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OUR SLATE
OUR PROJECTS
We are grateful to be in a position to be able to shepherd projects that we are passionate about. Our slate reflects a diverse range of genres and budgets. Some have been developed entirely in-house, some are co-productions and others represent strategic partnerships. We are small but agile and if we see a project’s sensibilities align with ours we are more then happy to help elevate it to the promise of the premise.
FEARSOME CREATURES – LEGEND OF THE SQUONK
Dark Fantasy-Drama
The first feature film based on the legendary cryptid.
Plagued by emotional and facial scars, a reclusive woman devotes her life to finding the legendary Squonk, believing one touch will make her beautiful, but when a ruthless game hunter closes in she risks her life to save the creature.
CLEO – The Last Pharaoh
Feature Animated Family Action Adventure
In Pre-Production
Inspired by the formative years of Cleopatra’s life which have never been focused on in film: Cleopatra is an extremely bookish teen who sets out to save her father’s life and her country’s future. From the creators of Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, Mulan, and more.
Co-production with Odin’s Eye Entertainment
Freedom Code
A feature based on a true story from the book Lizzie’s Story: A Slave Family’s Journey to Freedom, by Dr. Clarice Boswell.
During slavery, a young woman risks her life, sewing secret codes in quilts to help her people escape yet struggles to find her own code to freedom even after the war has ended. Joan Lane (The King’s Speech) attached to produce.
Land of the Free
1-hour series; drama, mystery, thriller
In the future when life in the U.S. is too bleak, citizens’ only hope is to win the annual lottery that exchanges misery for an all expenses paid life on a luxury island, a winning man and his family discover it is a front for something far worse.
SANTARIA
A woman losing her grip on her marriage and teenager insists that fostering a refugee child from the border crisis will deliver Christmas joy, but the child’s desperate plea to Santa conjures a cursed Santeria spirit.
Low budget, elevated holiday horror feature, Latina leads with a lot of franchise potential.
Support System
Feature Crime Drama based on true events.
A single mom’s extreme measures to collect child support turns her into a vigilante sought after by others who are owed, and a target of those she pursues.
Roe V. Norma
Feature Drama – Biopic
Based on the life of Norma McCorvey — who is also known as Jane Roe in the contentious Roe v. Wade lawsuit that legalized abortion in America.
The hapless woman who made abortion legal turns from advocate to protester and everything in between as she tries to eek a living and fame from the issue but it will be the one consistent love in her life that is her undoing.
This is not a courtroom drama, it is focused on her tumultuous life as an impoverished lesbian and drug addict abused by her mother.
FATS
Feature Bio Pic
The true story of pool hustler Minnesota Fats’ legendary status and the build up to his grudge match with rival Willie Mosconi in front of millions that threatens to dethrone it, all while blues singer Etta James discovers she is his illegitimate daughter.
LA BEAT
8-part limited series inspired by a true story and historical events.
LA BEAT follows the career and life of Policewoman Jackie Fontana as she juggles being a single mom and cop while fighting a corrupt system during a time when female cops had to wear skirts, heels, and special purses for their weapons.
Smuggle
1-hour serialized crime drama based on a true story.
Set in Brooklyn, New York in the 70s and 80s, where no one can escape the reach of the infamous mafia, Smuggle tells the story of the Canarsie Crew — lifelong friends with a lucrative operation dealing and smuggling pot and hash — until the most murderous arm of the Mafia, the Torrio Crew, decides they want in on the action.
The series follows them all from the point of view of the most reluctant member of the Canarsie Crew, and how he survived, got out, and lived to tell the tale — today.
Tails of Woo Woo
Half-hour kids and family live action-animation hybrid.
Based on the book series of the same name (publishing spring 2023), Tails of Woo Woo follows the adventures of 7-year-old Tiffany Harris, who takes her stuffed dog, Woo Woo, with her everywhere. She treats him like the pet dog she’s not allowed to have as she navigates the adventures of being a kid splitting her time between her mom and dad with her older brother Jordan. What no one else knows is that Woo Woo is real in his own mind, and their adventures help Tiffany when she needs it most.
She Bear
Based on the book Clan of the She Bear: Diamonds in the Rough – presented as a limited series.
In 19th century America, a woman reclaims the land that was taken from her family by a ruthless bureaucrat; the only thing they agree on is that they both believe the legend of the collapsed diamond mine where hundreds of slaves were buried alive. Despite being a woman, she has amassed a small fortune in fortuitous land claims but she could lose it all if she’s caught harboring runaway slaves.
Unforgettable Truth
Feature – Psychological, Erotic, Drama
When a woman battling dementia returns to her hometown to reconnect with her husband and college-age daughter, she has to remember her salacious past and confront it in order to save her daughter from getting pulled into the same life.
120 MPH
Genre: Feature Drama – Female Driven (truly, the lead is a female immigrant runner)
Based on a True Story
Budget: $4.8MM
A girl from a broken family lives a double life, running illegal immigrants from the Mexican border by night and holding down a regular job by day, until the illegal side takes over and a run gone wrong drives her to turn her life around and be the change that helps her own family.
Joys of War
Feature War Drama, based on a true story and book of the same name.
When 9/11 hits, a rambunctious lad from Ireland takes off and joins the French Foreign Legion, a move that starts his journey through years of grueling special forces and private security detail in Afghanistan and Benghazi only to face devastating isolation and addiction in his PTSD — and his road to recovery becomes his greatest battle.
Angel Fire
Genre: Faith-based Drama
Budget: $7.5MM
The free-spirited daughter of a retired Brigadier General is diagnosed with brain cancer and the government denies her only chance in a revolutionary treatment, she must risk her life for the procedure in a foreign land, and pray it’s not too late.
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Sunuma
Feature film based on a true story
After being discarded as a baby on a community dump-pile in Liberia, a young man triumphs over his abandonment, violent abuses, and surviving the hardships of a war-torn country during one of the deadliest civil wars in history to graduate with honors and start a new life in America.
BLUE
Feature Drama | Based on True Events
In 1943, a female doctor struggles to keep her onset hearing loss a secret as she pushes her male colleagues for a heart shunt procedure in children suffering from blue baby syndrome. Available on the Blacklist with stellar reviews.
One Mad Apple
Feature Comedy Based on the book of the same name (and a true story).
A man returns to his quiet hometown to care for his aging parents — only to be pulled into a disturbing psychological feud with a volatile neighbor who sits on the local school board.
Believe
Family Christmas Feature
When a poor boy runs away to avoid telling his mother he doesn’t believe in Santa and spare her from
buying him Christmas gifts, he discovers a clumsy old elf who is mistaken as his kidnapper.
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