EXCLUSIVE: Producer-writer-director Collin Curtis has formally launched Beverly Hills-based manufacturing firm Caravanserai Footage and revealed it’s partnering with Buffalo 8.
Underneath the partnership, Caravanserai Footage and distribution and manufacturing outfit Buffalo 8, a BondIt Media Capital firm, will develop and package deal a slate of seven characteristic movies, with in-house screenwriting and IP below Curtis’s artistic course.
“We’re greater than enthusiastic about our launch and partnership with Buffalo 8,” mentioned Curtis. “We’re impressed by their dedication to rising expertise, which aligns effectively with our tradition.”
“Supporting unbiased filmmaking at this degree is what Buffalo 8 is all about, and Caravanserai Footage is precisely the type of associate we need to be in enterprise with,“ mentioned Adam Harris Engelhard, Head of Manufacturing at Buffalo 8.
Curtis began constructing Caravanserai Footage late final 12 months with the goal of bringing collectively a various staff of business professionals. Its title displays this want, taking inspiration from the spirit of the historic caravanserai roadside inns which had been assembly locations the place individuals from everywhere in the world shared tales and experiences.
First hires embody Wesley Hauptman as Director of Improvement, with Curtis seeing Caravanserai Footage as a platform to nurture and elevate rising expertise in addition to produce unique content material.
The corporate will debut its slate on the Cannes Movie Pageant’s Marché du Movie, the place Curtis will probably be holding conferences with worldwide co-producers, financiers, distributors and gross sales brokers. Authorized illustration by Newell Regulation Group completes the skilled staff.
The slate, mixing unique screenplay content material, each written in-house and by third events, is below wraps however spans drama, romantic comedy, animated musical, motion/journey, elevated thrillers, and socially aware narratives.
Tasks are aimed toward each theatrical and streaming platform launch, with an emphasis on robust visible storytelling and worldwide attraction.
Based in 2010 by school buddies Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor, Buffalo 8 is a full-service media firm based mostly all through Los Angeles, California.
Previous credit embody Spike Lee’s Netflix Authentic movie Rodney King and Netflix docs-series hit Conversations With a Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer, directed by Emmy winner Joe Berlinger, and the Sundance title Little Males from director Ira Sachs.
Buffalo 8 is partnered with business main finance agency, BondIt Media Capital, enabling streamlined packaging and monetary steering for content material spanning genres and finances ranges. Buffalo 8 will present packaging, growth and strategic help for the slate.
