ABOUT
CATCH & RELEASE is a film and media production company. We invest in intellectual property and original ideas, develop and produce lasting, meaningful content for film, TV, and other media. We look for compelling stories that have purpose, commercial and artistic potential, and something meaningful to say to can break through the clutter. The company provides hands-on, physical producing of their projects for sale and/or distribution.
Tom Heller
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Heller also executive produced Sony Pictures Classics’ “Foxcatcher,” starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, after first discovering the source material for the story in 2004 and acquiring life rights to Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz. He brought the materials to director Bennett Miller, recognizing the filmmaker’s affinity for true crime dramas and eccentric characters through his work on “Capote.”
Heller launched his production company Catch & Release Films with partner Frank Hall Green in 2014. Based in New York, Catch & Release draws on a fund to develop and finance films. C&R acquires rights to and develops literary material, articles, life rights, podcasts and other story sources for adaptation. C&R also focuses on filmmaker-driven screenplays. Heller and Green package their projects from the ground up or join a project while still in some stage of development. Neither tent-poles nor genre pictures are the focus as C&R makes thought-provoking and commercial films with established, critically acclaimed filmmakers who, similar to the source material, have something to say.
Prior to starting Catch & Release, Heller ran Everest Entertainment, a New York-based production and financing company, for seven years. He began his career at ICM, and has held positions at Lee Daniels Entertainment, Miramax Films and as a motion picture literary agent at Writers and Artists Agency. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA from Columbia University.
Frank Hall Green
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Catch & Release has a dozen projects in development, including DESCENT, with adaptation Mark L. Smith (THE REVENANT) and Director Robert Redford; A GATHERING OF SAINTS, a book by Robert Lindsay (FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN) about murder and forgery in Salt Lake City world of the Mormon religion; and GONZO GIRL, a book by Cheryl Della Pietra about her experience as assistant to Hunter S. Thompson. Frank is an independent producer on the film adaptation of BOY21 by author Matthew Quick (SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK) with Lionsgate. Additionally, Frank is producing the documentary GETTING NAKED about New York City Burlesque by director James Lester (CHICAGOLAND), and he recently produced the sophomoric feature of Joel Fendelman and Patrick Daly, REMITTANCE. He was a producer on GHETTO KLOWN, the HBO Comedy Special version of the John Leguizamo Broadway show. Currently released projects he produced include ALLEGIANCE starring Aiden Quinn, Bow Wow, Seth Gabel and Pablo Schreiber; SOMEWHERE TONIGHT starring John Turturro based on the film by Theo Van Gogh; THE GOOD FIGHT by George Butler (PUMPING IRON, SHACKLETON); and, ONE NIGHT by Michael Knowles (EAST FIFTH BLISS) among others.
Frank is an adjunct faculty at the New York University Tisch School of Film & Television, as well as an alumnus of both NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the MFA program at the Tisch Graduate Film school. As his thesis for NYU Graduate Film school, Frank directed and produced a unique documentary, SHOOTING SCRIPT, a personal film about his experience being shot (with a gun, not a camera), in the stomach in New York City. Since NYU he has cut his teeth producing far too many short films, and played all the roles a budding filmmaker should including shooter, editor, assistant director and boom operator.
Before risking a career in film, Frank worked in Venture Capital and founded the business OfficeWorks, an incubator for start-up companies in his hometown of Atlanta. He also founded ACE, a nonprofit that lobbied on behalf of Arts and cultural organizations around Atlanta. Frank grew up in Atlanta, went to boarding school in New England at the Eaglebrook School and the Taft School; and has lived and worked in western Kenya and Kyoto, Japan as an ESL teacher. Frank is an avid backpacker and a member of MENSA. He lives in New York with his wife Molly and two daughters.