{"id":22578,"date":"2025-02-07T09:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/alex-gibney-sells-majority-stake-in-jigsaw\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:11:49","slug":"alex-gibney-sells-majority-stake-in-jigsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/alex-gibney-sells-majority-stake-in-jigsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Gibney Sells Majority Stake in Jigsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney has sold a majority stake in his Jigsaw Productions to philanthropist Wendy Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms were not disclosed. Gibney will continue to run the company, which is behind such docs as <em>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room<\/em>,<em> Going Clear: Scientology &amp; the Prison of Belief<\/em> and the Oscar-winning <em>Taxi to the Dark Side<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The New York-based company also has a nonfiction TV business and a podcast division and currently employs 15 people.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Schmidt is married to Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google. Schmidt\u2019s investment will allow Jigsaw to hire more staff and expand to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been managing to make films on important social issues for a long time, but finding and getting those stories to audiences has been a challenge, in part because of the consolidation of the entertainment industry,\u201d Gibney said in an interview with<em> The New York Times<\/em>. \u201cBy partnering with Wendy, we\u2019re making sure that Jigsaw is around for the long haul.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney has sold a majority stake in his Jigsaw Productions to philanthropist Wendy Schmidt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":22580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[194,219],"class_list":["post-22578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-alex-gibney","tag-jigsaw-productions","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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