Adriana Banta Director, 30WEST

Adriana Banta is a Director at 30WEST, an investment and advisory company with offices in Los Angeles and New York that provides capital and strategic guidance for high caliber creative projects and forward-thinking companies operating throughout popular culture. The company’s corporate investment portfolio includes pre-eminent independent film distributor NEON, as well as the acclaimed UK film and TV studio Altitude.

Among her several essential roles at 30WEST, Adriana helps to spearhead the company’s nonfiction work, which includes investing, packaging and sales across a range of TV and film projects. Recent standouts include the feature-length untitled WILDCAT documentary which recently sold to Amazon Studios in a record shattering deal, Sundance 2021 Grand Jury Prize winner Flee (Neon), acclaimed documentary features Some Kind of Heaven (Magnolia) and Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Netflix) as well as the extraordinary break-out series Tiger King (Netflix).

Upcoming unscripted projects include work from acclaimed filmmakers Nanette Burstein, Orlando von Einsiedel, Chris Smith, Diane Quon, Josh Altman, and Cynthia Lowen.

Beyond non-fiction, Adriana is an invaluable team member championing scripted feature and TV projects as well as identifying corporate investment opportunities such as SPECIAL, an independent streaming platform which 30WEST helped to launch earlier this year.