NEW YORK. APRIL 20, 2022: The award-winning US production company Left/Right, a Red Arrow Studios company, has promoted senior executive Anneka Jones to the role of Chief Content Officer, and welcomes Esther Dere to the team as Executive Producer. Michael Mezaros, a key member of the Left/Right team for over 15 years, has also been promoted to Executive Vice President of Post-Production. This move to bolster its senior executive team allows Left/Right to build on and expand its award-winning and unusually eclectic slate of unscripted content, ranging from The Circus (Showtime) to The New York Times Presents (FX/Hulu) to Ride with Norman Reedus (AMC) to The Zoo (Animal Planet).

Upped from her previous role as Executive Vice President of Development and Current Production at Left/Right, Anneka Jones will continue to oversee development and production, spearhead the company’s talent recruitment efforts, and work with company co-founders Ken Druckerman and Banks Tarver to build on Left/Right’s success. Anneka joined Left/Right at its inception and has had a hand in virtually every pilot or series the company has produced since then.

Throughout her career, Esther Dere has produced unscripted content that runs the gamut from historical documentaries about cannabis, African American culture, and 1980s New York to music biographies and episodic lifestyle shows. Her work has been showcased on Netflix, A&E, ABC, CNBC, and at film festivals globally. Most recently, she produced the feature length documentary Universe about Miles Davis’ protégé Wallace Roney. The film was awarded best music documentary by the International Documentary Association.

Michael Mezaros will continue to oversee the company’s extensive post-production team and facility, as well as its technical operations, while also playing a key role as Executive Producer in Left/Right’s feature documentary unit. Michael’s most recent creative projects include a pair of films commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks for History.

“We are very happy to make these announcements. Anneka, Mike, and Esther are fantastic producers and storytellers, and even better people,” said Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman, co-presidents of Left/Right.

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About Left/Right

LEFT/RIGHT has produced hundreds of hours of television in an extraordinarily eclectic mix of genres ranging from hard-hitting documentaries to side-splitting comedies, covering topics from sex to secret societies to stand-up comedy to science fiction to school segregation. Past and present productions include the groundbreaking political series THE CIRCUS (Showtime), multiple episodes of the acclaimed investigative series FRONTLINE (PBS), the buzzy documentary THE NEW YORK TIMES PRESENTS: FRAMING BRITNEY SPEARS (FX and Hulu), and our award-winning TV adaptation of the popular public radio show THIS AMERICAN LIFE (Showtime). Our shows have been nominated for numerous Emmy® Awards and have won multiple awards, including a Peabody® and the Emmy® for Best Nonfiction Series. Left/Right is a Red Arrow Studios company.

About Red Arrow Studios

Red Arrow Studios is one of the world’s leading creators and distributors of entertainment content. Red Arrow Studios is comprised of TV distributor Red Arrow Studios International as well as production companies in seven territories. The group’s significant output includes scripted, non-scripted and formatted content and IP, from TV and film to short-form and branded content, made for an array of global networks and platforms. Red Arrow Studios is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE. For more information, please visit: sevenonestudios.com