EXCLUSIVE: Object & Animal, the manufacturing firm behind the Peabody Award-winning Netflix doc Daughters, has signed with Verve for illustration.
Since its launch in 2018, Object & Animal has turn into one of many main business, music video, and artistic studios on this planet of promoting. With Object & Animal Movies, the corporate continues to scale its ambitions throughout each scripted and unscripted codecs in movie and tv, aiming to construct out a slate of pressing and globally resonant storytelling that shifts tradition and elevates underrepresented voices.
Object & Animal crew at Sundance
Olivia Mascheroni
Object & Animal’s first documentary Daughters premiered at Sundance in 2024, successful each the Viewers Award and the Competition Favourite Award earlier than being acquired by Netflix. Successful a Peabody Award earlier this month, the movie is at present nominated for 2 Information & Documentary Emmy Awards and has additionally obtained BAFTA and DGA Award nominations.
With places of work in London, Los Angeles, and New York, Object & Animal has collaborated with the likes of two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Unhappiness), Bertie Ellwood (Classes in Chemistry, Hawkeye), Oscar Boyson (Our Hero, Balthazar), and artistic polymath FKA twigs.
The corporate’s slate additionally consists of Shuffle, SXSW’s 2025 Grand Jury Documentary winner that exposes how a profit-driven rehabilitation trade exploits habit for monetary acquire; Kiss My Grass, exploring the systemic limitations Black ladies face within the hashish trade, which premiered at this yr’s Tribeca Competition; Fractured States, am exploration of incarceration and systemic inequality premiering on the San Quentin Movie Competition in October; and Whereas We Heal, a present manufacturing that may supply an intimate and ongoing portrait of restoration amid battle in Ukraine. On the scripted facet, their slate consists of the romantic comedy Peak All the things, which premiered at Cannes in Could, with additional tasks to be introduced quickly.
Named a Prime 10 Manufacturing Firm by Advert Age, Object & Animal has twice been awarded UKMVA’s Manufacturing Firm of the Yr, with further honors at exhibits like Cannes Lions, D&AD, AICP, APA, British Arrows, CICLOPE, Clio Awards, MTV VMAs and EMAs. The corporate has additionally obtained three Grammy nominations and, in 2023, earned the UN & Cannes Well being Grand Prix for Good award for its impact-driven work.
“We’re so excited to associate with VERVE. Bryan [Besser], Olivia [Mascheroni], Andy [Stabile] and your entire crew convey expertise, unimaginable vitality and real ardour, and this resonated with us deeply,” stated Dom Thomas of Object & Animal. “Verve’s unwavering help comes at a pivotal second because the Object & Animal model is poised for continued progress and daring new instructions. We’re thrilled to have them in our nook each step of the best way.”
Added Object & Animal’s James Cunningham, “Verve looks like the proper match for Object & Animal Movies. Each corporations satisfaction themselves on championing individuality and voices. And Verve’s ambition to raise up authentic and galvanizing expertise is aligned totally with Object & Animal’s ethos as a manufacturing firm. We couldn’t think about higher companions on this thrilling subsequent section of the Object & Animal model.”
