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For-Profit Deal Flow Room Semi-Finalists:
Dragonfly Media
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CONTACT
Ron Williams, CEO
Dragonfly Media, LLC
Tel: (212) 929 0754
ron@dragonflymedia.com
dragonflymedia.com
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Our Values:
We believe in the power of the individual to change the world. We defend democracy, human rights, economic justice, and the principle of sustainability in all human enterprise. We think that the best place to begin change is in one's own backyard. We respect the body, the mind, and the spirit's extraordinary power to heal. We listen to the ancient voices of those who have come before us. We celebrate the interrelatedness of all living systems. We honor those taking the next step along sacred spiritual paths. We are committed to a future of harmony, compassion, and respect for all living things. We trust in the revolutionary potential of love.
Our Company:
Dragonfly Media is building a profitable, independent network of twelve city-based monthly magazines in the major markets of North American. Founded by a seasoned team of publishing and editorial professionals with a successful track record in the highly competitive alternative newsweekly field, the company is envisioned as the edge of the next wave of the alternative press. While we will initiate groundbreaking investigative projects, we will also tell stories of courage and vision and of those who are fashioning solutions and providing hope. By building targeted, cost effective local marketplaces, we will nurture hundreds of new sustainable and socially responsible businesses. We will introduce the marchers and the meditators to each other in fresh and welcoming ways.
Illuminated Media: The Environmental Network
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CONTACT
David Catzel, CEO
Tel: (415) 609-2238
dcatzel@metastudio.com
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The Environmental Network (TEN) is becoming the first integrated 24-hour television, radio, Internet, and wireless network serving an online community of communities focused on environmental news, information, entertainment, and education. TEN is the only such media network created by and for visionary global environmental content partners, their organizations, and the vast global audience of people who want to preserve and protect the ecology. They are supported by TEN's Web portal as the hub of an integrated media production, collaboration, and distribution system, enabling it to become the CNN of the environmental news, focusing on late breaking events, in depth interviews, and magazine format series. The Network is creating high quality original programming, in collaborative partnership with the world leaders in the environmental field, including Deepak Chopra, Paul Hawken, Hazel Henderson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Amory Lovins, and William McDonough. It will introduce new visionaries responsible for breakthrough solutions.
TEN will operate under a low risk-high return business model, developing corporate, and foundational sponsorship based on newly developed and existing successful program concepts. TEN's cross-media brand marketing and revenue-sharing model supports its environmental organization partners in becoming financially self-sustaining, while helping them bring their visions to mass media audiences. Content is distributed and licensed over TEN's radio, cable, and television network partners' infrastructure (e.g. Discovery, National Geographic, WorldLinkTV, X-FM, etc.). TEN will progressively leverage its existing radio and television networks, centralized Web portal program guide, and content partner communities into the premiere international resource for environmental news. TEN programs, portal channels, and communities of interest will be invaluable in conveying compelling content and supporting informed community-based, socially responsible action.
Inner Tan, LLC, and The Robber Barons project
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CONTACT
Kenny Ausubel
Inner Tan Productions, LLC
901 W. San Mateo Road
Suite L
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Tel: (505) 982-8295
innertan@nets.com
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Inner Tan Productions, LLC, is a visionary feature film development and media company founded in 1995 specifically to develop social issue ("visionary") stories. Inner Tan's four projects, in various stages of development, are exceptional both as dramatic entertainment and social-issue pictures. The market is mass-audience and global. Founder Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and social entrepreneur with extensive experience in both organizing and marketing (founder of Seeds of Change and Bioneers). The four projects respectively address issues of prison reform, environmental direct action, the systemic corruption of corporate monopoly, and the civil war between alternative and conventional medicine. The business model is to develop viable scripts, package them with name talent, and then collaborate with effective independent producers or studios to produce the films. Inner Tan is seeking modest development capital for the rewrite and polish by David Ward (The Sting, Milagro Beanfield War) of Ausubel's original script The Robber Barons, and packaging the project. Producer Jake Eberts (Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves, The Killing Fields), currently chairman of National Geographic Feature Films, is seriously interested in the project.
