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Confidential The f.>reak.ngPo,nt Table ofContent ExecutiveSu mmary .....................................................3 Project Synopsis ...........................................................5 Faith-based Industry.................................................... 6 Marketing................................................ ......................8 Distribution.. ................................................................10 Funding Sources ..........................................................11 Investor Offering......................................................... 12 Budget Forecast .......................................................... 13 Bios ............................................................................... 15 Targeted Cast .............................................................. 17 Contact Information..... .............................................. 19 Confidential The f.>reak.ng Po,nt ExecutiveSummary The Breaking Point Film Partners, LLC is seeking $1.200,000 to complete the production and post-production of the independent feature film, The Breaking Point, in 2019. The Breaking Point movie is a production of Henry Phillips Productions, in Association with Screen Harvest Entertainment, LLC. Industry veteran Richard J. Polite is attached as the Producer of lThe Breaking Point movie, with original screenplay by Henry Phillips. With a small investment (by Hollywood standards}, there exists a potential for a tremendous Return on Investment (ROI} within one year of the commencement of distribution via domestic and foreign theatrical revenues, DVD/Blu-ray/4K sales and rentals, and a host of ever-evolving Internet distribution outlets. Our goal is to help the church understand how we can reconnect with the next generation through various media screens - cell phone screens, tablet screens, TV screens and movie screens - ultimatelyto help the church shift from 20th Century Evangelism to 21st Century Evangelism. We want to show how through The Breaking Point Film Partners, LLC., in associationwith Henry Phillips Productions,the church will have a proven 21st Century strategy in reaching the next generation. The church always understood that to reach the souls of men, you had to go outside of the church building. In the 20th century, the church would place a tent for a camp meeting and people in the 20th Century would go to camp meetings before they would step foot in a church. Tent Revivals were the successful strategy for winning millions to Christ in the 20th Century, but soul winning has a new tent outreach - "theaters"! The 21st century generation will go to a movie theater before they will ever step foot in a local church. Drive by any multiplex theater on Sunday morning and you will see the parking lots are full. Then consider the millions of screens we all carry around in our pockets with video content and you will quickly realize that the screen fields are ripe for harvest. The church must send labors into the screen fields for a 21st Century harvest. " ...a year of research shows the leading -- Francis Schaeffer, author of How Should We Then Live? Confidential The f.>reak.ngPo,nt Pr�ectS _ynopsis After attending a secular university, Alexis, a Bishop's daughter, struggles with her faith until a series of providentiale vents helps her to find faith again. Burdened with the expectations of growing up in a Christian home, live out a faith many pastors kids have yet to embrace, and challenged by secular theology at school, Alexis takes the audience on a journey of doubt, unbelief, secret sins and finally personal faith. Based on real-life experiences of pastors' kids, this thought-provoking film will ask and answer the tough questions concerning personal faith. A light comedy with moral fortitude and dramatic inspiration • The Breaking Point is a unique story that comes along only once in a super blue blood moon and is the perfect story for Hollywood to embrace right now. The cast will include a well-defined mix of talented, well-known actors and real Bishops, song leaders, and church regulars. Musical performances by Gospel artists and excerpts from real sermons by world renown minsters will create a true depiction of the 21st century church and help market to our target audience. Award-winning Christian music groups will be chosen to compose original music and score the film. The film is slated to be shot mostly in the Chicago, Illinois area. Final selection of locations will be determined based on available state tax credits as well as the optimum visuals that are present to help tell the story. Hollywood has found an appetite for faith-based films, not because of their theology but because they are produced with low budgets and earn big profits for investors. The ROI for these types of films are well above market standards because of the loyal audience they attract. Faith-based dramas are the highest grossing box office to budget film genre to date and The Breaking Point movie falls into that niche with the added benefit of also being a light comedy. There has been a string of successful Christian films which most mainstream film fans will never have heard of. These include God's Not Dead (3,132% box office to budget ratio), War Room (2,260%), Courageous (1,381%) and Heaven Is for Real (844%). Successful faith-based films are those produced by people who understand the faith-based community, and both the The Breaking Point screenwriter and executive producer have over 30 years of faith-based understanding. 