Joe and Anthony Russo’s AGBO production of Mohsin Hamid’s bestseller Exit Westis coming together, Deadline has confirmed. The project, which now has Rogue One: A Star Wars Story‘s Riz Ahmed attached to star and executive produce, and Yann Demange directing, is also seeing Michelle and Barack Obama’s Higher Ground Prod…
The rustbelt rebound story American Factory won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight, earning gold for the first collaboration between Netflix and Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground, which produced with Participant Media.
Directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert and producer Jeff…
Many emotional moments are expected at tonight’s opening of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival with Crip Camp, but few will top an elegant farewell offered by Robert Redford.
With a declaration of “much love to you,” the festival founder praised outgoing festival director John Cooper onstage Thursday at a packed Eccles…
When American Factory was announced on Monday as one of the five Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature, among the first to congratulate filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert were Barack and Michelle Obama.
"Glad to see American Factory's Oscar nod for Best Documentary," the former president tweeted. "It's…
It was a good Oscar nomination day for the Obamas as the documentary American Factoryearned a was included on the list of nominees alongside The Cave, The Edge of Democracy, For Sama and Honeyland. The original Netflix docu was presented by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media and takes a dive…
Higher Ground, the production company founded by President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, has hired Ada Chiaghana as VP Development and Production. Chiaghana moves over from HBO, where she has been a creative executive in the original programming department, working on half-hour series including Los Espookys and S…
American Factory, the documentary from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media, will premiere on Netflix on August 21. The streaming service had acquired the pic from co-directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S…
In a significant followup to its deal with Netflix, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground, has partnered with Spotify to produce exclusive podcasts, some of which will feature the voices of both Obamas.
For Spotify, the arrangement is further proof of its intentions to…
