About me
Christian Bersani joined Josephson Entertainment in 2018. Currently, as Vice President of Film and TV, he helps to identify, develop, and produce projects for Josephson’s scripted slates. His recent work includes setting up a four-quadrant feature with franchise potential at Skydance Sports based off of the popular video game IP, “Mutant Football League”, and selling a sports doctors family drama series to a broadcast network. Additionally, Christian is responsible for setting up projects and overseeing partnerships including an original holiday comedy feature with Nickelodeon Studios, an action thriller feature and medical drama series with Allen Media Group, a medical procedural with Universal TV and showrunner Joe Wilson, romantic espionage series with Skydance TV, multiple projects with Scholastic Entertainment based on their book catalogue, and a half hour animated series with TBS/Warner Media starring Anthony Kiedis, lead singer and frontman for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Prior work includes aiding in the development and production of Disney+’s “Disenchanted", and Season 2 of Amazon’s “The Tick”.
Previously, Bersani served as Manager of Scripted Programming at Thinkfactory Media (“Hatfields & McCoys,” “Texas Rising,” “Sun Records”) where he furthered the development of cable network pilots “Stripped” by Liz Sczudlo for TBS, Jeb Stuart’s “The Commanders: Jefferson” for History Channel, and #FashionVictim, directed by Mark Waters (“Mean Girls”) and written by brother Daniel Waters (“Heathers”), for E!/UCP. Additionally, Bersani handled development and production on multiple Lifetime and Hallmark cable network features, including “Terror in the Woods” and “Oscar Pistorius,” both written by Amber Benson. Prior to that, Bersani worked at the Kaplan Stahler Agency as the Television Literary Department Coordinator. Bersani got his start in entertainment working for Spyros Skouras at Murtha Skouras Agency before that.
Bersani was born and raised in Syracuse, New York and is a graduate of The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.