Periscope Entertainment

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Founded in 2004 by producer David Guy Levy, Periscope Entertainment is a Los Angeles based company that develops and produces a diverse slate of fresh and visionary theatrical film and entertainment properties. With unique, non-genre specific projects in development and set for release, Periscope Entertainment is dedicated to discovering innovative and original material and developing it into a compelling and unprecedented cinematic experience. Devoted to the idea of creative freedom, Periscope Entertainment approaches each project as a collaborative process and believes in giving their filmmakers autonomy to craft their own vision.

Periscope Entertainment has produced two films slated for release this year. The first is AUGUST, directed by Austin Chick and starring Josh Hartnett, Adam Scott, Naomie Harris, with David Bowie and Rip Torn, which centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during the month of August, 2001. AUGUST premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and will be released by First Look Pictures on July 11, 2008. Periscope Entertainment also produced LYING, the directorial debut of M Blash, starring Chloe Sevigny, Jena Malone and Leelee Sobieski, which follows the unraveling of a pathological liar during a weekend with some friends at her family's country home. Indican Pictures will distribute LYING, an official selection of the Directors Fortnight program at the Cannes Film Festival, later this year.

Projects in development for Periscope include MARCHING POWDER, based on Thomas McFadden’s Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail, in which Periscope is producing alongside Plan B Entertainment, Reason Pictures and Crescendo. POWDER revolves around Thomas McFadden, a young British drug dealer who spends five years in a Bolivian prison that develops a successful economic system. Periscope is also developing LONDON FIELDS, based on Martin Amis’ novel of the same name, adapted by Martin Amis, Roberta Hanley and David Cronenberg. LONDON FIELDS follows a psychic who, having succumbed to a series of false premonitions, contends with her final vision. Feeling compelled to patronize a London dive bar, she encounters two different men -- one of whom might be her killer.

Other films being developed include THE WAIT, based on M. Blash’s screenplay, which focuses on two sisters settling the estate of their deceased mother and a mysterious phone call which leads one sister to believe their mother may rise to life; Pamela Corkey’s CORNBOY, the story of a boy who is half-man, half-corn and one day is set free in the care of a curious doctor, finally experiencing the outside world for what it really is; and ONE LAST THING, written by Nicholas Klein, which follows a man who discovers his girlfriend’s outrageous past as a KGB spy on the night he decides to propose to her.

Periscope is interested in projects of all different stages of development and production, whether it’s a script, packaged project or finished film seeking festival exposure and/or distribution in the $1 - $20 million range.

Periscope annually sponsors The Bent Festival which takes place across the U.S.


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