![]() You have to have a life outside of this, or it'll suck you dry. You can't let yourself get too wrapped up. But at the end of the day, it's just a f***** movie. I think it's an important forum for discussion and entertainment. I love movies, and I think they're an important art form. When I joined they were like: “Look, your weekends are your weekends and your nights are your nights.” I have a life outside of my work, which is one of the really great things about the Highland Film Group. I like to play guitar, and so we'll goof around on weekends. My girlfriend has an electronic drum kit, and she and I will jam because she's learning the drums. It's a lot of nines and fives, you know?īut I still surf. This industry is very much not a nine to five. I don’t shut down at five o'clock every day. I still do work on the weekends sometimes. But I made a very conscious decision that my weekends were going to be my weekends. I know a lot of people who are working 6:00 AM to midnight every day and then they work on the weekends. There are varying degrees of how you can handle yourself, you know, being in LA or working in the entertainment industry. Do you still find time for that as a VP?Ĭaleb: Yeah, I still surf on the weekends. So like Netflix, Hulu and stuff like that.Ībby: I know you like to surf and play drums. They handle all of our home entertainment. ![]() We basically have an output deal with Paramount. It didn't get great reviews, but it's done really well for us. Our first title was called Jiu Jitsu, a fun, dumb action movie with Nicholas Cage, Frank Grillo, Tony Jaa. I have to find projects for our domestic releasing label, which is the Avenue, that we started last year along with our Head of Domestic, JJ Carruth. Part of my job title in particular is also handling domestic distribution. We can just sell a title or we can enter a project as executive producers where we give notes and bring in the cast all the way down to the set photographer. After that, I can be involved either creatively or very little. So a lot of what I do is bring in projects that we know we can sell and work with producers directly and talent to secure it. We come in and say that we know we can sell the film internationally and domestically for X amount and that secures the financing. More typically, a finance company will come in with X amount of dollars for a project. The job that I have is new at this company, Highland Film Group, which is a production sales and finance company.Ībby: What does a production sales and finance company really do?Ĭaleb: To secure financing, a lot of independent productions, less than $10 million in budgets, will sometimes secure financing from private equity, which is someone who has money and can invest. ![]() So, I kind of have a little bit of a hybrid position, which is not normal. Outside of that, maybe 25% of my job is domestic distribution. Half of it is more development-working directly with directors and producers, securing financing, making offers to talent, connecting with production companies. To be fair, maybe 25% of my job now is distribution as a whole. I was looking for the best way to connect directly with filmmakers and be a little more creatively-minded to where I was able to work on multiple projects at once, as opposed to just one thing for like six months. ![]() Then when I moved to LA four years ago, I had made a lot of connections through working at film festivals and traveling and working on production. He has an exceptional eye for what translates well from page to screen.Abby: Why did you choose to go into distribution?Ĭaleb: I started in traditional production and then shifted into film festivals. Garner has been actively involved in reading and approving all of up coming projects for Cherokee Productions. ![]() All productions are slated to have a variety of diverse budgets with strict cost controls to ensure a continual flow of product. Having already established a successful worldwide brand for five decades, gives Cherokee Productions a strong advantage over other production companies who have not had the time to build those critical long term industry relationships that Hollywood is built upon.Ĭherokee Productions is currently in the process of developing, packaging and producing a new generation of superior, quality projects including feature films and television productions. Cherokee Productions was first incorporated by Motion Picture Icon and Television legend, James Garner in 1965 and has continued to be a highly respected and recognized domestic and international brand to this day.Ĭherokee Productions has always been a pioneer in both film and television and has been one of very few production companies in history who have accomplished both so successfully. ![]()
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