EXCLUSIVE: Rising producers Katherine Romans and Charlie Traisman have formally launched Madhouse Movies, a brand new indie manufacturing firm with a mission to middle underrepresented voices and push artistic boundaries throughout movie and tv.
“At Madhouse, we champion tales that offer contemporary views on cultural conversations, illuminating the nuanced grey areas of our social and cultural panorama,” defined the co-founders in a press release to Deadline. “We imagine distinctive creativity comes from wild creativeness and we try to advertise feminine, queer, and BIPOC-led voices and tales.”
Madhouse opens with a multi-genre slate that features narrative options, in addition to docs and shorts developed in collaboration with rising and established expertise. The corporate is an exec producer on Forbidden Fruits, the debut characteristic of writer-director Meredith Alloway, on which we had been first to report. At present in publish, the movie produced by Academy Award winner Diablo Cody facilities on the members of a witchy femme cult. It’s already been picked up for distribution by IFC Movies and Shudder and stars Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, Lola Tung, and Emma Chamberlain.
The corporate can be government producing You’ll Be Happier, a documentary we lately reported on that follows a homosexual Texas businessman on a mission to make penis enlargement as accessible as Botox. Daniel Lombroso is directing, with Kerry Mack producing for her and Lombroso’s lately launched Outerboro Movies.
Additionally in improvement is Huckleberry Babe, a recent Western thriller marking a second characteristic outing with Alloway, who tells us, “I completely love the way in which Charlie and Katherine’s brains work. They’ve unbelievable artistic instinct, concepts, and a surprising knack for supporting different artists. With Madhouse, they’re constructing a house for risk-taking and thought-provoking tales — I’m past thrilled to be working with them.”
Romans and Traisman met in 2013 whereas finding out on the British American Drama Academy in Oxford and later obtained MFAs from the American Conservatory Theater. Drawing from backgrounds in efficiency and improvement, they shaped Madhouse as an area for administrators to create uncompromising work with long-term assist behind them.
Already, Madhouse has accomplished a number of short-form initiatives that sign the corporate’s artistic course. These embrace Lengthy Pork, written and directed by Iris Dukatt and starring Lena Headey, which premiered on the Closing Ladies Pageant in Berlin; Blood Boys, directed by Jordan M. Hahn and starring Booboo Stewart and Jamie Clayton, which premiered on the Decrease East Facet Movie Pageant; FAWN, directed by Emily Everhard; Uncle Johnny, directed by Margaux Susi; and Copy, Save, a speculative brief from Alyssa Loh, which was chosen for the 2024 Tribeca x Chanel By means of Her Lens program. The corporate’s work in narrative tv contains the upcoming indie pilot Too Romantic, written and directed by Talia Gentle Rake.
