Vinewood Pictures

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Vinewood Pictures is a film studio based at the studio city in Los Santos, known as Richard’s Majestic. The studio produces its own original films and shows, creates commercials for clients, offers production services, and specializes in film distribution.

 

The studio consists of an impressive collection of local film industry talents, including producers, writers, directors, cinematographers, production designers and actors. They operate from an office building at the studio lot in Los Santos, as well as a soundstage there, and are occasionally seen elsewhere filming on locations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The studio was originally founded by the successful local businesswoman Missy Oswald in 2020, under the name Doppler Studios. Oswald had previously had success as a serial entrepreneur in Los Santos, and was taking a step into the film industry with ambitions of using her business experience to bring the local film industry back to its glory days. Doppler Studios ran several subdivisions like the Doppler Cinema, and a sub-brand Torwald Pictures for original films and theatre productions spearheaded by film- and theater director and entrepreneur David Torres. The studio was headquartered at the Sam Austin Memorial Building at Richard’s Majestic – the studio city in Los Santos. Doppler Studios was both financing local film productions from other studios and creators and distributing the films at its own cinema, the Doppler Cinema on Vinewood Boulevard, and creating own original films and theatre productions under Torwald Pictures.

 

At the beginning of 2023, after David Torres left the company, the sub-brand Torwald Pictures was discontinued and productions were put directly under Doppler Studios and the leadership of Missy Oswald. A long-time actress with the studio, Alicia Johansson, stepped up to manage the studio with Oswald, taking care of the operational aspects of the studio’s own productions. Johansson had been a contract actor with the studio since its early days, appearing in films and stage productions. She had made a name for herself as an actress since she began working for Vinewood Studios in 2018, and had worked with most film studios in the city since then. She also held prior experience as a cinema manager for Weazel Media Corporation, as an executive in the local music industry, a model for many local brands, and from running a local marketing firm. With Oswald’s business experience and capital, and Johansson’s extensive industry knowledge, the studio was reforming its organization to increase focus on producing own original content and started attracting many talents from the film industry, gathering them into a single, stronger production company.

 

In May of 2023, after having kicked off the studio’s reforms to become a stronger producer of original content, Missy Oswald decided to finally retire after her many years in business. The natural successor to take over was Alicia Johansson who had worked alongside Oswald to reform and renew the studio. By June, Johansson had taken over ownership of the studio, as well as the position of studio head (CEO). Without the same financial muscles as before, Johansson worked to trim the company down to its core focus of producing new original content. As part of this strategy, the Doppler Cinema departed from the company, also triggering a rebranding of the studio due to losing the rights to the Doppler brand that was tied to the Downtown Vinewood-based cinema. The studio also moved to more affordable offices still within the studio lot, but expanded with a new soundstage to build film sets for its own productions.

 

 

 

In addition to producing own original content, Vinewood Pictures offers the following services to businesses in Los Santos and San Andreas.

Commercials

We produce commercials to advertise brands, products or other campaigns. Our talented team can work out an idea, turn it into a script, film it, edit it, and provide you a finished ready-to-use video for your advertising needs. Contact us to talk about your video commercial needs.

Production Services

We offer to assist other film production companies or other businesses in need of such services, utilizing our expertise, equipment and facilities. Do you need to hire some assistance for a project you’re working on? Do you need to rent equipment or studio facilities? We all started somewhere, and we want to assist other local film makers in any way we can.

Film distribution

Are you or have you previously made a film that you would like to get out there? Vinewood Pictures has extensive expertise in film distribution and offer to assist you with finding a market for your film and possibly generating an income.

 

 

 

Are you looking to get into the film industry, or do you already have talents related to filmmaking? Or perhaps you’ve been carrying around an idea, or a screenplay you would like to pitch? We are always looking for more talents to join our team. If you cannot find an open job listing that interest you, we invite you to reach out to us anyway to get to know you and talk about possible job opportunities. Not all of our available positions are listed publicly as vacancies, so don’t be afraid to get in touch.

 

Jobs we typically hire for are producer, director, writer, cinematographer, costume designer, hair/makeup/stylist, set designer, technician, runner, driver, security, and more.

 

Current vacancies:

• Costume Designer
• Stylist (hair & makeup)
• Security
• Driver

 

 

 

If you are looking to become an actor, we do not offer actor positions as a full-time employment, but we cast actors for each production through specific auditions for that production. With each new film, we are looking for specific actors, with specific talents, a specific look, or someone that just comes off in the way that the creators envisioned it for their movie. When we start casting for a new movie, we typically begin by searching for people in our casting database and inviting those selected to come audition for a specific roles. If we cannot find what we’re looking for in our casting database, we will host public auditions that will be advertised.

 

If you want to be considered for future roles and are not already in our casting database, you can contact our casting director to schedule an interview with the possibility of getting added to our casting database so that we can contact you when we have a specific role that we think you could be a fit for. Please see contact section below for contact information.

 

 

 

Vinewood Pictures loves to work together with other local businesses. We tend to require different services during our film productions and are always interested in getting in touch with local businesses that can offer services of use to us during our productions. Typical needs could be transport, security and catering, but other specific needs will typically also arise from time to time. If you run a local business and are interested in working with us, we would love to hear from you.

 

Here is a list of our current public procurement offers:

• Invitation to tender: Transportation services
• Invitation to tender: On-set security services
• Invitation to tender: On-set catering services

 

 

 

 

                    

 

Alicia Johansson                  Eleonora Throndsen               Stella Elomaa

Studio Head / CEO                Producer                                     Casting Director

#896-6445                              #744-8308                                   #1-331-1552

 

 

 

 

(( This faction is about providing roleplay opportunities within the film industry, making realistic portrayals of the industry and the wide range of different positions within it. We also commit a lot of OOC effort into creating actual videos in addition to roleplaying every aspect of the filmmaking. Some positions require some OOC knowledge like video recording, video editing, or script writing. Other positions are entirely for the roleplay and don’t require such OOC work. Sometimes we might roleplay film shootings (or pilots) without turning it into an actual video, just to create more roleplay, as the making of our videos typically takes months to complete. We invite everyone who finds this kind of RP interesting to take part of our faction, whether you like to make videos with us, or just RP as a position related to the film industry. Typical RP scenarios in this faction is shooting on a film set, on location or in a studio, administrative and business RP, costume or prop manufacture, styling, makeup, etc. Feel free to reach out if you have questions or want to get involved. You can also join our Discord. ))

 

 

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Reserved.

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Goodluck!!!!

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We've been making a commercial for Ironwood Brewing Co.

 

 

Producer: Alicia Johansson
Director: Markus Fiskum
Casting: Stella Elomaa
Set design: Leslie Clover
Carpenter: Kevin Simus

Cast:
Amber Reid
Alexander Pickert
Tara Black
Morrison Bradley
Katia Pavlov

Client: Ironwood Brewing Co.
Client's project manager: Milan Popovic

Filmed at Stage 17, Vinewood Pictures, Studio City, Los Santos.

 

 

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Edited July 29, 2023 by Exciter

[Exciter]

Previously at Vinewood Pictures

 

 

Photoshoots in the studio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lot of planning and meetings goes into preparing for new films

 

[Exciter]

Previously at Vinewood Pictures

 

 

Auditions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This is something new, I love it 

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Looks good, might get in contact with you in the near future, don't let it die ahead of its time.

Good luck!