Blye Pagon Faust is an American film, television, and audio producer for the production company Story Force Entertainment.
Blye Pagon Faust grew up inÃÂ Monroe, Washington,ÃÂ where she graduated from Monroe High School in 1993.
She attended college atÃÂ Santa Clara UniversityÃÂ inÃÂ Santa Clara, California, where she studied theater and earned a degree in English. She then moved to Los Angeles to studyÃÂ entertainment lawÃÂ at theÃÂ UCLAÃÂ School of Law, attaining a J.D. degree there.
After graduation, Faust worked for O'Melveny & MyersÃÂ in Los Angeles.
She began working on the film Spotlight,ÃÂ with partnerÃÂ Nicole RocklinÃÂ in 2007, and in the fall of 2009, she joined with Rocklin to form Rocklin/Faust. In 2016, Spotlight was awarded Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards. She was also nominated for theÃÂ BAFTA Award for Best FilmÃÂ in theÃÂ 69th British Academy Film Awards.
Past projects include the smash hit Amazon docuseries '; four-time News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee The Grab; a feature documentary from Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media; Amazon docuseries LuLaRich; Emmy Award-winning and Peabody nominee Belly of the Beast; Emmy and Critic's Choice Award nominee Rewind; season four of WonderyâÂÂs hit podcast series Dr. Death; and the Wall Street Journal podcast Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton.
In 2019, it was announced that Faust would join with producer Cori Shepherd Stern to form Story Force Entertainment (formerly Based On Media).
She produced the feature documentary Zurawski v Texas, with executive producers Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton, which premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival.
Faust is a ReFrame Rise sponsor and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Mill Valley Film Festival's Mind the Gap: Women|Film|Tech initiative.
Her board memberships have included The Center for Investigative Reporting, and she is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Television Academy and the State Bar of California.
she is a member of the CreativeFuture Leadership Committee.
As of 2016, Faust was married with two sons.