Blye Pagon Faust

Blye P. Faust
Born
Blye Pagon[1]

(1975-12-28) December 28, 1975
EducationSanta Clara University (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles (JD)
OccupationProducer

Blye Pagon Faust (born December 28, 1975)[2][3] is an Academy and Emmy Award-winning film, television, and audio producer for the production company Story Force Entertainment.

She most recently 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] Her other past projects include the smash hit Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People (a Critics’ Choice nominee); four-time News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee The Grab[6], a feature documentary from Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media; Amazon docuseries LuLaRich; Emmy Award-winning and Peabody nominee Belly of the Beast; 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, a 2023 Loeb Award finalist.

In addition to her work as a producer, she is a ReFrame Rise sponsor and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Mill Valley Film Festival's Mind the Gap: Women|Film|Tech initiative and the Creative Future Leadership Committee. Her board memberships have included The Center for Investigative Reporting, and she is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the State Bar of California.

Faust was raised in Monroe, Washington, and attended college at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, before moving to Los Angeles to study Entertainment Law at the UCLA School of Law. After getting her J.D. degree there, she worked for O’Melveny & Meyers LLP in Los Angeles.

Faust 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. In 2016, Spotlight was awarded Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards and went on to gross nearly $100 million at the worldwide box office during its release. She was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film in the 69th British Academy Film Awards. Additionally, Faust and the film were nominated for three Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture - Drama) and won five Independent Spirit Awards.

In 2019, it was announced that Faust would join with producer Cori Shepherd Stern to form Story Force Entertainment (formerly Based On Media).[7]

References

  1. ^ Monroe High School (Class of 1993) Yearbook
  2. ^ Monroe native a co-producer of Oscar-winning ‘Spotlight’
  3. ^ United States Public Records, 1970-2009 (California, 2008)
  4. ^ "ZvT Team". Zurawski v Texas. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  5. ^ Ford, Rebecca (2024-08-30). "Documentary Zurawski v Texas Reveals the Personal Devastation of Antiabortion Laws". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  6. ^ Verhoeven, Beatrice (2025-05-01). "2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards Nominations Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  7. ^ "Producers Blye Faust & Cori Shepherd Stern Launch Based on Media". 11 April 2019.
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