About Laughing Cow Productions

• Independent feature film production company based in Atlanta, Georgia

• Founded in 2012 by Emory University professors Doug Bremner & Viola Vaccarino

‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg’

• A psychiatrist risks all to take on a corrupt drug company

• Described as Erin Brockovich meets The Constant Gardener

• Based on a true story that involves greed, power, lies, tragedy, danger, and death.

Reader Reviews for Goose Book Based on the Screenplay

• “An indictment of the pharmaceutical industry... illuminates the greed and unscrupulous nature of pharmaceutical companies and their market driven interests.”

• “A compelling and spell-binding narrative which fuses the personal and social in a heroic quest conducted by a physician who is a model for our era.”

• "I was so fascinated (and horrified) once I started reading that I finished the book in a single day…."

The Production Team • Doug Bremner (Partner) –

Producer, Writer, and Director

• Viola Vaccarino (Partner) – Producer

• Neil Shulman – Executive Producer (Doc Hollywood)

• Jim McKinney – Cinematographer and Associate Producer

• Chris Mills – Producer

Market and Strategy • Individuals concerned about

healthcare for themselves and their families, including possible risks related to the pharmaceutical industry

• Fans of strong, emotionally driven dramas, like courtroom dramas, with characters that they can emotionally engage with

• People who like films with inspirational messages

Study Growth in International Film Sales Year over Year

Casting Director – Cathy Reinking

• 25 years experience casting in Hollywood for TV and film

• Credits include Arrested Development and Frasier

• Author of How To Book Acting Jobs in TV and Film: The Truth About the Acting Industry - Conversations with a Veteran Hollywood Casting Director

• Winner, Best Screenplay, Harlem Film Festival and Urban Mediamakters Film Festival

• Discovered Jason Bateman, Adam Scott, and other stars.

Arye Gross • Plays plaintiff’s attorney Redhorn Leghorn • Active in regional LA theater • Film credits include Minority Report and Atlas

Shrugged II: The Strike. • TV credits include M E Sidney Perlmutter in

Castle, Cooper Conroy in Medium, Frank Muehler in Six Feet Under, - Rabbi Daniel Warner in The Practice and Carter Sweeney in Diagnosis Murder.

Elizabeth Stanley • Tony Award-winning start of Bridges of Madison County, the Musical, On the Town, and Downton Abbey, the Musical

• Created role of April in revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company

• Plays grieving mother of suicide victim, Ginny Bellaconda.

Peri Gilpin • Roz Doyle in the popular TV series Frasier. • Played Kim Keeler in Make It or Break It. • Other ongoing TV series where she had guest roles including

Designing Women, Cheers, and Wings. • Peri plays Lesley, the University Dean.

Cynthia Watros • Played Libby Smith, the “secret criminal” of the smash hit TV series, Lost

• Emmy Award winner for role as Annie Dutton Banks / Dee in Guiding Light.

• Elizabeth Wilson on Finding Carter, Kelly Andrews in The Young and the Restless, and Vicky on Another World.

• Film credits include Eletrick Children, Blood and Circumstance, and Park City.

• Plays Crystal, the ruthless attorney for the Renzon Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

Darryl Dillard • Darryl is an actor and casting talent who wrote and directed with Cathy Reinking the short film Real Man which was a winner at the Atlanta Black Arts Film Festival and the Harlem Film Festival for best screenplay in 2015.

• Darryl is a casting agent for the film as well as playing the role of Private Investigator Frank Dinaru.

Holley Fain • Holley is best known for her roles as Dr. Julia Canner on the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, and Maureen van der Bilt on Gossip Girl.

• Also portrayed Daphne Stillington and Ruth Kelly in the Broadway productions of Present Laughter and Harvey, respectively.

• Other TV credits: 3 lbs, Lipstick Jungle, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Good Wife, Memphis Beat and The Mentalist.

• Film credits: Blinders, One Night and Forgetting the Girl. Holley plays university attorney Kirsten Best.

Goose That Laid the Golden Egg- Return on Investment (ROI)

$0

$50,000

$100,000

$150,000

$200,000

$250,000

Portion At Risk Investment Expected Return

At Risk

Section 181 Tax Write-off**

Ga Tax Credit

‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg’ Sources of Finance

Total Budget $2,992,976*

Private Equity, $1,370,000

Vaccarino / Bremner, $340,000

Laughing Cow Productions,

$980,000

Georgia Film Tax Credit, $243,397 Intl. Presales,

$9,579

Product Placement, $50,000

Private Equity

Vaccarino / Bremner

Laughing Cow Productions

Georgia Film Tax Credit

Intl. Presales

Product Placement

Timeline

2015 – partner with agents, attach actors

Early 2016 – recruit private

equity investors

Spring & Summer 2016

– preproduction, Crowdfunding

Summer 2016 – principle production

Fall 2016 – post

production

Winter & Spring 2017 –

Festival premieres

Fall 2017 – U.S. Theatrical

Release

2017 – foreign distribution &

domestic cable release

Section 181 Tax Savings

Baseline Situation Salary Base Tax Cutoff Taxed at 39.6% Total Tax

$1,100,000 $127,962 $457,600 $254,390 $382,352

Investment of $1M Salary Base Tax Cutoff Taxed at 25% Total Tax

$100,000 $10,162 $73,800 $6,550 $16,712

Section 181 rule for investments in film productions gives you an immediate write-off without depreciation in the year of investment/production. In this scenario there is a tax reduction of $365,640 for an immediate return of 37% of investment.