I am specifically looking for someone financially minded, someone who can find and exploit industry connections, someone who can help get a film financed, marketed, and seen.
My name is Garrett Gilchrist. I directed seven features and thirty shorts without any budget at all, and I am now trying to crawl out of the low budget world and become more established in Hollywood, creating more impressive and expansive projects.
You can view my older stuff at orangecow.org, including the feature Gods of Los Angeles.
I am developing a feature project right now and deciding between two screenplays - one a classic science-fiction film, and one a comedy/drama/horror musical. Both are visually striking and overambitious projects that I am a little bit crazy to attempt on a low budget, which is how I love to work. I love to stretch myself, and the budget. But clearly real funding is needed. It would of course be a great benefit if a star could be attached, in some fashion.
I am also creating two animated pilots, and a very ambitious and interesting pilot to be shot using puppets of aliens, and special effects ...
I have no doubt about the quality of these projects, or that I could pull them off without money, as I've done so many times before. I would just prefer to do it right this time.
I need a true partner for the projects I'm developing now, and I have been forced to learn that my own business skills are not the best.
I need a producer, a good one.
Ideally, you would be someone with a few connections. You have friends at the studios, even at a low level. You know agents, and managers. You have some skill with marketing. You know how to get a film into the hands of the right people, and get it seen.
You're good with money, and you know how to construct a business plan and raise funds.
(If you don't have all these connections and skills, but know that you could develop the skills you don't have over time and learn quickly, that wouldn't be ideal but I'd still be interested in talking to you.)
You would be a true partner in my company - we would work together to develop these projects further. You would share in any profits, if your business acumen manages to make us any.
I have been handling the creative, artistic side of film so long that I've let the business side of my company go unloved. If you think you're the right person to take over that side of the company and make it a success, give me an email.
My address is tygerbug at yahoo.com.
Thanks.
