EXCLUSIVE: Amplify Pictures, the indie studio behind HBO’s Emmy-winning film 100 foot wave and what is to come Legends for Nat Geo/Disney+ has given the green light for development LA nativea new half-hour comedy series written and created by Siena East (Clone high).
The show centers on Genoa Now, a conflicted 20-something Native American in Los Angeles trying to make friends and connect with her Native American culture. Chadd Gindin, East’s collaborator on the Fox animated series Grimsburgwill serve as showrunner and executive producer on the project alongside Amplify Pictures.
“We are in a truly incredible time for Indigenous television, thanks to years of hard work by Indigenous artists who have fought to ensure our stories are told,” East said in a statement to Deadline. “It is so exciting to be able to develop a show that is close to my heart. An indigenous story about an unlikely hero who makes unlikely decisions that leave my mother exhausted. What is this personal? Probably.”
Joe Lewis, CEO of Amplify Pictures, added that the company is “extremely pleased to be collaborating with Siena on the incredibly fun film.” LA native. A groundbreaking comedy requires major investment in incredible new voices, and Siena is that and more.”
A Choctaw author and comedian, East’s writing credits include Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Clone high Revival for Max and Fox Grimsburg. As an actress, she was recently cast in Sterling Harjo’s FX pilot The sensitive kind starring Ethan Hawke and also appeared in Max’s The sex lives of college girls.
The co-creator and executive producer of GrimsburgThe first season of which ends on May 12th and has been renewed for a second season is one of Gindin’s other achievements as a writer and producer of the series Together we fall, Ryan Hansen solves crimes on television, Santa Clarita Diet, The Millers And Up all nightto name just a few.
Best known for the acclaimed surf documentaries 100 foot wave, now in its third season, Amplify Pictures is led by Lewis and his partners Rachel Eggebeen and Colin King Miller, who serve as chief content officer and chief operating officer, respectively. The company recently expanded its theatrical production division and received its first Tony nomination as co-producer of Gutenberg! The musical!, featuring Grammy winners Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells. Directed by Smriti Mundhra, Documentaries by Amplify Legends about the high-stakes world of competitive collegiate Bollywood fusion dance will debut later this year on Nat Geo/Disney+. The first season of his new podcast I’m pretty sure I can flyhosted by Johnny Knoxville and Elna Baker and produced in association with SmartLess Media and Campside Media, is available now.