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Unconventional Film Funding

“More than meets the eye.”

Great Stories
Brought to Life.

We bridge the artist's vision with unconventional funding opportunities — so creatives can stop chasing dollars and start doing what they do best.Allowing Creatives to be Creative again.

What We Do

Our Services

We bridge the gap between creative projects and the capital they need through unconventional, strategic partnerships.

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Funding Matchmaking

We pair your film project with the right unconventional funding sources — from brand partnerships to private investors looking for unique opportunities beyond traditional finance.

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Branding & Marketing

Your project gets paired with brands that align with your story. We create authentic integrations that serve the narrative while delivering real value to marketing partners.

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Investor Connections

Access our curated network of investors who understand entertainment. We match based on investment thesis, risk appetite, and passion for storytelling.

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Brand Exposure & Credit

Companies seeking cultural relevance and screen presence get matched with productions that amplify their brand. Real credit, real exposure, real results.

The Process

How It Works

From first conversation to funded production — a streamlined path to bringing your vision to life.

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Submit Your Project

Tell us about your film, your vision, and your funding needs. Every project starts with a conversation.

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We Find Your Match

Our team identifies the best unconventional funding options — brands, investors, and companies aligned with your story.

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Strategic Partnership

We facilitate introductions, negotiate terms, and structure deals that work for both the creative and the capital.

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Lights, Camera, Funded

Your project gets funded, partners get exposure and credit, and everyone wins. That's the power of the right match.

Meet the Team

One Vision.
Two Driving Forces.

It takes two to tangle. Candilyn and Kevin built Evolve Productions together — different strengths, one shared mission, and the partnership to make it real.

Candilyn Baribault, Co-Founder & Managing Principal, Evolve Productions

Co-Founder & Managing Principal, Evolve Productions

Candilyn Baribault

Candilyn Baribault is a seasoned corporate strategist, operations leader, and capital matchmaker who connects creative vision with the funding and structure it needs to succeed. With over two decades of experience across multi-unit management, finance, and business development, Candilyn brings practical, real-world execution to every partnership. As Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Evolve Productions, she is the driving force behind connecting independent filmmakers with the right investors, brands, and resources.

Throughout her career, Candilyn has led in demanding, fast-moving industries — serving as a General Sales Manager, Finance Director, and three-time President's Club honoree. She combines a strong grasp of financial structure and compliance with a rare ability to read people and build lasting relationships — whether growing tech platforms, running multi-million-dollar operations, or leading regional non-profit initiatives.

  • Operations & Leadership: 20+ years managing complex business operations, technology integrations, and high-performance teams across multiple industries.
  • Capital & Matchmaking: Experienced in joint-venture structuring, fractional leadership, and connecting investors with independent creative projects.
  • Finance & Compliance: Deep background in financial negotiation, risk management, and building deal structures that hold up under scrutiny.
  • Founder & Executive Director: Built multiple startups and non-profit organizations from the ground up, with a focus on practical execution and long-term results.
  • At Evolve Productions, drives the strategy that lets creative partnerships grow with the right structure and backing — bridging the gap between ambitious ideas and real financial outcomes.
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Kevin Moore, Co-Founder & Executive Partner, Evolve Productions

Co-Founder & Executive Partner, Evolve Productions

Kevin Moore

Kevin Moore is one of those rare people who can walk into any room — city hall, a boardroom, a film set — and make things happen. A strategist, civic leader, and relationship builder with decades of real results, Kevin brings the kind of credibility and energy that opens doors others don't even know exist.

He is widely credited as a driving force behind bringing the San Francisco 49ers to the South Bay — playing a central role in securing Levi's Stadium for the City of Santa Clara, a project that hosted Super Bowl 50 and permanently transformed the region's economy. That's not a footnote. That's who Kevin Moore is.

As Co-Founder and Executive Partner of Evolve Productions, Kevin is the connective tissue between creative ambition and the institutional world — bringing his network, his reputation, and his relentless passion for doing big things to every project we take on.

  • Distinguished Community Leader: Recognized by the Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce for sustained leadership and meaningful contributions to the region.
  • Civic & Executive Leadership: Served as Vice Mayor and City Councilmember for the City of Santa Clara, leading major economic development and infrastructure projects.
  • Principal, Moore & Moore Regional Relations: Founded a respected community and government relations advisory firm, working with executive boards and organizations across the region.
  • Board Service: Serves on the Board of Directors for the Mission City Community Fund, guiding funding decisions and community investment.
  • At Evolve Productions, connects institutional relationships and community networks to help creative projects launch and scale with the right partners and backing.

Current Work

Projects in Motion

A look at the films and creative ventures we're actively developing, funding, and bringing to life.

There. There.

There. There.

Seeking Partners

There, There is a deeply emotional dual-narrative drama from the Polish Brothers that explores one of humanity’s oldest questions: nature versus nurture. The story follows identical twins separated at birth and raised in vastly different environments who discover each other’s existence decades later. Through two interconnected narratives—one centered on loss, belonging, and the search for home, and the other on the shaping forces of family, environment, and circumstance—the film examines how identity is formed and whether destiny is written by genetics or experience.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Prestige streaming, DNA & heritage, and literary editorial partners circling the project.

