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Press & podcast resources

The essentials.

Background and selected materials for editors, producers, hosts, and event organizers.

Short biography

Sergio Myers is an award-winning filmmaker, television creator, producer, director, and author based in South Carolina. He created and executive produced MTV’s Sorority Life and worked as a producer and writer on E! True Hollywood Story. His documentary work includes Heaven’s Gate: The Untold Story and Invisible Scars. His television credits also include National Geographic’s Croc Catchers NT, Viceland’s King of the Road, and Fusion’s Car vs. America. Through Surging Media Group, he has produced branded and commercial content. He is the author of Illegal Because America and is available for nationwide and virtual speaking engagements on storytelling, creative careers, and production leadership.

Selected recognition

  • Becoming Pony Boi
    Best Soundtrack, 2009 Beloit International Film Festival.
    Official festival awards archive
  • Heaven’s Gate: The Untold Story
    Presented at the Margaret Mead Film Festival.
    EBE Award for Best Documentary.
  • Invisible Scars
    Best Documentary, 2015 Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival.

Notable interviews conducted

  • Oliver Stone and Pierre Salinger — E! True Hollywood Story.
  • Sharon Stone and Cindy Crawford — Style Network coverage of Macy’s Passport, 1999.

Interview starting points

  • Creating Sorority Life and the early growth of unscripted television.
  • Research, access, and responsibility in documentary filmmaking.
  • A South Carolina creative career spanning television, independent film, and books.
  • The observations behind Illegal Because America.

From the press archive

In print.

Newspaper and magazine coverage of Sorority Life, from Sergio Myers’ archive.

Entertainment Weekly

Sorority Life

A television preview featuring Sergio Myers discussing the series and looking beyond sorority stereotypes.

Archival clipping supplied by Sergio Myers. Original reporting and imagery credited to the publication.

The Sacramento Bee

MTV peeks at UCD sorority life

J. Freedom du Lac reports on filming in Davis, with comments from creator and executive producer Sergio Myers and members of the local community.

Archival clipping supplied by Sergio Myers. Original reporting and imagery credited to the publication.

The Davis Enterprise

MTV starts its filming in Davis

Beth Curda covers the start of production and the UC Davis sorority at the center of the new MTV series.

Archival clipping supplied by Sergio Myers. Original reporting and imagery credited to the publication.