1 · 1;· I ·\,I\. -· ,l,,·,'!:,, ·: · ...l ,, ,,,, Faith-based lndustr,y Most Profitable Films In 2006, the motion picture industry finally noticed the work of two brothers who were pastors at the Sherwood Baptist Church, in Albany, Georgia. In what could be seen as luck, God's work, or just canny deal-making (depending on your viewpoint) the Kendrick brothers ended up with a distribution deal with Sony Pictures. They had initially just called Sony to inquire about clearing a piece of music but after seeing a rough cut of their filmFacing the Giants, Sony asked for the distributionrights. Sony put the film in 441 screens, and it went on to gross $10.2m domestically, impressive considering its modest $100k budget. By contrast, consider two other independent films released the same year - Half Nelson and Brick. The former grossed $2. 7m in the US on a $700k budget and the lattergrossed $2m on a $450k budget. That means that at the US box officeHalf Nelson grossed 385% of its budget, Brick 444% and Facing the Giants stands at a whopping 1,020% times its budget. The success of Facing the Giants led to a boom in feature films made for faith audiences in America. The Kendrick brothers followed up with Fireproof (2008), Courageous (2011) and most recently War Room (2015). Two things stand out with these films. First, they make virtually all their money in the United States. Second, they get verybad reviews from mainstream movie reviewers. The strength of these movies isn't necessarily their quality so much as the message; they deliver to an audience that is interested in what they have to say. Of all genres, faith-based movies trade on sincerity and truly understanding the audience. Major star involvement is not required in faith-based films. Of course, this is largely a function of the budget, but it's remarkable that none of these films attracted anybody who would be called a B-list star at the time the filmwas made. Despite the poor reviews, these films made huge amounts of money, thereby proving the power of connectingwith a niche audience and ignoring the traditionalindustry's sneers. Confidential The f.>reak.ngPo,nt The goal for The Breaking Point is to achieve a net profit of $20 nnillion in the first year. The goal of $20 million is an extremely low estimate when compared to similar low budget faith-based films. look at the chart below. Box office grosses for the top 20 highest grossing faith-based movies ■Domestic Gross ■ lnternatiooalGross $- $100,000,000 $200,000,000 $300,000,000 $4-00,000,000 The Passionof the Christ (2004) Heaven is for Real(201 4) Mirades from Heaven(201 6) Son ofGod(2014) War Room(201 5) God'sNot Dead (2014) Soul Surfer(2011) The Nativity Story(2006) Risen(201 6) Courageous(2011) - Fireproof(2008) - Whenthe GameStandsTaU(2014) - God'sNotDead2(2016) - left Behind(201 4) - The Gospel(200 5) • Woodlawn(2015) • OneNightw�htheKing(2006) • Stephen, ollows com Do You Believe?(201 5) • TheOmeg a Code (1999) • EndoftheSpear(2006) • Some of the most profitable films of the past decade have been movies made by and for American Christians. The Passion of the Christ led the way, grossing $612 million on a $30 million budget (2,040% box office to budget ratio), but it is far from alone. There has been a string of successful Christian films which most mainstream film fans will never have heard of. These include God's Not Dead (3,132% box office to budget ratio), War Room (2,260%), Courageous (1,381%) and Heaven Is for Real (844%). It's worth noting that these films will also have performed very well on Home Video and VOD, adding to their total profitability. Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven." This is the greatest time and the perfect season for faith-based films. Confidential The f.>reak.ngPo,nt Marketing A major bonus for The Breaking Point is that while other films push to be seen by major studios, The Breaking Point already has an establish relationship with a major studio for a first look preview of the film before final edit. The studio will then take on the marketing and distribution for the theatrical market. The Breaking Point is a textbook example of a four-quadrant movie. In the Hollywood movie industry, a four-quadrant movie is one which appeals to all four major demographic quadrants of the movie-going audience - both males and females over and under 25 years of age. Films generally target at least two such quadrants, as a film's budget is often correlated to the number of quadrants the film is expected to reach, Movies are rarely produced if not focused on at least two quadrants.