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 executive produced the second season of the smash hit Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War and produced the Grierson Award-nominated feature documentary Zurawski v Texas, with executive producers Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton, which premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. Past projects include Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (a Critics’ Choice nominee); Emmy Award-winning feature documentary The Grab, 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 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 has been a ReFrame Rise sponsor and 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, the Television Academy, and the State Bar of California.
Cori Shepherd Stern //
Partner
Cori is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning producer. Most recently, she co-directed and executive produced Amazon Prime’s massive hit Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War and produced Zurawski v Texas, a Grierson Award nominee, with executive producers Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton, which premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. Cori also executive produced the Critic’s Choice nominee Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets and season four of Wondery’s hit podcast series Dr. Death. Her other projects include LuLaRich, a hit Amazon docuseries; Wall Street Journal podcast Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton, a 2023 Loeb Award finalist; 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. She 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.
Lucy Nino //
Director of Development
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.
Bailey McCord //
Development Coordinator
Bailey recently associate produced Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War on Prime Video. During her undergraduate studies, she worked for Story Force as a creative intern and researcher. Bailey earned her B.A. in Interactive Design for Media and a minor in Theatre from West Virginia University. She went on to study Film Production at UCLA’s Film & Television Summer Institute.