Marketing to Veterans and Military Personnel

Horses and Heroes is Reality TV series, which promotes healing rather than endorsing bad behavior. It will utilize interviews, group discussions, practical demonstrations of horse therapy, and interpersonal interaction between the vets. Although Equine Therapy will be the stage, the primary focus will be on the eight veterans as they sharing what they experienced while they served our country and how those events had a lasting effect on their lives as well as on those who love them.  Veterans can't go back and make a brand new start, but they can start from now and make a brand new end.  Horses and Heroes will help the veterans on the show as well as those who watch the series find that brand new end.

Each season will contain 12 episodes in which the first and last episode will have the running time 88 minutes (two hours broadcast time) with the remaining ten episodes will run 44 minutes (one hour broadcast time).  Each episode  has a 30 second segment bumpers and two 10 billboards available for sponsor promotion.   Although we would prefer one sponsor per season, we do have the capability to create sponsorship campaigns for the individual episodes.


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How to find happiness

Until You Walk The Path, You Won’t Know Where it Goes will be chatting with comedian, author, and motivational speaker, Fran Capo on August 18 at 2pm eastern as we talk about the importance of laughter and how her new book, “ Hopeville: The City of Light” is a guide to finding the path to happiness. 

Fran Capo is a motivational speaker, comedienne, adventurer, ordained minister, 18 time-author, spokesperson, consultant, and 6-time world record holder, most known as the Guinness Book of World Record’s Fastest Talking Woman. She has appeared on over 4500 radio shows and 450 TV shows including: The Meredith Vieira Show, Entertainment Tonight, Nick at Nite & Good Morning America. She used to be the weather and traffic girl at WBLS-FM radio in New York. She recently had a video go viral and was in Time magazine, The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, Buzz 60 and media outlets around the world. Fran recently returned from South Korea on the “National Mom Comedy Tour” entertaining our troops. Fran has bungee jumped, scuba dived with sharks, scaled castle walls, driven race cars, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, gone down to the wreck site of the Titanic and recently went Flyboarding.




 

Her 18th book, Hopeville: The City of Light is being touted as the Alchemist meets Think and Grow Rich and has #11 on Amazon! (All this while as a single mom!) Fran shares the 44 points of happiness in this book in her motivational talks called, "Laughter and Light." Hopeville is available in e-book format on amazon, iTunes, etc. and in softcover on her website, www.francapo.com.

Fran knows how to live life to the fullest and loves to share it with the world. She even has a storytelling button on her website! 

Websites

http://francapo.com/

https://www.facebook.com/FranCapo

https://www.linkedin.com/in/francapo

Amazon

Tune into http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze on, August 18 at 2pm eastern to learn how to find the path to happiness from Fran Capo . The phone lines and chat will be available for those who wish to ask questions. The phone number is (347) 838-9927.

The interview will be available in the archives http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze/2015/08/18/until-you-walk-the-path-you-wont-know-where-it-goes

 

Never Can Say Good-bye

Love can be a blessing or the curse that destroys a town.

Comparable to Ghost, The Others, and Dark Shadows

Genre: Paranormal Thriller feature film

Status: ready for pre-production

Have you ever met someone and suddenly felt love or hate? Did you wonder why? What if you had forgotten the reason? Would you want to remember if it could save you life 

Elizabeth was asked by her mentor to teach a writing course at a small college. Since she never forgets a kindness, she reluctantly agrees. Arriving in town, she instantly regrets her decision. She wants to run, but she is honor bound to stay. Even as the ghost of a small child begs her to forgive, the memories of another time arouse feelings of hatred that she doesn't understand and cannot control. When she meets Shane, all of their lives are thrown onto a dangerous collision course from which they can neither run, nor can they hide. The question is, "Can they overcome their tragic past or will they be doomed to repeat it?"

