Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company Acquires ‘The Last Dance’ Director Jason Hehir’s Little Room Films
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The North Road Company’s investment drive continues. Peter Chernin’s company has acquired Little Room Films, the production company established by Jason Hehir, the director behind the hit basketball docuseries The Last Dance.
It marks Chernin’s latest investment in the non-fiction space, having invested in Words+Pictures, the company started by former ESPN content chief Connor Schell.
Hehir has worked closely with Words+Pictures; in addition to producing and directing The Last Dance, which thanks to incredible footage and Michael Jordan’s participation became ESPN’s most-watched documentary ever, which was exec produced by Schell and Libby Geist, Hehir also directed and exec produced Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space, the Netflix docuseries that was produced by Words+Pictures.
He also worked closely with 30 for 30 co-creator Schell during his time at ESPN. Little Room Films was founded by Hehir in 2021, in the wake of the success of The Last Dance.
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