Edward Holub · Writer · Director · DP
I've spent my career shooting for other people. Now I want to film the stories I've been writing.
I’ve built a career doing commercial and live-event work for clients — good work, real work, but rarely my own. Somewhere in there I never stopped writing. I’ve spent years on screenplays, and the older I get, the clearer it is what I actually should be doing: shooting my own stories, working with serious actors, directing shows that mean something, for a change.
UNDERBELLY is where that starts. It’s a New Orleans neo-noir I can execute right here, locally — I already have my own commercial team, my own camera package, a finished script. The one thing standing between “written” and “shot” is making sure the people doing the work with me get paid properly for it. That’s the entire ask: enough to cover and the actual expenses and a crew that already believes in this.
I’m not looking for a stranger to take a leap of faith on an idea. UNDERBELLY has a finished script, a clean chain of title, a crew committed on first dollar, and a financing structure already built around Louisiana’s film tax credit. What it needs now is someone who’s actually done this before — who knows the real distance between a finished script and a financed film, and who’s willing to talk me through how to close it.
Request the investor package.
The complete budget, the finance plan, the proposed waterfall and the production materials. $550,000, one city, twenty days. Verified accredited investors only.
Louisiana returns 30–40% of qualified spend, and that is contractual, not projected — the first money back, before a single sale. The whole memorandum is published here, not summarised.
This page contains preliminary project information for discussion purposes only. It is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Any offering will be made only through definitive documents, to verified accredited investors, and in accordance with applicable law. Scenarios are illustrative and are not forecasts or guarantees. No cast is attached. The Louisiana credit is discretionary and not yet certified. Independent film is speculative and illiquid; be prepared to lose the entire investment.