UPSET

UPSET

Seeking Partners

UPSET is a documentary and audio series that celebrates the greatest underdog stories in sports history — moments when the odds were so impossibly stacked against one side that even Vegas wouldn't post a line. Presented by legendary sportscaster Dan Patrick and directed by filmmaker Ed Cunningham (Producer of King of Kong and Academy Award-winning Undefeated), UPSET goes beyond the scoreboard to explore how these stunning victories left lasting impacts on the participants, fans, and society as a whole. From the pilot episode — Chaminade, a tiny NAIA school with fewer than 800 students, defeating the top-ranked University of Virginia basketball powerhouse in 1982 — to Leicester City's 5000-1 Premier League title, Robin Soderling toppling Nadal at the French Open, and the 2004 U.S. Men's Basketball team's shocking Olympic bronze — UPSET tells the crowd-pleasing, head-scratching stories that remind us why we watch sports in the first place.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Athletic apparel, sports media, and betting platforms exploring the ultimate underdog angle.

Chasing Honus

Chasing Honus

Seeking Partners

Hank Bronski hasn't missed a Pittsburgh Pirates game in twenty years. When his late uncle leaves him the rarest baseball card in existence — a Honus Wagner T206 — his mother accidentally sells it at a garage sale for ten dollars. What follows is a lively, warm-hearted adventure across Pittsburgh and New York City as Hank teams up with the unwitting buyer, a Tupperware saleswoman named Mickey, to chase down the million-dollar card before drug dealers, a scheming team owner, and sheer bad luck beat them to it. Along the way, Hank discovers that the chase isn't just about the card — it's about expanding his small life, falling in love, and taking his passion for baseball to the next level. Written by Shelly Howell.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Baseball heritage, collectibles, and beloved Americana brands are a natural fit for this story.

W.A.S.P.s

W.A.S.P.s

Seeking Partners

W.A.S.P.S. is a premium historical drama series based on the true story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II—over 1,100 extraordinary women who flew military aircraft, tested experimental planes, trained pilots, and helped America win the war, only to be forgotten by history. Combining the scale of Band of Brothers with the emotional power of a female ensemble cast, W.A.S.P.S. is a story of courage, sacrifice, sisterhood, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of equality.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Aviation, women-in-STEM, and heritage Americana brands taking flight with the project.

GQ Johnny: The Heart of a Warrior

GQ Johnny: The Heart of a Warrior

Seeking Partners

Inspired by the true stories of the men who served on the USS Johnston and USS Hoel during the largest naval battle in history — the Battle of Leyte Gulf. On October 25, 1944, a small US Navy task group code-named "Taffy Three" was surprised by Japan's Center Force fleet of 23 ships, led by the Yamato, the largest battleship ever built. Most of the sailors were barely 18 years old, and three quarters had never been to sea. Their captain, Ernest E. Evans — the first Native American to captain a US Navy ship — had drilled them relentlessly. That preparation saved their lives. Against overwhelming odds, these young men defeated the Japanese fleet, secured General MacArthur's return to Leyte Gulf, and turned the tide of the war in the Pacific. Their personal stories have never been told. This film tells them.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Military-adjacent brands, heritage Americana, and veterans organizations aligned with the story.

Freedom Flight

Freedom Flight

Seeking Partners

As the 1956 Hungarian uprising collapses under Soviet tanks, seven ordinary young people — unarmed and terrified — board a domestic flight and make one impossible choice: hijack the plane mid-air, or disappear forever behind the Iron Curtain.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Aviation heritage, European co-production, and period luxury brands in early conversation.

Ophelia

Ophelia

Seeking Partners

Near the turn of the 19th century, disease and mental illness were on the rise. Eloise Asylum For The Insane was home to the worst of the worst — vagrants, the criminally insane, the psychotic. Renowned psychiatrist Dr. Cyrus Belle stood at the forefront of unspeakable methods enacted to 'cure' his patients. With unmarked graves filling beyond capacity, one person witnessed every horrific experiment: the doctor's own daughter, Ophelia. When Dr. Belle makes the grave mistake of admitting Ophelia as a patient, the line between victim and haunter begins to dissolve. Part of the Shadow Lake Films Eloise universe — a world of interconnected horror where the past never stays buried.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Opportunities for streaming, genre entertainment, and horror-adjacent lifestyle brands.

House on Happy Oaks Lane

House on Happy Oaks Lane

In Development

A young Black couple's dream home in the Deep South becomes a chilling nightmare when they uncover ghostly secrets that reveal the husband's shocking past life as a Confederate-era plantation owner. Directed by Robert Adetuyi, produced by Dennis Maguire, Elston Howard, and Valerie Lamb.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Southern heritage spirits, home & lifestyle, and horror-streaming partners approaching.

