Entertainment from the Top . .
.
- a division of Kanto Productions™
years 2021 and 2022
Best of Simi Valley Award in category
FILM AND MUSIC PRODUCTION
Kanto Productions has
been selected for the 2021 and 2022
Best of Simi Valley Award in the Film
and Music Production category by the Simi Valley Award Program.
Each year, the Simi Valley
Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional
marketing success in their local community and business category. These are
local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through
service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies
help make the Simi Valley area a great place to live, work and play.
Kanto Productions, dba Atophill
Films
Kanto Productions has
worked on film, television and documentary productions as well as music all
over the world. The founder, producer and composer Erkki Kanto started
everything in Finland and moved to Simi Valley in 1987. “Production and
music has been part of my life ever since early 1970’s”, Kanto confirms.
“The projects done in the USA and other parts of the world really made us
understand how different countries may have different cultures and ways of
living – but how everything is still the same.”
Please visit
www.atophill.com/mp for the latest list of motion picture and TV scripts
that Kanto has optioned (we are looking for co-productions and/or
co-producers) - and links to Kanto’s IMDb bios and various music samples at
ww.atophill.com/music_composer.html ...
CONTACT:
www.atophill.com
Email:
info@atophill.com
About Simi Valley Award
Program:
“The Simi Valley Award
Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and
accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Simi Valley area.
Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use
their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive
advantages and long-term value. The Simi Valley Award Program was
established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our
organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups,
professional associations and other business advertising and marketing
groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's
contributions to the U.S. economy.”
SOURCE: Simi Valley Award
Program
CONTACT: Simi Valley Award
Program
Email: PublicRelations@town-choice-information-2021.org
For Screenplay Submission - click here
Motion Picture Division
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- for further information please email erkki.kanto at
atophill.com
The following projects, optioned, with exclusive rights,
are available for coproduction,
or are in
development or preproduction
(in alphabetical order):
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911 Main Street
- drama/thriller
- a dysfunctional, suburban family
is oblivious to the historic events during the day of 9/11,
absorbed by their own demons and destructive forces as they confront themselves
and the terror within their own
lives and family
- original screenplay by David Zwolinski
- click here for the synopsis -
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Amendment Two
- crime/drama
- two teenage boys armed with assault rifles take revenge on those
who have spent years bullying them on the same day their high school's debate
team
debates the interpretation of the Second Amendment
- original screenplay by Michael J. Satmary
- click here for the synopsis -
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And Justice for All
- drama
-
"And Justice for All" is the story of twelve average people,
each
deliberating for his or her own survival.
A story of justice denied, "And
Justice for All" is the end result of a jury
that allowed itself to be
too human. Can justice ever be truly blind?
- original screenplay by Michael J. Satmary
- click here for the synopsis -
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Cape Healer
(a.k.a. The Lapponia Scriptures, Northern Scriptures)
- drama
- a mystical journey about love and adventure
- a tale of two Americans
in the wilderness of South Africa
finding the truth about life
- screenplay written and adapted by John Wood
from the Original Novel and book by Tia Salingre-Williams
- click here for the synopsis -
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Children of the World Now
- full-length Documentary
- based on the television series "Children of the World" in 1996,
written by Ilona Kanto and Erkki Kanto
-
click
here for the synopsis -
-
click here for the episode "FIJI" from TV series "Children
of the World" -
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Crossroads
- drama
-
A decent wife of a diplomat and a prostitute working in a luxurious brothel
live their lives in distinctive ways and circumstances while their difficulties
and desires are quite similar, or even the same. What can they have in common?
with the past and the consequences of their bad decisions?
- original screenplay by Emese Sperlagh
- click here for the synopsis -
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The Emperor's Medallion
- romantic drama
- a tale of
love that had no hope,
a
touching story based on the lives of two lovers
in the turmoil of the
Russian Revolution
- based on a true story
- original screenplay by Unto
Kaartinen
- click here for the synopsis -
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Jaguar Priest
- historical fantasy adventure
- Jaguar Priest
is a screenplay of noble Maya Indians and their fascinating culture
around
900 AD.
It is an epic
about high priests, priestesses, rulers and their life in Chichen Itza.
This is an intriguing love affair where three men fall in love with a beautiful temple
singer.
