Bid to win the exclusive opportunity to have a meeting to discuss your story and hone your pitch with Bruna Papandrea, Executive Producer of HBO's Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning show Big Little Lies, and the Head of Television at Made Up Stories and Executive Producer on their upcoming series, Tell Me Your Secrets and Queen America, Casey Haver, in LA!
Made Up Stories is committed to producing content with women squarely at the center of its stories and behind the camera. Bruna Papandrea is Founder and CEO of Made Up Stories, a development, production and finance company formed in January 2017 with offices in Los Angeles and Sydney. Through Made Up Stories, she is currently producing acclaimed writer/director Jennifer Kent’s movie The Nightingale and up-and-coming filmmaker Abe Forsythe’s Little Monsters.
Additionally, upcoming on the television side, the company is currently in production on the TNT series, Tell Me Your Secrets, written by Harriet Warner and directed by Caméra d’Or winner Houda Benyamina, and Meaghan Oppenheimer’s Queen America, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and directed by Alethea Jones, which received a 10-episode, straight-to-series order by Facebook’s new video platform, Facebook Watch. Bruna recently executive produced the HBO hit series Big Little Lies, adapted by David E Kelly from the bestselling novel by Liane Moriarty, starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern and directed by Vallee. The series won an astounding 4 Golden Globes and 8 Emmys including Best Limited Series for Bruna and the other executive producers. She is returning to her executive producer role on the series’ second season, currently in post-production, which adds multiple Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep to the cast.
Bruna’s producing credits also include Vallee’s Wild, David Fincher’s Gone Girl, Andrew Jarecki’s All Good Things, Noam Murro’s Smart People and Jonathan Teplitzky’s Better Than Sex. She also executive produced the highly acclaimed Milk from Gus Van Sant.
Casey Haver is SVP and Head of Television at Made Up Stories. She is currently Executive Producing the upcoming series Tell Me Your Secrets for TNT and Queen America for Facebook Watch. Within the company, Casey oversees the TV slate that already includes projects set up at Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, HBO, Endeavor Content, Paramount TV, Lionsgate, TNT and Facebook Watch. Prior to Made Up Stories, Casey was with Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea at their joint venture Pacific Standard Films, where she oversaw development of numerous projects and produced a pilot for ABC. Before joining Pacific Standard, Casey was at Bad Robot in the television department where she worked on series such as Fringe, Person of Interest, Revolution, 11/22.63 and the pilot of Westworld.