{{more citations needed|date=July 2013}} {{Infobox company | name = Uncommon Productions | industry = Entertainment | founded = 2000 | founder = Tim Disney Bill Haney | hq_location = Boston, MA Los Angeles, CA | key_people = Tim Disney Bill Haney Maura McCarthy Haney | products = Film, Stage plays | website = www.uncommonproductions.com }} '''Uncommon Productions''', LLC is an independent film company based in Boston, Massachusetts and Los Angeles, California.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uncommonproductions.com/copy-of-breakthrough|title=ABOUT|website=Uncommon|language=en|access-date=2020-04-15}}</ref> Founded in 2000 by Bill Haney and Tim Disney, Uncommon's films tend to focus on social issues. Recent films include cancer immunotherapy documentary, ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/four-stars-for-a-cancer-documentary-yes-jim-allison-breakthrough-is-that-good/2019/10/02/c5d01320-dfd4-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html?arc404=true Jim Allison: Breakthrough],'' mountain top removal documentary ''The Last Mountain''<ref name="ncr">{{cite news|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-259595763|title=New documentary exposes America's big dirty secret|last=Pacatte|first=Rose|author-link=Rose Pacatte|date=10 June 2011|work=National Catholic Reporter |via=|url-access=|accessdate=}}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref> featuring Robert Kennedy Jr., and the NAACP Image Award nominated drama ''American Violet'' about drug enforcement, starring Nicole Beharie, Anthony Mackie, Will Patton, Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson, and Charles S. Dutton.
In 2007 the owners of a Dominican Republic sugar plantation sued the company for defamation because of the way they were portrayed in the Uncommon Productions film ''The Price of Sugar''. In August 2010, a Federal judge ruled in favor of the filmmakers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McElwee |first=Joshua J. |title=Judge OKs sugar plantation documentary |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/judge-oks-sugar-plantation-documentary |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=www.ncronline.org |language=en}}</ref>
==Filmography==
===Documentaries=== * ''Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution'' (2025), a film about Nobel laureate Phillip Allen Sharp for his role in discovering RNA splicing, and narrated by Mark Ruffalo. * ''Jim Allison: Breakthrough'' (2019) about Nobel laureate James P. Allison, which won the following awards: the 2020 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Award Winners {{!}} AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards |url=https://sjawards.aaas.org/awards/field_award_year/2020-88 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=sjawards.aaas.org}}</ref> 2021 Award for Scientific Merit at the Scinema International Science Film Festival,<ref>{{Cite web |title=SCINEMA International Science Film Festival 2021 Award Winners |url=https://scinema.org.au/award-winners-2021/ |access-date=2023-07-04 |language=en-AU}}</ref> and the 2019 "Golden Owl" award at the Bergen International Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Årets prisvinnere 2019! |url=https://www.biff.no/article1412093.ece?language=english |access-date=2020-04-15 |website=BIFF.no}}</ref> * ''The Last Mountain'' (2011), which received the Pare Lorentz Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.documentary.org/blog/last-mountain-receive-ida-pare-lorentz-award|title=The Last Mountain to Receive IDA Pare Lorentz Award|date=2011-11-02|website=International Documentary Association|language=en|access-date=2020-04-15}}</ref> * ''The Price of Sugar'' (2007), which won the Emerging Visions audience award at SXSW<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-204418610|title=Film marks new round in battle over sugar |last=Roberts|first=Tom|date=10 July 2009|work=National Catholic Reporter |via= |url-access=|accessdate=}}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-237362813|title=Judge oks sugar plantation documentary|last=McElwee|first=Joshua|date=3 September 2010|work=National Catholic Reporter |via= |url-access=|accessdate=}}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmthreat.com/uncategorized/2007-sxsw-film-festival-announces-award-winners/|title=2007 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AWARD WINNERS {{!}} Film Threat|date=2007-03-14|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-15}}</ref> * ''A Life Among Whales'' (2005) * ''Racing Against the Clock'' (2004)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LH&s_site=kentucky&p_multi=LH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10F47CA8E0F45338&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Documentary runs right over ideas about limits of age|date=January 20, 2006|work=Lexington Herald-Leader|accessdate=23 July 2013}}</ref> * ''Gift of the Game'' (2002), which won the "Best of the Festival" award at the Woods Hole Film Festival<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/148765701.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+11%2C+2002&author=LOREN+KING&pub=Boston+Globe&desc=%60GIFT%27+WINS+WOODS+HOLE+HONORS&pqatl=google|title="Gift" wins Woods Hole honors|last=King|first=Loren|date=August 11, 2002|work=Boston Globe|accessdate=23 July 2013}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
===Feature films=== * ''What We Find on the Road'' (2024) * ''William'' (2019) * ''American Violet'' (2008)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-216073767.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325224601/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-216073767.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 March 2016|title=ACLU honors Regina Kelly|date=24 August 2009|work=States News Service|accessdate=22 July 2013}}</ref> * ''Crusade: A March Through Time'' (2006) * ''Tempesta'' (2005) * ''A Question of Faith'' (2000)
== Theater == In 2024, Uncommon Productions made its theatrical debut with ''The Poisoner'', staged at the renowned La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City. ''The Poisoner,'' written by M. M. Haney, was inspired by the Flint water crisis, and is a cautionary tale unraveling of the deception, abuse of power, and utter negligence of early 2000’s Midwestern water politics.
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website}}
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