Film Strategy Associates
The boutique motion picture studio dedicated to partnering with major corporate sponsorship:
We put entertainment to work.
Strategy
Today’s consumers don’t want ads. They want stories.
And if companies are willing to invest in stories – their brands get to come alive by becoming part of the story.
What Film Strategy Associates does is intentional. We envision, develop, create and market the movies and series that, very carefully, make your brand and your company the star.
Top Team
Ed Elbert
- Harvard MBA
- American Express — Youngest-ever departmental head
- 20th Century Fox — Team member initial Star Wars launch
- MGM — Producer — The Mighty Quinn, starred Denzel Washington. Ebert: 10 Best of the Year & 100 Best of the Decade
- 20th Century Fox — Producer — Anna and the King starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun Fat — Two Oscar Nominations
- New Line/Warner Bros — The Martian Child starring Angelica Huston, Sophia Okonedo, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Oliver Platt, and Amanda Peet.
Gerald Sindell
- Producer, writer, director feature motion picture — Double-Stop — New Directors Invitational at the Cannes Film Festival and Winner ‘World’s Best Feature Motion Picture‘ Atanta International Film Festival
- CBS Cinema 100 — Producer, Director — Harpy, starring High O’Brian and Elizabeth Ashley
- G.P.Putnam — Packager — …And Ladies of the Club #1 NY Times Bestseller for a record-breaking 52 weeks
- Knightsbridge — Owner, publisher — hundreds of hardcover and paperback originals “America’s Greatest Independent Publisher,” Vincent Bugliosi
- New World Press — Author — Genius Machine, “A Gift to the World,” Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School. “Sindell is Obi-Wan Kenobi,” Ken Dychtwald, CEO AgeWave, “Sindell gets the creative process better than almost anyone,” Daniel Pink WSJournal
- Quentin Tarantino discusses Sindell’s films on his podcast.
Jonathan Sanger
- All Major Studios — Producer — 21 Oscar nominations, 3 Oscars, British Academy Film award and a French Cesar among numerous other awards.
- Producer — The Elephant Man, directed by David Lynch starring Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt; Frances, starring Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard, Without Limits, starring Billy Crudup and Donald Sutherland, Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz, and The Producers—The Musical, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.
- Producer — Chapter & Verse, starring Loretta Divine, Daniel Beaty, and Amari Hardwick
- Produeer — Marshall, starring Chadwick Boseman, Kate Hudson, Josh Gad, and Sterling K. Brown
- Producer — Cabrini, starring Cristiana Dell’Anna, John Lithgow, David Morse, and Giancarlo Giannini.
- Director — Numerous episodic TV shows, including Twin Peaks, Wiseguy and LA Law; Code Name Emerald, starring Ed Harris and Max Von Sydow; Down Came A Blackbird starring Laura Dern and Vanessa Redgrave — nominated for 3 Cable Ace Awards; several movies of the week; wrote and directed Peacemaker — Winner ‘Best Short Subject’ Houston International Film Festival
Leslie Bates
- Attorney — Lincoln Law School
- MFA — American Film Institute Screenwriting fellow
- Military contracting in the Middle East, representing Allied Signal and Honeywell to the Turkish military
- Attorney — Universal Internation Pictures Studios Legal
- Producer — UnicVisions — feature films “Acts of Desperation,” and “Brothers Broken”
- Member Film Independent, Women in Film, Greenlight Women, and Women in Media
Larry Ackerman
- Siegal-Gale — Senior Strategy Consultant — Pioneer of Identity-Based Management, a comprehensive discipline for tapping into the value-creating core of organizations to help them build distinctive, authentic and sustainable brands and businesses
- Brand Consultant — AARP, Alcoa, Dow Chemical, Fidelity Investments, Lockheed Martin, Maytag, National Geographic, Norsk Hydro, and State Farm Insurance
- Author — Identity Is Destiny: Leadership and the Roots of Value Creation, for senior executives who want to harness the uniqueness and potential of their institutions, (Berret-Kohler Publishers) “A must read,” David Lebow, COO AMFM; The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding your Purpose and Place in the World (Random House) is for individuals seeking to create more fulfilling, meaningful lives.
Addison Wright
- All Major Studios — Producer — More than 150 feature films and documentaries, starring Robert Downey Jr., Tim Roth, Steve Martin, Toby Maguire, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Lewis, Norman Reedus and many others. Almost half of these projects were distressed films that completion bonders or insurers had turned to Wright to attempt to rescue when the original producers found themselves in over their heads. He saved all of them
- Commercials — Producer — 1,000-plus commercials and Public Service Announcements, more than 120 music videos, and over 100 corporate and industrial films for Fortune 500 companies
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