Josh Green, Owner/Producer
After a previous career in financial consulting for the hospitality industry at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Josh made his foray into entertainment while pursuing his MBA at Columbia Business School. One class in Columbia’s Film School led him to join professor and industry veteran Ira Deutchman as the first employee in Ira's new independent film distribution and digital exhibition company, Emerging Pictures. Ira previously founded the first studio specialty division, Fine Line Features, part of New Line Cinema, and his more than 40 year career has helped define the independent film business.
Josh spent the next decade with Ira at Emerging Pictures, rising to Vice President and growing the company from an ambitious startup to a boutique studio, representing, marketing, and distributing more than 50 feature films. During this tenure, Josh managed and planned the film festival strategy on all titles, working with every major festival in the world (i.e. Sundance, Toronto, Cannes, Berlin, Venice, etc.) in addition to all the second tier and top regional festivals in the US (i.e. Tribeca, SXSW, Los Angeles, New York, etc). He further partnered with the full spectrum of US and world distribution outlets to license rights including Hollywood studios and independent theatrical companies, broadcast networks, video companies, digital portals including giants Netflix, iTunes and Apple, and foreign sales companies. In some cases where Emerging directly handled the US theatrical component, Josh planned and managed the marketing campaigns, supervising a team to book theaters, create trailers and artwork, buy advertising, coordinate publicity and promote via grass roots and social media.
Josh ultimately made his foray into producing during this tenure, starting feature and commercial production company Game 7 Films. Josh ran Game 7 for five years with partners Yaron Schwartzman and Asger Hussain before breaking out on his own to start his latest outfit now based in LA, Jagman Productions. His feature production credits include PBS/American Masters documentary By Sidney Lumet on the legendary director; music documentaries Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey (Cinedigm/Independent Lens) and I Want My Name Back (Image/BET) on iconic bands Journey and The Sugarhill Gang, respectively; and Lifetime TV romantic drama Seasons of Love produced alongside Taraji Henson and also starring Gladys Knight, Method Man and Letoya Luckett. Josh previously executive produced the IDA nominated Best Documentary, Kassim the Dream, on child soldier turned boxing champion, Kassim Ouma (IFC Films/Sundance Channel/ESPN Films).
He’s further an Executive Producer on the South African western, Five Fingers for Marseilles, which was released theatrically in the US by UNcork’d Entertainment to critical acclaim in Fall 2018. Josh’s latest scripted film, the US/China co-production Confetti, a mother daughter immigrant story centered around dyslexia starring Zhu Zhu, Amy Irving, Harmonie He, and Helen Slater, was released theatrically in the US in Summer 2021 by Dada Films and is currently available digitally. He is producing multiple documentaries in production: The Great China Baseball Hunt and the search for China’s first MLB player; and I Was Born This Way a documentary on Motown legend, AIDS activist, and Archbishop Carl Bean directed by Sam Pollard and Daniel Junge and produced alongside Questlove, Jamie Lee Curtis and Billy Porter. Josh’s latest doc in release is the critically acclaimed The League on the Negro Baseball Leagues, directed again by Sam Pollard, produced alongside Radical Media and Questlove and being distributed by Magnolia Films/Hulu. He is further executive producing a scripted limited series with Alcon TV on the Negro Baseball Leagues and the first and only woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Effa Manley. And he’s executive producing a film adaptation of the Reginald Lewis biography with MACRO, Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun, on Reginald's achievement on Wall Street as the first black billionaire. His next docuseries will be a limited series on the assassination of MLK, dispelling myths and and finally revealing the true conspiracy. Lastly, he is in development on a scripted narrative on the Journey and Arnel Pineda musical story with Warner Brothers, Temple Hill and Jon Chu, and he’s developing projects based on on Brexit whistleblower Shahmir Sanni; the woman who helped took down Harvey Weinstein and Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, model/activist Ambra Gutierrez; blind Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso; and the ‘Babe Ruth’ of NASCAR, Curtis Turner.