Who We Are
Blye Faust //
Producer
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, a Cinema Eye Honors nominee; 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.
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, as well as a media intern for WVU Arts & Entertainment. She earned her B.A. in Interactive Design for Media with a minor in Theatre from West Virginia University and went on to study Film Production at UCLA’s Film & Television Summer Institute.