Hi.
Forget everything you think you know about indie filmmaking.
Forget the $10 million dollar film that's supposed to be "underground".
Forget the egos, attitudes, posturing, and infantile power plays.
Forget everything you think you know about indie filmmaking.
Meet face-to-face with what you love about it.
Meet the driven, mostly broke, partially crazy souls who dream big.
Meet passion, artistry, talent, hard work, and true dedication.
Meet face-to-face with what you love about indie filmmaking.
Meet The Renegade Moving Picture Company.
We're the people you run into at a bar at four in the morning that won't shut up about being a part of something great.
Then we wake up the next day and actually do it.
!!! LAUNCHING FALL 2007 !!!
Renegade: someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw.
Moving: in motion; arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion.
Picture: a visual representation.
Company: organization of performers and associated personnel.
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The Renegade Moving Picture Company is a free association society intended to be a non-exclusive organization of producers and entertainers. Designed structurally to exist through various transient members, each project will be developed and produced with the highest quality staff and no vested ownership amongst active partners. Only the most talented and highly motivated personnel will be chosen to participate in the individual productions that are sure to become even greater than the sum of their parts.
HISTORY IS OUR INSPIRATION
From the very beginning of filmmaking, the MPPC was fought by the unlicensed independents (dubbed "pirates" or "outlaws"), led by the feisty renegade Carl Laemmle. By 1909, Laemmle entered into film production as the Yankee Film Company, soon renamed the Independent Moving Pictures (IMP) Company in New York. IMP's first film was "Hiawatha" (1909). Others who fought the MPPC included Harry E. Aitken (Majestic Films), William Fox (founder of the Fox Film Corporation), and Adolph Zukor (Famous Players, the precursor to Paramount). The flexible, stealthy, and adventurous independents avoided coercive MPPC restrictions (the requirement to use only Trust film stock and projectors, for example) by using unlicensed equipment, obtaining their own film materials, and making films on the sly. Soon, they moved to California and opened up a rival filmmaking industry (now called Hollywood). Carl Laemmle, now a maverick film distributor with his own manufacturing and distribution company - the Universal Film Manufacturing Company (the precursor to Universal Films in 1912) - acquired one of the first West Coast studios at Gower St. and Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, on the opposite corner from the Christie-Nestor Studio. Laemmle hired a former actor named Thomas H. Ince to run this new Hollywood studio, called the IMP Studio, or Independent Moving Pictures. IMP was innovative in their making of longer, multi-reel feature films, as opposed to the standard-length one-reel films produced by the MPPC. They soon realized that audiences desired to learn the names of uncredited film performers - hence, the development of the star system. The growth of Hollywood, the studio system, the take-over of cinema by businessmen and entrepreneurs, and the film star system were coming quickly. By 1911, dialogue titles (first used in 1910) came into popular use, and credits started to appear in films. The rest, as they say, is cinematic history.
There are no diva attitudes welcomed. The lazy up-talkers will fail here. Sincere commitment and pure determination will flourish. Team players will become stars. We'll see you at the finish.