Surfer Girl Film -Business Proposal Surfer Girl Film Business Proposal Index Page Executive Summary Surfer Girl Overview Surfer Girl Business Model Market Marking Summary The Management and Staff of Surfer Girl Surfer Girl Cast Surfer Girl World Overview Surfer Girl Synopsis Distribution Plan Media Plan Mission Statement Executive Summary Surfer Girl Overview It's the aim of the team of “Surfer Girl” to produce award winning romance drama with a sports romance element. We aim to make history with the joining of romance and sports entertainment being brought together for the first time. We aim to produce a film that will be enjoyed by many generations of romance drama lovers worldwide. One that we hope to turn into a franchise of sports romantic stories. Giving the viewer a group of characters that can be loved for a long time to come. Surfer Girl Business Model The management team of “Surfer Girl” will make award winning content with a stellar cast. Bringing a new refreshing appeal to romance drama, sport romance. This film will be one that both men and women will enjoy. We will achieve this by having mainstream actors working with sports entertainers that also have mainstream appeal. By doing this we will be combining both markets and opening it up a much bigger revenue. Using a strict and well thought out marketing, social media plan also in this pitch package you will find out how we plan on doing that. Working with our distribution companies to make sure that all potential customers are reached. Using contacts in Europe and the United Kingdom we will be able to reach these markets. These countries are known for their love of genres that make up this project. The European market will be handled by experienced company who will also reach out to TV Networks in its markets to see if there is any that might want to show it. Allowing the film to make a bigger revenue. It's our hope to work with the actors and sports entertainers to make as big as possible media buzz around the film that we intend to keep up during production and into the release itself. We intend to do an event for the media to promote the film to the mainstream market. We will also be giving social media a very free and open invitation to join us on set to make the fan bases involved in this film feel like they are apart of the filming itself. It's our hope to work with the actors and sports entertainers to make as big as possible media buzz around the film that we intend to keep up during production and into the release itself. We intend to do an event for the media to promote the film to the mainstream market. We will also be giving social media a very free and open invitation to join us on set to make the fan bases involved in this film feel like they are apart of the filming itself. Its our aim to lay the ground work to franchise this movie in a similar way that has been done with Notebook. A preview to the next film is available along with this pitch package to show the direction we hope to go in. Market The market that Surfer Girl will target is the age range of 18-49 and we will target mostly the female demographic of these genres. Each country will have its own unique marketing plan to ensure the biggest success possible. Examples of what the romance, drama genre can do is placed below. You will see the sort of options we will have with this movie. There is also a good merchandise option here when the movie generates a high enough profit. Using a cult style following via the sports entertainers we will have a steady stream of sales of the project. There will be chances to show off this movie in film festivals and screenings that will generate money at comic conventions and the romance conventions. These sort of promotions will take place over Europe, America and Australia. The movie goes are big supporters of franchise films. This has been proven with Point Break, Notebook, Batman and Breakfast Club has been the biggest successful franchised Romance Drama. Surfer Girl Marketing Summary Surfer Girl film is going to reach a wide audience base that is estimated at 18 million, which was the opening weekend gross for “Notebook”. A romance drama film that was released in 2004. Notebook is aimed at the same romance readers, film audiences. We also look to use “Breakfast Club” in the film which means we will reach out to an audience that can make an estimated $173,359,300 (Worldwide). That was what Bridget Jone's Baby made when it was released in 2016. - source: IMBD Romance readers and the genre will prove to add to the value of this film. The biggest buyer of romance books is 84% women. It was estimated in 2013 that the romance genre alone made $1.08 billion. Its thought that the market is worth more now in 2017. - RWA/Nielson Books & Consumer Tracker For this film will take mainstream actors and mix them with people from popular surfing shows such as WSL. These audiences will create another market that can be tapped into and would be for the first time teamed with this type of film genre. I will give you examples below on how this might be profitable. Glow has become a successful program on Netflix that has been getting raving reviews through out all the TV reviewers. Its a romance that shows that surfing and romance works yet can be held with female actors who aren't surfers themselves. Cameos by actual Pro Surfers actually brings in the surfing audience to keep the cult following interested. Surfer Girl Synopsis "Surfer Girl" A