Your sightline is a hypothetical line from your eye to what is seen - your visibility. At Sightline Pictures, we aim to raise the visibility of the issues at the core of our projects in the minds and hearts of our audience. Sightline also implies a direct, laser-focused, vision toward a goal. Ours is entertaining audiences while telling impactful stories with a purpose.

Sightline focuses on producing meaningful, premium content across film, television, documentary, and digital. We are passionate about telling big, bold, purposeful stories for a global audience, with a strong emphasis on human, wildlife, conservation, and climate stories. We believe in stories that entertain and drive action.

Sightline also bridges the world of scripted film and television with natural history. We believe in expanding the audience for impact-driven filmmaking, and that means bringing everyone together under the same tent.

BRYAN STANKUS, FOUNDER & CEO

Bryan Stankus is an experienced producer and development executive with over a decade in the film and television business. After having worked for major studios, global film financiers, and talent agencies, Bryan formed Sightline Pictures to combine his experience in the entertainment industry with his lifelong passion for wildlife, conservation, and climate initiatives. Bryan focuses on premium content with global appeal and human impact. His passion for conservation and climate initiatives reflects itself in his work, as he aims to tell stories that spark conversation and drive positive change.

Previously, Bryan worked as a feature development exec at SK Global Entertainment (Anyone But You, Crazy Rich Asians, Moneyball, Hell or High Water), an international production company/financier, where he oversaw and pitched formats, created, developed, and packaged films, optioned intellectual property rights, and serviced SKG’s Warner Music Group deal. Bryan is also fluent in Spanish, and oversaw SKG’s Latin American crossover and Spanish-language content.

Prior to that, Bryan was a feature development executive at 21st Century Fox's The Jackal Group. He ran point on Baz Luhrmann's Academy Award-nominated Elvis (Austin Butler, Tom Hanks) and MGM’s The Addams Family (Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Allison Janney), managing all aspects of the day-to-day development and production.

Bryan started his career at WME (now Endeavor), assisting a senior crossover agent with clients ranging from M. Night Shyamalan and Tyler Perry to the NFL. He also helped spearhead WME’s LatinX initiative, bringing together agents from various departments to pitch LatinX clients and potential signing targets to the broader company.

With Sightline Pictures, Bryan has committed to producing impact-driven commercial stories across all mediums for a global audience to change the narrative around the critical issues of our time.