2018 Going Out With a Bang!

Here’s a short list of what we loved about 2018:

Tiny Inventions nomination at the Oscars.

K5 Films sign on to produce Dan Shea’s No Child Left Behind with Patrick Boivin to direct.

Martin Girard co-scénarise la télésérie LE JEU.

Syon Media sign on to produce Liz Gilbert’s LOVELY

Discovering the work of Caleb Slain, especially his short western DEMON.

Kevin Bachar’s RELATIVE sold to 3 Point Capital with John Poliquin to direct.

Our continued collaboration with Fantasia as VR programmers where Skybound’s VR film DINNER PARTY won the grand prize.

Bernie Goldman to produce Katy Dore’s Black List TV series THE UNSUNG, winner of ATX Television Festival

Midnight Sun director Scott Speer to helm Greg Wayne’s S21 through Catapult Entertainment.

Katy Dore participated as a mentor in the Young Storytellers Foundation Script to Stage program in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles.

Oscar-Nominated Tiny Inventions’ New Feature Project @ Sundance Script Lab

Oscar-nominated Tiny Inventions, made up of the duo of Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter, are fresh off the TorinoFilmLab, a 9-month feature scriptwriting fellowship. The first draft of the script is also part of Sundance Script Lab 2019.

The script in question is a coming of age story exploring the media, Japanese culture, fantasy worlds we build for ourselves and the loss of innocence.

Tiny inventions was nominated for the 2018 Oscars for best animated short, Negative Space, based on a poem by Ron Koertge.

See the BTS for another one of their shorts, SOMETHING LEFT SOMETHING,TAKEN, to see their workflow on how they build, photograph, animate, composite and color correct for their projects. The film is well worth the ten-minute chill time.

Unboxing the Mind-Bending 77-inch Wallpaper TV

This is Unbox in his new studio unboxing the 77-inch Wallpaper TV. It’s unbelievable.

But as one Youtube comment pointed out: From unboxing on a dining room table…to this. That’s what’s unbelievable. 13 million subscribers-strong and showing no signs of slowing down. The dude is a machine.

Very happy to be collaborating with the Unbox team. Congrats! The new studio looks great.

Director Éric Summer on Board to Direct Liz Gilbert’s ‘Lovely’

Éric Summer, best known for ‘Ballerina’, comes on board to direct Liz Gilbert’s ‘Lovely’.

‘Lovely’ is a 2017 Nicholl’s semi-finalist whose storyline revolves around a red vintage vespa. The animation film is being produced by Syon Media’s Danny Bergeron.

Liz has a project under option with Avalon/AwesomenessTV, a comedy she co-wrote with Julie Lake. She has also developed film and television projects with Imagine Television, Sony Pictures, and Team Todd among others.

She just got selected for the Women In Film Writing/Producing Program, where she’ll be mentoring under Melissa Bernstein (Gran Via Productions) and Gayle Abrams.

‘Lost Honor’: New World Of Warcraft Cinematic from Writer/Director Marc Messenger

A prisoner within the heart of the Alliance seat of power, Varok Saurfang is confronted not only by King Anduin Wrynn, but the choices that lie before him.

“This weekend was Blizzcon 2018, where we premiered my latest World of Warcraft short, LOST HONOR,” says writer/director Marc Massenger. “We got a thunderous response on the show floor – I’m always so grateful to the Blizzard fans for their enthusiasm.”