- based on the short story by a
Finnish best-seller author, Tuula Pelttari
- adapted screenplay by Ilona Kanto
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Lauri
- based on a true, faith-based, amazing story
-
This true story of how a drunken bum from a garbage
dumpster in Helsinki
with
the help from God finally ended up sitting beside presidents of nationsis
one worth reading.
Without numerous documents and the testimonies of many
eye-witnesses,
it would be difficult for anyone to believe.
-
based on a published book written by Tapani Suonto
- screenplay
writing is needed
- click here for synopsis -
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The Man Who Saw the Devil
- drama, horror and supernatural
London
– In the winter of 1890, a man sits in a small room writing a manuscript
– with a gaunt face that tells a history of poverty, pain and
disappointments.
This is our protagonist, Geoffrey Tempest (30’s).
Scholar. Author. Failure.
- when he inherits a five million pounds fortune from a relative he hardly knows.
And with his new found wealth comes the intimate courtship
of the charming and fabulously wealthy PRINCE LUCIO RIMANEZ.
- original screenplay by Babatunde Ehimai
- click here for the synopsis -
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The Monroe Detail
- drama, a 24-hour love story
- based on true stories, THE MONROE DETAIL is about a Chicago police officer
assigned to guard Marilyn Monroe who comes to Chicago in March, 1959 to promote “Some Like It Hot”
- the glamorous superstar becomes attracted to the cop and his endearing relationship with his overweight, unattractive wife
- his detail becomes entangled with Communist probing FBI,
Chicago mobster Sam Giancana and his Hollywood friends,and the Kennedy family, about to run JFK for President
- original screenplay by David
Zwolinski
- click here for the synopsis -
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Mortal Boundaries
- horror, crime, thriller
Inside a church we see a woman on her knees – praying. This is our
protagonist, DR. HALLE ADAMS (30s).
Wife. Mother. Physician. And most of
all, a devout Christian.
– the wealthy but psychotic DAVID
NEWTON.
he wants something more. He wants an intimate relationship.
- original screenplay by Babatunde Ehimai
- click here for the synopsis -
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MY NAME IS MARK
- action, comedy, crime
A UFC championship match - the
spectators roar in excitement.
One of the fighters appear to have lost
his mind as he beats up his opponent
in a manner that might seem
inappropriate even by UFC standards.
Then he beats up the referee and
anyone daring enough to climb into the ring to stop his rampage.
This is
our hero, MARK EVERTON (30s), three time UFC champion – and he’s nuts.
- original screenplay by Babatunde Ehimai
-
click here for the synopsis -
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Murder Justified
- drama, supernatural
- This story will take
the viewer into a mind of an abused, terrified, 12-year-old boy,
shortly
after he murdered his father. Silenced by fear, and violent by inner turmoil,
the main character is shown locked up in a detention facility for boys.
The
prison system turns to a psychiatrist to evaluate the boy
and learn what
caused him to commit cold-blooded murder.
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Robbers
- crime/drama
- a teenager suffering from domestic abuse seeks sanctuary a suicidal criminal
and helps him with his robberies
- original screenplay by Tom Batt
- click here for the synopsis -
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Season of Solace
- drama
- a spiritual journey of two people looking for their lives and finding God
- based on true events
- original screenplay by Felicia Cummings
- click here for the synopsis -
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Second Life
-
a science-fiction
thriller
- after a veteran homicide detective wakes up from neurosurgery
in the body of a young man who assaulted his
daughter
he must still find a way to protect his
family from a deceptive killer
- original screenplay by Rory Neil Clark
-
click here for synopsis -
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Stuck in Funk
- dramedy
- downsized and dumped, Seattle high school teacher Claudia is forced to move
back home to Funk, Idaho
with her overbearing mother and lump on a log father
- she takes a job as a hokey psychic at the fair in order to get away as quickly
as possible, but finds herself falling in love
with more than her small town roots when she meets a handsome Little Person
- original screenplay by
C. Cannon Rosenau
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They
- crime/drama
- as
humanity is being destroyed by an invasion of flying saucers,
a conspiracy theorist confronts his estranged Marine Colonel father about what
the military
really knows regarding UFOs and discovers that the invasion is the first step
toward the military's establishment of a New World Order
- original screenplay by Michael J. Satmary
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Viewers
- Sci-fi/Thriller
- A genetically enhanced remote viewer,
reluctantly agrees to help locate a spate of missing children
in exchange for anonymity.
- original screenplay by Kim Lozelle
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