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Dr. Donald Arnett: I'm Suppose to Be Here

 

Until You Walk The Path, You Won’t Know Where it Goes will be chatting with author and motivational speaker Dr. Donald Arnett on Monday, August 10 at 2pm eastern as share how he overcame barriers of mental anti-cultural perceptions where fatalities, insecurities and social injustice occur all to often. H is book, “I am Suppose to be Here” is a guide into The Art of Dealing With Perception. 

 

Dr. Donald Arnette was born in New Orleans, LA. He attended the University of North Texas where he received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biology. His education continued at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he completed his training. Dr. Arnette performed research projects at Yale School of Medicine. He received a Ph.D. in Cellular Regulation from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Arnette was the first African American man to receive a Ph.D. from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology from UT Southwestern. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiology at UT Southwestern in the department of the Nobel 

I AM SUPPOSED TO BE HERE - The Art of Dealing With Perception with Dr. Don Arnette from Nikki G. on Vimeo.

 

Prize winning physicians Drs. Mike Brown and Joel Goldstein. Dr. Arnette has spent an inordinate amount of time trying to determine why cardiovascular disease is more prevalent in minority communities. Dr. Arnette worked with the Dallas Heart Study and the American Heart Association. Dr. Arnette also led the Genetics of Longevity in African Americans Study. He has worked for several pharmaceutical companies, including Bristol Myers Squibb, Dendreon, and Onyx Pharmaceuticals. He currently serves as a Senior Medical Liaison with Amgen Pharmaceuticals. In his current role he strives to serve patients by transforming the promise of science and biotechnology into therapies that have the power to restore health or even save lives. In everything he does, he aims to fulfill his mission to serve patients.

Websites:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Donald-Arnette/793499487393804

https://vimeo.com/131989703

http://www.wfaa.com/videos/news/features/2015/06/22/book-discusses-racial-tension-and-police/29128337

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=198074461&goback=

Tune into http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze on Monday, August 10 at 2pm eastern to be learn how to overcome social barriers from author and motivational speaker, Dr. Donald Arnette. The phone lines and chat will be available for those who wish to ask questions. The phone number is (347) 838-9927.

The interview will be available in the archives at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze/2015/08/10/until-you-walk-the-path-you-wont-know-where-it-goes

 

Horses and Heroes combines the concepts a talk show with that of a documentary, by intertwining the spontaneity of a talk show with the scripted informational aspects of a documentary. It will utilize both interviews and practical demonstrations of horse therapy to give the audience a full understanding of how and why working with the horses help veterans heal. Although Equine Therapy will be the stage, the primary focus will be on the eight veterans as they sharing what they experienced while they served our country and how those events had a lasting effect on their lives as well as on those who love them.

Horses and Heroes is not about pointing fingers or creating a political firestorm. It is a documentary series, which will help military personnel and veterans find a new way to cope with the physical and emotional challenges brought into their lives by war. Equine Therapy does not involve drugs nor lying on a couch and spilling their guts to a therapist. What it does do is help them find new ways to see and react to their emotional triggers. It helps their bodies remember how it used to work. It can't replace what was lost, but it can give them the confidence to see that they are more than the sum of their body parts. Horses and Heroes will give veterans and military personnel the information they need to find alternative healing solutions, which can help lower the suicide rate.

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Dear Film Investor.

Dear Film Investor,

With all the industries that are looking for investors, why have you chosen to support film and or television? Yes, it can be profitable, but so are many other kind of businesses. So why have you chosen to risk your money on projects that are solely based on the whims of the audiences?

I chose to be a writer, because telling stories is how my soul breaths. I became a producer and editor to bring quality to those tales. I am a creative with a good business sense. It is this blending from which profitable films and television projects are born.

I would like to speak with you about the qualities that make a successful and profitable film. It's easy to describe the traits in hindsight. Think about your favorite films. Does list contain sequels and remakes or does it have the original movies? If your list is like mine, it contains the original projects. So many filmmakers have been remaking the great films, while I on the other hand want to work with those that made them great.

