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Listening To Whales
Release: Early 2025Director(s): Grace McNally
PROJECT TYPE: Feature Documentary
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: An Explorers Club/Plimsoll/Sam Houston co-production
PRODUCERS ATTACHED: Austin Raywood & Steven Jon Whritner
LOGLINE: In 1970, 33,000 whales a year were being slaughtered by commercial whalers. They were seen as large, dumb creatures – a source of cheap meat and oil. Then in the summer of 1970 an album of whale songs, Songs of the Humpback Whale, was released. The album sold over 125,000 copies and went multi-platinum. Beautiful and haunting, Songs of the Humpback Whale changed the way the public perceived animal consciousness. It inspired a global movement, led to the foundation of Greenpeace and saved whale populations from the brink of extinction. Listening to Whales tells the intertwining stories of two pioneering scientists who created this moment, and the fallout that echoed across decades.
The Great Tree Story
Release: 2026Director(s): Levison Wood
PROJECT TYPE: Feature Documentary
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: An Appian Way (Leonardo DiCaprio)/Blackmane Media Co-Production
LOGLINE: Famed British Explorer, Bestselling Author, and Television Host Levison Wood (Walking With Elephants and Walking the Nile for Channel 4) takes on a global journey to better understand the most important element of nature and the ancient guardians of the world, Trees.
Thunder Run
Release: 2026Director(s): Simon West
PROJECT TYPE: Feature Film
GENRE: True War Drama
SCREENPLAY BY: Robert Port, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by David Zucchino
PRODUCER: Jib Polhemus
LOGLINE: Thunder Run chronicles the surprise assault on Baghdad - one of the most decisive battles in American combat history. Journalist David Zucchino candidly recounts how soldiers respond under fire and stress and how human frailties are magnified in a war zone.
BERSERKER!
Release: 2026-2027Director(s): tbd
PROJECT TYPE: Feature Film
GENRE: Action Adventure
SCREENPLAY BY: Randall Wallace
PRODUCERS ATTACHED: Austin Raywood & Steven Jon Whritner
LOGLINE: An Epic Viking Saga
Letters From Paris
Release: 2027Director(s): Antoine Fuqua
PROJECT TYPE: Feature Film
GENRE: War Drama/Romance
SCREENPLAY BY: Anne-Marie Mackay
PRODUCERS ATTACHED: Austin Raywood & Steven Jon Whritner
LOGLINE: Captivated by a series of love letters written decades ago to an aged and ailing African-American vet, a French-Canadian hospice nurse discovers his secret: a tender yet tragic love affair with a French girl, told against the explosive backdrop of WWII.
