Every Body

Directed by Julie Cohen

Distributor: Focus Features

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To End All War:
Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb

Directed by Christopher Cassel

Distributor: MSNBC / Peacock

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Leguizamo Does America

Directed by Ben DeJesus

Distributor: MSNBC / Peacock

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The Disappearance of Shere Hite

Directed by Nicole Newnham

Partner: This Machine / TeaTime Pictures

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Model America

Directed by Michelle Major and Dani Goffstein

Partner: Anchor Entertainment / Psycho Films

Distributor: MSNBC

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Diamond Hands:
The Legend of WallStreetBets

Directed by Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper

Partner: ZCDC

Distributor: MSNBC

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The Thing About Pam

Partner: Blumhouse Television

Distributor: NBC

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About

NBC News Studios is a full-service production company inside NBC. Our specialty is documentary storytelling, but we dabble in scripted, too. We partner with premier filmmakers and leverage the assets of our esteemed news organization to bring stories to the screen, including eight decades of television and radio archive, a global network of journalists, a world-class investigative team, and rich trove of editorial IP. Our team has decades of experience in documentary film and television and has been honored with multiple Emmy, Peabody and DuPont awards.

 

Recent work includes, Every Body (Tribeca Film Festival/Focus Features) directed by Julie Cohen, Leguizamo Does America (MSNBC), The Disappearance of Shere Hite (Sundance) directed by Nicole Newnham and co-produced with This Machine; Diamond Hands: The Legend of Wall Street Bets (SXSW) from Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari; the scripted mini-series The Thing About Pam (NBC) starring Renée Zellweger and produced with Blumhouse Productions and Big Picture Co; Upcoming projects include collaborations with directors Errol Morris and Dawn Porter.

Work

Podcasts

Team

Team

Partners

Directors + Collaborators

David
Belton

Zackary
Canepari

Julie
Cohen

Drea
Cooper

Bjorn
Johnson

Errol
Morris

Nicole
Newnham

Dawn
Porter

Contessa
Gayles

Sacha
Jenkins

John
Leguizamo

Partnerships

Focus Features
Broadway Video
Peacock
MSNBC Films
Participant
BlumHouse
Anchor
Unanimous
Westbrook
This Machine
The New York Times
Submarine
Media Res
BBC Studios

Fellowship

NBCU Academy in partnership with NBC News Studios, the NBC News documentary division, is collaborating with IF/Then Shorts to launch a national open call for archival and journalistically driven short documentaries highlighting social issues and identities.

Five teams will be invited to take the stage at the Original Voices Shorts Pitch, an inclusion­ focused pitch session where a curated selection of diverse filmmakers propose their documentary works in progress to a panel of industry professionals. The five pitching teams will receive a grant of $6,000 each to help further their documentary and to assist with the costs of attending the pitch event.

From the five finalists, NBCU Academy and NBC News Studios will select one winning project to commission with a $100,000 investment.

Eligible filmmakers are US-based documentarians who identify as – or showcase stories highlighting social issues affecting – women, LGBTQ+ folx, communities of color, and people with disabilities regardless of career stage.

The purpose of the Original Voices Shorts Pitch is to open doors to the NBCU newsroom and archive to diverse documentary filmmakers eager to present a more vibrant, equitable, and accurate take on American history and society today. Reaffirming the values of integrity and inclusion in order to spur innovation, the Original Voices Shorts Pitch aims to break down barriers of authorship and authority between news media networks and consumers, support diverse documentary filmmakers with the resources of a legacy news organization, and strengthen public trust in fact-based reporting and film.

The pitch will take place at DOC NYC 2023.

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