Audiences are very fickle and unpredictable. Project that shouldn't work by the numbers some times are the biggest successes, while those, who should be the big hits, flop at the box office. That is the name of the game. The summer of 2014 was cold and rainy, which should have driven people to the box office, yet it was the worse in 20 years. The studios keep making excuses and pointing at reasons that were out of their control. This year they are bragging about the big box office receipts, but are their films really as popular as they are claiming when you factor in the huge cost of movie tickets. It's easy to rack up big sale numbers when you are multiplying by a large number. How profitable will they be after you factor in their immense production and marketing budgets?

It may sound like I am trying to talk you out of investing in the entertainment industries. But that is far from the truth. I'm asking you to actually think about why you want to invest and then really look at the industry.

Most studios are part of large corporate conglomerates, who frequently use them tax write offs. For this reason, they choose projects that won't be successful, then further hobble their ability to be profitable by inflating the budgets. Their corporate accounting voodoo blackens the entertainment industry's reputation with the high risk label. Is it really the industry or the bean counters who are at fault when a film or television project doesn't make a profit?

Think about your favorite films. Were they remakes or were they original projects. Was Jaws 2 or 3 as good as the original? Or was it the originality and the innovation that made it your favorite? Great films start with a solid, original script. Revamping an existing script and adding the latest special effects isn't creating a new film; it's producing a rerun.

To expand the concept, did the actors make the film your favorite or was it the film, which made you a fan of the actors? A list talent guarantee nothing but a larger budget. This is a fact that has been proven many times in the past decade as films starring the biggest names crash and burned at the box office. A list talent doesn't make a film profitable; casting the right talent in the right role makes both the film and the actor popular.

A quality film starts with a sold, original script that has well develop characters and plot. Quality comes from properly preparing during pre-production to develop and incorporate the creative elements, while factoring the budgetary restrictions. If you properly plan, you don't have to waste money fixing in post. Once the film is ready for the audiences, the promotion and marketing campaigns need to showcase the film through all media venues. However, for good or ill, the best marketing tool is still word of mouth, which is why the initial presentation to the target audience is so important. It is the hub to reach the general audiences.

When you give your customers what they want, when they want it in a cost effective way, your business will be successful. This especially applies to the entertainment industry. People can't live without food, shelter, or energy, but entertainment comes from disposable income. When that budget is tight, audiences become more particular with how they spend their time and money. With all the new venues, you have to give the audiences a reason to choose your project. Our projects are build on solid original scripts that have strong casts and crews. . At Cosmos Productions we combine originality, innovation, and common sense budgets to produce both film and television projects about people who are forced to face their fears. Sometimes they win. Sometimes they lose. But either way, they will inspired the audiences to laugh, cry, and care about the characters as if they were friends, family, or the person they see in the mirror. In short, we give them a reason and permission to become emotionally involved with others.

We keep our budgets reasonable and responsible, which allows us to produce more projects and spread the risk among them. I can't legally guarantee that our projects will make a profit, but when you give the audiences what they want, they have proven they will come. I invite you to join our team and enjoy our amazing journey.

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Our current slate of projects:

 

Never Can Say Good-bye

Love can be a blessing or the curse that destroys a town.

Comparable to Ghost, The Others, and Dark Shadows

Genre: Paranormal Thriller feature film

Status: ready for pre-production

Have you ever met someone and suddenly felt love or hate? Did you wonder why? What if you had forgotten the reason? Would you want to remember if it could save you life 
 
Elizabeth was asked by her mentor to teach a writing course at a small college. Since she never forgets a kindness, she reluctantly agrees. Arriving in town, she instantly regrets her decision. She wants to run, but she is honor bound to stay. Even as the ghost of a small child begs her to forgive, the memories of another time arouse feelings of hatred that she doesn't understand and cannot control. When she meets Shane, all of their lives are thrown onto a dangerous collision course from which they can neither run, nor can they hide. The question is, "Can they overcome their tragic past or will they be doomed to repeat it?"



 

Horses and Heroes

Although veterans can't go back and make a brand new start,

they can start from now and make a brand new end.

Comparable: I have not found another show like it.