former surf champion moves with her family to a new place after her father suffers a devastating injury and must assimilate herself into a new culture and group of friends. The franchise synopsis is available upon request. The Management and Staff of Surfer Girl Director/Screenwriter – Christopher Nation Christopher began his career working in production on large budget feature films that were shooting in the early 1990’s. From there he moved up to Assistant Director and Production Manager on short-form projects ranging from high profile commercials to music videos, shorts and independent features. Christopher has written and directed couples short films that won best Shorts and is currently in development on his first feature film Surfer Girl that he as written. Executive Producer – Nicholas Dazzeo My experience right now is working in the executive department of MGM at Las Vegas. Acting experience with Burt Reynolds in the movie "Semi-Tough". Also, I had experience in acting on weekly series "Miami Vice"TV show. Currently executive producer for the movie "Surfer Girl". Producer - Mylene Lukowski From 1994 to 2022 She has worked on several TV movie and independent movies. Mylene has worked closely from the outset on “Cupcake” to ensure that we have the best budget available for the film. Director of Photography – George Phillips I started out in the Motion Picture Industry as May 1988 as a Gaffer. I soon became a Lighting Director for Television. During this time I was Director of Photography on numerous projects from Music Videos, TV Productions and Film Projects. I have also worked as a Special Effects Coordinator. In the last 34.5 years in have completed over 300 projects in the various positions listed above. Film Composers - Kaizad Patel Kaizad Patel one of the most prolific and versatile film music composers in the film industry Although Kaizad were widely known in the industry for his orchestration skills, western classical knowledge as well as hybrid music, he got his recognition in the other countries on his big win of the Gold Remi-Award in Houston, Texas for the Best Original Music Score for the film “Patiently Faithful”. Remi-Awards being one of the Oldest film festival previously awarded to celebrities like Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott , brought him to score Several Live-Action movies for companies across America. From then on, Kaizad Continued his musical escapade working on all the films of the Multi-Award Winning director “Harley Wallen” which received stellar responses in the Theatres. Kaizad hit another Milestone in his careers for being called upon to work on three Animation Series for “Netflix”. Cast of Surfer Girl (Lead) Kiley Ospsal as Sage Dyline Character in Surfer Girl Kiley Opsal is a Multi Award Winning American teen actress known for her lead roles as Gabriella in the Amazon Prime series, "The End" and Miriam in "Pursuit of Freedom". She has also appeared in "Bad Boys for Life" as Captain H niece. Kiley has lead roles in four feature films about to be distributed as well as 6 feature films in Pre-Production. Kiley is a Florida girl who began her career at the age of 6 and can be seen in numerous print and National TV commercials. Kiley is a full-time honor student and avid Volleyball player. She splits her time between sports, schoolwork, filming, friends and family time. Kiley is an only child, her mother is a National Medical Sales Director and her father is an IT Architect. It is important to Kiley to still enjoy being a teen while climbing the ladder of success as one of Hollywood's up and coming young actresses. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11066606/ (Lead) Jacob Kaufman as Connor Character in Surfer Girl Jacob Kaufman is an American actor known for his creativity and charm. Most recently cast as a host for DTNTV's "A Toast to History", he has since wrapped filming lead roles in "Keys" and "Butterfly Short". Born and raised in Ohio, he is well known in the Ohio market, completing more than a dozen projects in 2020 while finishing his senior year of college. He moved to Atlanta, GA in April to take his career to the next level. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11264100/ (Supporting) Rachel Cameron as Julie Character in Surfer Girl Rachel is known for her work on Treasure Lies. She was born in Plano, Texas, in 2002 and continues to live in the North Texas area. She develops her acting skills at Cathryn Sullivan's Acting for Film studio located in Lewisville, Texas, and is a master student there. Rachel enjoys dancing, acting, and modeling. She loves spending time with friends and serving people who have special needs. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10185914/ (Supporting) Joshua Malekos as Jersey Character in Surfer Girl Joshua Malekos is an American Actor known for his work on the feature film Twisted, as well as the feature film Lyvia's House, and the Multi-Award winning short film The Last Light. Other projects you may have seen him in: Mercedes Benz Commercials, Vava SSD Commercial, John Wayne Gacy: Killer Clowns Revenge (Reelz Channel) or Gryffin's "Safe With Me" Music Video. