Tracey Bing
From 2003 – 2006, Tracey Bing was Vice President, Production and Acquisitions at Warner Independent Pictures. Her responsibilities included locating and acquiring motion pictures in all stages of development and production, and working with a wide variety of producing and financing entities to create viable opportunities for WIP.
At WIP, Bing was integral to the acquisition and reformatting of March of the Penguins which won the 2006 Oscar for Best Documentary. She was responsible for developing a wide variety of projects such as: Man Without a Gun by Stuart Beattie; Orders to Kill by Kasi Lemmons; Bielski Brothers to be directed by Phillip Noyce; Superfreak to star Terrence Howard; and Mary Queen of Scots to star Scarlett Johansson. While there, WIP went down in history as the first company to get Best Picture, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Documentary nominations in the same year for Good Night, And Good Luck, Paradise Now, and March of the Penguins.
Prior to joining WIP, Bing worked at Paramount Classics in every aspect of the division’s domestic and international activities spearheading the acquisitions of Man on the Train, Bloody Sunday, and Northfork. Before that, she spent two years as an independent producer.
From 1996 to 1998, Bing served as Director of Development and Production at Black Swan Productions and was associate producer on Too Tired to Die. Before that she was an assistant to producer Paul Webster on The Pallbearer where she developed Gridlock’d starring Tupac Shakur and The Yards starring Mark Wahlberg. She also coordinated product placement on Flirting With Disaster.
Earlier she worked as a production assistant on a UNICEF project for Hillary Clinton and production associate on Jonathan Demme’s Courage and Pain.