Campfire Studios

Campfire Studios is an American Emmy award-winning production company working on a vast range of content that covers all mediums, from scripted to non-fiction, for both feature film and TV/streaming platforms.

Overview

Campfire Studios was founded by Ross M. Dinerstein in October 2014, with its headquarters located in Culver City, California. Dinerstein has produced, or executive produced 70+ series and films and believes that the rise in streaming services will help Campfire to reach new heights. Campfire’s distributes projects on multiple streamers, including Netflix, Hulu, and Max. Dinerstein’s series and films have debuted at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Hot Docs, and TIFF.

Campfire and Dinerstein have signed with UTA after gathering multiple credits from scripted and unscripted, ranging from feature films to TV/streaming projects, for worldwide representation in all areas.

Campfire’s recent projects include the MAX Original series Smartless on the Road, the Netflix Original series Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators, HBO Max Originals The Way Down and Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty, Netflix's Neymar: Perfect Chaos (seen by over 50 million subscribers in its first week), and the Independent Lens/PBS documentary TikTok, Boom. Other notable projects include the Emmy-winning Hulu documentary WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary, FX’s Hysterical and The Most Dangerous Animal of All, HBO Max's Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults, FX’s and Netflix’s The Innocent Man (which contributed to a federal judge overturning the wrongful conviction of subject Karl Fontenot and Tommy Ward after 36 years behind bars), two seasons of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated scripted series Special, documentaries Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Silicon Cowboys, A Glitch in the Matrix, David Fincher’s VOIR, scripted feature The Pact, the Netflix Original Films Rattlesnake, Stephen King’s 1922, The Package, Rebirth, and 6 Balloons. Campfire’s first foray into podcasting, Abuse of Power with David Rudolf and Sonya Pfeiffer, won the 2021 Webby for the best Limited True Crime Series and was picked up by Audible for two more seasons.

In 2019, Campfire become part of the media, marketing, and investment company Wheelhouse, created by Brent Montgomery and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. This partnership enabled Campfire to more than double its outcome from an average of two to five projects annually to roughly 10 and also enabled the company to quadruple its staff.

Campfire recently won the Emmy for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary for WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn.

Team

• Ross M. Dinerstein, Founder and CEO

• Ross Girard, Chief Operating Officer

• Rebecca Evans, Executive Vice President, Non-fiction content

• Mark McCune, Senior Vice President, Production and Operations

• Ryan Christians, Senior Vice President, Scripted Content