Company Profile

Company Description:

We tell stories that are both honest and surprising, revealing and entertaining, dramatic and cinematic. We do so by blending the conventions of documentary filmmaking with the look and feel of scripted television. In short: You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll watch.

Company co-founders Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman first joined forces as showrunners over a decade ago. Hundreds of hours of television later, the partners can point with pride to a diverse client base across an extraordinarily eclectic mix of genres ranging from hard-hitting documentaries to side-splitting comedies, covering topics from sex to secret societies to science fiction to school segregation. This range of experience gives meaning to the company name: our shows span the creative spectrum from left…to right.

Past and present productions range from the Emmy Award-winning television adaptation of the popular public radio show This American Life (Showtime)…to the skewering scripted comedy Odd Mom Out (Bravo)…to The Circus (Showtime), a weekly documentary series that pulls back the curtain on American politics…to multiple episodes of the acclaimed PBS investigative series Frontline…to James Cameron’s Story Of Science Fiction (AMC), which examines and celebrates the most dominant storytelling genre in the world today. Our shows have been nominated for over 15 Emmy Awards and have won multiple awards, including the Emmy for Best Nonfiction Series.

Ken and Banks are hands-on executives who are intimately involved in the development and execution of each and every project. The partners have also been able to attract and retain some of the best and brightest producers, directors, cinematographers, and editors in the business—and these relationships have been instrumental in the company’s success.

At the core of the Left/Right “brand” is the fusion of authenticity and superior production values: we focus on finding the ways and means to make shows feel real and look great, regardless of the genre that we are working in. And while the format and the backdrop may change, our emphasis stays the same: we focus on telling great stories.