About Us

Priority Pictures is a production and financing company dedicated to developing, financing and producing high quality content for the worldwide marketplace. Producers Lizzie Friedman, Greg Little, and Karen Lauder formed the company after several successful collaborations and a common belief in the positive power of storytelling. Their 2019 documentary, Momentum Generation, directed by award winning documentarians Jeff and Mike Zimbalist featuring Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, and Shane Dorian won an Emmy for Best Sports Documentary. They also produced The Land, directed by Steven Caple Jr, starring Erykah Badu and executive produced by Nas and The Stanford Prison Experiment, directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. Both films premiered at The Sundance Film Festival to excellent reviews and received prestigious awards. Other credits include Bel Canto, an adaptation of Ann Patchett's best-selling novel starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe, Ride, written and directed by Helen Hunt and Michael Thelin's psychological thriller, Emelie. A La Calle, a documentary about the tumultuous political climate in Venezuela featuring intimate interviews with Leopoldo Lopez and other Venezuelan activists, will premiere on HBO Max in Fall 2021. Among titles in development are a TV adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, created by Frankie Shaw and starring Dakota Fanning for Showtime, Sam Jones, created by Gretchen Enders for Peacock/Legendary TV, Tinaca Jones, created by Matt Boren which will star Retta, An adaptation of Erica Jong’s iconic novel Fear of Flying for Tristar Television, The Beautiful Cigar Girl, created by Anna Fishko, and a documentary series, Techlash, created by Emmett Malloy.