Cliff Grant has joined The Story Companies, bicoastal and Chicago, as executive producer. He is experienced in both commercials and episodic television. Grant most recently served for two years as line producer on the NBC reality series Starting Over.
At The Story Companies, Grant will work with the shop’s spot directors and be involved in its national sales push. He will also help to recruit new directorial talent. Grant is based in Chicago.
Grant’s move represents a homecoming–both to the studio and to commercials. Early in his career, he served as production manager at The Story Companies. Grant went on to several spot industry roosts, having been a staff producer at Manarchy Films, Chicago, then being partnered in his own company, and next working as a producer on jobs for such shops as Crossroads, bicoastal and Chicago, bicoastal/international MJZ, and bicoastal Moxie Pictures (which recently opened a London office).
Grant is currently producing several projects for The Story Companies, including campaigns for Mississippi Gulf Coast Tourism, directed by David Orr, and Lowe’s, helmed by Laurie Rubin.
A Chicago native, Grant graduated from Columbia University with a film degree. He came up through the ranks working as a production assistant on spot and feature film shoots. He then landed his first staff post with The Story Companies.