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Big Valley Pictures
Big Valley Pictures is an American independent film production company founded by director, screenwriter and artist Alex Prager in 2010. Its headquarters are located in Los Angeles, California. The company's first feature film production, ''DreamQuil'' starring Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly, is set to be released in 2025 by Republic Pictures. History In 2010, Alex Prager started Big Valley Pictures to produce independent films. The company's first film, ''Despair'' (2010) had its premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since its inception, Big Valley Pictures has produced 9 short films and in 2025 will release their first feature, ''DreamQuil'' alongside HanWay Films, Patriot Pictures, Brownstone Productions, and Landay Entertainment. Their films are crafted with meticulous attention to detail, drawing from the traditions of classic cinema with a timeless sensibility. On May 11th, 2023, it was announced that Prager would write and direct her directorial debu ...
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Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ...
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Museum Of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, screen printing, prints, book illustration, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. The institution was conceived in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan. Initially located in the Crown Building (Manhattan), Heckscher Building on Fifth Avenue, it opened just days after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Wall Street Crash. The museum was led by Anson Goodyear, A. Conger Goodyear as president and Abby Rockefeller as treasurer, with Alfred H. Barr Jr., Alfred H. Barr Jr. as its first director. Under Barr's leadership, the museum's collection rapidly expanded, beginning with an inaug ...
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Film Production Companies Of The United States
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ...
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The New York Times Style Magazine
''T: The New York Times Style Magazine'', known simply as ''T'', is a perfect-bound magazine publication of ''The New York Times'' newspaper dedicated to fashion, living, beauty, holiday, travel, and design coverage. ''T'' is not a supplement of ''The New York Times Magazine'', but a distinct publication with its own staff. It was launched in August 2004, and is distributed with the Sunday edition of the newspaper 11 times a year. Since December 2007, an international edition has been distributed with the weekend edition of ''The New York Times International Edition'' (or ''International New York Times'', formerly the ''International Herald Tribune''). In 2010, its first country-specific edition, ''T Qatar'' was launched. ''T Australia'' is a separate online and quarterly print magazine produced for the Australian market. History ''T: The New York Times Style Magazine'' was launched in August 2004. It was published 13 times per year between 2013 and 2016, and since January ...
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Paris Opera
The Paris Opera ( ) is the primary opera and ballet company of France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the , and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and officially renamed the , but continued to be known more simply as the . Classical ballet as it is known today arose within the Paris Opera as the Paris Opera Ballet and has remained an integral and important part of the company. Currently called the , it mainly produces operas at its modern 2,723-seat theatre Opéra Bastille which opened in 1989, and ballets and some classical operas at the older 1,979-seat Palais Garnier which opened in 1875. Small scale and contemporary works are also staged in the 500-seat Amphitheatre under the Opéra Bastille. The company's annual budget is in the order of 200 million euros, of which €100M come from the French state and €70M from box office receipts. With this money, the company runs the two houses and supports a large permanent staff, wh ...
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Juliette Lewis
Juliette Lake Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an American actress, singer and musician. She is known for her portrayals of offbeat characters, often in films with dark plots, themes and settings. Lewis gained prominence in American cinema during the early 1990s, appearing in various independent film, independent and art film, arthouse films. Lewis's List of awards and nominations received by Juliette Lewis, accolades include nominations for an Academy Awards, Academy Award, a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. The daughter of actor Geoffrey Lewis (actor), Geoffrey Lewis, Lewis began her career in television at age 14 before making her film debut in ''My Stepmother Is an Alien'' (1988). This was followed by bigger parts in ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'' (1989) and Martin Scorsese's ''Cape Fear (1991 film), Cape Fear'' (1991), the latter of which earned her an Oscar nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supportin ...
