Barry Jenkins’ Pastel Appoints Kiva Reardon as Vice President of Film, Appoints Karolina Peysakhov as Vice President of Television

Special: Barry Jenkins, Adele Romansky and Mark Ceriak Production company Pastel has hired Kiva Reardon as Executive Vice President of Film and Carolina Peisakhov as Executive Vice President of Television. Both have already started working from Pastel’s office in Los Angeles.

Prior to joining Pastel, Reardon was director of film programs at the Academy Museum and one of the leading programmers of contemporary world cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival. She has also previously worked with the Miami International Film Festival, Hot Docs and the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and in 2013 founded cléo magazine, an online publication dedicated to creating a space for feminist voices in film criticism that ran through 2019. Reardon spoke. . She has served on multiple panels and festival juries around the world.

Peisakhov most recently served as Vice President of Film and Television at Blue Harp and helped identify projects for Netflix, Amazon, Showtime, FX, Lionsgate, Sony, UCP, Peacock and Gaumont. Prior to that, he worked in the UTA Film Finance Department and began his career at the San Francisco Film Society. Peisakhov is currently the co-producer of the upcoming Netflix limited series. ᲢScrakerFrom writers Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster and director Peter Berg.

“We’ve spent five years on an experiment we call PIE and we’re fed up with each other, which obviously means it’s time to add a family,” Jenkins, Romansky and Ceriak said in a joint statement. “We found our dream team in Carolina and Kiwi, two women with elegant tastes and killer feelings who will boldly lead us into the future.”

“I was very impressed with the work of Barry, Adele, and Mark,” Reardon said. “I am honored to be working with them on a vision for PASTEL frontiers.”

“I am happy and honored to join Pastel,” added Peisakhov.

Pastel was founded as a home for artists to create works for film, television, and more. In addition to in-house development for Jenkins, the company is incubating an eclectic series of new issue projects, advancing the mission set by the 2017 Best Picture winner. Moonlight. Jenkins among past projects If Bill Street Could TalkElizabeth Hitman Never Rarely Sometimes AlwaysAnd the Jenkins Award-winning limited series MetreCoulson Whitehead Pulitzer Prize winner for Amazon Prime Video based on the novel. Upcoming projects include Charlotte Wales’ artistic directorial debut. ᲛThenPremiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival; Raven Jackson’s feature film debut All the dirty roads taste like salt for A24; Alvin Eale biography for Projector Pictures; And the name of the first Jenkins attack on virtual production is still unclear Lion King Front of Walt Disney Studios.

Pastel is also Alberto Mielgo’s WiperReleased at Cannes in 2021 and won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Currently the company has its first television contract with HBO, HBO Max and A24.