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01 · The film

A dark fairy tale,
played straight

Two children raised to fear half the world. Each escapes into it.

MacDonald, 1882 · Dark fantasy · Feature

02 · The five chairs

Five chairs.
This round fills them.

Every chair fills in public, as it signs. A name appears here when a contract does — never before.

These five are talent attachments, not investor positions. The Executive Producer seats are separate, and there are six of them.

CHAIR 1

Director

OPEN

The single attachment every other yes depends on.
CHAIR 2

Lead · Photogen

OPEN

The boy raised in daylight. Priced for foreign value.
CHAIR 3

Lead · Nycteris

OPEN

The girl raised in lamplight. Priced for foreign value.
CHAIR 4

Cinematographer

RESERVED — FILLS WITH THE DIRECTOR

Selected with the director.
CHAIR 5

Composer

RESERVED — FILLS WITH THE DIRECTOR

Selected with the director.

Each chair: a deposit against the fee, backed by escrow.

03 · The target list

Who we’re hunting

Director shortlist

Produced genre feature. Festival premiere. Last five years.

Photogen · Nycteris

Breakout leads, A24 / Neon lane. Priced for foreign value.

DP · Composer

Selected with the director.

Profile Offer in negotiation Attached — name goes public

Why no names yet?

Names appear when contracts are signed. Never before.

The named list is in the room →

04 · The 18-month clock

18 months
to greenlight

Not greenlit by month 18, escrowed funds return to investors.

Month 0 of 18 0 of 5 chairs filled · 0 of 5 milestones

Round closes
Chairs attached
Estimates + incentives
Pre-sales
Greenlight · M18

Escrow held for the full window. Mechanics in the investor materials.

The road to greenlight

STEP 1

Chairs filled

The package exists.
STEP 2

Sales estimates

Priced by territory.
STEP 3

State incentives

Roughly a third of budget.
STEP 4

Pre-sales

Key territories, against the names.
STEP 5

Financing closed

Funds close.
MONTH ≤ 18

Greenlit

Cameras get dates.

05 · The producer

James Jackson Leach

Three produced features.

Credit	With	What it proves
Dirty Weekend	Neil LaBute · Matthew Broderick, Alice Eve	Closes talent deals.
Hard Reset	Feature · delivered on budget	Delivers films.
Call Me Brother	Sold · distributed	Sells films.

06 · The world

140 years in print. Never filmed.

Public domain. Lewis’s master. Tolkien’s reading.

One castle. Two chambers. A wood that watches.

Teaser — premieres here

07 · The Executive Producer seat

Executive Producer

Your Name

Main titles · mock

Six of these exist. This round sells them once.

What the seat is

A

Your name in the main titles

B

On set. At the premiere.

C

Dailies. Cuts. Casting, first.

08 · Questions

What is an Executive Producer on this film?

Your credit in the main titles and on IMDb, and access to the production from casting through premiere. Terms are in the investor materials.

What exactly do the five chairs cost, and why?

A deposit against the talent’s fee, backed by an escrow-held offer — what makes an offer real to an agent. Figures in the investor materials.

What happens if the film isn’t greenlit in 18 months?

Escrowed funds return to investors. Full mechanics in the investor materials.

Why aren’t the talent names shown yet?

Names appear when contracts are signed. Every filled chair here is a fact, not a hope.

Am I eligible?

Accredited investors only, verified by a third party. The verification step →

09 · Request access

Six seats.

Verify once. The producer calls within 24 hours.

Inside the room

The full deck and the named target list
The capital stack and territory plan
The recoupment waterfall and where an EP sits in it
Return scenarios, risks, and the terms summary

Figures and projections are shared only inside the room, to verified accredited investors.