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For-Profit Deal Flow Room Participants
ContentFilm
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CONTACT
John Schmidt
ContentFilm
john.schmidt@contentfilm.com
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ContentFilm, formed in July 2001, aims to become a leading producer/distributor of independent feature film entertainment. The company's strategy combines: 1) aggressive production and acquisitions within strict budget parameters, 2) exploiting the cost efficiencies of digital production, post-production and distribution when appropriate, and 3) creating a global network of filmmakers and distribution associates.
In its first year of operation, ContentFilm has produced five films and acquired one. The acquisition is Wendigo, which was distributed by Magnolia Pictures in 2002. The productions are: The Guys, The Hebrew Hammer, Love Object, Party Monster, and The Cooler. The Guys premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was purchased by Focus Features, who plan on a January release. Three of the other films have been accepted to the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Lead actors include Sigourney Weaver, Adam Goldberg, Bill Macy, Alec Baldwin, Anthony LaPaglia, Desmond Harrington, Chloe Sevigny, Seth Green, and Macaulay Culkin.
Crying Ghost Film Production
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CONTACT
Bernadine Santistevan
Writer/Director/Producer
1173A Second Avenue, #183
New York, NY 10021
Tel: (212) 588-0126
Fax: (212) 588-0129
bernadines@att.net.com
www.LaLlorona.com
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Crying Ghost is an independent feature film based on the legend of La Llorona—a Medea-like legend that has haunted Latinos throughout the Americas for over 500 years with countless reports of her ghost roaming the rivers to this day. This magical story is set in New Mexico where a girl named Teresa — obsessed with freeing La Llorona's soul — becomes trapped in a web of archaic superstitions and finds she must fight to save her own soul as well. In a time where mainstream interest in the booming U.S. Latino market is escalating, Crying Ghost brings to life a compelling, magical, and timeless legend that has never been presented to the public in a meaningful or significant way — despite the legend's passionate following of roughly 20 million persons in the United States alone.
Beyond Crying Ghost's attractive market potential given the legend's strong pre-existing audience, the film's writer/director/producer, Bernadine Santistevan, has incorporated a variety of socially responsible initiatives: Cultural a) Share with mainstream audiences the Latino world's strongest legend; b) Preserve traditional elements of northern New Mexican culture/folklore that are rapidly disappearing; Educational Foster a greater understanding and appreciation of Hispanic culture. (The film's website is already being used nationally in high schools and universities as a teaching tool for Latino, folklore, and women studies courses.); Economic Development a) Provide guidance to, and potentially partner with, individuals from the rural, economically depressed Hispanic communities where the film will be shot to develop merchandising opportunities surrounding the film; b) Provide training and temporary employment to local residents; c) Patronize local businesses during the film's production.
A native of New Mexico, Ms. Santistevan has been active in filmmaking for ten years, has extensive experience developing business and marketing strategies for companies such as Barry Diller's USA Networks, and has also served as a venture capitalist for GE Capital. She holds a certificate in filmmaking from NYU, an MBA from Wharton, an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MS from Stanford University.
Globalvision News Network
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CONTACT
Danny Schechter
VP and Executive Producer
Globalvision
1600 Broadway, Suite 700
New York, NY 10019
Tel: (212) 246-0202
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Globalvision News Network (GVNews.Net) is a global news service that is dedicated to delivering diverse world news and information - both content and context - that cannot be found elsewhere. Produced by Globalvision New Media, Inc., GVNews.Net has pioneered an "inside-out" news formula that delivers up-to-the-minute world reports via an indigenous network of professional news organizations. GVNews.Net has attained the licenses to print and broadcast (audio and video) coverage from more than 350 local news outlets on seven continents. Stories breaking today at GVNews.Net often appear days later on "internationalized" news services such as the AP, Reuters, CNN, and The New York Times. By linking this global network to a proprietary news syndication system, Globalvision News Network offers media and Global 2,000 corporations a comprehensive alternative to "the wires."
GVNews.Net does not need significant penetration of the $96 billion corporate and media market for news and information products to be financially successful. Through an exclusive relationship with a news distribution vendor (Infodesk), GVNews.Net will be made available, in 2003, to the 18,500 organizations that subscribe to the Associated Press world news services. The company conservatively projects profit- ability in its third year, with 50 percent plus net after-tax margins in year four.
