Introduce Yourself : Think outside the box by Rick James

I'm an independent filmmaker from New York living in Colorado. I co-started a company called Denver Pictures for production and distribution of media. In addition to screenplays, I'm also a 3D animator, illustrator and audio ebook writer and producer. Film funding is really hard to do in Colorado and things just wasn't working, so we decided to do the business backwards.

Of coarse we welcome an angle investor, but we're not waiting for one. Our business plan is to make the merchandise first (illustrated and audio ebooks, games, trailers and prints) based on our screenplays. My co-partner and I are writing 15 screenplays (in addition to what we have already), which we'll convert into the before mentioned merchandise and use the profits to produce our screenplays.

The first sci-fi screenplay we converted to an illustrated ebook was actually a movie-book. We produced the film "Captain Kooh Space Pirate" using a 3D animation program and converted it to an ebook. As you tuned the page, the scene played like a movie, but you read the dialog like a book. It was innovative, new and different, we even had a publisher take it on, she liked the idea. But it was too big to download in America, the download speed to any mobile device other than a computer was too slow for the 13.5gb book to download. We are considering making it a 360 film for VR devices, computers and the Microsoft Xbox only. You can see the trailer here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT3bvD723Og

One of our scripts to illustrated ebook "Emerald City: A Wolf's Tale" is being considered by an animation company in China. We originally released it to a publisher, but quickly discovered we were being ripped off so we had to pull it back. The rest of our scripts to be converted to ebooks are on our website www.denverpicturesllc.com

Since we started these projects, we were hired to shot a pilot using a comic book style theme for the CW channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYu6rk2OVI Unfortunately we had a falling out with the producer at the end of production, but we understand they loved it and ordered another 3 episodes.

So what I'm saying is, when things don't seem to work out, you can make things happen if you think outside the box and try another way. Nothing is written in stone.