Original Content
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Or Something
Logline: Two strangers show up at the same Brooklyn apartment to collect cash they’re both owed. Forced to spend the day together on a journey through New York City, the pair reveal intimate details about their lives. One of them happens to be hiding a harrowing secret.
Directed By: Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder
Written By: Mary Neely & Kareem Rahma
Produced By: Sophia Loren Heriveaux, Dan Blackwell, Mary Neely, Kareem Rahma & Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder
Cast: Mary Neely, Kareem Rahma, David Zayas, Brandon Wardell, Lauren Servideo, Petey DeAbreau, & Tim Griffin Allan
ASMR for White Liberals
Logline: Liberal? White? Guilty as hell? Let me help you get through your tough, tough times with ASMR for White Liberals.
Director: John Connor Hammond
Producer: John Connor Hammond
Writer: Randall Otis, John Connor Hammond
Status: Digital Release
Awards: Vimeo Staff Pick and Webby Awards Nomination for Best Short Comedy, Slamdance Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Florida Film Festival and more
Protest Photography
Logline: Missed your chance to stand up for justice? Don’t worry, Protest Photography has you covered.
Director: John Connor Hammond
Producer: John Connor Hammond
Writer: Randall Otis
Status: Digital Release
Awards: Vimeo Staff Pick and 2x Webby Awards Nominations for Best Short Comedy and Best Writing, Slamdance Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, and more
Hold to Dash
Logline: An undersexed, Twitch-streaming, professional gamer searches for love in the real world.
Director: John Connor Hammond
Writer: Leo Winters
Status: In Festivals
Awards: Florida Film Festival, Treefort Film Festival, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, Winner of Best Comedy Short @ Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Winner of Best Comedy Short @ Tallahasse Film Festival
No Avocados in the Ghetto
Logline: Music video for Dekunle’s single, No Avocados in the Ghetto - a song about food deserts.
Producer: John Connor Hammond
Director: John Connor Hammond
Writer: Dekunle
Status: Digital Release
Awards: Aesthetica Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Editing at the Independent Shorts Awards, Funniest Music Video at Houston Comedy Festival
Dad & Step Dad
Logline: Jim and Dave, a dad and a step-dad, have trouble bonding during a 3-day weekend upstate with their son, Branson.
Director: Tynan DeLong
Writer: Tynan DeLong, Colin Burgess, Anthony Oberbeck
More Info: Independent Feature Film in association with International Pigeon Productions and Sunday Morning Digital starring Colin Burgess and Anthony Oberbeck.
Status: Theatrical Release 2023
Logline: COBELL ENERGY is a short-form satirical office comedy about a family owned oil company, Cobell Energy, that is battling against innovation, activists, and each other as they destroy the planet to protect their own interests.
Directed By: Ari Cagan
Written By: Ari Cagan, John Connor Hammond, Jack Reichert
Produced By: John Connor Hammond, Ari Cagan, Jack Reichert
Executive Producer: Adam McKay, Staci Roberts-Steele, Anna Wenger
Music By: Joe Wong
Cast: Will Higgins, Emily Wilson, John Connor Hammond, Sunnaya Nash with Nathan Orton, Vince Ticali and Georgia Kate-Heage
Tonight’s Special w/ Kareem and Johnny
Logline: Tonight's Special with Kareem & Johnny is a 30-minute episodic comedy series that follows two struggling stand-up comedians, Kareem Rahma, and Johnny Gaffney, as they produce a stand-up comedy show out of Kellogg's Diner in Brooklyn.
Director: John Connor Hammond
Producer: John Connor Hammond
Writer: John Connor Hammond, Kareem Rahma, John Gaffney
Status: Coming Soon.
Interesting Americans
Logline: A 10 minute comedy mockumentary anthology series featuring the most interesting everyday Americans.
Producer: John Connor Hammond
Director: Sam Blumenfeld & William Kenton
Writer: Chloe Troast
More Info: N/A
Status: Coming Soon.
Land of Lincoln
Logline: Land of Lincoln is a Thanksgiving comedy set in rural Illinois exploring the fight for connection among a family bearing the weight of their collective generational trauma.
Producer: John Connor Hammond
Director: Jack Dunphy
Writer: Jack Dunphy
Status: Coming Soon
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Land of Lincoln
Logline: Land of Lincoln is a Thanksgiving comedy set in rural Illinois exploring the fight for connection among a family bearing the weight of their collective generational trauma.
More Info: N/A
Status: In edit