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Chris K. Daniels

Chris K. Daniels

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Biography

An innovative force in modern film producing, Chris K. Daniels bridges creative vision with commercial success as founder of The Launch Company, an integrated entertainment ecosystem encompassing Cinelaunch, Launch Financing, and development operations that have facilitated over $100 million in deals since 2023. After gaining initial recognition with offbeat independent films that attracted audiences at Sundance and Cannes—Chris relocated to Los Angeles to scale his producing ventures. As a partner and advisor at Esme Grace—the boutique firm behind Michael Mann's "Ferrari"— and the founder of the Launch Funds, Chris has demonstrated his ability to package A-list talent maintaining artistic integrity. His forward-thinking approach to development, business strategy and financing ensures projects are both narratively compelling and market-ready.

Known For

Ferrari
6.4

Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another.

Ferrari

2023
The Dutchman
4.7

A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman he encounters on a New York subway.

The Dutchman

2026
Freud's Last Session
6.6

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

Freud's Last Session

2023
The Kill Room
5.9

A hitman, his boss, an art dealer and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one that forces her to play the art world against the underworld.

The Kill Room

2023
Downtown Owl
5.5

In 1983 Owl, North Dakota, the lives of three residents – elderly Horace, who spends his afternoons reminiscing in the local coffee shop; teenage Mitch, depressed backup quarterback star player-power-horse; and newly appointed high school English teacher Julia – along with those of the town's other residents, are upended by a historic whiteout blizzard.

Downtown Owl

2023
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A Calabrian mafia boss kidnaps the grandson of the worlds richest man and endangers his entire organization when he falls in love with his victim's mother during ransom negotiations.

Captivated

Kristallnacht
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Police Lieutenant Krützfeld faces a momentous decision on the night of November 9, 1938, in Berlin. Following the assassination of a German attaché in Paris, wrongfully labelled a Jewish terrorist attack by Nazi propaganda, he receives the order to attack the Jewish quarter. As chaos erupts, Krützfeld must choose whether to obey the command or protect the innocent.

Kristallnacht

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Five actors enroll in a mysterious week-long intensive led by a renowned but secretive instructor. While her former students have reached extraordinary heights in their careers, her unconventional methods remain unknown to outsiders.

The Technique

Spring Breakers: Salvation Mountain
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A group of rebellious girls hit the road for spring break but when their trip explodes out of control, they're forced to outrun the chaos they've created.

Spring Breakers: Salvation Mountain

Redemption
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Follows the journey of Leo Russo, a young man caught in the crosshairs of an organized crime syndicate in Cleveland and Las Vegas during the 1980s. When Leo and his best friend Jonathan are drawn into the criminal underworld, both young men find themselves entangled in a dangerous game involving mobsters, killers, betrayal, and violence.

Redemption

The Black Sea
6.5

Khalid, a charismatic big dreamer from Brooklyn, with no follow-thru gets stuck in a small town on the Black Sea after chasing an opportunity for money that goes wrong. Being the only black guy in the town, he quickly becomes the center of the town’s attention. His New York City street bop is all he has to survive. In his pursuit to get home he finds connection in a way he never expected with a local woman. Together they make their small dreams big.

The Black Sea

2024
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A fatigued man finds himself standing in the midst of the night, staring off against a terrifying creature that only moves when the man sits.

Stand

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A heartbroken man searching for purpose helps his grieving BnB host say goodbye to her husband's spirit living in her walls.

Transcending

Scumbags
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Marco and Vincent, a con artist and a jewel thief respectively are somewhere between friends and backstabbing criminals. They meet up at their old stomping grounds to get drunk, reminisce, and talk up their latest misdeeds. Friendly competition evolves into a fatal confrontation, as truths come out and guns are drawn.

Scumbags

2019
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Adrian, a paranoid young man on the brink of losing his mind to a self-constructed conspiracy, runs for his life from the evil trio known as "The Dark Triad"

Squeeze Toy

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Tyler is a young man caught somewhere outside of his own reality, stuck on his own twisted, trauma-induced path.

When Mentioned

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A conversion evolves between two young men that appear to be trying to trigger something dark from one another.

You Must Be Artificial