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We are a team of entertainment executives and creatives with a wide reach. Collectively, our work has been featured on FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, WE, USA, HISTORY, MAX, DISCOVERY, DISCOVERY KIDS, ANIMAL PLANET, BRAVO, E!, NAT GEO, MTV, UNIVISION, TELEVISA, Canal +, and developed in partnership with top production companies.
Innovation in Entertainment
We adopt new production and post-production technologies while adhering to traditional modes of filmmaking. We're at the forefront of blending unscripted filmmaking with scripted projects. We continuously study trends in funding and distribution channels. We maintain relationships in the United States and abroad.
CREWS
We work with an Emmy-winning crew of Producers, Directors, DP's, camera operators, sound engineers and editors who make some of the most popular shows in the world, including: Selling Sunset, Abbott Elementary, Survivor, The Bachelor and all flavors of the Housewives.
ERIC GARDNER
Eric Gardner is a Partner at Neighborhood Pictures. Eric grew up in Oregon City, Oregon and attended college at Columbia University in New York City, and the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles. He has worked in non-fiction television and independent feature films for over 20 years as a producer, director, editor, DP and writer.
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He spent 10 years as a showrunner and fixer for NBC/Universal including Executive Producer of Below Deck season 2 and directing the pilot for The Family Stallone reality series.
He joined Shahs of Sunset on season one, and for 8 seasons (as Executive Producer), helped make it one of the most popular series on Bravo. He also baked a deeper cultural message into the series as reported by The Daily Beast: “They row, gaslight, and misbehave like any stars of a Bravo reality show. But from food to kinship, language to nostalgia, the cultural pulse of ‘Shahs of Sunset’ is meaningful.”
He received six Emmy nominations for his work as an Editor on Survivor. As a Director, he has won several awards, including best feature film at the Big Bear Lake Film Festival for Under The Influence, starring Peter Greene.
He was Senior Editor of Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction, one of Fox's highest rated specials, and received world-wide attention when he co-wrote, produced and edited the feature film: Breakaway, an action/comedy feature film starring the infamous Tonya Harding.
His diverse credits include editing MTV’s The Real World Los Angeles, Producer/DP of Queenas a feature length documentary about Latino drag queens in Los Angeles, financed by Canal + and The Danish Film Board, Co-Producer and Editor of Great Streets: Champs Élysées starring Halle Berry for PBS, and Co-Writer, Producer and Editor of the feature documentary, Confessions of a CEO featuring Deepak Chopra, which will be released by Virgil films in 2025.
He is a long time literacy advocate who sits on the board of The Hubbell Difference foundation, and co-wrote and produced feature documentaries Dislecksia: The Movie, featuring Billy Bob Thornton, and Hopeville: How To Win The Reading Wars.
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Gardner is a member of The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and The Directors Guild of America.
ALEX BEECH
Maria Alexandria Beech is a Partner at Neighborhood Pictures. Alex is a US-educated, Venezuelan American screenwriter, stage writer, and producer living in Los Angeles. She attended college at Columbia University and earned two Masters in Fine Arts at Columbia University at New York University. She has worked as a producer, talent, and stage writer for over twenty five years.
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Alex was the Executive Producer and Host of Los Empresarios and Empresa 2000 on Univision and a Producer and On-Air Reporter at Expansion Financiera of Televisa. She produced and co-hosted The Summit at The Hollywood Improv, a live show with SNL comedian Darrell Hammond. She produced and hosted La Hora de La Guitarra Clasica, a popular radio show in Spanish. She was a field producer in the upcoming documentary, Confessions of a CEO.
Her screenplay Constance is in pre-production with Director Mark Pellington, Producer Vincent Newman, and sales agent Prolific Content. Her screenplay with Eric Gardner Foodie Heaven is in pre-production.
At Neighborhood Pictures, Alex has developed Virtual Vice, Plasticland, LA Legal, HIT, Food for Love, Fire, Karaoke Kidnap, In God we Trust, and The Big Cheese Challenge. Her TV comedy series TeleMamas was a finalist in the Sundance Episodic Lab. Alex developed TeleMamas at Wise Entertainment with Curb Your Enthusiasm Executive Producer Tim Gibbons. In addition, she collaborated with TV Writer and Producer Mando Alvarado in the development of the scripted series, Revelation.
Her theatrical work has been performed in New York, Colorado, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, South Korea, and Venezuela. Her musicals in development include Blue Skies with Christie Baugher (recipient of 2022 Jonathan Larson Grant and Ascap Workshop) and Bayouland with Brett Macias. Her musical Class was a finalist in The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Her plays include: Infinity Pond (Primary Stages/Theater Masters; Palm Beach Theatre Festival; Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival) Good Friends (New American Voices Festival; Crossing Borders Festival; Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages), Saving the Lives of Strangers (Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages), Charity (Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages), Breaking Walls (Cherry Lane Theatre), Little Monsters (Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages; Primary Stages and Brandeis Theater Company; 101 Plays by The New Americans, or on Latinidad), What Are You Doing Here? (Outstanding Playwriting Award, Planet Connections Festivity), The Islands (Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages; Steppenwolf Theatre Company‘s The Mix), Gloria (Readings, EST and Intar), The One Chicken Show (Women Writers Group, Dorset Theater Festival; Nolan Doran at Here Arts Center), and Tycoon.
Her memoir essay Fidel and Me of her interview of President Fidel Castro of Cuba is featured in the top-rated AudibleTalking While Female and Other Dangerous Acts. Her poem, Ode to Picture Frames is included in the film, Ode to Possibilities.
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As a literary translator, Alex translated several plays that were produced in the US.
​Alex was the recipient of The Aspen Theater Masters’ Visionary Award and was in the Aspen Scholars Program.
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