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Mar 5, 2021 · EXCLUSIVE: Indie stalwart Cassian Elwes is making a move into management via his Elevated banner, kicking off with signing Best Sellers director Lina Roessler, whose debut feature starring...
Mar 5, 2021 · EXCLUSIVE: Indie stalwart Cassian Elwes is making a move into management via his Elevated banner, kicking off with signing Best Sellers director Lina Roessler, whose debut feature starring...
Jan 3, 2014 · Film producer Cassian Elwes talks about how he got his start in the business, why he prefers to avoid big studio productions, and offers his take on temperamental attitudes in the industry.
Hausfater works non-exclusively with producer Cassian Elwes functioning as his business affairs/legal/executive. He also provides expert witness services.
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Elwes had seen Dee Rees’ 2012 feature directorial debut Pariah at Sundance and contacted her agent Craig Kestel, who had been Elwes’ assistant at WMA. Rees had just completed Bessie for HBO and signed on quickly. “That was a game-changer,” King says. “I was one of Dee’s agents and knew how brilliant she was as a filmmaker.” After Pariah, Rees had b...
“Cassian Elwes, Charles King — all the guys at MACRO — really backed me up,” Rees says. “When it came to stuff like getting the exact town location I wanted, even though it was more expensive than a general store front that was nearer to where we were shooting everything, they would say ‘Here’s the $50,000 to get this town’ and it paid off in produ...
They persevered and six months later filmmakers and cast, which included Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke and a revelatory Mary J Blige as Mitchell’s mother Florence, were sitting in the Eccles Center in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival world premiere. Armory Films’ Lemole says when the house lights went up, he and business partner Zajaros crie...
Aug 11, 2000 · By shifting his allegiance into the independent camp, he will be seeking partnership opportunities within the studios - a world where he is eminently well-connected, but one that is cutting back...
Apr 20, 2016 · Elwes clearly sees opportunity — provided one is willing to do the legwork. With the right subject matter, director and a star willing to work for less, he explains, financing a film budgeted at...
