Two-time Academy Award® winning producer Simon Chinn and Emmy Award® winning producer Jonathan Chinn today announced the launch of Lightbox, a new multi-platform media company focused on creating high quality non-fiction programming for the small screen. The company's first project is a landmark series of films for Xbox Entertainment Studios about the start of the digital revolution.
Drawing on successful careers in different areas of non-fiction, the Chinns - who are cousins - are intent on pooling their collective experience and shared creative vision to build a distinctive brand. Through his existing company Red Box Films (which will be strongly aligned with Lightbox) Simon has built a career as one of the world's most successful feature documentary producers with two Academy Award winning documentaries, Man on Wire and Searching for Sugar Man, to his credit among many others. Jonathan has become one of the most respected non-fiction television showrunners in the US, with an Emmy for American High (Fox/PBS) and the Television Academy's prestigious Honors Award for 30 Days (FX). "Our careers have taken different paths, but we have always had a strongly shared sensibility and approach to non-fiction - mine at the more commercial end of feature documentary, Jonathan's at the more thoughtful end of reality. I am incredibly excited by the creative opportunities that exist to break new ground and find new audiences for our content," said Simon Chinn, co-founder of Lightbox. "Being able to work with top industry talent is what will set us apart."ABOUT LIGHTBOX
Headquartered in London and Los Angeles, and online at www.lightboxent.com, Lightbox is a new multi-platform media company focused on creating high quality non-fiction programming for the small screen founded by Academy Award and Emmy winning producers Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn. Simon is one of the world's most successful feature documentary producers with two Academy Award-winning documentaries, Man on Wireand Searching for Sugar Man, to his credit. Jonathan has become one of the most respected non-fiction television showrunners in the US, with an Emmy for American High (Fox/PBS) and the Television Academy's prestigious Honors Award for 30 Days (FX).
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