Exclusive: Recently launched La-based production company Valparaiso Pictures will produce and finance James Sweeney’s (Bushwick Beats) feature directorial debut Straight Up.
Sweeney penned the script and will also star in the romantic comedy alongside Man Seeking Woman and How To Get Away With Murder actress Katie Findlay. Tracie Thoms (Rent), James Scully (Heathers) and Dana Drori co-star, with principal photography currently underway in Los Angeles.
The film is based on Sweeney’s short Normal Doors, which tells the story of an Ocd gay twenty-something who finds his intellectual soul mate in a struggling actress. David Carrico is producing through his Valparaiso banner alongside Ross Putman (Plus One).
“I’m so grateful to finally will this film into existence,” said Sweeney in a statement. “To think, it only took five years, a root canal and a crowdfunding campaign.”
Valparaiso is in development on movies including drama After Perfect, written by...
Sweeney penned the script and will also star in the romantic comedy alongside Man Seeking Woman and How To Get Away With Murder actress Katie Findlay. Tracie Thoms (Rent), James Scully (Heathers) and Dana Drori co-star, with principal photography currently underway in Los Angeles.
The film is based on Sweeney’s short Normal Doors, which tells the story of an Ocd gay twenty-something who finds his intellectual soul mate in a struggling actress. David Carrico is producing through his Valparaiso banner alongside Ross Putman (Plus One).
“I’m so grateful to finally will this film into existence,” said Sweeney in a statement. “To think, it only took five years, a root canal and a crowdfunding campaign.”
Valparaiso is in development on movies including drama After Perfect, written by...
- 10/2/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Venture capitalist and entrepreneur David Carrico has launched Valparaiso Pictures, a Los Angeles-based film and TV development, production and finance company. It already has its first project in the works in After Perfect, a feature film based on Christina McDowell’s 2016 memoir that is being adapted by Elizabeth Chomko and produced with Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho Productions and Joshua Thurston.
Carrico is co-founder of music and entertainment tech consulting firm Cmg LLC among other companies, and has invested in more than 20 startups. He has brought aboard as director of development Echo Lake Entertainment’s Bobby Hoppey, who oversaw Echo Lake’s film slate and worked with its management clients.
“We’re so excited to be launching Valparaiso with After Perfect and the talented Elizabeth,” Carrico said. “It’s an exciting time in the media industry, and we’re thrilled to be here to champion our fellow filmmakers, whether it...
Carrico is co-founder of music and entertainment tech consulting firm Cmg LLC among other companies, and has invested in more than 20 startups. He has brought aboard as director of development Echo Lake Entertainment’s Bobby Hoppey, who oversaw Echo Lake’s film slate and worked with its management clients.
“We’re so excited to be launching Valparaiso with After Perfect and the talented Elizabeth,” Carrico said. “It’s an exciting time in the media industry, and we’re thrilled to be here to champion our fellow filmmakers, whether it...
- 8/17/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lucas Amann has become attached to direct Popsicle, an elevated genre pic based on the original concept of his own 2008 short of the same name. Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh Waller are producing for their SpectreVision banner, alongside Lee Stobby, and with Kyle Hansen for Red Sea Media. Red Sea Media is selling worldwide. Amann wrote the script about 12-year-old Wyatt and his younger sister Rory, as they wake to find themselves trapped in a fantastical…...
- 5/17/2016
- Deadline
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