Our Vision for St. Louis.
St. Louis Filmworks is a long-term vision to promote and grow film and media production
by attracting the world's best emerging storytellers. Below are the five key focus areas.

The St. Louis Film Production Ecosystem
• Talent & Crew Database
• Location Database
• Business Listing/Resources
• Strategic Partners
• Online XLerator
Build and create an online hub that brings all of St. Louis' resources together. This will be a robust online site database to help market and promote St. Louis. The hub will includes location reels, databases for crew, talent, locations and businesses as well as grant submissions, virtual workshops and news.
SLFW Virtual Hub >

Grant Opportunities
• Storyteller Submissions
• Script Analysis
• Distribution BOA
• Story Development Summits
• Competition
• Grant Funding
To establish an endowment (grant) fund to award the best emerging storytellers to produce a range of projects utilizing the St. Louis film and media ecosystem.
SLFW Stories >

The Business of Show Business
• Filmpreneurship Labs
• Producer Labs
• Funding Labs
• Distribution Labs
• Audience Building Labs
Provide emerging, independent storytellers with mastery level educational labs on Filmpreneurship, Producing, Funding, Pitch, Marketing, Audience Building and Distribution. Initially, this will be a virtual platform for curriculum housed on the Hurlbut Academy (HA) website.
SLFW XLerator >

Studio District and Creative Community
• Business Services
• Talent & Crew Services
• Studio & Sound Stages
• Rental Houses
• Development/Distribution
Modeled after Cortex, the goal is to purchase several acres of land in the greater St. Louis metro area in order to create a collaborative film and media ecosystem of services required to produce and mange high-end productions in St. Louis.
SLFW Studio Campus >

Venture Fund for Project Development
To create a venture fund for a network of accredited investors willing to inviest in a pool of diverse, fully developed and highly-vetted orginal stories to be produced utilizing the St. Louis film and media ecosystem.