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‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Director Davis Guggenheim Asks Who Will Replace The Social Impact Made By Participant’s Movies
Participant founder Jeff Skoll saw something that few in Hollywood could: the dollars-and-cents of investing in a film was only part of the calculus.
In addition to documentaries, Participant was also responsible for Oscar Best Picture winners Spotlight and Green Book, and Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, another timely topic.Guggenheim is a co-founder of Concordia Studio and most recently directed and produced Still: A Michael J. (L-R) Jeff Skoll and Al Gore at the ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ premiere at Sundance in 2017 Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for Participant Media and Paramount Pictures He had the good sense to hire and empower the best creative executives, including Diane Weyermann, who championed documentaries like Citizenfour and American Factory, and Jonathan King on the fiction side, who commissioned Spotlight and Roma.
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