Danyelle Foord - Open Pitch Session

Danyelle Foord is the Vice President of Development & Production of Big Cat Productions. She produced SUMMER '03 which premiered at the 2018 SXSW and premiered theatrically later that Fall; AMERICAN OUTLAWS, which premiered at the 2023 Santa Barbara Film Festival and was written and directed by Sean McEwen who was an Executive Producer on Sam Levinson (EUPHORIA)'s first film ANOTHER HAPPY DAY; and THE LINE starring Alex Wolfe and Halle Bailey which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. Prior to Big Cat Productions Danyelle worked for Aaron Kaplan at Kapital Entertainment, where she helped develop numerous television shows, including LIFE IN PIECES for CBS, SANTA CLARITA DIET for Netflix and DIVORCE for HBO. Danyelle then went on to work at Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, where she worked on films such as LOWRIDERS, AMERICAN MADE, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Doug Liman and INFERNO directed by Ron Howard. Big Cat Productions is dedicated to empowering new, diverse and unique filmmakers, whose voices inspire, educate and entertain, Big Cat’s current projects include: ONE DOLLAR, a Paramount+ series directed by Craig Zobel. Additionally, Big Cat is developing an under-wraps film project with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali as well as a Roe v. Wade project based on the autobiography of Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who argued and won the case at just 26 years old, becoming the youngest person in history ever to do so.