Hannah Storm: Brainstormin' Productions

Formed at Notre Dame, class of 1983 — Brainstormin' Productions, 2008–

She started at this city's station: Hannah Storm was born Hannah Storen on 13 June 1962 in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in Atlanta; the South Bend tie, like Sparks's, is a Notre Dame formation — the class of 1983, degrees in communications and political science — with a working chapter inside it: she began her sports reporting career at WNDU-TV in South Bend in 1982, while still a student, at the university-owned station carried in this chapter's station entry. The broadcasting fame that followed — CNN, NBC, CBS, ESPN — is the Famous People record's kind of ground; the producing is this chapter's. In 2008, between leaving CBS and joining ESPN, she created her own company, Brainstormin' Productions, in her own words because she "personally needed that space where I could build my own team" — and through it she has produced, executive produced, and directed documentary films and series for ESPN, the SEC Network, ABC, Hulu, Epix, and iHeart, in the company's own summary.

The film record at credit size: her first film was Unmatched (2010), the 30 for 30 documentary on Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, which she produced; Moving the Goal followed among her ESPN projects; she directed Swoopes (2013), the Nine for IX film on Sheryl Swoopes; Danica (2017), on Danica Patrick, was her first film for another network, Epix; she directed the SEC Storied film Rowdy (2018), on the swimmer Rowdy Gaines, with her own company; and she directed the Hulu docu-series Grails: When Sneakers Change the Game. The company also makes branded content — including, in a closing of the circle, the University of Notre Dame's annual Advent "Reflections" series, produced by the alumna who started at the university's own station. She has put the count herself at seven films and a series, with the work continuing; the record prints the named credits and her count beside them.

Sources:

1. University of Notre Dame, FTT alumni record and Notre Dame News — Storm a 1983 graduate, degrees in communications and political science; "Storm began her sports reporting career at WNDU-TV in South Bend in 1982"; born Hannah Storen, 13 June 1962, Oak Park, Illinois (encyclopedia record).
2. Brainstormin' Productions, company record — created by Storm in 2008; she "has produced, executive produced and directed award-winning films, series and branded content for ESPN, the SEC Network, ABC Network, HULU, Epix and iHeart Radio"; the Notre Dame Advent "Reflections" series among its branded work, Storm directing.
3. ESPN Press Room / ESPN Front Row — Swoopes (Nine for IX, 2013), directed by Storm; her other projects Unmatched and Moving the Goal grouped with it; Rowdy (SEC Storied, 2018), "directed the film with her own Brainstormin' Productions company."
4. Storm's own accounts (Athleisure Mag interview, 2017; podcast transcript) — the company founded on leaving CBS, "grandfathered into" her later network contracts; her first film a 30 for 30 she produced; Danica (Epix, 8 November 2017) her first film for another network; "I've done like seven films"; director of the Hulu series Grails.