ABOUT US
Parkside Films is a production company founded by award winning director Clay Tweel and producer Shannon E. Riggs.
We produce films that tell personal, character driven stories that unearth the motivations as to why people do what they do. Collectively, we’ve had films distributed by Netflix, Showtime, Starz, The Orchard, Amazon Studios, HBO Max and have collaborated closely with many other filmmakers, production companies, and studios, including Rough House Pictures, A24 and Higher Ground Productions.
Our body of work includes feature documentaries “Gleason,” “Finders Keepers,” “The Smartest Kids in the World,” “Print the Legend,” and the doc series “Heaven’s Gate:The Cult of Cults” and “The Innocent Man."
In 2024 Parkside Film premiered Tweel's latest film, "The Bitter Pill", about a lawyer taking on Big Pharma in the opioid crisis. Currently, he is directing two other feature films - one about the comedian Andy Kaufman, and another about Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin and his incredible comeback story to play in the NFL.