PRIVATE SLATE INFO
PROPERTY OF GRACK FILMS
NOTE ON PREVIOUS WORK:
Grack Films premiered its latest feature Brother Verses Brother at SXSW, & Francis Ford Coppola joined as Executive Producer. Previous features The Song of Sway Lake and Adventures Of Power premiered at Sundance & Karlovy-Vary.
GRACK FILMS
UPCOMING Projects
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I N P O S T P R O D U C T I O N
HELICOPTER
Format: Feature film (Documentary+Drama Hybrid).
Status: Winner, Grand Jury Prize for Works in Progress, FEST New Directors New Films.
Materials: Rough Cut & Deck for final scene.
To heal his soul, a suicidal filmmaker embarks on a dangerous assignment from Alejandro Jodorowsky to re-enact the helicopter crash that killed his mother and her boyfriend, rock music impresario Bill Graham. “Helicopter” is a feature-length expansion of Ari Gold’s groundbreaking student-Oscar winning short film. More info.
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P A C K A G I N G
FOGTOWN
Format: Feature & Series.
Status: In Development. IP: “Fogtown” comic book.
Materials: Feature Screenplay, Pilot, Feature Deck, Series Deck comic book, proof of concept video.
When a mysterious sleeping-sickness sweeps across her barrio, a lonely outcast teenager convinces the selfish chief of a rebel bicycle gang to steal the antidote from their greatest enemy before it kills them all.
FOGTOWN fuses the stylish action of “The Warriors” with ecological mysticism of Miyazaki to create a passionate, urgent, and rebelliously optimistic tale for the Greta Thunberg generation. More info.
KING OF AFROPUNK
Format: Animated Documentary // Series
Status: In Development.
Materials: Feature Deck, Series Deck, Sizzle Script, IP: Autobiography of DH Peligro.
Based on the autobiography of DH Peligro, wildman drummer of Dead Kennedys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, “King of Afropunk” is a high-octane animated documentary about music, race, friendship, addiction, and the human capacity for transformation.
A GIRL OF FORTY
Format: Feature Film (Drama)
Status: In development.
Materials: IP: Bestselling Novel, Screenplay.
A “graduate” of San Francisco’s Summer of Love is forced to reckon with freedom when her teenage son sets out to destroy the life of her favorite lover. Based on the bestselling 1986 novel by Herbert Gold, it tells the story of Suki Read, “a California Holly Golightly, and more,” with a plot that takes off “like a time bomb, ready to be exploded.” (New York Times Book Review).
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D E V E L O P M E N T
WE GO WILD WHEN
Format: TV series (Drama)
Status: In Development
Materials: Treatment.
When his panicked teen sister flees Y2K to become the mascot of a skinhead gang, a sardonic high schooler & his love-addicted mom try to rescue their “Brady Bunch from hell” family. We Go Wild When is a dramatic, funny, retro Shameless, set at the anxious epicenter of the digital revolution, where the eternal quest for love tests the limits of what makes a family.
NORDSTERNS
Format: TV series (Horror)
Status: In Development
Materials: Treatment
When a struggling single mom learns that her daughter is the target of an occult group in her acting class, she unlocks a family curse to try to rescue a rebellious girl who wants nothing to do with her.
With a dysfunctionally loving relationship reminiscent of “Gilmore Girls,” and the paranoia of "Rosemary's Baby", “Nordsterns” peers into the psychic trauma of the quest for fame. (Series version available as well.)
TROUgh
Format: Feature (Horror)
Status: In Development
Materials: Treatment
A spontaneous tryst unleashes a medieval curse upon a young traveler that threatens to turn him into a pig.
man at the plant
Format: Feature (Neo-Western/Thriller)
Status: In Development
Materials: Deck
Following his attempted suicide, a disillusioned businessman starts fresh at an off-grid commune. But as paranoia and mistrust bubble to the surface of the tight knit community, he becomes the target of a deadly ritual—and must fight for the very life he once took for granted.