New production company Pavillion Entertainment and Financing's first two projects – Motorkite Dreaming and Own the Sky – are now in advanced stages of production.
This comes six months after the company was established to finance and produce feature documentaries, scripted features based on true stories and blue chip documentaries for television.
Pavillion Entertainment & Finance was established by award winning producer Marcus Gillezeau (Storm Surfers 3D, Scorched).
Gillezeau said: “Through the establishment of Pavilion we are providing a single destination for creatives to finance, produce and rights manage their factual productions and projects.” The first two productions are:
The feature documentary Own the Sky chronicles one man’s quest to design, build and fly the world’s first jetpack.
Filmed over ten years, filmmaker Greg Read follows the story of 80 year old inventor Nelson Tyler, test pilot Bill Suitor and Australian entrepreneur David Mayman as they attempt a spectacular jetpack flight around the Statue of Liberty.
A Paper Bark Films production, directed by Greg Read (Like Minds), produced by Marcus Gillezeau and Ellenor Cox (Storm Surfers 3D), executive produced by Simon Nasht and financed by Pavilion, the film will receive Australian theatrical distribution through Screen Impact.
Gillezeau said Own the Sky was an epic, entertaining and historically important feature documentary.
“The reveal of the jetpack with its maiden flight around the Statue of Liberty was both inspired and perilous, as a number of US government agencies had to be brought in on the secret to ensure the jetpack was not shot down by security agents!”
Also in production is the feature documentary Motorkite Dreaming which charts the physical and emotional journey of two adventurers and their support team, as they fly microlights 4000 kilometres across five deserts and 20 Aboriginal language nations of Australia.
Produced by John Cherry, directed by Charlie Hill-Smith and currently in post production at Spectrum Films, the feature documentary will be theatrically released by Screen Impact in June 2016 with a five part television series premiere on SBS2/NITV and Red Bull TV later in the year.
Cherry said the project had grown substantially since forming a partnership with Pavilion.
“In his capacity as executive producer, Marcus has assisted with complex negotiations – and with investment in the production, Pavilion has also packaged the finance and is handling the international sales.”