Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan’s Story Syndicate Expands Documentary Team (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAddie Morfoot ContributorStory Syndicate, the production house founded by Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary powerhouse couple Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus, is bulking up its development and production team with a new hire, a promotion and a first-look deal with producer and investigative journalist Amy Herdy.The New York-based production company, which launched in 2019, was behind several popular docs and docuseries in 2021, including Garbus’ “Becoming Cousteau” (National Geographic), Orlando von Einsiedel’s “Convergence: Courage in a Crisis” (Netflix) and John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ “Fauci” (Nat Geo).Jon Bardin, most recently Story Syndicate’s head of creative, has been named head of documentary and nonfiction.
Bardin, who has been at the production company since its inception, has served as a producer or executive producer on Story Syndicate documentaries including Jesse Moss’ “Mayor Pete,” Erin Lee Carr’s “Britney Vs.
Spears,” “Fauci” and Ry Russo-Young’s docuseries “Nuclear Family.” Currently Bardin is working on Theo Love’s upcoming Netflix docuseries about GameStop.
In his new role, Bardin will oversee the creative aspects of all documentary and nonfiction projects from development through delivery.
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