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Blye Pagon Faust

Blye P. Faust
Born
Blye Pagon
EducationSanta Clara University (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles (JD)
OccupationProducer

Blye Pagon Faust is an American film, television, and audio producer for the production company Story Force Entertainment.

Early life and education

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Blye Pagon Faust grew up in Monroe, Washington, where she graduated from Monroe High School in 1993.[1]

She attended college at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, where she studied theater and earned a degree in English.[1] She then moved to Los Angeles to study entertainment law at the UCLA School of Law, attaining a J.D. degree there.[1]

Career

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After graduation, Faust worked for O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles.[citation needed]

She began working on the film Spotlight, with partner Nicole Rocklin in 2007, and in the fall of 2009, she joined with Rocklin to form Rocklin/Faust.[1] In 2016, Spotlight was awarded Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards.[1] She was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film in the 69th British Academy Film Awards.

Past projects include the smash hit Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People;[citation needed] four-time News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee The Grab;[2] a feature documentary from Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media; Amazon docuseries LuLaRich; Emmy Award-winning and Peabody nominee Belly of the Beast;[citation needed] Emmy and Critic's Choice Award nominee Rewind; season four of Wondery’s hit podcast series Dr. Death; and the Wall Street Journal podcast Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton.[citation needed]

In 2019, it was announced that Faust would join with producer Cori Shepherd Stern to form Story Force Entertainment (formerly Based On Media).[3]

She produced the feature documentary Zurawski v Texas, with executive producers Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton,[4] which premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival.[5]

Other activities

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Faust is a ReFrame Rise sponsor and is[when?] a member of the Advisory Committee for the Mill Valley Film Festival's Mind the Gap: Women|Film|Tech initiative.[citation needed]

Her board memberships have included The Center for Investigative Reporting, and she is[when?] a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Television Academy and the State Bar of California.[citation needed]

As of July 2025 she is a member of the CreativeFuture Leadership Committee.[6]

Personal life

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As of 2016, Faust was married with two sons.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Faust, Blye Pagon (March 7, 2016). "Monroe native a co-producer of Oscar-winning 'Spotlight'". HeraldNet.com (Interview). Retrieved July 18, 2025.
  2. ^ Verhoeven, Beatrice (May 1, 2025). "2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards Nominations Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
  3. ^ "Producers Blye Faust & Cori Shepherd Stern Launch Based on Media". April 11, 2019.
  4. ^ "ZvT Team". Zurawski v Texas. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
  5. ^ Ford, Rebecca (August 30, 2024). "Documentary Zurawski v Texas Reveals the Personal Devastation of Antiabortion Laws". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
  6. ^ "Leadership committee". CreativeFuture. May 13, 2025. Archived from the original on June 13, 2025. Retrieved July 18, 2025.