Participant, studio behind ‘Highlight,’ ‘An Inconvenient Reality,’ shutters after 20 years
Participant, the activist movie and tv studio that has financed Oscar winners like “Highlight” and socially acutely aware documentaries like “Meals, Inc,” and “Ready For Superman” is closing its doorways after 20 years.
Billionaire Jeff Skoll advised his employees of 100 in a memo shared with The Related Press Tuesday that they had been winding down firm operations.
“This isn’t a step I’m taking evenly,” Skoll wrote within the memo. “However after 20 years of groundbreaking content material and world-changing impression campaigns, it’s the proper time for me to guage my subsequent chapter and strategy to tackling the urgent problems with our time.”
Since Skoll based the corporate in 2004, Participant has launched 135 movies, 50 of which had been documentaries and plenty of of which had been tied to awareness-raising impression campaigns. Their movies have gained 21 Academy Awards together with finest image for “Highlight” and “ Inexperienced E book,” finest documentary for “An Inconvenient Reality” and “American Manufacturing unit” and finest worldwide characteristic for “Roma.”
Participant was behind movies like “Contagion,” “Good Night time, and Good Luck,” “Lincoln” and “Judas and the Black Messiah,” the restricted collection “When They See Us” and in addition a sequel to their documentary “Meals Inc,” which they rolled out this month. Their movies have revamped $3.3 billion on the international field workplace. However the firm had a “double backside line” wherein impression was measured along with revenue.
Skoll stepped again from day-to-day operations of the corporate years in the past. Veteran movie govt David Linde has been CEO of Participant since 2015, throughout which that they had their “Inexperienced E book” and “Roma” successes.
“I based Participant with the mission of making world-class content material that evokes optimistic social change, prioritizing impression alongside industrial sustainability,” Skoll wrote. “Since then, the leisure trade has seen revolutionary modifications in how content material is created, distributed and consumed.”
Skoll added that their legacy “will stay on via our individuals, our tales and all who’re impressed by them.”