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Vanessa Prager
Vanessa Prager (born August 27, 1984) is a Los Angeles–based painter. Career Vanessa Prager is an American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Known mainly for her large-scale, abstract oil paintings, Prager's main subject is the face. Perception, perspective and information flow are all central themes to her work, which became more widely recognized after her exhibition, ''Dreamers''—a series of "imagined" portraits which cross the border between the figurative and the abstract—opened and sold out completely, in Spring 2015. In January 2016, Prager's first solo exhibition in NYC, Voyeur, opened, with favorable reviews. The Huffington Post described the works as "densely layered paintings, with pigment applied so thickly it forms its own topography", elaborating that, "various strokes of color—a ribbon of white like a squirt of toothpaste, a sharp sliver of green like a fish darting by—come together to form different visual narratives." In 2015, W Ma ...
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Vincent Landay
Vincent Landay is a Canadian-American film producer. He has worked with Spike Jonze on his music videos and feature films since 1993. Some of the movies he has produced include ''Being John Malkovich'' and ''Where the Wild Things Are (film), Where the Wild Things Are'', as well as the 2010 Canadian short film ''Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life'', created for the Blu-ray release of ''Where the Wild Things Are''. He has made music videos for Kanye West, REM, Jay Z and many more artists. Filmography He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted. Film ;Production manager ;Music department ;Thanks Television ;Miscellaneous crew ;Second unit director or assistant director References External links

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Brownstone Productions
Brownstone Productions, Inc. is an American film and television production company founded by actress, director and producer Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman. It is known for producing films in the ''Pitch Perfect'' franchise, ''Charlie's Angels'' (2019) and '' Cocaine Bear'' (2023). History Brownstone Productions was founded in October 2002 in Santa Clarita, California by actress, director and producer Elizabeth Banks and her husband, sportswriter and producer Max Handelman. As of 2019, the company is headquartered at the Universal Studios Lot in Universal City, California. In January 2015, the company signed a two-year first-look deal with Universal Pictures from 2015 to 2017. In June 2015, Brownstone signed a multi year production deal with Warner Bros. Television. In 2019, the company re-signed its first-look deal with Universal Pictures, and production deal with Warner Bros. Television. In June 2021, the company signed a first-look and multi-project development podcasting ...
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HanWay Films
HanWay Films is an independent British international sales, distribution and marketing company specializing in theatrical feature films. History In 1999, Jeremy Thomas founded international sales company HanWay Films with his colleagues Peter Watson (deputy chairman) and Stephan Mallmann, and continues to chair the board. Two new members joined the board in 2011, Thorsten Schumacher, previously head of sales, was appointed managing director, and former head of business affairs Jan Spielhoff took up the reins as chief operating officer. HanWay has established itself as leading international sales, distribution and marketing company specialising in high-profile quality films from worldwide talent. HanWay arranges financing, sales and distribution for all films from Recorded Picture Company, along with projects from third party producers. HanWay also represents an extensive film catalogue of over 500 features including films from Thomas's Recorded Picture Company, and the British Fi ...
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Feature Film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a film (Film, motion picture, "movie" or simply “picture”) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment theatrical program. The term ''feature film'' originally referred to the main, full-length film in a cinema program that included a short film and often a newsreel. Matinee programs, especially in the United States and Canada, in general, also included cartoons, at least one weekly serial film, serial and, typically, a second feature-length film on weekends. The first narrative feature film was the 70-minute ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' (1906). Other early feature films include ''Les Misérables (1909 film), Les Misérables'' (1909), ''L'Inferno'', ''Defence of Sevastopol, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1911 film), The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1911), ''Oliver Twist (1912 American film), Oliver Twist'' ...
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Independent Film
An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is film production, produced outside the Major film studios, major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies). Independent films are sometimes distinguishable by their content and style and how the filmmakers' artistic vision is realized. Sometimes, independent films are made with considerably lower film budget, budgets than major studio films. It is not unusual for well-known actors who are cast in independent features to take substantial pay cuts for a variety of reasons: if they truly believe in the message of the film, they feel indebted to a filmmaker for a career break; their career is otherwise stalled, or they feel unable to manage a more significant commitment to a studio film; the film offers an opportunity to showcase a talent that has not gained traction i ...
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