The Robber Barons is a revelatory journey into the corrupt creation of the system of corporate monopoly invented by the Robber Barons of the 19th Century, who wrote the playbook for Enron and the current corporate crime wave. It is a wild true story of populist resistance against the Octopus, the pre-eminent railroad monopoly of the late 19th century. The story centers on the conflict between the railroad Robber Baron Collis Huntington, one of the Big Four who controlled all of commerce in the West by their monopoly of the Central and Southern Pacific Railroads;, and the California Outlaws, a small band falsely framed for the five daring unsolved political robberies of the company's trains. The Big Four, who gained their corrupt monopoly by bribing Congress, the courts, and the press, finally captured Chris Evans, the leader of the Outlaws, but only after a long pursuit in which the local community protected him in his hideouts in the Sierras. His fiery daughter Eva Evans, whose lover John Sontag was her father's wrongfully accused compatriot and who was killed in the capture, then masterminded her father's jailbreak, while starring in a hugely popular play romanticizing the outlaws. Meanwhile, Huntington continued his ongoing monopolistic takeover of transportation and commerce, battling publisher William Randolph Hearst, muckraker Ambrose Bierce, and the people of the West. Evans was finally captured and sent to prison, while Huntington, mired in scandal, was at last defeated in his final outrageous attempt to have the federal government forgive the $76 million loan it had made to his company for the building of the railroad, for which he had never paid a nickel of principal or interest despite having become one of the richest men in the world. The Robber Barons is a powerfully dramatic father-daughter story nested in a larger-than-life true story of populist resistance against the theft of the nation by corrupt corporate monopolists.
Native Sun Entertainment
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CONTACT
Glen Lindenstadt
Managing Director
Native Sun-California
260 Newport Center Drive, Suite 310
Newport Beach, California 92660
Tel: (949) 644-6494
Fax: (949) 644-6696
GlenL@pacbell.net
Native Sun-Germany
Kurfurstendamm 208
Berlin 10719
Tel: 030-88923472
Fax: 030-88923200
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Native Sun was founded to develop socially conscious and responsible film projects by utilizing German/European film funds in financing U.S. Co-productions that appeal to an International audience. Native Sun also acts as an intermediary/agent for U.S. and German film projects, directors, producers, and writers who are increasingly seeking international collaborations on universal themes which cross cultural borders and/or may not be produced by a major studio.
The enormous competition on the U.S. independent market, with thousands of small- and medium-sized production companies trying to get sufficient financing for projects, makes the German/European funding idea an attractive underutilized alternative. Further, U.S. producers can pursue projects which might not get funded in the U.S. but have greater possibilities with a European partner.
Silo Corporation: Sweat
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CONTACT
Melissa Malkin
mlmalkin@hotmail.com
Eric Steedman
eric.steedman@elf.mcgill.ca
Silo Corporation
3989 Laval Avenue
Montreal, Quebec H2W 2H9
Canada
Tel: (514) 982-0321
Cel: (514) 808-1700
Fax: (514) 982-6992
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Silo is a production house specializing in live-action feature film production. Sweat will be the first feature film produced under the Silo banner. Silo partners, Melissa Malkin and Eric Steedman, bring complementary skills to the financing and production of this SRI-based film. For the last seven years, Melissa has produced feature films, documentaries, animated shorts, and multimedia projects as both executive and creative producer. Her strong network of contacts with funding agencies, broadcasters, and international distributors has ensured that all of her projects to date have been sold in numerous international territories, as well as critically recognized in international festivals.
For the past several years, Eric has worked as an independent business strategy consultant in the area of socially responsible and sustainable investment and business. Previously he spent three and a half years at the Dreyfus Corporation in New York City, first as a social research analyst and then as co-portfolio manager of the Dreyfus Third Century and Socially Responsible Growth Funds, overseeing more than US $1.2 billion in assets.
Summary Of The Project:
The film will outline the core issues around sweatshop activities in the garment industry within a classic dramatic [rather than docudrama] structure. The narrative will focus on the personal evolution of the main character who, through the course of the film, sets a strong example of socially responsible behaviors and responses to the injustices she uncovers in the supply chain for the designer firm where she works. The film will provide a picture of the worker/human rights issues, social investment, and compliance monitoring, while highlighting and contrasting the differences between sweatshop conditions and glossy NY fashion headquarters. The film will demonstrate how responsible investment can change lives, that one person can change the course of human history, and show that not all wealthy people are greedy or without conscience.
StageDirect
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CONTACT
Gary Cole, President
StageDirect, Inc.
