UA-10814978-2

THE HOOPING LIFE

ABOUT SPAN PRODUCTIONS

A full-service transmedia development and production company based in Venice, California, telling untold stories spanning across multiple forms of media with the help of the communities on which the stories are based. 

SPAN'S SUCCESS?

- A dog-like devotion to subcultures everywhere, we are hell-bent on improving visibility across platforms…

- …combined with meticulous research, early audience engagement, a pulse on pop culture, a strict adherence to funny suspenseful storytelling, a third eye for authenticity, and the insanity to never give up.

WHO WE ARE

Amy Goldstein, Director/Producer/Cinematographer

Amy is a director/writer based in Los Angeles. As a director, she has worked over a hundred music videos including Rod Stewart’s Downtown Train that topped MTV video countdown and Hong-Kong superstar Anita Mui. Her feature films screened at international film festivals including Berlin and Toronto. She has written series for MTV, Showtime, HBO, Fox,  CBS and Jersey Films/ Polygram. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and Film Fatales. Amy also served on the board of OUTFEST for 10 years. She is a graduate of Hampshire College and NYU’s Tisch Film School.

Anouchka van Riel, Producer

An M.B.A. by trade (ESCP Europe), Anouchka started her career at Activision Blizzard, the world’s largest video game publisher (World of Warcraft). As a finance manager specialized in movie franchises, she constructed $100 million plus budgets and analyzed impact of marketing strategies on sales and contribution margin. Movie franchises include Eragon, Scarface, Ice Age, Hulk, Robots, Spiderwick. She has decided to put this experience to use in producing factual TV, indie documentary features, and docu-series with small budgets and expansive souls. Since 2004, she has also been an organizer of the French Film Festival in Los Angeles (COL-COA).


WORK:

KATE NASH: UNDERESTIMATE THE GIRL, available on BBC 3 Storyville

SELF-MADE MEN, ITVS

THE HOOPING LIFE (Feature Documentary, Cinedigm), available on Amazon Prime Video, Youtube, Google play 

HOOPING LIFE (Music Video), available on Youtube

365 DAYS OF TRASH (Short Documentary)

EAST OF A (Feature Film)