Genre: Documentary/talk show TV series

Status: ready for pre-production

Horses and Heroes combines the concepts a talk show with that of a documentary, by intertwining the spontaneity of a talk show with the scripted informational aspects of a documentary. It will utilize both interviews and practical demonstrations of horse therapy to give the audience a full understanding of how and why working with the horses help veterans heal. Although Equine Therapy will be the stage, the primary focus will be on the veterans as they sharing what they experienced while they served our country and how those events had a lasting effect on their lives as well as on those who love them.

Operation Home Base

Helping others heals our wounds

Comparable: MASH, The Waltons, and NCIS

Genre: Scripted Drama -Action TV series

Status: ready for pre-production winter 2016

Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal.
Author unknownn
Missing limbs can be replaced by the miracle of modern medicine and technology. They are functional, but not the same. But what of the pain that is unseen yet goes soul deep? These are the wounds that bind us to the past. Some use it as an excuse to hurt others. Some hurt themselves. Yet there are the few who channel their pain into helping others as a way of healing themselves or to pay penance for the harm they caused.
Facing their own demons, veterans and civilians come together to actively make a difference through legal, medical and logistics systems, to help active duty, reserves, and retired military personnel, veterans and their dependents. Their motto is: “We've got your back” What if, in their dedication to help, the founders of Operation Home Base stumble upon an international cover up; putting a target on their backs? Do they shrink in fear or do they “damn the torpedoes” to face the challenge with a “gung-ho” mentality?

Eye of Ra

Envying others murders the best of ourselves.

Comparable: Exorcist and Amityville Horror

Genre: Occult Horror

Status: Spring 2016

All families have natural gifts that they pass down through the generations. Yet these gifts are not always equally shared among family members. Sometimes generations are skipped or given the talents that are more passive than active. Not all gratefully accept their destiny; instead, they choose to steal what belongs to others--even if it means murdering their own children.
Katherine was born with the power to control the elements. Her whistle called the winds. Her tears refreshed the earth. She sees into the realms where fools and angels fear to tread. Yet her daughter Sandra's gift were complimentary—or they should have been. Katherine created life. Sandra had the ability to nurture and heal. She could see their destiny and helps them to release their fears. Instead she envied the talents others. A voice from the dark void asked, “What she would do to have their power. Sandra replied, “Whatever it takes.”

Cosmos Productions Slate of Projects

This is a list of Cosmos Production's current projects. It is by no means complete. This list was created to show the depth and scope of our interests as well as our ability to cross genres and venues. It is our team's intention to produce these and other similar projects, leading up to the formation of a four sound stage studio for low to medium budgeted projects. It is our belief that in the current studio system these demographics are under underestimated and under served. The current trend of focusing on “tent pole” films, which rely heavily on A list talent, has limited the industry's ability to satisfy the audiences and the needs of the growing number of media venues. Their business practices have created vacuum, which no longer satisfies the audiences' needs. Cosmos Productions will gratify the audiences by focusing on common sense budgets that feature both experienced actors with established fan bases, but who don't fit in the the ever changing A list category, and talented newbies, who have yet to make a name for themselves

While most large studios are merely off shoots of huge conglomerates, which used them as tax right offs, Cosmos Productions combines both innovation and creativity with an acute business acumen. In doing so, we will create quality projects that have a ready made market in a cost effective manor, thereby increasing our profitability potential.

Never Can Say Good-bye

Love can be a blessing or the curse that destroys a town.

Comparable to Ghost, The Others, and Dark Shadows

Genre: Paranormal Thriller feature film

Status: ready for pre-production

Have you ever met someone and suddenly felt love or hate? Did you wonder why? What if you had forgotten the reason? Would you want to remember if it could save you life
Elizabeth was asked by her mentor to teach a writing course at a small college. Since she never forgets a kindness, she reluctantly agrees. Arriving in town, she instantly regrets her decision. She wants to run, but she is honor bound to stay. Even as the ghost of a small child begs her to forgive, the memories of another time arouse feelings of hatred that she doesn't understand and cannot control. When she meets Shane, all of their lives are thrown onto a dangerous collision course from which they can neither run, nor can they hide. The question is, "Can they overcome their tragic past or will they be doomed to repeat it?"

