Who We Are
Blye Faust //
Partner
Blye is an Academy and Emmy Award-winning producer. Her credits include Spotlight, which was awarded Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 2016 Academy Awards, and went on to gross nearly $100 million at the worldwide box office during its release. She most recently produced the Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People and upcoming feature documentary The Grab. Previous credits include the hit Amazon docuseries LuLaRich; Wall Street Journal podcast Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton, a 2023 Loeb Award finalist; Emmy Award-winning and Peabody nominee Belly of the Beast, and Emmy and Critic’s Choice Award nominee Rewind. In addition to her work as a producer, she has been 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. She received her J.D. from UCLA and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in English from Santa Clara University.
Cori Shepherd Stern //
Partner
Cori is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning producer. She most recently produced the Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People and Wall Street Journal podcast Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton. Her other projects include LuLaRich, a hit Amazon docuseries; Warm Bodies, a $116m global box office hit for Lionsgate; and Open Heart, a 2013 Oscar-nominated documentary that premiered on HBO. Her feature documentary Bending the Arc, which premiered at Sundance and on Netflix, was critically acclaimed as "a stunning documentary...a glorious and uplifting film." Additionally, she executive-produced Collisions, a 2016 Emmy winner for Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary, that premiered at Sundance. Cori began her career as a television development executive and executive producer of scripted, nonfiction, and music programming. Additionally, Cori is a noted story impact and social change strategist who has worked with the Skoll Foundation and the Sundance Documentary Film Program. As a proud Middle Eastern American, Cori seeks projects that highlight, employ, and move forward people and stories that have been historically unrepresented through the larger narrative.
Mariah Chappell //
Director of Development
Mariah most recently associate produced Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People. She has previously worked in the film and television department at New Leaf Literary & Media, in the television scripted department at Creative Artists Agency, and as a showrunner’s assistant at NBCUniversal. She began her career at Rocklin|Faust as an assistant after having interned for the company for two years. She is a graduate of Santa Clara University with a B.A. in Communication and a minor in Art History.
Lucy Nino //
Development Coordinator
Lucy specializes in deep-dive research and crafting comprehensive story breakdowns. Starting her career at Story Force as a researcher, she has worked across the company’s development slate, most recently on Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People. Previously, she worked as an editorial intern for Santa Clara Magazine and as a docuseries research assistant. She graduated summa cum laude from Santa Clara University with a B.A. in Communication and a minor in Musical Theater.
Alexxa Riley //
Assistant
Alexxa began her entertainment career as a Creative Intern at Story Force. She recently graduated magna cum laude from Santa Clara University with a B.A. in Communications, a minor in Creative Writing, and an emphasis in Cinema Studies, and was an active member of the university’s film department.