HAPPY TRAILERS HD
A DIVISION OF SHARK BAY PRODUCTIONS LLC

The Hollywood Problem
As you and every other aspiring filmmaker undoubtedly know, Hollywood is comprised of an unfortunate tandem of truths: pitching your film via screenplay is dauntingly difficult, and producing your own film is impossibly expensive.

The Cutting Edge Solution
Fortunately for you, a new, outside-the-box production company has emerged to extricate you of the dilemmas that stand between your screenplay and the recognition it deserves. That company is Happy Trailers HD.

Our Unique Philosophy
We operate under the realization that the conventional Hollywood system is nothing short of backwards when it comes to both pitching and producing films. Why produce an expensive film and then its comparatively inexpensive promotional trailer when you can simply produce the trailer, test the market for interest, and make a significantly more educated investment of your time and wallet? In terms of the pitch, why present your story in ninety pages of prose rather than five attention-grabbing minutes of film?

Our Mission Statement
Keeping Hollywood’s two flaws of pragmatism in mind, Happy Trailers HD has revolutionized the process of film production: the company takes your screenplays and films a trailer during one-to-two day shoots whose brevity make the A-list crew’s services affordable. Next, Happy Trailers HD edits and scores the footage, creating handsome three-to-five minute promotional trailers on high-definition video. The trailers are marketed by Happy Trailer HD’s team of publicity and advertising professionals, who create a tagline, poster art, and website, as well as demographics monitoring. Finally, when it comes time for Happy Trailer HD’s producers to pitch your project to our established niche of production and distribution companies, the trailer is used not as a substitute for your screenplay, but as an attention-grabbing complement.

In addition to facilitating the process for your soon-to-be sponsors, Happy Trailers HD also takes great pride in improving life as a filmmaker for its clients. Miccio, himself a screenwriter/director/producer in addition to running Happy Trailers, has an enthusiasm for the educational component of his company’s services: “Our process empowers screenwriters. Not only are our clients involved in hands-on filmmaking experiences from development to pre-production, production, marketing and pitching to industry professionals; if we take your project on, you call the shots!”

Our Rhetorical Selling Point
Where else can a fledgling filmmaker affordably become the executive producer of a first-class production of their own project, armed with a team of actors, directors, editors, directors of photography, producers, special effects artists, designers, crew, costumers, pyrotechnicians, and stunt coordinators at their disposal?

Why We’re Revolutionarily Effective

In a 2004 Variety Magazine article on Happy Trailers HD, Daly explained why the company’s innovative pitch process is advantageous with respect to convention: “If you can do a visual presentation, it shows off what you’ve got in mind.” Daly is certainly a reliable source: after viewing Happy Trailer HD’s first project, The Garrison, all it took for Miccio to sell him on it was a seven-word pitch!

Feel free to contact us directly at (310) 581-4130. That is, if you’re serious about breaking into the industry.

©Shark Bay Productions.2004