# Uncommon Productions

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{{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](/source/Boston) and [Los Angeles, California](/source/Los_Angeles%2C_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](/source/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](/source/mountain_top_removal) documentary ''[The Last Mountain](/source/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.](/source/Robert_Kennedy_Jr.), and the [NAACP Image Award](/source/NAACP_Image_Award) nominated drama ''[American Violet](/source/American_Violet)'' about drug enforcement, starring [Nicole Beharie](/source/Nicole_Beharie), [Anthony Mackie](/source/Anthony_Mackie), [Will Patton](/source/Will_Patton), [Alfre Woodard](/source/Alfre_Woodard), [Tim Blake Nelson](/source/Tim_Blake_Nelson), and [Charles S. Dutton](/source/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](/source/The_Price_of_Sugar_(2007_film))''. 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](/source/Cracking_the_Code%3A_Phil_Sharp_and_the_Biotech_Revolution)'' (2025), a film about Nobel laureate [Phillip Allen Sharp](/source/Phillip_Allen_Sharp) for his role in discovering [RNA splicing](/source/RNA_splicing), and narrated by [Mark Ruffalo](/source/Mark_Ruffalo).
* ''Jim Allison: Breakthrough'' (2019) about Nobel laureate [James P. Allison](/source/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](/source/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](/source/The_Last_Mountain)'' (2011), which received the [Pare Lorentz](/source/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](/source/The_Price_of_Sugar_(2007_film))'' (2007), which won the Emerging Visions audience award at [SXSW](/source/South_by_Southwest)<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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Crusade%3A_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](/source/La_MaMa_Experimental_Theatre_Club) in New York City. ''The Poisoner,'' written by M. M. Haney, was inspired by the [Flint water crisis](/source/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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