Bill Haney Uncommon Productions, LLC is an independent film company based in Boston, Massachusetts and Los Angeles, California.
[1] Founded in 2000 by Bill Haney and Tim Disney, Uncommon's films tend to focus on social issues.
Recent films include cancer immunotherapy documentary, Jim Allison: Breakthrough, mountain top removal documentary The Last Mountain[2] 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.
[3] 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.