Wildwood Enterprises, Inc

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Wildwood Enterprises, Inc & South Fork Pictures
Industry Motion pictures, Entertainment
Founded1987
Founder Robert Redford
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Wildwood Enterprises, Inc., is a film and television production company. It was founded by actor and director Robert Redford and producer Bill Holderman. [1] It is sometimes credited as South Fork Pictures. [2] In 1987, the company had partnered with Cineplex Odeon Films to launch a feature film subsidiary Northfolk Productions, which spent the next five years making five films, all with a budget of between $4 and 5 million. [3]

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Sundance Film Festival

Robert Redford is also founder of the Sundance Film Festival, which takes places annually in January in Utah. [4]

Sundance Productions

Redford is the President and co-Founder of Sundance Productions, with Laura Michalchyshyn.

Most recently, Sundance Productions produced Chicagoland (CNN), Cathedrals of Culture (Berlin Film Festival), The March (PBS) and Emmy Nominee All The President’s Men Revisited (Discovery), Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno Live!, and To Russia With Love on Epix. [5]

Producer

YearTitleNotes
1975 Three Days of the Condor Co-Producer
1976 All the President's Men
1987 Promised Land Executive producer
1988 Some Girls Executive producer
1991 The Dark Wind Executive producer
1996 She's the One Executive producer
1998 No Looking Back Executive producer
1998 Central Station
1998 Slums of Beverly Hills Executive producer
1998 A Civil Action
2002 How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog Executive producer
2002 Love in the Time of Money Executive producer
2002 People I Know Executive producer
2002 Skinwalkers [6] TV movie; executive producer
2004 The Motorcycle Diaries Executive producer
2012 The Company You Keep Producer
2013 The March Documentary, Executive producer
2014 Drunktown's Finest Executive producer
2015 The Adderall Diaries Executive producer
2017 Our Souls at Night Producer
2018 The Old Man and the Gun Executive producer

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