Good Company is an independent US entertainment production company founded in 2012 by Jonathan Lia, Brian Welsh and Ryan Heiferman in New York City with a second office in Los Angeles. The company has produced content including commercials, music videos, films and experiential.
Good Company began 2012 with Kanye West and Jay-Z's "
Niggas in Paris
"Niggas in Paris" ( edited for radio as "In Paris" or simply "Paris"; censored on the album as "Ni**as in Paris") is a song by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West from their collaborative album ''Watch the Throne'' (2011). The song is built ar ...
" video, which was nominated for two VMA Awards, Best Video and Best Director. Later that year, it also produced West's "
Cruel Summer" 7-screen film, which was premiered in Cannes in May 2013 but has yet to be officially released.
Before Good Company was founded, its founders had received two D&AD awards, two Grammy nominations, one VMA winner, and nominations and honors from VMA, Much Music and National Board of Review. Lia co-directed the
Saturday Night Live
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hit "
I'm On A Boat
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" and was nominated for a Grammy for producing Depeche Mode's "
Wrong
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" video. Welsh received a Latin Grammy nomination for producing Mana's "
Lluvia al Corazon", which also won an MTV VMA. As independent producers, they produced commercials and music videos for
Adidas
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,
Toyota
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,
Swatch
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,
Beyonce,
Madonna
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, Kanye West,
Timbaland
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,
Bjork,
Blondie and
U2.
"Ryan Heiferman"
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Prior to creating Good Company, Lia and Welsh had already made their mark in the music video scene. In 2010, Lia had produced West's 34 minute musical short film, ''Runaway
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''. The film functioned as a music video for Kanye West's fifth full-length album, '' My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy''. It earned two nominations at the 2011 BET Awards
The BET Awards is an American award show that was established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate black entertainers and other minorities in music, film, sports and philanthropy. The awards, which are presented annua ...
, for best music video and best director. Welsh was a producer on Bjorks's 2008 "Wanderlust" music video which was featured in her MET museum retrospective as well as producing videos for artists such as Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Lanscilo Williams (; born April 5, 1973) is an American record producer, rapper, singer, and songwriter. Alongside close colleague Chad Hugo, he formed the hip hop and R&B production duo the Neptunes in the early 1990s, with whom h ...
and Tom Yorke.
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Film production companies of the United States