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How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
Talent agent Michael Sheresky (MBA 1997) is half of a Hollywood power duo that helped the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures become a box office success. A recent feature in Vanity Fair details how Sheresky and his longtime collaborator Ramses IsHak helped “package” the film, “helping the remarkable, little-known story about a group of black women mathematicians at NASA find the largest possible audience.”
The piece offers a chronology of the path the two took to bring the movie to the masses, as well as their reasoning behind it:
“This could easily have been a great documentary,” IsHak said of the story behind Hidden Figures.“Or it could have been a great $8 million dollar Sundance movie,” Sheresky continued. “But this movie shouldn’t just be for people who go to film festivals; it should be for everybody.”
Hidden Figures is up for three Academy Awards on Sunday night, including Best Picture.
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