Black Bear Pictures and New Regency have formed the joint venture Double Agent to produce and finance premium non-fiction content spanning all genres and formats.
Dana O’Keefe has been named president and departs from Cinetic Media where he served as a partner and was involved in hundreds of films over the course of his tenure including Oscar-winning documentaries Summer Of Soul, Free Solo, and Amy, along with Oscar nominated films like Collective, RBG, Cartel Land, The Square and Exit Through The Giftshop.
Combining the strategic expertise, resources and deep industry relationship of New Regency and Black Bear, Double Agent will offer filmmakers robust financing capability and high-end creative services for selected projects.
“We are living in an era that can be rightly described as the renaissance of documentary,” said O’Keefe. “It is a dynamic and vibrant landscape defined by innovation and a rapidly expanding audience. We will collaborate with the greatest contemporary storytellers to make possible ambitious, daring works that reflect the culture and reality of the 21st Century as it unfolds around us, in all its complexity and diversity. The possibilities are endless.”
Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman called O’Keefe “a seasoned powerhouse in the documentary space with tremendous relationships, an eye for talent, and a keen understanding of content”, while New Regency’s chairman and CEO Yariv Milchan hailed “a partnership amongst the best and brightest in the business”.
The joint venture partnership was negotiated by Black Bear Partner Michael Heimler and head of business affairs Adam Raichilson, David Friedman and Eric Roth on behalf of New Regency, and Jerry Dasti of Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo on behalf of O’Keefe.
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