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    ‘You’d Be Stunned How Many Wealthy Individuals Are Out There’: Former Sundance Darling Vincent Grashaw on Skipping the Hollywood Shuffle

    David GroveBy David GroveJune 30, 20258 Mins Read
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    ‘You’d Be Stunned How Many Wealthy Individuals Are Out There’: Former Sundance Darling Vincent Grashaw on Skipping the Hollywood Shuffle
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    In 2011, Vincent Grashaw scored. Along with his buddies within the Coatwolf filmmaking collective, he produced the ultra-low-budget “Bellflower.” It was a breakout hit in Sundance’s NEXT part and Oscilloscope Laboratories snapped up the gritty, handmade portrait of poisonous love and self-destruction lower than every week after its premiere.

    “That was when [Oscilloscope co-founder] Adam Yauch was nonetheless alive and [A24 co-founder] David Fenkel was nonetheless there,” Grashaw stated. “The yr we had been at Sundance, I need to say 30 movies offered. It was loopy.”

    Being a competition breakout kicked off his profession, offering entry to a community of brokers, managers, and basic conferences.

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    It didn’t do a rattling factor to get a film made.

    He laughed. “I don’t suppose I ever had any person say sure to a pitch. I really feel like in a bizarre manner, I’m outdoors of the enterprise in comparison with what I used to be again then.”

    Nevertheless, at a time when so many filmmakers wrestle, he’s directed 4 options within the final 14 years; two extra are in publish.

    Between films and different filmmaking aspect gigs, he hasn’t had a straight job since 2010. “You hit tough instances and good instances,” he texted me. “Gone from being in debt to having lots within the checking account. However I’ve been capable of journey and see lots of the world due to this job so I’m grateful.”

    The key to his success? As a substitute of begging for improvement offers, he determined to chase one thing extra sensible: cash.

    “I discovered it manner simpler to search out folks with cash than it’s to get an organization to say ‘Sure,’” Grashaw stated. “You’d be stunned what number of wealthy persons are on the market.”

    He didn’t have an agent. An opportunity connection via a girlfriend funded his characteristic directorial debut, “Coldwater.” (That journey concerned a music mogul, the Elvis Suite with a bullet gap within the wall, and driving again from Vegas with $300K from the thousand-dollar slots.)

    Extra prosaically, he received “What Josiah Noticed” off the bottom after six years due to Randomix Productions, whose principal Ran Namerode additionally chairs Redworth Capital Group.

    Personal traders’ motivations haven’t modified: They need to break into Hollywood, see a member of the family on display, or park cash for tax causes. To this point, Grashaw’s movies have budgets between $750,000 and $1.2 million.

    At this level, you future filmmakers would possibly roll your eyes. Oh, you may make films with a wealthy man? Hey, me too! However Grashaw’s success goes past an open checkbook.

    “So many traders get burned and other people steal their cash,” he stated. “The producers take enormous charges and I don’t mess with that. If you cope with different folks’s tens of millions, there’s a accountability.”

    Grashaw’s most likely too sensible to be an auteur. He responds to “grounded human tales,” however they could possibly be his script or another person’s and style’s unimportant. And he doesn’t make movies with out fascinated about the viewers: Who’s going to pay to see it?

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    Or, as Grashaw put it, “You may’t be a egocentric artist who’s simply not open to shit.”

    That’s a tradeoff some filmmakers can’t abdomen. Grashaw will get it; he couldn’t stand infinite pitch conferences and their slow-rolled “no.” He’s not the sort to hustle at cocktail events.

    “The one time I actually really feel ‘within the enterprise’ is while you’re making presents to actors, since you’re coping with their reps, after which throughout any competition or distribution a part of the expertise,” he stated. “Aside from that, you’re simply making a household, making a film someplace in Kentucky or Oklahoma. I don’t essentially really feel like I’m concerned in that aspect of the world.”

    COLDWATER, from left: James C. Burns, P.J. Boudousque, 2013. ©Breaking Glass Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection
    COLDWATER, from left: James C. Burns, P.J. Boudousque, 2013. ©Breaking Glass Footage/courtesy Everett AssortmentEverett Assortment / Everett Assortment

    Grashaw didn’t go to movie faculty. An early model of “Coldwater” landed within the prime 30 scripts for HBO’s first season of “Challenge Greenlight” when he was 18, sparking business curiosity.

    “In my twenties I realized extra about contract regulation and getting fucked over and weasels and who to belief,” he stated. “That was my faculty.”

    It additionally taught him that “if you happen to discover individuals who need to make your shit, you’re hastily doing it. I felt like there was a manner you might reduce via.”

    Working outdoors the Hollywood funnel doesn’t imply complete freedom. If a backer needed a task for his or her associate, he’d determine it out. In the event that they needed their child to study the ropes on set, high quality. Dana Namerode had a small half in “What Josiah Noticed” and is the feminine lead in his upcoming “Preserve Quiet,” starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Nick Stahl.

    “Casting her within the film was a situation, and generally that may blow up in your face, however on this case she was distinctive,” Grashaw stated. “It made it lots simpler to go, ‘Holy shit, okay, let me discover initiatives that match the mildew for the actor. They need to make good films.’”

    That balancing act between creative ambition and business viability allowed him closing reduce. Extra importantly, it saved him working.

    WHAT JOSIAH SAW, from left: Scott Haze, Robert Patrick, 2021. © Shudder / courtesy Everett Collection
    WHAT JOSIAH SAW, from left: Scott Haze, Robert Patrick, 2021. © Shudder / courtesy Everett Assortment©AMC/courtesy Everett Assortment

    “What Josiah Noticed” drew stable critiques and distribution via Shudder in 2021, lastly giving Grashaw a cause to signal with illustration.

    “There’s no cause to have an agent or supervisor with out some warmth on you to then parlay that into one thing,” he stated. “You’re simply on a roster and if you happen to don’t have something, they’re not going to do something for you. And I don’t blame ’em. There’s loads of folks they’ve received to give attention to. I do need to stage up. I need to direct TV and I need to do some larger studio-type movies.”

    His reps not too long ago brokered a deal for him to direct his biggest-budget venture but, a $10 million motion movie for Millennium Media. (That connection got here by way of Tim Blake Nelson, star of Grashaw’s 2024 drama “Bang Bang.”)

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    He’s additionally growing a TV collection, “Loss Prevention,” impressed by his pre-“Bellflower” years working undercover to arrest shoplifters at JC Penney and Saks Fifth Avenue. (A buddy made the 2001 Winona Ryder bust.) “The one job-job I ever had. We had been as dysfunctional because the folks we had been arresting,” he stated.

    He’s by no means felt assured pitching TV; with a community, you’re so squarely contained in the funnel. “I feel independently produced TV is the following factor that would come,” he stated. “That makes lots of sense. Cheap TV reveals that you would be able to make eight episodes, and whether or not it’s a Tubi or discovering an AVOD. I feel that’s in some way going to occur.”

    If there’s a technique to keep on the skin, he’ll take it.

    “It’s undoubtedly the one I’m going to do independently,” he stated. “It’s not too costly both, I don’t suppose.”

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