Kate Sargeant
Founder/CEO
Kate started her career in the entertainment industry at the age of eleven as “Emily” in the cult classic film 3 Ninjas, directed by Jon Turteltaub. After appearing in numerous films, television shows, and commercials, she went on to attend U.C. Berkeley, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in English and Dramatic Arts.
She earned her master’s degree in Text and Performance Studies from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she wrote, directed and produced her original play Revolving Door. It premiered in London and went on tour to the renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Since returning to Los Angeles, she has written and produced multiple television shows including CASTLE (ABC), CSI: CYBER (CBS), NCIS NOLA (CBS), BLINDSPOT (NBC), OBLITERATED (NETFLIX), and THE ROOKIE FEDS (ABC).
Kate has also been working as a Story Producer in Unscripted Television in the field and in post-production. There she honed her interviewing and editing skills. She has worked on LOVE IS BLIND (NETFLIX), AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR (NBC), CLAIM TO FAME (ABC), and PERFECT MATCH (NETFLIX).
Kate founded Venus Rising Productions in order to bring her storytelling, producing, and editing expertise to the legal world.
Jason Shoup
Producer
As a teenager, Jason fell in love with cinema and went on to study filmmaking at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He eventually specialized in producing, where his proposed graduation thesis film was an adaptation of a Woody Allen short story. The catch: in order for the film school to greenlight Jason’s project, he had to get Woody Allen’s permission…
After several months of trying to contact the famous filmmaker, he finally reached Woody’s lawyer, who eventually helped Jason secure the release, and he was able to make his final film school project.
The challenging experience taught Jason the power of persistence and tenacity, and he applied it to his future work in the film industry, where he worked for Untitled Entertainment, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, G4TV, and the Independent Film and Television Alliance, as well as running an e-commerce business and co-founding PlayLab, an indoor playspace company, inspired by his then toddler-aged daughter.
While his professional life has followed many turns, Jason has always maintained a love of filmmaking and storytelling in all its forms, from YouTube comedy sketches made with fellow film school alumni, to advocacy videos for the Marine Life Protection Act hearings, to his current work helping legal clients tell their stories in the most powerful and moving ways possible.
Eric Zambrowicz
Producer
Eric Zambrowicz is a producer and filmmaker with more than a decade of experience working in unscripted television and documentary storytelling. His credits include primetime programs across ABC, Amazon Prime, CBS, Fox, HBO, NBC, Netflix, and TBS.
Eric specializes in interviewing people from a wide variety of backgrounds, identifying the most important elements of their stories, and shaping hours of interviews and footage into concise, emotionally engaging narratives.
By combining documentary-style interviews with the storytelling techniques of unscripted television, he helps law firms present the people behind their cases and show how an injury, workplace dispute, or other life-changing event has affected a client and their family.
