THE WILD WEST OF WINE & WILDFIRE
FIRE+WINE
COMING SOON
2025
COMING SOON
2025
COMING SOON
2025
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PLOT SUMMARY
In 2020, devastating wildfires nearly destroyed California's $85bn/year wine industry. Smoke choked out the landscape for months on end, poisoning the grapes and destroying billions of dollars in wine and berries. FireWine takes us to the most renowned winemakers in California and documents their fight to overcome the greatest threat to wine-making out west: wildfire. Explore the two inexorable components of human society for millennia:
fermentation and combustion
CREW
GABRIEL KIRKPATRICK MANN
Director + Cinematographer
Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann's first film credit was on 'Sideways', the number 1 wine film of all time. And his most recent credit is directing the feature length documentary 'Hotshot', the number 1 firefighter film of all time. 'Hotshot' is renowned for the most breathtaking wildfire imagery ever captured, and having filmed on the front lines of the wine country fires of 2019 & 2020, Gabriel brings the same intense vision, with wild, never-before-seen footage in 'Fire + Wine'.
SAGE SEB
Producer + Cinematographer
Having spent multiple years managing the film crew for Insomniac, Sage is an experienced documentarian and producer who brings a robust vocabulary in the world of verité cinema. With multiple decades of experience working with the biggest brands and biggest names in Hollywood he has established himself with a tremendous git'r-dun approach to producing.
JOHN COOK
Producer + Editor
John is recognized as a multi-talented filmmaker and editor, whose feature-length and short film works have earned acceptance into festivals including; Slamdance, Austin Film Festival, Raindance, Cinequest, and Julienne Dubuque. He honed his production and post-production skills while producing, directing, and editing short and long-form music documentary content for artists like Lou Reed, Henry Rollins, and the Psychedelic Furs. His post-production and editorial credits encompass more than 600 hours of reality and lifestyle television for HGTV, Food Network, TLC, MTV, and Bravo. John resides in Nashville, Tennessee, where he works on HGTV’s number-one-rated show, House Hunters.
PROJECT OUTLINE
With hours of original front-line wildfire footage in the can, and interviews being arranged with the finest winemakers in California, wine historians, the blue-collar mobile bottlers who struggle to earn a living bottling wine while dodging the fires. The same filmmaking team that created 'Hotshot' is seeking partners to join us in completing our next feature length documentary.
'FireWine' is shot on RED in 5K & 8K, so it meets and exceeds quality standards for all major streaming services, networks, and film festivals. Our most recent project, 'Hotshot' has not only earned the praise of major publications like The Chicago Tribune as it has become the highest-rated firefighter film (of any kind) of all time, but it also became profitable after just 2 months into release, a feat that most documentaries (and narrative films) never achieve.
Our goal is to film the fall grape harvest, gather interviews, and enter post-production before the end of 2024, with a completed picture by festival season in 2025. Having managed our own distribution to major streamers with 'Hotshot', we can guarantee distribution on Apple, Amazon Prime, and Google Play independently, as well.