Dave Targan

Hired as a consultant, writer, and producer on a yet-to-be-named Internet Sports Channel to be launched by The Chernin Group on its Crunchyroll platform. Created channel concept and all original sports programming and schedule.

Produced sizzle reel on the U.S. Women’s National Baseball Team to find a female baseball player capable of playing in the men’s Minor Leagues. Working alongside USA and Major League Baseball to identify potential athletes and organizations.

Field produced for a six-episode docuseries featuring the Trinidad Triggers, an independent team in the Pecos League, the lowest level of professional baseball. Produced and directed interviews, day-in-the-life segments, and in-game action. Traveled throughout the southwest during the team’s 71-game season devising and documenting team and player stories.

Developing a scripted, fictional, television series that pulls the curtain back on life in the NBA. Oversaw a team of hired writers and consulted with several former NBA players to shape the project.

Wrote and produced a docudrama series about the Burlington Bees, a Single-A Minor League Baseball team competing at the lowest level of the game. The treatment and promotional reel document the Bees’ 2009 season and the small town of 26,000 whose lives have come to revolve around this team.

Heard and bought the pitch and developed script.

Oversaw production for Universal Pictures.

Worked as member of Universal’s Production and Development Creative Team. Managed a slate of 40+ projects of various genres and in differing stages of production and development. Focused mainly on comedy, genre, and family films.

Creative Executive that helped oversee pre-production, production, and post-production on the film.

Relocated from New York to Los Angeles when the Co-President of Focus Features was promoted to the Co-Chairman of Universal Pictures. Served as liaison between executive and senior management, producers, agents, and talent.

Served as First Assistant and then Manager in the office of the Co-Presidents of Focus Features & Rogue Pictures.