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ShadowCatcher Entertainment

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ShadowCatcher Entertainment is an independent film production company that develops, produces and arranges financing for character-driven feature films, long-form television, and stage productions for the worldwide entertainment markets.

Based in Seattle with an office in New York City, the company collaborates with studios, independent film producers, commercial theaters and not-for-profit theaters in order to produce a wide variety of programming for all ages. ShadowCatcher distributed the film Outsourced theatrically and in home video,[1] and also successfully sold Outsourced as a television show to NBC.[2][3]

Personnel

  • David Skinner, executive producer – owner and manager, responsible for the company's strategic and financial planning as well as the development, financing and production of the company's film and stage projects
  • Tom Gorai, producer – responsible for attracting and developing many of the company's feature film projects; lead producer for Outsourced and a producer on The American Pastime
  • Norman Stephens, producer – independent producer working out of Reno, Nevada and Los Angeles who now focuses on independent television, cable movies and theatrical films.

Company history

ShadowCatcher produced its first major film in 1997, the award-winning Smoke Signals, purchased and distributed by Miramax. In 1998, ShadowCatcher produced 'The Book of Stars' and 'Getting to Know You', both of which were distributed worldwide. In 2006, the company produced and distributed worldwide The American Pastime and Outsourced, which was also licensed to NBC Universal for television. Other films the company has produced and/or distributed are Keep On Keepin' On, Skeleton Key, Game 6, Old Goats and Pousse Cafe.

Broadway credit: Ain’t Too Proud, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Moulin Rouge, Memphis, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Sideshow; Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike, Sideshow, Glass Menagerie, The Mountaintop, End of the Rainbow, The River, Match, You Can’t Take it with You, The Cher Show, Fiddler on the Roof (Alfred Molina), Passing Strange, Frankie and Johnny and the Claire de Lune, Inheritance, The Ferryman.

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