Horses and Heroes

Although veterans can't go back and make a brand new start,

they can start from now and make a brand new end.

Comparable: I have not found another show like it.

Genre: Documentary/talk show TV series

Status: ready for pre-production

Horses and Heroes combines the concepts a talk show with that of a documentary, by intertwining the spontaneity of a talk show with the scripted informational aspects of a documentary. It will utilize both interviews and practical demonstrations of horse therapy to give the audience a full understanding of how and why working with the horses help veterans heal. Although Equine Therapy will be the stage, the primary focus will be on the veterans as they sharing what they experienced while they served our country and how those events had a lasting effect on their lives as well as on those who love them.

Operation Home Base

Helping others heals our wounds

Comparable: MASH, The Waltons, and NCIS

Genre: Scripted Drama -Action TV series

Status: ready for pre-production winter 2016

Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal.
Author unknownn
Missing limbs can be replaced by the miracle of modern medicine and technology. They are functional, but not the same. But what of the pain that is unseen yet goes soul deep? These are the wounds that bind us to the past. Some use it as an excuse to hurt others. Some hurt themselves. Yet there are the few who channel their pain into helping others as a way of healing themselves or to pay penance for the harm they caused.
Facing their own demons, veterans and civilians come together to actively make a difference through legal, medical and logistics systems, to help active duty, reserves, and retired military personnel, veterans and their dependents. Their motto is: “We've got your back” What if, in their dedication to help, the founders of Operation Home Base stumble upon an international cover up; putting a target on their backs? Do they shrink in fear or do they “damn the torpedoes” to face the challenge with a “gung-ho” mentality?

Eye of Ra

Envying others murders the best of ourselves.

Comparable: Exorcist and Amityville Horror

Genre: Occult Horror

Status: Spring 2016

All families have natural gifts that they pass down through the generations. Yet these gifts are not always equally shared among family members. Sometimes generations are skipped or given the talents that are more passive than active. Not all gratefully accept their destiny; instead, they choose to steal what belongs to others--even if it means murdering their own children.
Katherine was born with the power to control the elements. Her whistle called the winds. Her tears refreshed the earth. She sees into the realms where fools and angels fear to tread. Yet her daughter Sandra's gift were complimentary—or they should have been. Katherine created life. Sandra had the ability to nurture and heal. She could see their destiny and helps them to release their fears. Instead she envied the talents others. A voice from the dark void asked, “What she would do to have their power. Sandra replied, “Whatever it takes.”

Swamp Rats

Truth heals old wounds.

Comparable: Swamp Rats is to the Magnificent Seven,

what the Magnificent Seven is to the Seven Samurai.

Genre: Action Thriller feature film

Status: treatment and partial script

They rode together. They fought together. They played together. Sometimes they loved together until a lie tore them apart. They were the Swamp Rats. Although the Swamp Rats agree to ride together ride together one last time, the old resentments stand between them. Willie hopes his has enough time to fix fix what he broke by saving by saving the daughter that one of them never knew he had.

The Greatest Treasure

What we value the most is frequently found

in the most unexpected places.

Comparable: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

and Soapdish

Genre: Comedy feature film

Goldie and Glen stand at the altar, preparing to say their "I dos" when Rachael, Glen mother, confesses to an affair that makes them half-siblings. Before Goldie's mother could intervene, her father confirms that Glen could be his son. Crushed and resentful, Goldie leaves her parents and their small resort town behind, vowing never to return. She earns her law degree and makes a life for herself complete among the legal elite. Glen forgives his mother and claims both men as his fathers. He become heir apparent to the jointly owned ski resort called, The Greatest Treasure.
Apparent doesn't necessary mean a sure thing. Forty years later the last surviving partner dies and the ownership of the resort is thrown into question. Goldie is forced to return to fight for her mother's financial rights. If she looses her mother will become a permanent house guest. Instead of a court room, Goldie finds herself, along with Glen and the rest of the town, hunting for the clues, which will lead to ownership of The Greatest Treasure. Thrown together by the common goal, Goldie and Glen with the entire town trailing behind, follow a clue trail that guides them around the mountain trails and into the secrets of their own past.

