Blye Pagon Faust

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 second season of the smash hit Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War and 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 season one of Shiny Happy People (a Critics' Choice nominee); four-time News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee The Grab, a feature documentary 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 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.