Cooper Raiff & Clementine Quittner Launch Manufacturing Firm Small Concepts – Deadline

Sundance prize winner Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Actual Clean) has partnered with former Black Bear Footage improvement govt Clementine Quittner to launch Small Ideas—a brand new manufacturing firm that may develop and produce indie initiatives throughout movie and tv.

Raiff hinted on the transfer, and even cited the identify of his new shingle in a recent chat with Deadline, which had him discussing the viability of small, rigorously crafted initiatives within the ever-evolving leisure market.

“I really feel actually assured about small issues. I’m going to begin an organization and possibly name it Small Concepts,” the filmmaker mentioned within the interview revealed again in June. “There’s an excellent, profitable marketplace for making small issues and flipping them, and if you happen to’re okay with them being possibly like a streamer-theatrical duo, I believe everybody needs to be actually feeling nice and assured about getting their stuff made that they wish to make.”

Pushed by a dedication to defending the fervour and intention of artists, Raiff and Quittner intend to provide initiatives from rising filmmakers and creators, in addition to these written and directed by Raiff. Their first effort might be an undisclosed tv collection which Raiff will write, direct, and produce alongside Quittner.

Throughout his current chat with Deadline, Raiff could have additionally provided a touch as to what we are able to count on from his as-yet-unnamed collection. “After I make this subsequent film [The Trashers], I do know for a reality the subsequent factor I’m going to do is make a extremely, actually, actually small TV present on my own, as a result of I’m lucky sufficient to manage to pay for to try this,” he mentioned. “My aim is to completely simply guess on myself and flip it in the best way that I did with Shithouse, and the best way I did with Cha Cha.”

Stated Raiff at present in a press release: “Clem and I are very protecting of ardour. We would like the artists we work with to know we imagine of their tales and concepts as a lot as they do. I understand how brutal combating for individuals to belief your imaginative and prescient might be, and I do know what a distinction it makes to not need to struggle for it alone. Small Concepts is aware of simply how a lot love and help a filmmaker wants.”

“I’m tremendous excited for Clem to run the present—she’s going to be the corporate’s engine,” added the filmmaker. “She elevates every little thing she works on and it’s a dream to be her inventive {and professional} accomplice.”

“Cooper is an excellent filmmaker and my favourite collaborator,” remarked Quittner in closing. “I can’t wait to work collectively to construct a house for artists we love and artists we don’t but know—individuals who want to make issues in a different way.”

Raiff’s most up-to-date characteristic, Cha Cha Actual Clean, received the Viewers Award at this yr’s Sundance Movie Pageant. The dramedy a few Bar Mitzvah celebration starter performed by Raiff—additionally starring Dakota Johnson and extra—was launched to essential acclaim by Apple in June. Previous to that, the filmmaker directed the indie romance Shithouse, which claimed the SXSW Grand Jury Award in 2020. Up subsequent for him is the crime drama The Trashers, which has Licorice Pizza‘s Cooper Hoffman enjoying AJ—the teenage son of Connecticut trash magnate and Genovese crime household affiliate Jimmy Galante (Stranger Issues‘ David Harbour), who’s tasked with operating his minor-league hockey group. Elvis‘ Olivia DeJonge can also be set for the pic, going into manufacturing this fall.

Whereas at Black Bear, Quittner labored throughout the corporate’s slate on such upcoming initiatives as Nyad, directed by Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi and starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster; The Marsh King’s Daughter, directed by Neil Burger and starring Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn; and the movie adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers’ novel, Bewilderment. She has additionally overseen improvement of Thrilling Occasions, Raiff’s collection adaptation of Naoise Dolan’s romance novel, wherein Bridgerton‘s Phoebe Dynevor is about to star.