Participant Productions: Billion Dollar Baby

For Participant Productions, this winter 'twas the season to celebrate. In January, the company's two new documentaries - director Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth and The World According to Sesame Street by directors/producers Linda Goldstein Knowlton and Linda Hawkins Costigan - premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Participant also collected seven Golden Globe nominations for its first movies - Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, and North Country - and Murderball was shortlisted for an Oscar. In fact, in just two years, Participant has achieved what most independent film companies hope to accomplish in an entire career.

March 1, 2006

For Participant Productions, this winter 'twas the season to celebrate. In January, the company's two new documentaries - director Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth and The World According to Sesame Street by directors/producers Linda Goldstein Knowlton and Linda Hawkins Costigan - premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Participant also collected seven Golden Globe nominations for its first movies - Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, and North Country - and Murderball was shortlisted for an Oscar. In fact, in just two years, Participant has achieved what most independent film companies hope to accomplish in an entire career.