
Television producer Craig Piligian founded Pilgrim Films and Television in 1997. Piligian, who began his career in the news business, first became a producer of non-scripted programming in 1991, with the shows Emergency Call and Real Stories of the Highway Patrol . With more than 625 episodes produced, Real Stories became the first successful launch and sustained production of a syndicated reality strip.
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Who works there
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- Craig PiligianPresident, CEO & Executive Producer Gretchen
- Gretchen StockdaleVice President & General Counsel Brett Boyds
- Brett BoydstunVice President of Finance & Operations Johnn
- Gould VicePresident of Programming & Business Developm
- Heath BanksVice President of Production News discovery
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Contact & details
How their work is rated
4 rated titles, weighted by votes
| Oscars | 0 | of | 2 | nominations | 0% |
16 wins from 46 nominations across all awards
Combined US gross, 1 of 8 titles


- Mostly
- reality-tv, thriller, adventure
- Active
- 1997–2014
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 82%
- Best known for
- Shadow of the Vampire
Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 7 of 8 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.
Their television work
2012–2014
- Discovery2
Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 149 episodes. 1 still returning or in production.
Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.
Credits9
3 films · 2 TV titles

Fast N' Loud: Demolition Theater
2014 · TV
Produced

Fast N' Loud
2012 · TV
Produced

Shadow of the Vampire
2000 · Film
Produced

Killing Time
1998 · Film
Produced

Downtime
1997 · Film
Produced
- 2015
Tashi and the Monk
2015
Produced
- 2014
Camp Stew
2014
Produced
- 2008
This Is Tomorrow
2008
Produced
- 1994
White Angel
1994
Distributed
8 titles across 19 years, averaging 0.4 a year. The last five years hold at 0.0 a year. 12 of those 19 years carry no credit on file.
Who they work with
- Bharat Nalluri2
- Caspar Berry2
- Richard Rawlings2
- Reality-TV3 of 7
- Thriller2 of 7
Names appearing on two or more of Pilgrim Films’s produced titles, across the 7 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.
Works with6 companies
Companies that appear alongside Pilgrim Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.
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