EXCLUSIVE: Sam Esmail has made two key hires for his Esmail Corp. The company, run by Esmail and Chad Hamilton, has tapped Sam Shafaghi as Creative Executive in film and Natalie Domengeaux as Creative Executive in television.
Shafaghi, a graduate of the AFI Conservatory’s producing program, joined the company as an intern in 2019 when they first expanded into features.
He is currently working on Esmail Corp productions such as Famous, the A24 dark comedy thriller starring Zac Efron, and the upcoming South Korea-set thriller The Hole.
Shafaghi reports to Nick Krishnamurthy, the company’s Senior Vice President of Features. Domengeaux joins Esmail Corp after working as a coordinator at Drew Goddard’s production company, Goddard Textiles.
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