ABOUT PANGLOSS FILMS
PANGLOSS FILMS is a documentary film production company founded by multiple Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Peter Yost. Located in New York City, Pangloss specializes in creating entertaining films and television series that challenge our assumptions about the world around us.
We produce independent documentaries as well as commissioned projects for top broadcasters including: PBS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, CBS, NBC, DISCOVERY, BRAVO, and others. Our films have been widely broadcast on most major outlets, funded by leading foundations, featured on programs such as Oprah and Good Morning America, and screened at film festivals worldwide.
PRODUCTIONS
Recently, Pangloss has produced eight films for National Geographic Explorer, including INSIDE NORTH KOREA (nominated for an Emmy for Best Long Form Informational Documentary); THE SCIENCE OF SURVEILLANCE (examines cutting edge surveillance technologies and questions the correct balance between liberty and security); ULTIMATE HIPPO (combines original natural history footage with new discoveries that reveal a strange evolutionary past); THE SCIENCE OF BABIES (explores the remarkable transformations that babies go through from birth to the first step); SECRETS OF THE TORNADO (includes the first footage ever shot from inside a tornado); THE SECRET HISTORY OF GOLD (investigates the underbelly of the international gold trade); INSIDE SUMO (goes behind the scenes in Japan and Hawaii with the world’s top-ranked Sumo wrestler as he prepares for the showdown of a lifetime); and ALASKA’S LAST OIL (goes inside the oil industry to investigate the current state of US supply and the drilling controversy in ANWR).
Pangloss has also produced films for NBC ranging from a celebration of CARY GRANT, to an investigation of the thinning line between News and Public Relations as tracked through the life and work of the self-proclaimed founder of PR, EDWARD BERNAYS. Additionally, we’ve produced six hour-long films for BRAVO, for which we worked with such luminaries as Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Sydney Pollack, Martin Sheen, Mia Farrow, Ellen Adler, and Brad Pitt, among others.
Other productions around the world for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC include long format projects about the Anacondas of Venezuela and the Leopards of India, as well as dozens of cultural pieces in the regions of Sub-Saharan and Northern Africa (from Togo to Morocco); the Sardinian coast of Italy; the deserts of Arizona; and everywhere in between.
Our Emmy-Nominated 2005 film, THE COLOR OF OIL: POWER, PROFITS, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT (for Discovery and THE NEW YORK TIMES) examines the “greening” of Big Oil and the re-branding of British Petroleum as “BP: Beyond Petroleum”. The film includes BP’s CEO Lord John Browne (architect of the controversial green strategy), as well as leaders of ExxonMobil, Shell, and major environmentalists and activists.
INDEPENDENT PRODUCTIONS
Our independent documentaries span a wide range of subjects: from the Dalai Lama (featured in the multiple award-winning film SEEDS OF TIBET: VOICES OF CHILDREN IN EXILE which was broadcast on PBS) to the illicit world of cockfighting in Louisiana (NO NAME GAME FARM).
Our independent projects have been funded by individuals as well as the Sundance Film Fund and other foundations. Our projects are united by a desire to explore engaging subject matter in ways that both entertain and invite us to question who we are and how we live.
ABOUT PETER YOST
Before developing
PANGLOSS FILMS, Peter Yost co-founded the highly-regarded TRAVELLING EAST
PRODUCTIONS for which he
Executive-Produced/Produced dozens of films and series with partner Toby
Beach. Peter Yost is a graduate of Swarthmore College and also studied at the Goethe Institute in Berlin. A native of Buffalo, New York he currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
CONTACT US
For more information about Pangloss Films or to inquire about internships please contact projects@panglossfilms.com.