7 Cells

7 Cells

Seeking Partners

A young woman awakes in a concrete cell not knowing why she is there or even who she is. She soon finds out that there are six others, and the lines of reality are about to be blurred. Written and directed by Jeff Burton, with committed production personnel including Dennis P. Maguire (Producer), Chuck Pfarrer (Executive Producer), and John Rhys Davies (Executive Producer).

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Tech, immersive audio, and psychological-thriller streaming partners in early talks.

Dead to Rites

Dead to Rites

In Development

Dead to Rites is a darkly comic murder mystery series that follows a disgruntled anthropology professor who moves to Los Angeles after his wealthy venture-capitalist brother promises him a new life—only to discover that his brother has died under suspicious circumstances. Stranded, broke, and obsessed with solving the crime, he takes up residence inside his brother’s crypt at Hollywood Forever Cemetery while unraveling a labyrinth of suspects, secrets, scams, and absurdities.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Cemetery venue, VC satire, and true-crime media partners exploring the mystery.

Don't Call Us

Don't Call Us

In Development

Don’t Call Us… is a sharp, irreverent comedy series tracking Marty Carlucci, a washed-up, gambling-addicted music manager down to his final roll of the dice. Cornered by a debt to a calculating producer, Marty is forced to manage The Metal Manilows—a hilariously talentless heavy-metal Barry Manilow cover band. Operating out of a pool house on the eccentric estate of a wealthy, shotgun-toting former variety show star, Marty navigates a chaotic path to redemption. Between dodging his past, falling for a watercolor-painting yoga instructor, and trying to clean up his act to earn custody of the daughter who doesn't know he exists, Marty somehow steers the band all the way to accidental superstardom at Budokan in Japan. Packed with a curated, genre-bending soundtrack where music acts as a character itself, the series is a wild story of second chances, flawed heroes, and the absurd realities of the music industry.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Music gear, streaming platforms, and rock-and-roll lifestyle brands tuning up.

O'Houlihan

O'Houlihan

In Development

After British forces execute his brother, an exiled Irishman returns home and becomes the reluctant leader of a desperate band of rebels. Hunted across unforgiving mountains by a relentless British commander, he must transform from survivor to leader as families, fighters, and an entire way of life hang in the balance.

Brand & Marketing Partner Opportunities

Irish heritage, whiskey, and European co-production partners rallying behind the story.

Interested in partnering on one of these projects? Get in touch →

Board of Advisors

The Minds
Behind the Vision.

A group of working filmmakers, business leaders, and industry veterans — united by the belief that great stories deserve real backing and the right team behind them.

Dennis Maguire, 3rd Generation Filmmaker & DGA Producer
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Dennis Maguire

3rd Generation Filmmaker & DGA Producer

Chad LeFevre, Executive Consultant & Transformational Leadership Expert
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Chad LeFevre

Executive Consultant & Transformational Leadership Expert

Mark Polish, Award-Winning Writer, Director & Actor
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Mark Polish

Award-Winning Writer, Director & Actor

Ariel Ione Christianson, Producer & Founder, Aries
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Ariel Ione Christianson

Producer & Founder, Aries

Paul Cuschieri, Screenwriter, Producer & Media Executive
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Paul Cuschieri

Screenwriter, Producer & Media Executive

Rimo (Richard) Moreno, Award-Winning Producer & Brand Strategist
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Rimo (Richard) Moreno

Award-Winning Producer & Brand Strategist

Michael Day, Board Director, Finance & Audit Executive

Finance &
Board Leader

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Michael Day

Board Director, Finance & Audit Executive

Andy Grosso, Strategic Partnership and Funding Advisor
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Andy Grosso

Strategic Partnership and Funding Advisor

"Every great story needs
the right team behind it."

For Brand Partners

Your Brand. Their Story.
Lasting Impact.

When you partner with us to fund a film, you don't just write a check — you become part of the story. Here's exactly what that means for your brand.

On-Screen Credit

Your brand appears in the film's opening or closing credits, giving you permanent, repeatable visibility every time the film is screened, streamed, or distributed.

Festival & Distribution Exposure

Films we fund target film festivals and distribution deals — putting your brand in front of industry insiders, press, and audiences worldwide.

Product Placement

Integrate your product or service naturally into the story — authentic, non-intrusive screen presence that resonates with audiences far more than traditional ads.

Associate Producer Title

Select partners receive an Associate Producer credit — a prestigious, industry-recognized designation that elevates your brand's profile in the film world.

Co-Branded Marketing

We collaborate on press releases, social campaigns, and premiere events that spotlight your brand's role in bringing the project to life.

Long-Tail ROI

Unlike a 30-second ad, a film lives for decades. Your investment compounds over time as the project gains new audiences through streaming, re-releases, and awards runs.

Ready to put your brand on the big screen?

We'll match your brand with the right project — one that aligns with your values, audience, and goals.

Get In Touch

Let's Bring Your Story to Life

Whether you're a creative with a vision or a brand seeking meaningful exposure — unconventional partnerships start with a single conversation.

Ready to start?

Every great partnership starts with a conversation. Tell us about your project or goals, and we'll show you what we can build together.

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