First Look Media Names Distribution Team and Business Affairs Leadership

Todd Green, Carrie Lieberman, and Lydia Cheuk Ramp up Distribution, Content Partnerships and Talent Deals

Todd Green, Senior Vice President of Content Distribution and Licensing, First Look Media. (Photo: First Look Media)

NEW YORK--()--First Look Media today announced that the company has named Todd Green as Senior Vice President of Content Distribution and Licensing for First Look Media and Carrie Lieberman as Director of Content Distribution and Licensing. Green and Lieberman are building and leading the company’s efforts to identify, secure and maintain distribution partnerships and licensing agreements with traditional and new distributors and networks across both linear and digital platforms. They will drive both audience and revenue for the company.

First Look Media has a number of key distribution deals in place, with Vanity Fair and Comcast on AJ Schnack’s short-form documentary series on the current Presidential campaign, NomiNation, with The New Yorker on The Journey, the short-form documentary series that follows Syrian refugees as they leave their country, with Panoply on the company’s first podcast, Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondobalu, and with Fusion on Primaries, AJ Schnack’s six-part documentary series examining the presidential campaign, and with Uproxx on news coverage from The Intercept. Additionally, First Look Media is currently in discussions with a range of distribution players across all platforms about video projects ranging from motion pictures to television shows and podcasts.

Josh Epstein, EVP and Chief Business Officer of First Look Media, said, “Todd brings a wealth of experience with a range of distribution deals, partners and models from his extensive time at AMC Networks and Tribeca Film. Todd will be working closely with Carrie Lieberman, who brings terrific experience from the NBCU and Viacom distribution teams, to continue to build our relationships and efforts to distribute and monetize our content across all types of platforms and partners.”

First Look Media also announced that Lydia Cheuk has been named Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs. Cheuk is working closely with First Look Media’s programming and distribution teams to provide strategic insight and practical execution around all deals and legal issues.

“Lydia’s extensive career experience advising and collaborating with the leadership team at Blue Man Group, where she served as General Counsel and Director of Business Affairs, will serve First Look Media well,” said Epstein. “She has quickly become our go-to partner and dealmaker as we ramp up activity on the production and distribution fronts.”

First Look Media is a new-model media company devoted to supporting independent voices across all platforms, from investigative journalism and documentary filmmaking to smart, provocative entertainment. Launched in 2013 by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar with the belief that independent perspectives are vital to a vibrant culture and thriving democracy. First Look operates as both a studio and digital media company.

About FIRST LOOK MEDIA:

First Look Media is a new-model media company devoted to supporting independent voices across all platforms, from investigative journalism and documentary filmmaking to smart, provocative entertainment. Launched in 2013 by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar with the belief that independent perspectives are vital to a vibrant culture and thriving democracy, First Look operates as both a studio and digital media company. First Look Media projects include RISK by director Laura Poitras’, which debuted in Cannes; Politically ReActive with W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu, a weekly political podcast; and NomiNation, director AJ Schnack’s docu-series on the Presidential campaign, published on VanityFair.com. First Look Media co-financed Spotlight, the Academy Award-winning Best Picture of 2016.

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Sunshine Sachs
Morgan Michaels / Taylor Friedman
212-691-2800
Michaels@sunshinesachs.com / friedman@sunshinesachs.com

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Contacts

Sunshine Sachs
Morgan Michaels / Taylor Friedman
212-691-2800
Michaels@sunshinesachs.com / friedman@sunshinesachs.com