EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Lombroso, the journalist and director who helped construct the Oscar-nominated video departments of The New Yorker and The Atlantic, has teamed with veteran comedy producer Kerry Mack to launch new documentary manufacturing firm Outerboro Movies.
Primarily based in Brooklyn, the studio will give attention to tales that go inside the perimeter to seize the absurdity of recent American life. Its first characteristic out of the gate is You’ll Be Happier, a doc on the world of male penis enlargement, with the backing of govt producers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato of World of Surprise (RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Eyes of Tammy Faye), in addition to EPs Penny Lane, Gabriel Sedgwick, and Marcus Gershenberg, and the manufacturing firm Madhouse Movies.
Following a homosexual Texas businessman striving to make penis enlargement as frequent as Botox, You’ll Be Happier is at present in put up and will probably be prepared for a 2026 pageant run. Different initiatives on Outerboro’s 2026 slate embody a Jewish-inspired marathon movie that follows up on Lombroso’s award-winning quick with Errol Morris, Nina & Irena; a tv present about New York’s most iconic driving faculty teacher with the manufacturing firm Voyager; and a movie on Christian Nationalism, premiering in The New Yorker this Might.
Lombroso and Mack shared that their hope with Outerboro Movies will probably be to hold immersive journalism ahead by means of a interval of market turmoil.
Stated Lombroso, who started his profession by spending 4 years embedded with white nationalist teams for his acclaimed characteristic White Noise, “On this second of political disaster, we’re energized by the bizarre, the gonzo, the perimeter. At Outerboro movies, we wish to inform tales inside America’s underbelly.”
Coming to companion with Lombroso after collaborating with the multi-hyphenate on Proof of Idea, a comedic quick starring Richard Sort, Mack mentioned that it’s the duo’s shared comedic sensibility that drew them collectively. “As Daniel and I embark on this thrilling new enterprise,” she added, “we’re thrilled that collectively we will make clear our turbulent instances, whereas offering the much-needed levity audiences are craving.”
Repped by WME, administration firm Curate, and Granderson Des Rochers, Lombroso’s work for The New Yorker and The Atlantic spanned almost a decade. His debut characteristic, White Noise, premiered to vital acclaim in 2020, being named one of many yr’s prime documentaries by Vox and The Boston Globe. Lombroso’s movie, Nina & Irena, was one of the crucial adorned quick documentaries of 2023. His work has premiered at Sundance, TIFF and IDFA, and has been acknowledged with eight Vimeo Employees Picks, two Nationwide Journal Award nominations, an IDA nomination, and point out on the Forbes 30 Beneath 30 listing.
A Publish Supervisor, in addition to a producer, Mack’s initiatives have screened worldwide at movie festivals and could be seen on Hulu, Netflix, Max, PBS, The New Yorker and extra. Her most up-to-date initiatives — The Ultimate Minimize, written and directed by Sascha Seinfeld and starring Henry Winkler, and Proof of Idea — are at present on the pageant circuit.