AWOL (working title)

Losing your past can kill your future

Comparable: The Fugitive and 24

Genre: Action feature film

She wakes up in ICU. The man beside her bed calls her Sharon and claims to be her husband. Instinctively, she knows that is a lie, but no one will listen. Left with no other option, she goes "home" to an apartment and a life she doesn't recognize. As she unravels her true identity, she is forced down a gauntlet of of murder, betrayal, and domestic terrorism. Can she remember who she really is before the target on her back becomes a bullet in back of her head?

Keys the Kingdom

Betrayal lit the fuse of the future

Comparable to a combination of Angels and Demons and

Indiana Jones: The Crystal Skull

Genre: Action Thriller feature film

It started with one man. A man who dishonored his blood oath to God and to his brethren Disgraced, he sought revenge on those who would not listen—those who refused him compassion. His lies gave a King an excuse. The King's decree with Papal assent lit the funeral pyre. Jacques de Molay looked to God for justice. Geoffroi de Charney looked to the future in the faces of his brethren. Three men stood in the crowd. One Knight, One Sergeant. One Chaplin--each was charged with preserving the secrets of the Brotherhood. He watched them until the flames hid them from his mortal sight. He felt no pain for he knew they and others were the future’s bastion of truth. In another time and another place, they all would have justice.

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Haunting Story of Love and Revenge

Love can be a blessing or the curse that destroys a town.

Have you ever met someone and suddenly felt love or hate? Did you wonder why? What if you had forgotten the reason? Would you want to remember if it could save you life?

Elizabeth was asked by her mentor to teach a writing course at a small college. Since she never forgets a kindness, she reluctantly agrees. Arriving in town, she instantly regrets her decision. She wants to run, but she is honor bound to stay. Even as the ghost of a small child begs her to forgive, the memories of another time arouse feelings of hatred that she doesn't understand and cannot control. When she meets Shane, all of their lives are thrown onto a dangerous collision course from which they can neither run, nor can they hide. The question is, "Can they overcome their tragic past or will they be doomed to repeat it?"

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How to remain positive during challenging times

Until You Walk The Path, You Won’t Know Where it Goes will be chatting with spiritual councilor and intuitive, Cassandra Lynn Cantrell on July  15, .2015 at 1 pm eastern as we talk about how we can protect ourselves from the negativity others try to bring into our lives.

A 30 year veteran of meditation, Cassandra Cantrill honed her spiritual counseling skills over the last few years by working with literally thousands of people. A session with her is very much like simply sitting with someone and having a discussion. She is able to intuit energies around people, including divine information that assists someone in resolving issues. She believes that mindfulness brings conscious awareness of ourselves so that we can recognize the Love that is eternally present. Our recognition of Love allows us to chose out of the places of kindness, compassion and joy so that we can heal and be whole.

Website:

https://www.facebook.com/cassandra.l.cantrell

Tune into http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze on July  15, 2015 at 1 pm eastern to learn how to remain positive and centered during these challenging times. .The phone lines and chat will be available for those who wish to ask questions. The phone number is (347) 838-9927.

The interview will be available in the archives at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze/2015/07/15/until-you-walk-the-path-you-wont-know-where-it-goes

Elizabeth was asked by her mentor to teach a writing course at a small college. Since she never forgets a kindness, she reluctantly agrees. Arriving in town, she instantly regrets her decision. She wants to run, but she is honor bound to stay. Even as the ghost of a small child begs her to forgive, the memories of another time arouse feelings of hatred that she doesn't understand and cannot control. When she meets Shane, all of their lives are thrown onto a dangerous collision course from which they can neither run, nor can they hide. The question is, "Can they overcome their tragic past or will they be doomed to repeat it?"

Love can be a blessing or the curse that destroys a town.

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