次查看，但Words + Pictures将能够向任何平台出售内容。Schell和Geist将继续与ESPN建立关系，并生产“ 30 for 30”。目前，该工作室正在与Hehir合作，以“ 30胜30”，涉及专业的高尔夫球手格雷格·诺曼（Greg Norman），名为“鲨鱼”。当我们成立这家生产公司时，我们有点腿。”盖斯特说。 “继续与ESPN合作有很多优势，其中之一是对新的和现有的人才说：‘嘿。我们仍在寻找30年代的30年代。“向我们发送您的想法，但顺便说一句，现在还有什么让您兴奋？'这些令人兴奋的对话。：亚伦·科恩（Aaron Cohen），玛丽·玛格丽斯（Marie Margolius），科拉·阿特金森（Cora Atkinson）和迈克尔·纽伯格（Michael Newburger）。科恩（Cohen）是纪录片和体育电视台的资深作家和制片人，曾在HBO，ESPN，Showtime和Netflix分发的非小说内容中工作。他还曾担任NBC对奥运会和超级碗的报道以及ESPN的ESPY奖的高级作家和制片人。作为副总裁和制片人，Margolius将在制作，开发和商业计划中与Geist合作。在加入公司之前，Margolius与Schell一起在ESPN工作，担任员工职位。阿特金森（Atkinson）将与盖斯特（Geist）和玛格里乌斯（Margolius）合作作为监督制作人。most最近阿特金森（Atkinson）共同制作了艾哈迈尔（Ahmir）的“ Questlove”汤普森（Ahmir）的“夏季灵魂（……或革命无法进行电视转播）”，该名单入围了12月的最佳纪录片Oscar。Newburger将担任高级副总裁，策略，策略，财务和运营。他从百老汇视频中获得了Words +图片，他是CFO，负责公司的财务和运营。在此之前，纽伯格（Newburger）在时代华纳（Time Warner）在其合并和收购集团中工作，为整个公司的交易提供了建议，包括其时代公司的衍生公司，收购Istreamplanet，在Hulu的投资以及出售给AT＆T。
Former ESPN content chief Connor Schell has brought in former colleague Libby Geist to help run his new nonfiction banner Words + Pictures as it ramps up productions of documentary fare.
Libby Geist will serve as the production company’s executive VP and head of documentaries, overseeing the development of one-off docus and docuseries for the New York-based company founded in February 2021 with Chernin Entertainment as its sole investor. Geist worked alongside Schell for more than a decade at ESPN, where she served as VP and executive producer of ESPN Films and Original Content until 2020. During her tenure at ESPN Films, Geist executive produced several seminal nonfiction projects including “The Last Dance,” the “30 for 30” series, and “O.J.: Made in America,” which won an Academy Award in 2017.
As an executive producer on the “30 for 30” series, which Schell co-founded with Bill Simmons in 2007, Geist has worked alongside some of the industry’s most renowned docu filmmakers including Alex Gibney, Barbara Kopple and the late Albert Maysles.
At Words + Pictures, Schell and Geist will develop and produce nonfiction content focused on various topics. Most recently the banner partnered with Time Studios on Jason Hehir’s “Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space,” which Netflix released in September. (Hehir directed all 10 episodes of “The Last Dance.”)
“Starting a production company was something that I had thought about and wanted to do for a long time,” says Schell. “One of the reasons was to get back to and closer to the process of developing, producing, and creating non-fiction content.
“It’s also a really unique time in the market,” he observes. “The proliferation of platforms and buyers happened alongside this rise of unscripted content that plays like scripted but is not reality television or format based. At ESPN, we saw that and understood how audiences first reacted to ‘30 for 30,’ and then were open to ‘O.J.: Made in America.’ Then there was ‘The Last Dance,’ which resonated not just on ESPN but also on Netflix. There were also so many other projects, films and docuseries that we had nothing to do with that audiences were engaging with in the same ways. That stoked demand at a time when there are a lot of buyers.”
Words + Pictures has a mutual first look agreement with Chernin Entertainment as they identify scripted and unscripted projects. While Chernin Entertainment has a first look deal with Netflix, Words + Pictures will be able to sell content to any platform.
Schell and Geist will continue a relationship with ESPN and produce “30 for 30” installments. Currently the studio is at work with Hehir on a “30 for 30” about professional golfer Greg Norman titled “Shark.”
“We spent so many years tapping into up-and-coming talent and working with A-list documentarians and that has given us a bit of a leg up as we start this production company,” Geist says. “There's a lot of advantages in continuing to work with ESPN, and one of them is to say to new and existing talent, ‘Hey. We're still looking for ‘30 for 30s.’ Send us your ideas, but also, by the way, what else excites you right now?’ Those are exciting conversations to have.”
In addition to Geist, Schell made four additional hires: Aaron Cohen, Marie Margolius, Cora Atkinson, and Michael Newburger.
Cohen will serve as the banner’s executive VP and head of development. A veteran writer and producer in documentary and sports television, Cohen has worked on nonfiction content distributed by HBO, ESPN, Showtime and Netflix. He has also served as a senior writer and producer on NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games and the Super Bowl, and ESPN’s ESPY Awards.
As VP and producer, Margolius will work with Geist across production, development, and business initiatives. Prior to joining the company, Margolius worked at ESPN alongside Schell in a chief of staff capacity. Atkinson will work with Geist and Margolius as a supervising producer. Most recently Atkinson co-produced Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul (... or When the Revolution Couldn’t Be Televised),” which was shortlisted for a best feature documentary Oscar in December.
Newburger will serve as senior VP, strategy, finance and operations. He came to Words + Pictures from Broadway Video, where he was CFO, responsible for the company’s finance and operations. Prior to that, Newburger worked at Time Warner in its mergers and acquisitions group, advising and executing on transactions across the company, including its spinoff of Time Inc., acquisition of iStreamPlanet, investment in Hulu, and sale to AT&T.
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