Westporter Helps Bring Moore Project to Screen

Academy Award-wnning director Michael Moore talks with Westporters Kimberly and Mark Shapiro tonight at the Vespa restaurant in Westport following the screening of Moore’s film “Where to Invade Next.” Shapiro, chief content officer of the IMG unit of talent and event management specialist WME/IMG, said he was so impressed with Moore’s script that not only did his company back the project but he signed on as an executive producer. Shapiro, best known for his turn running programming at ESPN, joined the firm in September 2014 in the newly created role aimed at identifying new revenue opportunities across IMG’s businesses, which encompass sports, fashion, model representation and events. He was most recently CEO and an executive producer at Dick Clark Productions and prior to that was CEO at Six Flags Entertainment Corporation. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Photo by Chris Greer