Blye Pagon Faust
Blye P. Faust | |
|---|---|
| Born | Blye Pagon |
| Education | Santa Clara University (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (JD) |
| Occupation | Producer |
Blye Pagon Faust is an American film, television, and audio producer for the production company Story Force Entertainment.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Blye Pagon Faust grew up in Monroe, Washington, where she graduated from Monroe High School in 1993.[1]
She attended college at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, where she studied theater and earned a degree in English.[1] She then moved to Los Angeles to study entertainment law at the UCLA School of Law, attaining a J.D. degree there.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]After graduation, Faust worked for O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles.[citation needed]
She began working on the film Spotlight, with partner Nicole Rocklin in 2007, and in the fall of 2009, she joined with Rocklin to form Rocklin/Faust.[1] In 2016, Spotlight was awarded Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards.[1] She was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film in the 69th British Academy Film Awards.
Past projects include the smash hit Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People;[citation needed] four-time News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee The Grab;[2] a feature documentary from Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media; Amazon docuseries LuLaRich; Emmy Award-winning and Peabody nominee Belly of the Beast;[citation needed] Emmy and Critic's Choice Award nominee Rewind; season four of Wondery’s hit podcast series Dr. Death; and the Wall Street Journal podcast Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton.[citation needed]
In 2019, it was announced that Faust would join with producer Cori Shepherd Stern to form Story Force Entertainment (formerly Based On Media).[3]
She produced the feature documentary Zurawski v Texas, with executive producers Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton,[4] which premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival.[5]
Other activities
[edit | edit source]Faust is a ReFrame Rise sponsor and is[when?] a member of the Advisory Committee for the Mill Valley Film Festival's Mind the Gap: Women|Film|Tech initiative.[citation needed]
Her board memberships have included The Center for Investigative Reporting, and she is[when?] a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Television Academy and the State Bar of California.[citation needed]
As of July 2025[update] she is a member of the CreativeFuture Leadership Committee.[6]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]As of 2016, Faust was married with two sons.[1]
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- American film production company founders
- American women film producers
- Living people
- Producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award
- Santa Clara University alumni
- UCLA School of Law alumni
- People from Monroe, Washington
- American television producers
- American women television producers
- Film producers from Washington (state)
- 21st-century American women