Former Participant Exec Miura Kite Joins Maria Farinha Films as Expanding...
Brazilian social impact entertainment company Maria Farinha Films is expanding stateside by opening a Los Angeles office operated by U.S. producer Miura Kite, formerly EVP of global television at...
View ArticleDocumentary About Navy Veterans Using Psychedelics to Treat PTSD in the Works...
An untitled documentary about the experimental use of psychedelics to treat former Navy SEALs’ traumatic brain injuries and PTSD is in the works from Participant. The project, produced by Participant,...
View ArticleCourtney Sexton Returns to Participant as EVP, Documentary Film and TV
Courtney Sexton will return to her longtime former home Participant, where she’s been named executive vice president of documentary film and television. Overseeing all unscripted content at the do-good...
View ArticleParticipant Promotes Three Executives to Senior VP (EXCLUSIVE)
Participant has promoted three executives to senior vice president. Elizabeth Haggard has been elevated to senior VP of narrative film; Nicole Starr has been appointed to the newly created position of...
View ArticleUtopia Buys Participant Documentary ‘Unseen Skies’ on Evolution of Corporate...
Utopia has acquired Participant’s feature documentary “Unseen Skies,” which the U.S. distributor will release on Sept. 13. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Yaara Bou Melhem, “Unseen Skies” explores...
View ArticleUtopia Snaps Up Distribution Rights to Participant’s Yaara Bou Melhem Doc...
Sales and distribution company Utopia, co-founded by filmmaker Robert Schwartzman, has swooped on the distribution rights to documentary “Unseen Skies” by Yaara Bou Melhem, a two-time UN Peace...
View ArticleDiane Weyermann, Participant Executive and ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Producer,...
Diane Weyermann, chief content officer at Participant and former director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program died Thursday of cancer in New York. She was 66. For the last three...
View ArticleParticipant Promotes Emma Shapiro, Taps Sarah Sobel — Film News in Brief
Participant has bolstered its leadership team with new senior V.P. roles, promoting Emma Shapiro to senor V.P. of communications and naming Sarah Sobel as senior V.P. of business and legal affairs....
View ArticleParticipant, MK2 Films, Endeavor Content Team on Nadine Labaki Starrer ‘Costa...
Participant is teaming up with leading French sales agent MK2 Films and Endeavor Content to represent worldwide distribution rights on “Costa Brava, Lebanon,” the anticipated feature debut of Lebanese...
View ArticleWith Socially Conscious Films ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ and ‘Collective,’...
Participant is back in the thick of the Oscar race with two films, “Judas and the Black Messiah” and “Collective,” that seem to respond to the current political tumult. On paper, the movies appear...
View ArticleParticipant’s Laura Kim Named Executive Vice President of Marketing
Participant’s Laura Kim has been promoted to executive vice president of marketing. The seven-year-veteran of the company had previously served as a senior vice president in film marketing. She will...
View ArticleFocus Features Sets Matt Damon-Tom McCarthy Drama ‘Stillwater’ for July Release
Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy’s thriller “Stillwater” will be coming to theaters this summer. Focus Features announced the highly anticipated film from the pair of Academy Award winners will hit...
View ArticleSubmarine, Cinephil Team With Participant to Distribute Nazism-Themed Doc...
U.S. documentary specialist Submarine Entertainment and Israel-based sales company Cinephil are teaming up with Participant Media to distribute the Luke Holland-directed documentary “Final Account,”...
View ArticleAFM: Participant Media Strikes Output Deal With Japan’s Gaga
Japanese distributor Gaga Corporation has struck an output deal with U.S. financier and producer Participant Media, giving it the Japanese release of Participant’s films that are financed via its...
View ArticleKew Media Distribution Signs Distribution Deal With Participant
Kew Media Distribution has signed a multi-year distribution agreement with Participant, the L.A.-based company behind “Spotlight,” “Green Book” and “Roma,” to start handling global television and...
View ArticleToronto Film Review: ‘Sing Me A Song’
Documentarian Thomas Balmès was handed a gift when he made “Happiness.” That 2013 documentary, about the rapid development of Bhutan seen through the eyes of an 8-year-old monk, begat the idea for a...
View ArticleParticipant Media Promotes Diane Weyermann to Chief Content Officer
Participant Media has promoted longtime executive Diane Weyermann to the newly created post of chief content officer. In her new role, Weyermann will focus on documentary film and TV, alongside...
View ArticleParticipant Taps Anikah McLaren, Robert Kessel to Head Film Department
Participant Media has named industry veterans Anikah McLaren and Robert Kessel as co-heads of the company’s film department with the titles of executive vice president. Both executives will report...
View ArticleMatt Damon Teams with ‘Spotlight’ Director Tom McCarthy on New Film (EXCLUSIVE)
Even as buzz grows for his upcoming race car drama “Ford v. Ferrari,” Matt Damon looks to keep the pedal to the metal: the A-lister is set to star in the Participant Media feature film “Stillwater”...
View ArticleParticipant Media Film and TV President Jonathan King to Step Down
Participant Media’s president of narrative film and television Jonathan King is stepping down from his role and transitioning to independent producing. King, who has been with Jeff Skoll’s shop for 12...
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