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- Range signed David Gelb for representation, adding the four-time James Beard Award–winning, Emmy- and Grammy-nominated filmmaker to its roster
- David Gelb will direct all eight episodes of 'Chef's Table: Icons' and 'Chef's Table: Desserts,' two new seasons Netflix just announced this week
- Chef's Table now spans seven seasons plus six spinoffs (France, Pizza, BBQ, Noodles, Pastry, Legends), 11 Emmy nominations total, and traces its origin to Gelb's self-shot debut 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'
- Gelb's documentary filmography includes the Stan Lee centennial doc, Marvel's '616' anthology for Disney+, 'Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return' for Lucasfilm, and the Grammy-nominated 'I'll Sleep When I'm Dead' on Steve Aoki
- The Lazarus Effect credits Gelb as director of a horror feature starring Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover, Evan Peters, and Sarah Bolger; he also directed episodes of Ryan Murphy's 'American Horror Stories'
- Gelb's commercial client roster spans Apple, Google, Starbucks, Chipotle, Chase, Bank of America, United, Burger King, Intel, Mazda, and Ford, while he continues to be represented by Myman Greenspan Fox
Why it matters: The signing puts Range at the center of Netflix's expanding culinary doc pipeline at the exact moment the streamer committed to two more 'Chef's Table' seasons under Gelb's direction. It also folds in a significant branded-content book spanning roughly a dozen Fortune 500 clients, broadening the kind of work Range can route his way.
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