About Advance Originals
Advance Originals is the film and television production company of Advance Local – one of largest local news organizations in the United States, with 24 newspapers, 9 news and information websites, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, and sister company to Condé Nast. We leverage over 200 years of original stories from across the country to develop and produce content for television, digital streaming platforms, and feature films. We partner with independent producers, writers, and directors to create groundbreaking original works.
Advance Originals creates stories of substance – feeding a growing audience that is hungry for something real.
Stories that change lives. Stories with personality and authenticity. Stories relevant to your world.
Recent projects include the HBO Max docu-series Lost Women of Highway 20, Chasing Corruption, winner of the 2019 INMA Award, Pulled Over Pulled Under, based on Pulitzer-Prize winning reporting, and the Emmy-nominated Whitman, AL.
Team
MARSHA OGLESBY infuses passion with experience. An award-winning film, television, and digital content producer, she brings 25 years of film industry expertise to Advance Originals, and a singular intuition for what works on-screen.
Prior to Advance Originals, Oglesby was an in-house producer at Indigenous Media – a multiplatform digital channel on both Hulu and YouTube that broke new ground with award-winning scripted dramas and unscripted short documentaries. She was Director of Operations at Wigs which inked a programming, marketing and distribution partnership with FOX Broadcasting Company in 2013. She has produced feature films, such as Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Rules of Attraction and Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won its category “Un Certain Regard” at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Other television projects include the hit USA limited series The Starter Wife, for which she was nominated for an Emmy for Best Mini-Series, and as a Producer of the Year Award by the Producer’s Guild. She co-produced the NBC mini-series, Uprising, which earned her the prestigious Christopher Award in 2001. Oglesby attended Southern Methodist University and the University of Pittsburgh, Semester at Sea.
JUSTIN YURKANIN is the Director of Production for Red Clay Media, where he was instrumental is developing the company’s slate of social media brands, including the south’s most popular comedy brand, “It’s a Southern Thing.” Yurkanin has 16 years experience as a photojournalist, videographer, producer and editor, and won an Emmy Award for his investigative journalism about unjustified police shootings in Las Vegas. He is a graduate of Syracuse University.
SYDNEY BATTEN comes to Advance Originals after 10 years creating immersive experiences for the public. As a writer and designer at Occurrent Arts in New York, she created works for clients and art festivals such as Figment Festival, Northside, and SXSW Interactive. She co-founded Cosimo, a location-based audio tour app, and was involved in content creation and community building. Batten is a graduate of Emory University.
Contact Us
To contact us please go through our manager: Susan Solomon at Circle Management + Production.
Susan Solomon
susan@circlemp.com
(310) 691-7030
Circle Management + Production (formerly Circle of Confusion) is a premiere management and production destination for exceptional actors, writers, directors, content creators, publishers and journalists. Circle is active in creating a broad spectrum of television series and feature films, and specializes in the discovery of original, unique and compelling voices. We proudly support diverse artists from all backgrounds and actively encourage creative freedom. With offices in Los Angeles and New York, Circle Management + Production serves clients and productions throughout the world.
