Founded in 2004, Participant Media, a production company known for its sociopolitical daring, burned an unusually bright arc across a filmscape that, more typically, reserved its fireworks for ...
Participant, the 20-year-old film and television production company whose mission was to inspire social justice and humanitarian action, is shutting down. Founder Jeff Skoll broke the news to a staff ...
Rob Williams, the veteran film executive who spent a decade at the now defunct Participant Media, has been named president of ...
Editors note: Filmmaker and producer Davis Guggenheim directed 2006’s An Inconvenient Truth featuring Al Gore. The film won the Oscar and helped put Jeff Skoll‘s social-impact-driven production ...
Participant Media, a 20-year-old independent studio focused on socially conscious filmmaking, is winding down its operations. “For 20 years, Participant has stood as the leading global media company ...
In April, the collapse of Participant Media sent shockwaves through the film industry. How could a 20-year-old company—with box office hits such as An Inconvenient Truth and The Help and 21 Oscars, ...
Matt Damon, Kerry Washington, Jane Fonda and Alfonso Cuarón also signed a letter asserting that social impact storytelling is "needed now more than ever." By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter In ...
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 ...
LOS ANGELES, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Independent film company Participant Media on Wednesday said it formed a $250 million fund with Abu Dhabi Imagenation to finance a slate of films, becoming the latest ...