Emerson backs Guggenheim, King prodco

Emerson Collective, the organisation founded and run by Laurene Powell Jobs, is backing a new prodco set up by an Oscar-winning director and a former executive at Participant Media.

Jonathan King

Concordia Studios has been launched by Davis Guggenheim, who won an Oscar for directing An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, and Jonathan King, the former president of narrative film and television at Participant Media, who left the firm last year.

The company will develop, produce or finance content across all platforms and is being launched in partnership with Jobs’ Emerson Collective.

The firm is premiering the films Boys State, Time, A Thousand Cuts and Bloody Nose Empty Pockets in US competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

“Audiences worldwide are more hungry than ever for high-quality films and television that mean something in their lives. We want to produce ambitious, impactful stories in all genres and formats, delivering to established distributors and the growing ranks of new platforms,” said King, founder and chief creative officer of fiction at Concordia Studios.