Don’t go to IMDb to look for Jeff Skoll, you’ll get the wrong person. Skoll is eBay’s ex-President … with about 2 Billion in eBay stock.
What’s he got to do with movies? A lot. See, when he retired from eBay, he founded a production company (Participant Productions) that is behind quite a few movies (incl. Syriana).
His focus is on issues that tackle important issues and social problems: oil dependence, sexual harassment and domestic violence, disability and discrimination, global warming.
In his recent Wired interview, Jeff described how he got the idea:
A few years before I formed Participant, I met a producer named Richard Lewis who had been very successful with a number of big movies. I asked him why there weren’t more movies like Erin Brockovich and Schindler’s List coming out of Hollywood. And he said, “People just don’t finance those movies. Though, by the way, those are the kinds of movies I’d like to do.”
Skoll is on a roll (excuse the pun) with recent movies such as Syriana, North Country, Good Night, and Good Luck, and Murderball.
HOW CAN MY THEATRICAL PRODUCTION COMPANY, MOreJOy Productions, LLC. get in touch with Mr. Skoll?
Tony Felton
Principal Director, MOJO