"Sparkling perfection." Chicago Reader
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.
SPEAK's first short, FAIRIES, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival & was adapted into our debut feature - celebrated musical fantasy WERE THE WORLD MINE, which played 140 festivals, opened theatrically in 30 cities & became a cult indie hit. Stephen Holden of the New York Times chose it as "Critics' Pick," calling it "movie musical magic."
Our second feature, MARIACHI GRINGO (starring Martha Higareda, Shawn Ashmore, Grammy winner Lila Downs & Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza) premiered as Opening Night at the Miami International Film Festival & won the top prize at Guadalajara, Latin America's premiere film festival. The New York Times proclaimed, "¡Hurra! Mariachi Gringo is right on pitch."
Our screen adaptation of celebrated the Off-Broadway musical HELLO AGAIN, originally commissioned by Lincoln Center (starring Audra McDonald, Cheyenne Jackson, Martha Plimpton & more), drew this from the New York Times: "The movie musical needs more ambitious creators like them."
At the Cleveland International Film Festival, we were honored as "Someone to Watch" with a retrospective of our work, including GETTING GO - an experimental hybrid of narrative, art film & documentary that Parade magazine called "the steamiest movie on Amazon Prime."
Our Indigo Girls infused musical romance GLITTER & DOOM (with Tig Notaro, Missi Pyle, Ming-Na Wen, Lea DeLaria with music produced by THE VOICE runner-up Michelle Chamuel) premiered as Closing Night at Inside Out Toronto. The Chicago Reader called the "irresistible love story" "sparkling perfection."