Christian Bersani currently serves as Vice President of Film & TV at Josephson Entertainment. Having joined the company in 2018, he continues to identify, develop, and produce projects for the scripted feature and series slates. His recent work includes developing a drama series and sci-fi action film set up with Allen Media Group, and selling two drama series to Universal TV, an original holiday comedy feature to Nickelodeon/Awesomeness, and a half-hour adult animated series to TBS/HBO Max starring Anthony Kiedis. Additional work includes aiding in the development and production of Disney’s “Disenchanted", Amazon's "The Tick", and collaborating on series in partnership with studios including Sony, Skydance, and Starburns Industries (“Rick & Morty”, “Anomalisa”).

 

Previously, Bersani served as Manager of Scripted Programming at Thinkfactory Media (“Hatfields & McCoys”, “Texas Rising”, “Sun Records”). There, he aided in 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, and 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.