2257 NW Raleigh Street
Portland, OR 97210
Tel: (503) 274-1373
Fax: (503) 274-1376
gary@stagedirect.com
www.stagedirect.com
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StageDirect captures outstanding off-off Broadway or fringe theater on digital video for distribution on DVD and VHS and in the broadcast market. We are the only company bridging the gap between daring theater artists and a population that is hungry for and in need of more than standard Hollywood fare. We are making great theater that is generally available to only a very limited audience widely accessible, including to schools, colleges, and libraries (complete with study guides).
We scout around the country (and ultimately beyond) for fresh, intelligent, and sometimes provocative productions such as STRAIGHT, a one-man show by gay writer/performer David Schmader that takes on the movement to convert gays and lesbians to heterosexuality. We shoot on location in the theater, using multiple digital cameras deployed over multiple performances and edit using our own post-production equipment. We are able to produce highly professional feature-length video productions at an average cost of under $25,000.
ThinkBox
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CONTACT
Brian Napack
ThinkBox
801 North Brand Blvd., Suite 680
Glendale, CA 91203
Tel: (818) 244-9494
bnapack@thinkbox.com
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ThinkBox is creating a family of educational products and programs that help teachers and parents enhance the achievement of their young children. ThinkBox software, Internet-services, books, and other products deliver engaging, standards-based curricula and powerful tools to the classroom and the family room. Driven by the success of its first program for 3-7 year olds called Kindle Park™, ThinkBox is positioned to capitalize on today's heightened focus on the improvement of early childhood education. Sales of Kindle Park products began in September 2001 and already over 15,000 children are using the program daily across the country.
ThinkBox boasts a world-class team that includes seasoned leaders and business builders from entertainment, education, and technology, with backgrounds at companies such as Disney, DreamWorks, and Scholastic. Brian Napack, founder and CEO, was the founder and Vice President of Disney Educational Publishing and a founder of Disney Interactive. Joining him are talented creators, educators, and tech- nologists such as Bruce Cranston, Chief Creative Officer (former head of TV animation development at DreamWorks and Disney); Akimi Gibson, Chief Education Officer (Scholastic, Disney, Simon & Schuster); and Art Holland, CTO (Disney). A prominent Educational Advisory Board includes Scott Himelstein, Executive Director, Even Start; Dr. Robert Peterkin, Harvard School of Education; Dr. J. Kevin Nugent, Executive Director, Brazelton Institute; and Judith Gold, Project Director, LEARNS, Bank Street College of Education.
Tokyo Rose
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CONTACT
Terry Sanders
American Film Foundation / Sanders & Mock Productions
530 Wilshire Blvd., ste. 201
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Tel: (310) 459-2116
Fax: (310) 394-1260
am.film@verizon.net
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This is a proposal for a full length theatrical motion picture, Tokyo Rose, starring Martin Sheen, produced and directed by two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Terry Sanders, which dramatizes the true, untold story of Iva Toguri, the UCLA graduate, born on the 4th of July, who became the first woman in American history to be convicted of treason -- and who was completely innocent. It is a story about truth, honor, courage, and survival.
Bongiorno Productions' Watermark
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CONTACT
Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno
Tel/Fax: (973) 481-0076
BonPix@aol.com
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Bongiorno Productions, an independent film production company, was formed by Emmy-nominated husband and wife filmmakers, Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno. Narrative and documentary films produced have earned prizes and awards from numerous international film festivals and have received grants from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Martin Scorsese, Lew Wasserman, Warner Bros. Pictures, Richard Vague, NYU-GFTV, the New Jersey Historical Commission, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Spike Lee is executive producing one of their upcoming films.
The Bongiornos have written and are developing Watermark, a romantic drama about two scientists who are passionately driven to save Venice, Italy from sinking, but whose solutions are in direct opposition to one another. The film delves into the potentially catastrophic global environmental impact threatened by the MOSES dam project and focuses on international efforts to stop Venice's flooding problems and protect the fragile lagoon ecosystem. It also addresses water pollution on the New England coastline and efforts by marine biologists to combat oil spills and industrial waste. The effects of global warming, industrial pollution, and ground water pumping are key issues addressed in the screenplay. The leading actors are Melina Kanakaredes (star of NBC's Providence and Maybelline Cover Model), Raoul Bova (popular Italian leading man, currently starring in Disney/Touchstone's Under the Tuscan Sun, with Diane Lane) and Maria Grazia Cucinotta (Il Postino).
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