Vanessa Ulgado

Manila (PHL)
Role(s):
C-Level Executive (CEO, CFO, etc.)

Paper Boat Pictures

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Location: Manila
Industry: Entertainment
Year Founded: 2010
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Business Stage: Growth (not profitable)
Entity Type: Incorporated Outside United States
Description: Paper Boat Pictures is an artist-driven, artist-owned company, who is investing and leveraging mainly on talent and track record of its shareholders, a year old operation in the Philippines is headed by Vanessa Ulgado and Tyrone Acierto. Modern and professional business strategies is part of our skill set. The principal purpose of Paper Boat is the development and cultivation of Filipino-themed films primarily engaging, entertaining with commercial viability, combining different elements of world cinema as well as employment of Filipino (and possibly other nationalities) actors in primary roles. At the same time, we would like to showcase the collaborative talents of Filipinos and explore possibilities of international co productions. Over the next four years, the company aims to produce three more independently financed feature films. During the recent years, the film market has become more open to stories themed from Asia and particularly in the Philippines. Films with Filipino themes have lead the way and proved that there is a market. We think that it's about the right timing and that the window for opportunity is open for low to medium-budgeted motion pictures ranging from $ 200,000 to $ 1,000,000. Mission Statement To create independent feature films from low to medium scale budget, ambitious yet fun and entertaining with strong Filipino themes that represents sophistication of our culture always looking for an entertaining and fun elements, both enticing the young and the young at heart. Yet the themes are strongly built on the critical discourses of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. What We Want To Do: We want to produce quality, well-executed, organic, independent, Filipino-themed films with genres from adventure, horror, fantasy with twists of comedy even drama with budgets under $ 1 million. Since there has been a successful low-budget Filipino films for the past several years, we think that locally themed films with adventure, horror and fantasy genre is marketable. We intend to bring entertain people with stories that has subtext on serious issues. Our Objectives: 1. Develop scripts with primarily Filipino or Filipino-American writers with strong cultural contexts yet fun and entertaining. 2. Produce theatrical, broadcast, VOD and grassroots marketed films with budgets from $ 200,000 to $ 1,000,000. 3. Explore and strengthen ties to overseas co-production and co-financing potentials. 4. Explore Cross Media ventures. 5. We plan to make three films with adventure, horror, comedy themes over the next four years, ranging in budget sizes from $ 200,000 to $ 1,000,000. The initial $ 150,000 will allow Paper Boat to develop scripts and to option stories from other writers. Production is expected to begin by January 2011. 6. We will explore traditional distribution but also intend to develop a grass-roots, community-based level marketing structure to use and apply as a self-distribution model in our films. Our first film with a trailer can be found her in our website: (URL removed)