Hecho Studios has launched a division dedicated to the development and production of non-fiction entertainment with industry vet Evan Rosenfeld named as head of documentary and TV.
Rosenfeld is tasked with overseeing Hecho’s original TV and film strategy, across multiple formats including documentary episodic and feature length films, through development, production and release.
Hecho’s initial development slate will emphasize raw, edgy, and compelling stories at the fringe of culture and society. The first round of projects will focus on stories that drive cultural conversations concerning matters of social issues, with an emphasis on sports.
“We are prioritizing shows that dig far deeper than simply what you get out of the cover story. Everything we’re doing here is through the lens of what makes us uniquely human—our customs, our arts, our social institutions,” said Rosenfeld. “We believe this is a way to create television that is impactful and creates dialogue, but still entertains.”
Rosenfeld is the creator, executive producer (along with LeBron James and Maverick Carter), and director of “Warriors of Liberty City,” a six-episode documentary series which premiered on Starz in 2018. Prior, Rosenfeld was the showrunner of Viceland’s “VICE World of Sports,” an anthology series which won the Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Sports Program and received an Emmy nomination for Best Sports Documentary. Rosenfeld also served as producer on two of ESPN’s most successful “30 for 30” films, “The U” and “Broke,” as well as “Kareem: Minority of One,” an HBO documentary about basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
“Evan has made a career out of producing projects at the forefront and evolution of documentary storytelling,” said Tom Dunlap, Hecho Studio’s chief content officer. “We could not be more enthusiastic about having him lead the charge as we develop meaningful projects which shine a light on people and places that have been overlooked for far too long.”
Hecho Studios is a two-time Emmy nominated creative studio and full service production company that develops and produces projects in a variety of media, including feature films, television, streaming media, branded content and commercials.
Both Rosenfeld and Hecho Studios are represented by WME.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More