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Jeffrey Sharp, an award-winning producer and publishing entrepreneur, is President/CEO of Story Mining and Supply, a Los Angeles-based production company committed to acquiring, developing, financing and producing multi-platform premium content through unique access to quality material. SMS combines deep financial resources, strong creative relationships and an executive team that has produced award winning and commercially successful films. Sharp has produced a series of Academy Award winning and Golden Globe nominated films over the past ten years like Boys Don't Cry, You Can Count on Me, Nicholas Nickleby and Proof. With those movies as well as other renowned adaptations, including A Home at the End of the World, Sharp has worked to develop new models for integration of the publishing and film industries.
Prior to Story Mining and Supply, Sharp co-founded the digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media with former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman. Story Mining and Supply and Open Road Integrated Media have a strategic partnership to develop and co-produce feature films and television shows based upon Open Road titles including: Lie Down in Darkness, based on the novel by William Styron, written and to be directed by Scott Cooper and Cocoa Beach, a television series adapted by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton based on the life of NBC news reporter Jay Barbree and his recollections of the early days of the U.S. space program in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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