Jonathan Chinn is an Academy Award-nominated and double Emmy Award-winning producer and co-founder of Lightbox. Its films and limited series have premiered at the Sundance, Telluride, Cannes, Berlin and London film festivals and have won and been nominated for many major awards.Īdditional recent projects include “The Princess,” a feature documentary for HBO with a theatrical release “Spector,” a four-part series for Showtime/Sky “Sins of Our Mother,” a three-part series for Netflix “Tina,” a feature documentary for HBO and Universal “Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine,” a three-part series for Showtime “Hip Hop Uncovered,” a five-part series for FX/Hulu “Sophie: A Murder in West Cork,” a three-part series for Netflix “Tell Me Who I Am,” a feature documentary for Netflix and “Whitney,” a feature documentary for theatrical release. In the 10 years since its inception, the company has become one of the most prolific and highly regarded producers of premium nonfiction content in the world and has worked with all the major buyers, including Netflix, Apple TV+, HBO, Nat Geo, Amazon, FX, Hulu, Disney+ and Showtime, among others. Simon launched Lightbox in 2014 with his Los Angeles-based cousin, Emmy Award-winning producer Jonathan Chinn. He followed that up with a string of multiple-award-winning feature documentaries, including “Project Nim,” “The Imposter,” “The Green Prince,” “Garnet’s Gold,” “Bolshoi Babylon,” “My Scientology Movie” and “Searching for Sugar Man,” which also won many international awards, including a BAFTA and an Academy Award, and made over $20 million at the worldwide box office. In 2005, he conceived and produced his first theatrical feature documentary, “Man on Wire.” It went on to win over 40 international awards, including the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Simon Chinn is a double Oscar, double BAFTA, and Emmy Award-winning producer and co-founder of Lightbox. Upcoming projects include “Girls State” for Apple and, as producers, an independent film about the reintroduction of wild bears in the French Pyrénées. Jesse also directed “The Family,” a five-part series for Netflix, as well as the “Payday” episode of the Netflix series “Dirty Money.” Their recent film about Pete Buttigieg’s campaign for president, “Mayor Pete,” was released by Amazon Studios. “Boys State” and “The Overnighters” were both shortlisted for the Academy Award® for Feature Documentary. Their previous film, “The Overnighters,” won the Special Jury Prize for Intuitive Filmmaking at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by Drafthouse Films and Netflix. The film won the 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Nonfiction Film and received DGA and Emmy nominations for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. They directed “Boys State,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Apple Original Films and A24. Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss have been filmmaking partners for 20 years.
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