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Provenance Productions is an award-winning documentary production company based in New York City.

As history buffs and keen observers of people, we enjoy telling stories rich with history and presenting snippets of fascinating people with unorthodox narratives. Our first full-length film, The Oratorio: A Documentary with Martin Scorsese, aired nationally on PBS, and our short films have been featured on local PBS stations and at film festivals around the United States.

Mary Anne Rothberg

An inveterate snoop, Mary Anne Rothberg has channeled her natural interest in people into a career in documentary filmmaking as a director, writer, and producer. Her work at Provenance Productions, which she co-founded in 2010, chronicles the lives of quirky and fascinating New Yorkers. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Harvard University, Mary Anne has freelanced in low-budget feature filmmaking and development and worked in advertising at J. Walter Thompson. She was born and raised in Clayton, MO, a suburb of St. Louis, but has lived for decades with her husband in NYC, where they raised their three children (who don’t visit home often enough).

Jonathan Mann

Jonathan Mann is a filmmaker (director, writer, producer), professional historian, and co-founder of Provenance Productions. His first documentary work was a two-part series he wrote, produced and directed for PBS, Ethics in American Business with Walter Cronkite (1991). The nation’s foremost expert on Lincolniana, Mann authenticates historical documents and places American treasures with collectors, museums and public institutions. In 2009, he organized and curated the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial exhibition at Federal Hall in Manhattan, the largest Lincoln exhibit ever staged. When not geeking out, he can be found (weather permitting) walking across the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn.

Alex Bayer

Alex Bayer is a first-time director and long-time documentary film editor whose credits include ESPN’s 30 for 30: Seau, the French documentary feature Connie, and the Shaquille O’Neal and Larry Gagosian produced Killer Bees. He has filled additional editing roles for films such as the Academy Award shortlisted documentary, The Witness, the Sundance Audience Award winner This Is Home, the Sundance Official Selection Newtown, and the Tribeca Film Festival Official Selections Beyond the Notes and Famous Nathan. He has an insatiable love for history, an irreverent sense of humor, two cats and a dog.

Provenance Productions is a New York City-based, award-winning documentary production company focused on telling stories about historically significant events and captivating, sometimes quirky people.