Elizabeth Bay Productions (EBP), whose principal is publicity agency DDA founder Dennis Davidson and whose staff consists of government producer/producer Grant Hill, recognized for his collaborations with director Terrence Malick and the Wachowskis on varied The Matrix movies, has struck a financing settlement with FilmHedge and entered a first-look take care of U.Ok.-based gross sales firm WestEnd Films.
The brand new partnership with Atlanta-based finance platform FilmHedge will present financing for the manufacturing home’s movie and TV slate. EBP’s movie tasks embody The Dimona Affair, a whistle-blower story impressed by true occasions, written by Fred Schepisi (Six Levels of Separation, Roxanne, A Cry within the Darkish) from a narrative by Morris Rosmarin. Schepisi will even direct, with Jeff Wilbusch (Unorthodox) enjoying the male lead and producing alongside Schepisi, Simon Moseley and Davidson.
The connection will probably be managed by FilmHedge’s COO Chandler Heinz Laun who may have “oversight over EBP’s inventive packaging and particular person undertaking financing plans,” the businesses mentioned. Previous to becoming a member of FilmHedge, Laun was a member of the unbiased movie financing and distribution division at ICM Companions.
EBP and WestEnd have been working intently on EBP’s slate growth. The corporations mentioned their new first-look deal presents EBP “international distribution and entry to extra finance for its tasks, and, for WestEnd a excessive degree of growth and manufacturing experience as the corporate takes additional steps into producing.”
Past Davidson and Hill (The Thin Red Line, Matrix 2, 3 & 4, Cloud Atlas, Tree of Life), the EBP administration staff consists of two L.A.-based executives in head of enterprise growth Eugin Koh and head of technique and operations Clayton Heinz.
Dennis Davidson
“In affiliation with famend producer Grant Hill, we’ve got spent the previous three years buying and creating a formidable and various slate of movies and tv collection as we seemed for a well-funded manufacturing companion that shared our imaginative and prescient for creating high-quality filmed leisure,” mentioned Davidson. “FilmHedge is that companion.”
FilmHedge, which supplies debt financing to movie and TV productions, is led by founder and CEO Jon Gosier.
Stated WestEnd founder Maya Amsellem: “Dennis brings his many years of expertise working with expertise throughout the trade to assembling his slate. He has good style, and together with his new partnership with FilmHedge we’re excited to see these stylish and bold tasks come by way of.”
Grant Hill
