A documentary production and editorial company focused on producing high-end, archive-based films that tell stories about surprising characters and worlds.
Deep Cut Media is an Emmy Award-winning production and editorial house founded by Joe Beshenkovsky and James Smith. They have respectively edited and produced multiple award-winning films and television programs, among them The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, Jane, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, and This American Life.
Since starting Deep Cut in 2019, the company has worked on projects for HBO, Universal, Concordia, and American Zoetrope. In 2022, they collaborated with filmmakers Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio on the two-part documentary George Carlin's American Dream, which won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Documentary or Nonfiction Special and the ACE Award for Best Edited Non-Theatrical Documentary. In 2023, they produced the documentary Flipside, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Their first film as directors, Mata Hari, premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival in September 2025, where it won the Venezia Classici Award for Best Documentary on Cinema.
Their most recent collaboration with Judd Apatow, Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! is currently airing on HBO. Deep Cut also provides editorial and production services for documentary films and television programs such as Wild Boys: Strangers in Town for Paramount+, aka Mr Chow for HBO, and 2025 Doc NYC Audience Award Runner-Up The Big Cheese.
Deep Cut is based in New York and Los Angeles.
Clients: HBO, Universal, Concordia, American Zoetrope, Paramount+, ABC
Deep Cut provides editorial and production services for documentary films and television programs. We can handle everything from setting up the project to archival research, editing to finishing. To learn what we can do, click here.
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