Fireglory Pictures Heads Talk Eight-Project Slate With Female Online Porn Pioneer Bio-Series & Jacob Kornbluth’s Hybrid Las Vegas-Shot Doc ‘Music And The Machine’
25.10.2023 - 19:13
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Christine Günther and Chevy Chen, the co-founding heads of Berlin and Los Angeles-based production company Fireglory Pictures, first met in Germany via Doug Liman’s executive produced series Covert Affairs.
“I was handling international producing work and met Christine when I came over to Berlin for some unit work,” recounts Chen.
The pair hit it off and started collaborating on a piecemeal basis and then firmed up the working relationship with the creation of joint company Fireglory Pictures just over eight years ago.
They have completed three features under the banner to date: whacky rom-com Kiss Me Kosher, Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape and ex-convict drama Home, on which they were co-producers.
Projects on the boil include hybrid live variety show and documentary project Music and the Machine by Jacob Kornbluth, best known for Inequality For All and Saving Capitalism; Daniel Y-Li Grove’s transhumanism drama The Procreators, in which a couple are given the opportunity to design their unborn child, and bio-doc The Babes, about Madeleine Altmann, the founder of the first women-owned and run porn site Babes4U.com.
Chen says there is ‘no formula’ for the type of projects they board but suggests it’s a fusion of their different tastes.
“My background is very 1980s, 1990s blockbusters in Hollywood, and Christine’s is more arthouse and European. Our tastes smash together, although we also trade places now, which is fun,” he says.
“We find stories that kind of sit in between and carry over, so they’re exciting and fun and entertaining, as much as a popcorn film can be, but also have substance and are there to bring meaning, to explore, to poke a bear and bring questions and conversations forward.”
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