Renovo Media Group has launched a brand new studio and facility in Clear Lake, Iowa, set to be led by Lisa Crnic as president, Aaron Wiederspahn as head of scripted, and Ben Parrish as head of unscripted. The group is led by chairman David Kingland. Renovo Media Group will develop, finance and produce feature movies, scripted and unscripted docs and series and industrial productions.
The studio says it’s the Midwest’s only end-to-end production studio and rental service. The group will fully finance and co-finance pictures as much as $15 million and produce higher budget 4 quadrant projects.
The corporate most recently produced and financed “Wildcat,” directed by Ethan Hawke and starring Maya Hawke and Laura Linney. The film premiered finally 12 months’s Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival.
Kingland, an Iowa native, has worked within the entertainment industry providing financing, facilities and business expertise to film productions during various stages over the past decade. His primary company, Kingland, develops enterprise data management software for firms.
Crnic, also from Iowa, will oversee all elements of the studio. She began her profession working at Creative Artists Agency and Paradigm Talent Agency. She then spent nearly a decade at Kerner Entertainment where she served as head of development. During her tenure she worked on family movies just like the “Smurfs” franchise and served as executive producer on Paramount’s “Clifford the Big Red Dog.”
Wiederspahn will oversee a slate of independent movies and bigger budgeted features. Wiederspahn has executive produced and produced within the independent film space across quite a lot of genres. Most recently, he served as executive producer on “Wildcat,” the as forthcoming “The Way of the Wind” directed by Terrence Malick, the biopic “Sight” starring Terry Chen and Greg Kinnear and co-executive producer on “Monster Summer” directed by David Henrie starring Mel Gibson and Mason Thames.
Parrish is a television producer with over a decade of experience developing, selling and producing unscripted television shows. He was previously head of development at Campanario Entertainment and Stone & Company Entertainment where he developed and produced a variety of series including “Paradise Run” (Nickelodeon), “A Season With” (Showtime), “Nailed It! Mexico” (Netflix) and “YO! MTV Raps” (Paramount+).
