We are SPEAKproductions - award-winning filmmakers Tom Gustafson & Cory Krueckeberg. We develop the idea, write the script, direct the production & deliver the finished work.
Whatever the format, whatever the brief - inception to delivery.
We have produced 6 feature films & dozens of short-form projects with crews from 2 to 200 in NYC, Mexico City, Chicago & LA. SPEAK specializes in ambitious imagination with bang-for-buck, money-on-the-screen common sense.
Whatever the challenge, we don't say "no," we say "how."
Music licensing, arranging & producing. Optioning existing IP. International co-productions. VFX-heavy sequences. Performers from household names to up-&-comers.
We've done it all - and always within budget.
We believe in the power of entertainment to enlighten hearts & minds. We believe emotion is at the heart of that power, capable of moving us from one place to another spiritually, physically. We create emotion through story & character using a palette of tools limited only by imagination: color & light, by design or by happy accident. Soundscape - communicating with silence or with a distant train harmonizing with crickets at sunset, or with music or words, poetic or kitchen-sink real. Stillness & kinetic movement, synchronized or freeform, choreographed or improvised. All realized via the talent & hard work of humans - artists & artisans with unique perspectives, striving together for something beyond the logistical.
With a long-standing mission to give voice to the too-often unheard, SPEAK is dedicated to representing the diversity of the world we live in - on screen & behind the scenes.
Our work has won 60+ awards & screened at 275+ film festivals across 30+ countries, including Tribeca, Vail, Guadalajara Int'l, Miami Int'l, Cleveland FF, Frameline, Heartland, InsideOut, Raindance, Dublin Int'l, Jecheon, Chicago Int'l, Cinequest, Taipei Golden Horse, Nashville, Atlantic, Woodstock
Distributors include HBO, Warner Bros., Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Cinemax, LOGO, Tubi, Music Box Films, The Orchard, BroadwayHD, Cine Latino, Air Canada, Landmark Cinemas, AMC, Alphaville, Screen Vision, Emerging Pictures, Peccadillo, Acte, Beyond, ProFun, The Movie Network, TLA, Pivot, OutTV, Sony Music
