A Production Company Innovating at the Intersection of Art & Action
Art.
We focus on innovation and craftsmanship. Achieved through synergistic collaboration with talented partners. We aim to spark limitless creativity and push aesthetic boundaries. We produce works of cinema that can draw audiences across markets.
Action.
Our strength is operating with local understandings of peoples & cultures, well within budgets. Countries of production include: US, Canada, England, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, China, Japan, India, Philippines, Morocco, South Africa, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon.
Global.
The heart of our creative offering is action filmmaking. Action Realism is a holistic approach to creativity that encompasses local environments and top-tier talent to create heart-racing, lean-in entertainment.
The Team.
Chief Executive Officer.
Karin Chien is an award-winning producer and distributor working on new financing models, more equitable production structures, and radically different distribution solutions. Karin is a results-driven problem solver and a strategic systems thinker. By innovating her role as a producer, Karin works to build cross-monetization opportunities for film-centered IP. In her work at Art & Action Productions, Karin was the founding producer of MasterClass and led their global production expansion. Recent roles include partner at Louverture Films, co-founder of Distribution Advocates, strategic consultant to Color Congress, and Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center.
Chief Creative Officer.
Lawrence Ribeiro is an award-winning director and innovator of action filmmaking. Lawrence has been part of the automative and film production industries for the past 20 years, with a recent focus on the motorbike arena. Lawrence is leading several film & TV projects, including bike, car and action-related content, while developing the next generation of onscreen talent through motorsports sponsorships. Lawrence is author of two books, Action Realism, a creative handbook detailing an innovative approach to action, and The Unknown Art of Driving. As part of his work at Art & Action Productions, Lawrence serves in key creative roles, including the creative design of Sir Lewis Hamilton’s MasterClass. Recent work includes the festival winning car chase films The Chase and Part Deux: The Chase.