The Marine Corps can lend a production the details no prop department can fake. The price is early paperwork, a real distributor, a reviewable script - and reimbursement down to the flying hour.
A filmmaker’s complaint about expensive music licensing became a $300 million recurring-revenue business. The next wager is harder: make generative AI behave less like a slot machine and more like a film set.

Tara Lee Ford runs Oddball Films, the San Francisco stock footage archive holding over 50,000 film elements of the strange, beautiful and forgotten. A theater and dance performer who spent four decades alongside founder Stephen Parr, she now keeps the 'oddball' in Oddball Films.