Washington Square Films (WSF) is an American production and management company based in New York City and Los Angeles.
[1] The company's debut project was United States of Poetry,[2] a five-part series for PBS, created and produced by Joshua Blum and Bob Holman and directed by Mark Pellington.
The program featured sixty poets performing in stylized poetry videos, including Paul Beatty, Joseph Brodsky, Jimmy Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Leonard Cohen, Rita Dove, Allen Ginsberg, Czesław Miłosz, Lou Reed, Johnny Depp, and Amiri Baraka.
[16] The company is perhaps best known for supporting and producing the early work of filmmakers including J. C. Chandor,[17] Kelly Reichardt,[18] Alex Ross Perry, and others.
[29] On September 3, 2024, Stratford East announced that a stage adaptation of The Harder They Come will be a part of their 140th anniversary season lineup with a book and additional new songs by Suzan-Lori Parks.