EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winning producer Dan Janvey (Nomadland) has joined Ventureland, the studio behind the Emmy and PGA Award-winning docuseries Beckham and the Oscar and BAFTA-nominated Bobi Wine: The Folks’s President, as Head of Movie.
Based mostly in New York Metropolis, Janvey joins from the Brooklyn-based Current Firm, the place he was a producer. His appointment follows information over the summer season that Jesse Uram joined as vp of strategic partnerships, the place he’s centered on increasing the corporate’s relationships with companions throughout the monetary, artistic, model and distribution communities. Kerstin Emhoff, John Battsek, Ali Brown launched the studio, specializing within the improvement of authentic leisure throughout all media platforms, alongside Paul Hunter in 2018.
Producing credit for Janvey embrace the Finest Image Oscar-winning Nomadland, in addition to the Oscar-nominated Time and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Moreover, he has produced Janet Planet, A Love Music, Coronary heart of a Canine, and Patti Cake$. Along with his Finest Image Oscar win, he’s the recipient of the Sundance/Indian Paintbrush Inventive Producing Prize, in addition to a proud alumnus of the Sundance Producing Labs. A founding member of manufacturing firm, The Division of Movement Footage, who was additionally previously a supervisor/producer with Untitled Leisure, he continues to supervisor Garrett Bradley, the filmmaker behind Amazon Studios’ Time, alongside Current Firm.
“For the reason that launch of Ventureland, John, Ali, and I’ve been pursuing Dan, whose imaginative and prescient and strategy to filmmaking align completely with our mission,” mentioned Emhoff in an announcement to Deadline. “He exemplifies the spirit of unbiased cinema, possessing a unprecedented expertise for figuring out rising expertise and compelling tasks. As a passionate filmmaker and daring risk-taker, Dan embodies our dedication to nurturing distinctive expertise and bringing visionary tales to life.”
Commented Battsek, “Dan and I share a deep love of films, one thing that I really feel is mirrored within the exceptional work he has produced in each the scripted and unscripted areas. I’m delighted to have him carry his prodigious artistic skills to Ventureland and stay up for collaborating with him as we proceed to supply documentary options and collection while increasing into the fiction area as effectively.”
Brown added that “in Dan you’ve this uncommon mixture of impeccable style, an intuitive sense to story, mutual respect of artists which might be each established and rising, a realistic understanding of how the enterprise works, and kindness. Sheer kindness. He’s one in all one.”
In his personal assertion, Janvey noticed, “Kerstin, John, and Ali have constructed Ventureland into a really dynamic manufacturing firm. By means of their ingenuity and grit, they’ve made a house for artists to do authentic and daring work that reaches audiences worldwide.” The exec added, “I’ve lengthy admired all the things they’ve carried out – it’s significantly thrilling to maneuver from being a fan to a collaborator. The inner tradition of the corporate is inspiring. It’s nice folks taking artistic dangers, understanding that that is one of the simplest ways to inform tales.”
Not too long ago producing titles like Wham!, The Rescue, and The Deepest Breath, Ventureland’s different credit embrace the Emmy-winning Rising Phoenix (Netflix); Critics’ Selection nominee The Actual Charlie Chaplin (Showtime); TIFF-selected Werner Herzog documentary Theater of Thought; Mary McCartney’s documentary on Abbey Highway Studios, If These Partitions May Sing (Disney+); and Increase! Increase! The World vs Boris Becker (Apple TV+), Alex Gibney’s portrait of the previous tennis legend, which premiered on the Berlin Movie Competition.
At current, the corporate has a number of large tasks on the horizon, together with the David Oyelowo-led scripted collection Authorities Cheese for Apple TV+, in addition to a number of to-be-announced characteristic documentaries at the moment in post-production.