GTM
The mission of GTM…It Means A Lot is to be a force within the landscape of traditional media & marketing, by making "guerilla media" an integral component of fully integrated marketing campaigns. Guerrilla Media creates resonance with core youth by immersing messages in the next-edge subcultures that they represent.
GTM is presently in a state of aggressive growth. GTM is currently working on 2 of the nations largest youth focused cause marketing campaigns in existence (Award winning Truth and CDC's Verb). The organization is expanding internally to incorporate key personnel and strategic partnerships that will grant GTM the necessary tools needed to facilitate its growth.
GTM and Carew Productions have teamed up with the intent of broadcasting the voice of the youth seeking to be heard. To accomplish this GTM founded Change The Game.
Change the Game will become the gateway through which the youth of today will foster change in response to the social injustices that plague our global community. This organization will act as a network of inter-activists, a platform for cutting edge actions and creators of guerilla media that will generate huge awareness through the targeting of all media outlets. Change the Game's intent is to affect public opinion and to make activism synonymous with cool.
By creating cultural content of relevance, Change The Game will bring to the forefront the brewing issues that face the world at large. These issues of relevance are not just topics within the headlines of newspapers, but are directly linked to what's eminently wrong with the way the world powers are directing our fates. The first project will be a documentary chronicling youth activism globally. This content will be packaged in and marketed through the different entry points of the global youth subculture.
The potential channels of distribution for Change The Game are: Theatrical release, Television Content, DVD Release, National/International Rights, Web Properties, Live Events/Rallies, Retail/Lifestyle, Educational Institutions
Aligning with Carew Productions allows for an immediate ability of reach with this message and product. The project will be orchestrated through Change The Game and its reach to youth activists worldwide. Marketing of the project to youth consumers will be done by GTM and positioning of the film within the industry and media will be done by Carew Productions.
Carew production possesses an invaluable amount of experience based on the launching of successful documentaries. Therefore providing this project with an infrastructure that will provide niche marketing within the media industry and to the general public as well as access the major markets and a broader distribution network.
Topper Carew has served on the boards of the National Urban Coalition, the Los Angeles Children's Museum, The Children's Foundation, the African American Museum, the Negro Scholarship Fund, the National Association of Neighborhoods, Americans for Democratic Action, The D.C. Commission of the Arts, the Kennedy Center, and Rainbow Television Workshop. He has also served on a Presidential Commission.
Carew has produced and directed national television series for both public and commercial broadcasters. For PBS, they include Rebop, Say Brother, Tales in a Golden Groove, The Righteous Apples, and The Rainbow Movies of the Week. For commercial television they include Homeroom (ABC), Bustin' Loose (Universal Syndication) and Martin (Fox). His television movies have aired on HBO, Showtime, The Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and PBS. Universal and New Line have distributed his theatrical films. He has produced (3) specials for HBO.
An influential period in Carew's career were the 6 years he spent as the founder and director of the New Thing, a Washington, D.C. arts program for inner city children and teenagers. The program taught film, photography, graphics, creative writing, dance, percussion, and self-esteem to its students.
Carew has won more than 50 film awards, a People's Choice Award, 5 NAACP Image Awards, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, 11 television awards and 15 design awards. He has been awarded an MIT Distinguished Alumni Award and graduated from Yale with honors. Over the years, he has had numerous speaking engagements. Several Congressional receptions have been held in his honor.
MacGillivray Freeman Films
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CONTACT
MacGillivray Freeman Films
Mr. Alec Lorimore, VP Production
alorimore@macfreefilms.com.
Tel: (949) 494-1055
Fax: (949) 494-2079
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For more than 35 years, MacGillivray Freeman Films — a talented and innovative team of specialists in the development, production, and distribution of large-screen (IMAX®) experiential motion pictures — has studied and perfected the art of motion picture entertainment and the power of cinema to evoke emotion, stimulate the intellect, and inspire the imagination. Founded by Greg MacGillivray and the late Jim Freeman, this award-winning film production company strives to create positive, enriching motion pictures as it explores new and more exciting ways to take audiences on unforgettable and educational adventures. There are many other producers and distributors that enter this field of work; however, not one matches the financial success, audience and critical acclaim, and staying power of MacGillivray Freeman Films.
