Past work

The receipts

Core Memory is young but wise and awesome. Our crew has worked with HBO, Netflix, Apple TV+, Bloomberg and more. We’ve made blockbuster movies and series and written best-selling books. Here is the work behind the company.

Core Memory films

Out in the world

Feature documentaries and series produced by the founders, released and streaming now.

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Wild Wild Space

HBO Documentary Films · 2024 · dir. Ross Kauffman

Inspired by Vance’s book When the Heavens Went on Sale, the film follows Astra, Rocket Lab and Planet Labs through the scramble to commercialize low Earth orbit. Premiered at DC/DOX.

Ashlee Vance & Jaye Callahan — producers

Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever poster: Bryan Johnson’s face overlaid with an X-ray of his skull

Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

Netflix · 2025 · dir. Chris Smith

Inside the longevity movement and the extreme protocol of Bryan Johnson — a story Vance reported for years before it became a film.

Ashlee Vance — producer

Also from our crew

Before Core Memory

Titles from the crew’s previous lives

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie poster

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Apple TV+ · 2023 · dir. Davis Guggenheim

Jaye Callahan — line producer

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Jagged

HBO · 2021 · dir. Alison Klayman

Jaye Callahan — producer

The Me You Can’t See poster

The Me You Can’t See

Apple TV+ · 2021 · Oprah Winfrey & Prince Harry

Mark Dudzinski — producer

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MerPeople

Netflix · 2023 · dir. Cynthia Wade

Angela Almeida — producer

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Louder Than You Think

SXSW · 2023 · dir. Jed I. Rosenberg

David Nicholson — cinematographer

Hello World: Ashlee Vance reporting on a street in Lagos, Nigeria

Hello World

Bloomberg · 2016–2021 · five seasons, 30+ countries

The Emmy-nominated tech-travel series that went looking for the future everywhere it wasn’t supposed to be — and won a run of Webbys doing it.

Ashlee Vance — host and writer · David Nicholson — director and DP

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My Next Guest Needs No Introduction

Netflix · 2018– · David Letterman

Mark Dudzinski — production management

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David Blaine: Do Not Attempt

National Geographic · 2025 · dir. Toby Oppenheimer

Angela Almeida — producer

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The Shins — Heartworms

Columbia · 2017 · prod. James Mercer

Jon Sortland — drums

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The Shins — The Worm’s Heart

Columbia · 2018 · Heartworms flipped inside out

Every song on the record rebuilt from the ground up — fast songs slowed, slow songs sped up.

Jon Sortland — producer, drums, bass, keys

The rest of the résumé

Crew credits

Ashlee Vance

Founder & CEO

  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — #1 New York Times bestseller, translated worldwide
  • When the Heavens Went on Sale — the best-selling book behind Wild Wild Space
  • Hello World — Emmy-nominated Bloomberg series, host and writer, five seasons
  • Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times, The Economist

Jaye Callahan

Chief Operating Officer

  • Wild Wild Space (HBO) — producer
  • Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Apple TV+) — line producer
  • Jagged (HBO) — producer
  • Two decades of feature documentary and series production

Mark Dudzinski

Head of Production

  • The Me You Can’t See (Apple TV+) — producer
  • Years of production work with ZPZ, the studio behind Anthony Bourdain’s series
  • Field production across five continents

David Nicholson

Chief Creative Officer

  • Hello World — series director and DP; two Emmy nominations and a handful of Webby Awards, including the 2021 Webby for The People’s Republic of the Future and honors for Pioneers in the Desert and the VR-in-hospitals film
  • Louder Than You Think (2023) — cinematographer
  • Co-founder and former program director of the Nevada City Film Festival

Kylie Robison

Writer & Host

  • Senior correspondent, WIRED
  • Senior AI reporter, The Verge
  • Senior tech reporter, Fortune

Angela Almeida

Producer

  • MerPeople (Netflix, 2023, dir. Cynthia Wade) — producer on the four-part series, made with Scout Productions
  • David Blaine: Do Not Attempt (National Geographic, 2025) — producer, from Brazil to the Arctic
  • Batalla en la Frontera — Emmy-nominated producer; also an NBCUniversal Going the Extra Mile award
  • Journalist before all of it — reported from Rio de Janeiro and across the Americas for VICE, NBC and New York Magazine; fluent in Portuguese
  • Documentary and series development at Core Memory, from first phone call to final cut

Jon Sortland

Sound Guru & Podcast Editor

  • Drummer for The Shins since 2016
  • Drums, bass and keys with Broken Bells (James Mercer & Danger Mouse)
  • Producer of The Worm’s Heart (2018); writes and performs in Cigar and EV Kain
  • Music video director and composer

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