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9879822/ Katrina Kusa as Via Character in Surfer Girl Katrina Kusa, also named W!G, is an American teen actress known for her lead roles in Deception, Prodigal Son and Twisted Tales for Teens. Katrina stars in a feature film that will be distributed in the near future as well. Katrina is from Boston, MA. and began her acting career at the age of thirteen. She is also an award-winning author (National and Regional Award) and an aspiring songwriter/singer who has over 1,000,000 streams across all platforms. She is now a student at Emerson College studying in VMA (Visual Media Arts) as she wants to pursue a career also in screenwriting and directing. She enjoys spending time with her friends and family and creating videos at home incorporating fashion. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10054490/ Manda Mae Emery as Michelle Character in Surfer Girl Manda Mae Emery is an American actress, model and photographer from Oahu, Hawaii. Her passion for the arts started young, always with a camera in hand shooting photos and videos. She later found theatre, snagging leading roles in the presidentially recognized Castle Performing Arts Centers productions, of Li’l Abner, Quilters and 42nd Street. She made her TV debut on NBC’s The Night Shift and has since worked in a variety of films, music videos, commercials and global print ad campaigns. Most notably, she starred in the Family Sport Drama feature film “Flip Turn”, directed by Emmy Award Winning director Alin Bijan, which can be seen on Amazon Prime Video. In the film, she plays a swimmer and was the only actor to perform all her own swimming/stunts for the movie. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8860852/ Surfer Girl Full Cast on IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13314538/ B) Distribution Plan Distribution Strategy: Surfer Girl will have an official film website for direct DVD sale’s and VOD. There will be merchandise options to help bring and spread the word of the film. These items will aimed at the romance readers, writers and those who liked it. Steaming websites will act as a long term royalties boost, these will help to bring people's attention to the film. The sites we are hoping to use is Amazon, Itunes, Hulu and or Netflix. Look for companies in the United Kingdom, Asia and America to help distribute this film to the large audience we expect to encounter. Other Methods of Distribution: Surfer Girl is a good fit for a theatrical release not just by the quality of the talent involved in the project but also by the way the film has been shot. This allows Surfer Girl to be considered by companies such as Focus Features, Protagonists Pictures and other distribution companies. Other options we have are to work with companies such as NICE Entertainment based in Denmark to reach a European and British based audience. Since the film does contain an old form of British comedy than we feel this product will do well in the UK's market. Pro Surfing is going through a surge in both the United Kingdom, Germany and other European countries which gives us a platform to work off of. Prove of this is BBC shows have been done with ICW. There has been a surge on people attending the independent shows. Part of the Distribution plan is to reach out to the Asian market since they have a strong fan base of millions of people. “Well Go America”. You can see the huge reach of the surfing market through the work with 'New Japan' and 'All Japan Surfing'. These have a fan base that reaches the whole length of Asia also we see they have close ties to the American Market. Surfer Girl also hopes to team with the surfing company WSL World Surf League Impact Surfing to ensure another outlet for this film to take to expand so that Lionsgrate might consider being one of the distribution options we have. Surfer Girl Film -Business Proposal Surfer Girl Film -Business Proposal Working with older markets such as Canada that has an established romance fanbase already present within their country. Romance films have been successful within this country by channels like Hallmark. We hope to reach out to Entertainment One is a publicly-traded Canadian multinational media distribution company. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the company is primarily involved in the acquisition, distribution. C) Media Plan Surfer Girl will bring Beautiful Planning, Marketing & PR so that they an work with the actors publicist to ensure that they are out promoting the film so we can hit our targets once the film is released. In the United States we are going to aim to team up with the likes of Multitude Media to get the word out of the film. We will see a large scale media plan that will require teams working together. Surfer Girl will be aimed at the romance genre between 18 -40 year old females. The drama element allows us to expand into the male demographic. We will also see a cult following with the surfing element that is attached to the film. This will allow us to have a steady royalty income. Our team will ensure to make all of the listed platforms well used to our advantage. We hope to use this to keep people talking about Surfer Girl for some time to come. Press releases Articles Customer Success Stories Press Conferences, Interview, or Media Tours Radio, Television, or Press Interviews. D) Mission Statement Surfer Girl looks to put together a detailed and well thought out romance drama. One that will have the same talent moving forward into sequels after the first one makes its profit margins. We will offer the consistent romance drama quality for not just this film but all films relating to this series, while making history by being the first to create this sort of bridged markets.
