HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stephen David Entertainment (SDE) and Brainstorm Digital have entered into an exclusive strategic partnership to be pioneers in event series and documentary recreations.
Their first collaboration is History®'s “The Men Who Built America,” a major television event about the “influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world has ever seen.”
The partnership brings together the storytelling expertise of SDE and the innovative know-how of Brainstorm Digital. By focusing on creating “invisible” effects to give life to stories in a unique and fresh way, the companies are producing a new visually exciting breed of television, the documentary hybrid.
“We’re extremely happy to be working with this trend setting group of producers. Brainstorm has an extensive background in the special effects business, making them the perfect partners to help create the next phase of television – the documentary hybrid,” said Stephen David, President.
Fresh off their 2011 Emmy win for Outstanding Visual Effects for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” Brainstorm Digital has earned its reputation as the cutting edge innovator in the production of visual effects.
“Television is quickly becoming the medium of choice; it is, without question, where all the interesting stories are being told,” said Brainstorm’s partner Richard Friedlander.
Formed by Richard Friedlander and Glenn Allen in 2005, Brainstorm Digital has worked on many feature films including: Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Road, Frost/Nixon, The Adjustment Bureau, and Julie & Julia. In 2011, Brainstorm won two Visual Effects Society Awards and an Emmy for their work on “Boardwalk Empire.”
Stephen David Entertainment is a New York based production company. In the two years since its inception, SDE has developed numerous docu-series and specials and are currently in productions on shows for History, TLC, HGTV, National Geographic and ID. Stephen David Entertainment is represented by CAA.
For more information, please visit www.stephendavidentertainment.com.