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KINO wants Hollywood to lose the paperwork
The company behind ScreenKey puts film review, approvals and secure viewing in one place. Its other wager is on small films with a clear audience - including the $500,000 horror movie undertone.
Pressman Film
Pressman Film is a Los Angeles-based independent production company founded in 1969 by the late producer Edward R. Pressman and now led by his son, CEO Sam Pressman. With more than 100 motion pictures to its name - including Badlands, Conan the Barbarian, Wall Street, The Crow and American Psycho - the company has a long history of backing risky, director-driven cinema before the rest of Hollywood catches on. Today it is expanding into television, virtual-reality storytelling (the Cate Blanchett/Terrence Malick VR piece Evolver), stage work and experimental, blockchain-enabled film financing that lets everyday fans invest in its development slate.
Sam Pressman
Sam Pressman is the CEO of Pressman Film, the storied independent studio his father Edward R. Pressman founded in 1969 and that backed American Psycho, Wall Street, Badlands and The Crow. A Stanford Film & Media Studies graduate who grew up on his father's sets, Sam took the helm after Ed's death in 2023 and is betting that independent cinema's next chapter runs on radical filmmakers, crowd-sourced financing, virtual reality and AI - while keeping his father's motto, 'every film is a miracle,' close.