We welcome investors in our films at any stage of a particular production, from inception through to just prior to film launch. At any given time, we are in development, production, post-production, or active distribution of upwards of 5-7 films. We encourage investors to join us as early as possible. Current projects for which we are seeking investors, all giant screen "IMAX" films, include GREECE: Secrets of the Past, Sharks, Ocean Planet, Passage Across India, Space Journey, and The Nile.
Progressive Pictures
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CONTACT
Robert Greenwald
Producer/Director
Progressive Pictures
10510 Culver Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
Tel: (310) 204-0404
rgrgp@aol.com
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Progressive Pictures ("PP/RGP") is a stand-alone, start-up division of Robert Greenwald Productions ("RGP") — a privately owned, independent film and television production company incorporated on April 30, 1980. The purpose and business of PP/RGP is to develop and produce independent, low-budget motion picture films for national and international theatrical release, DVD/video distribution, and cable television acquisition. The content of the films will be exclusively focused on dramatizing important social and political issues, in such a way as to: (a) attract mainstream audiences; (b) inspire activism; and, (c) change the circumstances dramatized.
The content of Progressive Pictures will be exclusively political or issue based. Its films will be separate from the RGP brand (which has focused mainly on television movies and features under $10 million), but at the same time, PP/RGP will benefit from the past branding of RGP as a company that has, even within the commercial parameters of network and cable television, produced a significant number of politically and socially conscious films, exploring controversial topics from domestic abuse to toxic waste dumping, the juvenile justice system to nuclear war, interracial relationships to international human rights abuse. From the award-winning NBC TV movie The Burning Bed, (starring Farrah Fawcett in an Emmy-nominated performance) to the recent theatrical film Steal This Movie (starring Vincent D'Onofrio as 60's political activist Abbie Hoffman), RGP has consistently tackled complex political, social, and moral issues – making the personal political and the political personal for millions of viewers and audience members. Company principals are: Robert Greenwald (producer/director); Earl Katz (producer); and Alys Shanti (producer)
Shooting the Messengers
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CONTACT
Tom Herman
therman@smithduggan.com
Shooting the Messengers LLC
c/o Smith & Duggan, LLP
2 Center Plaza
Boston, MA 02108
Tel: (617) 248-1900
Fax: (617) 248-9320
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The access to information that journalists provide the public is fundamental to the health of a demo-cracy. As David Halberstam says in Shooting the Messengers, a feature-length documentary in production about the legendary journalists and photographers who reported the Vietnam War: "When the government is telling the truth, journalism isn't very important. But when the government begins playing games with the truth, journalism becomes very important."
Shooting the Messengers recounts the courage and resourcefulness of a few reporters, including Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Walter Cronkite, Morley Safer, Peter Arnett, Frances FitzGerald, Gloria Emerson and others, in bringing back a story many tried to hide. The film deals with the impact of these reporters on the Vietnam War - the last uncensored war — and on the profound impact the Vietnam War has had on access to information in wartime ever since. Did the journalists lose the war? What is the role of journalists in wartime?
We have filmed over 60 hours of interviews with 38 journalists, historians, and other participants. A rough-cut of the film's first act has been produced. We are seeking finishing funds of approximately $500,000.
Principals:
Thomas D. Herman: Director, Producer, and Chief Correspondent. Herman, a lawyer, has freelanced as a producer for CNN for 18 years. He is a co-producer of the HBO feature film Live From Baghdad (2002), starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter, about CNN's coverage of the Gulf War.
Richard Chapman: Executive Producer. A veteran of Hollywood, Chapman's film credits include: Live From Baghdad (writer and co-producer, 2002); My Fellow Americans (writer, 1996); The Absent Minded Professor 2 (writer, 1988), and The Amazing Dobermans (writer,1976). He was executive producer of the long-running TV show, Simon and Simon.
Richard Blystone: Writer. Blystone is an award-winning, former CNN and AP correspondent. Blystone was based in Saigon from 1970-1972.
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