Blye Pagon Faust

Blye P. Faust
Born
Blye Pagon
EducationSanta Clara University (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles (JD)
OccupationProducer

Blye Pagon Faust is an American film, television, and audio producer for the production company Story Force Entertainment.[1]

Early life and education

Blye Pagon Faust was raised in Monroe, Washington, and graduated from Monroe High School in 1993.[2]

She attended Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, where she earned a degree in English and studied theater.[2] She subsequently moved to Los Angeles and attained a J.D. with an emphasis in entertainment law from the UCLA School of Law.[2]

Career

Following law school, Faust worked for O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles.

In 2007, she began working on the film Spotlight with Nicole Rocklin. In the fall of 2009, she partnered with Rocklin to form the production company Rocklin/Faust.[2] Spotlight went on to win Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards.[2] The film was also recognized at the 69th British Academy Film Awards as the Best Original Screenplay winner and Best Film nominee.[3]

In 2019, she partnered with producer Cori Shepherd Stern to form Story Force Entertainment (formerly Based On Media).[4]

Faust executive produced the Emmy Award-winning[5] and Peabody-nominated[6] documentary Belly of the Beast.[7] She also worked on the Emmy- and Critic's Choice Award-nominated documentary Rewind. In 2022, she produced The Grab, a feature documentary from Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media. The Grab received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Research,[8] as well as nominations for Outstanding Investigative Documentary, Best Documentary, and Outstanding Promotional Announcement for Documentary.[9]

In the podcast space, Faust executive produced Wondery’s Dr. Death: Bad Magic series and the Wall Street Journal's Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton.[10]

For Prime Video, she executive produced the smash-hit docuseries LuLaRich and Shiny Happy People. At the time of the first season's release, Shiny Happy People had the biggest debut of any documentary series ever produced by Amazon Studios.[11]

In 2024, she produced the feature documentary Zurawski v Texas, with executive producers Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton.[12] The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival.[13]

In January 2026, Deadline announced that Faust will be a producer on an upcoming untitled film from Tom McCarthy.[14]

Other activities

Faust has served as a ReFrame Rise sponsor; a member of the Advisory Committee for the Mill Valley Film Festival's Mind the Gap: Women|Film|Tech initiative; and a board member for The Center for Investigative Reporting.

She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Television Academy and the State Bar of California.

As of July 2025, she is also a member of the CreativeFuture Leadership Committee.[15]

Personal life

She is married and has two sons.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Story Force Entertainment". Story Force Entertainment. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Faust, Blye Pagon (March 7, 2016). "Monroe native a co-producer of Oscar-winning 'Spotlight'". HeraldNet.com (Interview). Retrieved July 18, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Nominations Announced for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2016". Bafta. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Producers Blye Faust & Cori Shepherd Stern Launch Based on Media". April 11, 2019.
  5. ↑ Haring, Bruce (September 30, 2021). "Documentary Emmy Awards Dominated By PBS, But Netflix Edging Up". Deadline. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  6. ↑ Schneider, Michael (May 4, 2021). "'Ted Lasso,' 'I May Destroy You,' 'Small Axe,' Stephen Colbert Among Peabody Awards 2021 Nominations". Variety. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  7. ↑ www.imdb.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11454670/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm. Retrieved May 20, 2026. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ Schneider, Michael (June 27, 2025). "Documentary Emmys Winners List: Nat Geo, Netflix Lead, MSNBC's 'The Sing Sing Chronicles' Lands Top Prize and Bill Moyers Is Paid Tribute". Variety. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  9. ↑ Verhoeven, Beatrice (May 1, 2025). "2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards Nominations Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  10. ↑ Management, UCLA Anderson School of. "2023 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists, Lifetime Honorees and Awards Event in New York City Announced by UCLA Anderson". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  11. ↑ Hailu, Selome (June 16, 2023). "As 'Shiny Happy People' Achieves Prime Video's Biggest Docuseries Debut Ever, Amazon TV Chief Vernon Sanders Talks Strategy (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  12. ↑ "ZvT Team". Zurawski v Texas. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
  13. ↑ Ford, Rebecca (August 30, 2024). "Documentary Zurawski v Texas Reveals the Personal Devastation of Antiabortion Laws". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
  14. ↑ Grobar, Matt (January 16, 2026). "Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Climate Change Conference Movie From Tom McCarthy". Deadline. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  15. ↑ "Leadership committee". CreativeFuture. May 13, 2025. Archived from the original on June 13, 2025. Retrieved July 18, 2025.


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