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Blye P. Faust | |
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| Born | Blye Pagon |
| Education | Santa Clara University (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (JD) |
| Occupation | Producer |
Blye Pagon Faust is an Americanfilm, television, and audio producer for the production companyStory Force Entertainment.
Blye Pagon Faust grew up in Monroe, Washington, where she graduated fromMonroe 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 toLos Angeles to study entertainment law at the UCLA School of Law, attaining aJ.D. degree there.[1]
After graduation, Faust worked forO'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles.[citation needed]
She began working on the filmSpotlight, 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 the88th 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 hitAmazon docuseriesShiny Happy People;[citation needed] four-time News & Documentary Emmy Award nomineeThe Grab;[2] a feature documentary fromMagnolia Pictures and Participant Media; Amazon docuseriesLuLaRich;Emmy Award-winning andPeabody nomineeBelly of the Beast;[citation needed] Emmy andCritic's Choice Award nomineeRewind; season four of Wondery’s hit podcast seriesDr. Death; and theWall Street Journal podcastBad 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 documentaryZurawski v Texas, with executive producersJennifer Lawrence,Hillary Clinton, andChelsea Clinton,[4] which premiered at the 2024Telluride Film Festival.[5]
Faust is aReFrame Rise sponsor and is[when?] a member of the Advisory Committee for theMill Valley Film Festival's Mind the Gap: Women|Film|Tech initiative.[citation needed]
Her board memberships have includedThe Center for Investigative Reporting, and she is[when?] a member of theProducers Guild of America, theTelevision Academy and the State Bar of California.[citation needed]
As of July 2025[update] she is a member of theCreativeFuture Leadership Committee.[6]
As of 2016, Faust was married with two sons.[1]
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