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Cinematic
Feature craft on every format, including the vertical cut.
5 Emmy Wins / Senior Producer, Trafficked
A Studio ForAmbitiousNonfiction
A slate built for the way audiences discover entertainment now. Working with filmmakers, brands and platforms, Early Days develops cinematic documentary stories and formats that travel across digital, series and feature distribution.
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01PositioningFilm / Series / Digital
Built for achanging medialandscape
Early Days was created to build premium nonfiction for a changing media landscape. We develop stories with cinematic craft and modern distribution in mind, and a partnership model that lets entertainment and brands work together in more meaningful ways.
Four things we hold to, on every format.
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Nonfiction
Real subjects, real access, no reenactment shortcuts.
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Modern
Digital first by default. Built for where audiences already are.
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Early
In at the start, with brands, filmmakers and platforms.
02FeaturedIn Production
HumanEdge
The invisible work behind moments that look effortless on screen.
Documentary Series / Sport / Performance / 2026
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04CapabilityFunding to distribution
The entirepipeline, underone roof
We come in at the start and stay through the edit. Four stages, one team, and a funding model agreed before anyone rolls.
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Development
We come in at the start, when a story is still an argument with itself.
- Story development
- Pitch materials
- Talent & access strategy
- Brand alignment
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Production
Small crews, hard places, no unnecessary overhead.
- Field production
- Global logistics
- Crew & equipment
- Cinematography
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Post Production
Post is where the story is refined and elevated.
- Editorial
- Color & finishing
- Sound design & mix
- Multi-platform deliverables
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Brand Partnership
Brands help finance the work and sit inside the story, not beside it.
- Brand financing
- Narrative led integration
- Category exclusivity
- Usage rights & licensing
05Press & Recognition3 features
October 2025DeSean Jackson'sremarkable firstseason is nowa docuseries
Cameras inside the locker room and inside the Jackson family, from the day he took the job.
- Project
- Inside the Hornet's Nest
- Credit
- Executive Producer
- Words
- Tony Maglio
06Previous WorkFounder credits, before Early Days
Five seasons, concluded 2026
Trafficked
with Mariana van Zeller / National Geographic / Documentary Series
Senior ProducerPaul Burger
Black market economies reported from inside them. Across five seasons it became the most nominated series in the history of the News and Documentary Emmys, and took seven wins for its final season.
5Emmy wins
on this series
on this series
- 2026EmmyBrides for Sale
- 2026EmmyShark Hunters
- 2026EmmyStreet Racing
- 2025EmmyHash Smugglers
- 2024EmmyBlack Market Babies
Full credit list on request
07CollaboratorsPast and present
National Geographic
Disney
Hulu
Vice Sports
Nikon
RED
Mosaic Media House
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