Company Overview

Safran Digital Group (SDG) is a digital media entertainment company that finances, develops and distributes entertainment programming and technologies for digital platforms. Founded by manager and film and TV producer Peter Safran, the company combines talent, filmmaker and marketing relationships with in-house financing and production facilities to develop premier digital entertainment content and applications.

Fundamental to SDG is its pioneering agreement with Microsoft to produce a series of original pilots for the upcoming Xbox TV platform.

SDG will combine high quality content with premium talent to present digital distribution partners and corporate brands with unique marketing and sponsorship opportunities. Through a non-exclusive strategic relationship with The Marketing Arm, recognized by the editors of PROMO magazine as the No. 1 marketing agency in the U.S, SDG will have access to top tier branding and sponsorship partners.

SDG’s business includes early stage investments in technology companies with products that focus on the entertainment and media markets. Through its ventures division SDG will help identify and support new business opportunities for innovative technologies seeking exposure in to the entertainment industry. Notably, SDG has an ownership position and representation deal with Megaphone, a product that makes digital signage interactive by enabling multiplayer, real-time, collaborative gaming platforms on public screens via a phone call. Megaphone has received much attention in the technology community and was singled out by WIRED magazine as one of the faces of innovation for 2008.

Founder and CEO Peter Safran, owner of management and production firm The Safran Company and former President of Brillstein-Grey Management, brings to the company more than 15 years of entertainment experience. He has represented major talent including Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Djimon Hounsou, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Reiser, Brooke Shields, Nia Vardalos, David Schwimmer and filmmakers James Gunn, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. As a producer, Safran’s recent credits include the box office hit Meet the Spartans, starring Carmen Electra and Kevin Sorbo and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Epic Movie, Date Movie) and Over Her Dead Body, starring Eva Longoria Parker and Paul Rudd. Safran also has served as executive producer on numerous feature films including the blockbuster parody Scary Movie. He is currently producing Chilled in Miami, starring Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr.; an upcoming Friedberg and Seltzer spoof project; and If I Were King, a documentary about the making of the 2008 Sean John fashion show.

The company’s day-to-day operations are managed by COO Jake Zim, former Vice President of Online for News Corp.’s youth market film studio Fox Atomic. While at Fox, Zim oversaw all aspects of the studio’s online and digital presence, including marketing, creative, original and acquired content, digital distribution and technology integration. Prior to Fox, Zim was Director of Digital Media Marketing for Lionsgate Films, where he worked on successful online campaigns for the Oscar® winning feature film Crash and box office hits Saw II, Hostel and Madeas’s Family Reunion.

SDG is independent and provides clients with access to contacts across the entertainment, marketing and digital industries. SDG also serves as a talent incubator and motion picture and television development arm for The Safran Company, which will look to SDG to find the next wave of innovators and creative minds.