EFRAN FILMS IS AN EMMY-WINNING PRODUCTION COMPANY THAT CREATES QUALITY FILMS FOR TELEVISION AND DIGITAL RELEASE.
Our clients include Paramount+, Discovery, VICE TV, Oxygen, BRAVO, Cooking Channel, FYI, History Channel, ABC, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Thrillist, The Weather Channel, Telemundo, Netflix, and many more.
Efran Films was founded by Emmy and Peabody-winning producer Shawn Efran.
Awards
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2023
Canadian Screen Awards
Nominee - Best Factual Series
Never Seen Again
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2021
GI Film Festival San Diego
Local Film Showcase - Best Short
The Farm
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2019
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Report
Hidden Cost: Our Laws Have Not Kept Up With The Climate
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2018
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Report
The Source: The Human Cost Hidden Within a Cup of Coffee
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2017
Webby Honoree
Best Corporate Social Responsibility Video
Robin Hood Hero: Moawia Eldeeb (Upworthy)
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2017
Edward R. Murrow Awards
Excellence in Innovation
ASPIREist – Season 1
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2017
The Gerald Loeb Awards
Video Winner
The Source
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2017
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Investigative Journalism in Spanish
Cosecha de Miseria (Harvest of Misery)
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2016
EPPY Awards
Best Community Service on a Media-Affiliated Website
ASPIREist
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2016
EPPY Awards
Best Innovation Project on a Website
ASPIREist
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2016
EPPY Awards
Best Collaborative Investigative / Enterprise Reporting
ASPIREist
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2016
EPPY Awards
Best Enterprise / Investigative Video
ASPIREist – Season 1
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2016
Digiday Awards
Native Advertising / Single Execution
Women in Prison
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2015
New York Press Club
Continuing Coverage
The Real Death Valley
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2015
New York Press Club
Feature Reporting
Virus Hunters
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2015
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Investigative Journalism in Spanish
The Real Death Valley
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2014
Webby Honoree
Sports
Grid Breakers
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2014
Webby Honoree
News and Politics Series
Home of the Brave
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2014
Webby Honoree
Travel & Adventure
Destination Uncharted
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2014
Webby Honoree
News & Politics Series
Brink
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2014
George Polk Awards
Television Reporting
The Real Death Valley
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2014
Society of Professional Journalists
Excellence in Journalism
The Real Death Valley
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2014
Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards
Medal Winner
The Real Death Valley
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2013
Cynopsis Media
Best in Online Video Content & Advertising
Brink
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2013
Cynopsis Media
Best in Online Video Content & Advertising
Home of the Brave
Our Team
Shawn
Efran
FOUNDER AND CEO
Shawn Efran is the founder and CEO of Efran Films. He is a Peabody- and seven-time Emmy-winning producer/director. Before launching Efran Films, Shawn was a producer at CBS’s 60 Minutes and had the good fortune to produce stories from every continent except Australia.
Azadeh
De Leon
EVP, Operations / General Manager
As Efran Films’ General Manager, Azadeh runs Operations and Productions with a focus on strategic planning and growth. She has a degree in physics and is as adept with math as she is TV production, skills she combines to build lasting production systems, which stand the test of time – and quantum instability. Before joining Efran Films, she was Head of Production at Vice Studios, where she oversaw a 25 million dollar portfolio of programming.
Solly
Granatstein
Senior Executive Producer
Solly’s been sweating bullets telling heartfelt TV stories for more years than he'd like to admit. At Efran Films, he's show-running the Paramount+ series Never Seen Again and the Discovery ID series Still A Mystery, after having produced / directed a string of award-winning docs about immigration, child labor and climate change. Pre-Efran, he worked at 60 Minutes, America Divided, Years of Living Dangerously, Dateline NBC and ABC World News Tonight. For fun outside work, Solly trains in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and strives to keep in tune at neighborhood hootenannies.
Kevin
Duncan
EVP, Development
Kevin works in development because it’s the only way to function with adult ADD. In his role as EVP Development, Kevin focuses on story authenticity and great access, but that’s just a fancy way of saying he finds hit shows. Prior to Efran Films, Kevin played a pivotal role in the sale of over 60 series for the likes of Leftfield Pictures, Wheelhouse Entertainment, and Zodiak USA, including ALONE (History), QUEER EYE (Netflix), LOVE ISLAND (CBS), FORGED IN FIRE (History), THE KILLING FIELDS (Discovery), and many others. Kevin also moonlights as a standup comedian because he likes to think he's funny and is a self-proclaimed vfx-driven TikTok star (@kevinthatsweird) with 3.5 million followers.
Anthony
Lappé
Executive Producer
Anthony is a New York-based showrunner. He began his career as a freelance writer for The New York Times and numerous magazines, where he reported from the slums of San Salvador, the battlegrounds of Iraq, and the top of a 200 ft. redwood tree, which is still the scariest thing he's ever done. He's best known for the award-winning VICE series Black Market with Michael K. Williams. The second season of his latest series, While The Rest Of Us Die, narrated by Jeffrey Wright, aired this fall on VICE TV.
Kwaku
Gyetuah
Corporate Controller
Kwaku is a Chartered Professional Accountant, (CPA, CMA Ontario) and also is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA, Delaware). He also holds an MBA(Finance) from the University of Liverpool, UK. Kwaku has been working in the entertainment industry for over 20years and when he is not staring at numbers, he’s probably talking numbers.
Andrew
Skerten
Senior Producer
Andrew has been a fixture of Efran Films since 2017. The Los Angeles-based senior producer started his tv career as a researcher and writer for a kids series in his native New Zealand. He now mostly produces the complete opposite type of content… true crime shows. Andrew loves traveling, trivia nights, and all things popular culture.