EP Services
Executive producing and packaging.
Writers, directors, and cast attached; physical production overseen; sales and distribution managed, from development through delivery.
What we do
Six functions, across the whole life of the film.
Each band shows where a function lives on the film’s timeline. Legal and sales run end to end. That is what one producing partner means.
Financing assistance in select cases.
Script development
Develop → Package
Screenplay development supervised; professional screenwriters searched, selected, and negotiated.
Packaging & talent attachment
Package → Finance
Director and principal cast attached; casting directors coordinated; talent deals negotiated.
Production oversight
Finance → Shoot
Physical production overseen across Southeast Asia, with line producers, crew heads, and local vendors.
Post & delivery
Shoot → Post
The post-production pipeline supervised and deliverables managed through final delivery.
Sales & distribution
Finance → Sell
Sales strategy developed early and run through release; sales arranged directly or through agents.
Legal & business affairs
Develop → Sell
Entertainment counsel in-house, first draft to final sale. Every agreement drafted and negotiated internally.
TK01 / 0606 takes
Develop
Package
Finance
Shoot
Post
Sell
How we’re paid
Every fee, placed on the timeline.
Producers rarely publish how their deals work. We would rather you arrive knowing when each fee lands.
TK01 / 0404 takes
Signing
Prep
Shoot
Delivery
Sales
Development fee
At signingAgreed at the outset and credited back against the producing fee, so it is never paid twice.
Development feeAt signing
Agreed at the outset and credited back against the producing fee, so it is never paid twice.
Producing feeAcross production
Set against the approved budget and released in stages as the production hits its milestones.
Sales commissionWhen we sell
Payable on transactions we arrange directly, and never stacked on top of an agent's commission.
Net proceedsAfter release
A participation in net proceeds, structured with the deal. Terms are agreed per project.
Also in the deal
- Credits
- ‘A Kinetic SEA Production’ card, plus designated Produced By and Executive Producer credits.
- Crew positions
- Kinetic personnel in separate production roles are engaged under separate agreements, at market rates.
Why us
We produce where we already operate.
Our slate sits on top of a services operation that budgets, staffs, and audits productions across this region for other people. We know what a shoot here costs because we account for it line by line every week, and when we produce those same open numbers sit under our own films.
Current slate
In development and production.
Pre-production · South Africa
The Horn
A game ranger in modern-day Zimbabwe is cornered into a bargain: poach the animal he has spent his life protecting, or lose his daughter to an illness he cannot pay to treat.
Development · Canada
Dave Fest: The Power of Dave
A never-was hippie drives across Canada in pursuit of nothing at all, and finds the life and the destiny he never knew were waiting.
Development
Nightshades
A spy comedy ensemble, in development in-house.
