GROUNDBREAKING MOVIE MILESTONES
We champion content that breaks boundaries and conventional norms.
DIRECTORS WE'VE WORKED WITH
We are honored to have worked with some of the world’s visionary directors who have transformed the art of storytelling.
ABOUT US
Picturehouse is a Los Angeles-based content marketing and distribution company led by CEO Bob Berney and COO Jeanne R. Berney. The company acquires, markets and distributes global content across all platforms. Originally formed in 2005 as a joint venture between Time Warner’s HBO Films and New Line Cinema, the Picturehouse brand has a long history of storied excellence.
BOB BERNEY
Chief Executive Officer
JEANNE R. BERNEY
Chief Operating Officer
Jeanne Berney, COO of Picturehouse, is an experienced entertainment and brand marketer. Skilled at reaching diverse audiences, her career includes Miramax Films, Savoy Pictures, Rysher Entertainment and FilmDistrict. Along with her team, her campaigns have won numerous awards including two prestigious “Key Art” awards for the films DRIVE and THE RUM DIARY. She ran the Film and Digital Entertainment Group at Rogers and Cowan and built a client base including studios, production companies and brands like SKYY Vodka and Microsoft. She served as Director of Public Relations and Marketing at the Film Society of Lincoln Center overseeing the Society’s year round content programming including the New York Film Festival. Ms. Berney is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the European Film Academy and a Board member of The American Friends of Film at TIFF.
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WHAT WE DO
Creative & Marketing
- A/V
- Posters
- Digital/Social
- Paid Media
- Publicity
Distribution
- Theatrical
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Audience Engagement
- Genre Specialists
- Multicultural
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- Tastemakers/Influencers
Content
- Acquisition
- Development
- Production
Picturehouse connects great filmmakers to the best audiences.
PRESS
National Geographic Dominates PGA Award Documentary Film Nominees With ‘Fire of Love,‘ ’Retrograde‘ and ’The Territory’
National Geographic Films dominated the 2023 Documentary Motion Picture nominees for the upcoming 34th Producers Guild Awards. The studio landed three of the seven spots with “Fire of Love” from Sara Dosa, “Retrograde” from Matthew Heineman and “The Territory” from Alex Pritz.
National Geographic & Picturehouse Drops ‘Retrograde’ Trailer, Announces “Unprecedented” Release Plan For Matthew Heineman’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Documentary
We have your first look at Matthew Heineman’s gripping new film Retrograde from National Geographic Documentary Films, a visceral, ground-level immersion into the last nine months of America’s long war in Afghanistan.
'The Territory' Review: Saving The Amazon, One Camera At A Time
“Save the rainforest” has been a constant refrain among environmentalist groups for the past half-century, but no recent film captures the immediacy of the threat better than “The Territory,” Alex Pritz’s documentary feature debut, which had its premiere earlier this year at Sundance.
‘The Territory’ Trailer: National Geographic Film Documents Conflict In Amazon Rainforest Between Indigenous Tribes And Land-Grabbing Settlers
EXCLUSIVE: The murder of a British journalist and his Indigenous guide earlier this month in Brazil’s Amazon underscores the extreme peril involved in trying to protect the rainforest.
The U.S. State Department has condemned the killings of Dom Phillips and his guide Bruno Pereira, saying the men “were murdered for supporting conservation of the rainforest and native peoples there.”
