This Machine, the production company founded by veteran documentary director and producer RJ Cutler, has boosted its development and production team with four new employees.
Cutler, Emmy Award-winning director responsible for docuses including “The September Issue,” “Belushi,” and most recently with “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” launched This Machine in 2020 with an investment from Los Angeles-based Industrial Media. .
Cutler appointed Sally Rosen Phillips as Vice President, Creative; Qadriya Shamid El-Din – director, creator; Jim Czarnecki, Senior Vice President, Production, and Ian Egos, Vice President. This Machine’s four new employees reach 20. Phillips, Shamsed Dean, Czarnecki and Egos join senior executives Elise Pearlstein, Trevor Smith, Margaret Yen and Katie Doering.
“I am delighted to welcome Sally, Kadiri, Jim and Ian — four really creative and enthusiastic individuals — to our rapidly growing team at This Machine,” said Cutler, who served as producer on the 1993 documentary directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Benecker, “War Room.” “Their talents, skills, and interests perfectly complement our mission of telling compelling non-fiction stories that explore the times we live in.”
Emmy-winning news journalist Phillips began work in non-script programming and development in 2016 at MG Original Content, where she helped produce and create distribution strategies around the podcast division and helped develop “The Innocence Files” for Netflix. In 2018, she joined the non-fiction studio at Endeavor Content, where she helped oversee the development and production of the slate, and developed two projects for Netflix – “Giving Voice” and “Siempre, Luis” on HBO. Most recently, Rosen worked as a Producer and CEO for Peter Berg’s unscripted production company Film45, where she worked as a producer on the Netflix series “Naomi Osaka”, as an executive producer on Amazon’s “Chivas: El Rebaño Segrado” and as a producer for an upcoming documentary directed by Rick Rubin.
Shams El Din previously worked as an executive at Higher Ground Productions, former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company for Netflix, producing the children’s food and travel hybrid show “Waffles and Mochi”. She also produced a “Home” documentary series for Apple TV Plus. Shamsuddin previously also held the position of Program Director at Ryan Murphy’s Television Half Initiative, where she worked to make Hollywood more inclusive by creating equal opportunities for women and minorities behind the camera.
Phillips and Shams El Din will report to Executive Vice President Elise Pearlstein.
Emmy Award-winning producer Czarnecki previously served as Executive Producer and Head of Production at Vice Media for six years, working on Vice.com and creating Vice News and “Vice On HBO.” At Vice Studios, his projects have included “Lords of Chaos” by Jonas Auckerlund, “The Beach Bum” by Harmony Korine and Rick Alverson’s “The Mountain”. Czarnecki was also an executive producer on Chris Smith’s documentary “Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond.”
Egos is a post-production specialist, project manager, and event producer who has provided over 500 hours of programming for distributors including Netflix, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel. Previously, Egos worked as Senior Director of Post Production at Matador Content, where she produced subsequent projects including Cutler’s docu-series “Dear…” for Apple TV Plus and “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry”.
Czarnecki and Egos will report to Trevor Smith, Cutler’s longtime producing partner and executive vice president of Good Machine.
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