Feature Films
FOOD AND COUNTRY
Director: Laura Gabbert
Producers: Laura Gabbert, Ruth Reichl, Paula Manzanedo, Caroline Libresco
Ruth Reichl–former NY Times food critic, Gourmet editor, best-selling memoirist, and the most respected voice defining American food culture–worries about the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as the pandemic descends. In every corner of the country–across political and social divides–she sleuths out extraordinary innovators risking it all to overcome America’s decades-old damaging food policies.
THE LIBRARIANS
Director: Kim Snyder
Producers: Ideal Partners, Kim Snyder, Janique Robillard, Maria Cuomo Cole
Status: In Production
The story of rural Texas librarians under siege who unite to defend intellectual freedom when 850 books are flagged for removal from libraries by state authorities. A local Llano county librarian/veteran is fired for refusing to remove books with LGBTQ and racial themes while highschoolers also in the neighboring country of Granbury battle the censorship crusade.
UNTITLED ALVIN AILEY PROJECT
Director: Barry Jenkins
Producers: Ideal Partners, Adele Romanski, Judy Kinberg
Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Status: In Development
The life story of acclaimed American choreographer Alvin Ailey.
EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE
Screenplay: Jonathan Dees, Steve Buscemi, Kelly Masterson
Producers: Ideal Partners, Olive Productions
Status: In Development
A young boy suspects his strict, charming, off-kilter piano instructor may be hiding a murderous secret in this coming-of-age thriller set in the world of music.
BLAME IT ON MY YOUTH
Director: Madeleine Gavin
Producers: Ideal Partners
Status: In Production
The documentary OUT OF TIME centers around an indomitable group of octogenarian singers in New York City who in spite of facing debilitating illnesses find transcendence through their music, pushed forward by their larger-than-life music coach.
TELEVISION
SILK MAFIA
Producers: Ideal Partners
Status: In Development
Based on acclaimed fashion designer Peter Som’s life, career and real friendships, SILK MAFIA follows the trials and tribulations of six Gay Asian men in early 2000s NYC, where they navigate love, sex, work, family and tradition. Through all the highs and lows, these friends ultimately turn to each other. SILK MAFIA redefines what family can be: it shows that the bond of shared experience and background can truly create family ties. And that laughter, dim sum and a shoulder to cry on can almost always solve life’s problems.
PHENIX CITY
Writer: Sheri Holman
Producers: Ideal Partners
Status: In Development
Taking place in the 1950s in what was dubbed “the wickedest city in America”, Phenix City is a Southern Gothic soap opera that sheds light on our own troubled times. It tells the real-life story of lawyer Albert Patterson and his attempt to clean up corruption against insurmountable adversity. We'll watch how his choices effect families – both white and black – in the turbulent, violent years before the Freedom Riders and the bus boycotts.