Paperny Entertainment

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Paperny Entertainment Inc.
FormerlyDavid Paperny Films
Paperny Films
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Television production
Founded1994;30 years ago (1994)
FounderDavid Paperny
Headquarters,
Key people
David Paperny
(President)
Audrey Mehler
(Executive Vice President)
Cal Shumiatcher
(Executive Vice President)
Aynsley Vogel
(Vice President, Creative)
Products Television programs
Services Production
Owner Lionsgate
Parent RoK Global Acquisitions (2008–2012)
Entertainment One (2014–2024)
Lionsgate Alternative Television (2024–present)
Website Paperny Entertainment

Paperny Entertainment Inc. (previously known as Paperny Films and David Paperny Films) was a Vancouver-based producer of television programming and films, ranging from character-driven documentaries to provocative comedy to quirky reality shows. It was founded by David Paperny, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1993 documentary The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter .

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In July 2014, Paperny Entertainment was acquired by Entertainment One, which in turn has been acquired by American toy manufacturer Hasbro on December 30, 2019. [1] [2] [3] It was later sold to Lionsgate on December 27, 2023.

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Documentaries

The documentary The Boys of Buchenwald (2002) and Love Shines (2010) were produced by Paperny.

In 2008, Paperny partnered with David Ridgen and John Fleming on "The Civil Rights Cold Case Project" [4] [5] with the Center for Investigative Reporting. The project brought together partners from across the media and legal spectrum to reveal long-neglected truths behind scores of race-motivated murders from the civil rights era, and to help facilitate reconciliation and healing. The project sponsored work in civil rights-era cold cases, including that of African American shoe-shop owner Frank Morris who was murdered by the Klan in Ferriday, Louisiana in 1964, and that of Clifton Walker, a Natchez Mississippi mill worker murdered by Klan members the same year.

The documentary film Confessions of an Innocent Man (2007), which tells the story of a British-Canadian engineer William Sampson, won a Gemini Award for Best Biography Documentary Program. [6]

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References

  1. "Acquisition of Paperny Entertainment". July 17, 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  2. "Completion of Paperny Entertainment acquisition". August 1, 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  3. "Hasbro Completes Acquisition of Entertainment One". Business Wire . December 30, 2019.
  4. "Home". coldcases.org.
  5. "Hank Klibanoff – The glacial pace of Justice". The Washington Post. August 8, 2010. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  6. "Press Releases: Confessions Of An Innocent Man" - PapernyFilms.com