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Participant Media
Producer, Executive Vice President of Production at Participant Media
PROFILE
Jonathan King
Guest
FROM Jonathan King
The Business
Participant Media Makes 'Snitch' Participant Media is known as the socially-conscious production company whose emphasis on the bottom line is matched with an equal emphasis on social good. We talk with Jonathan King, Executive Vice President of Production at Participant, and stunt man turned filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh about their new movie, Snitch .
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