Kim Coe, Executive Producer  Kim has spent the last twenty years aligning people, business and venture capital strategies and partnerships. Her primary interest is to help new ventures raise funds and break markets with projects that result in high returns for investors and participants alike. She has done this for a wide range of independents, corporations, and governments. Kim’s ability to select projects that ultimately succeed has earned her a significant reputation as both negotiator and developer.
Her decision to support Naked Before The World goes beyond an appreciation of Luke Rhinehart’s work and of the 'Naked Gang' making the film. Kim believes the film industry is positioned so that, by using viral marketing and the Internet, a successful film is now nearly as much about good marketing and direct sales (including DVDs and marketing) as it is about box office returns.
The financial plan for 'Naked' is to combine the audience awareness of the Luke Rhinehart brand, the powerful direct sales capability of the Internet, and the film’s cinematic appeal. This approach is arousing the interest of angels, agents and investors alike. This film is set to succeed through all of these channels, without being dependent on any one of them. This ensures that everyone involved gets a return on their investment.
Andrew Bonner-Walter, Producer
Andrew’s background is in conceptual marketing, marketing things that have never been marketed before and that thus demand unusual creativity. He was once given the task of marketing the very first cell phone, The Motorola ‘Brick’, and the Sinclair C5 electric buggy, in the same week. So he simply took the electric buggy and drove it around London, whilst pretending to make calls on the world’s first cell phone—with nobody on the line. He says he prefers to work on things he knows little about, so he can fake it.
Andrew was instrumental in getting the Naked film off the ground, inspiring Luke's initial screenplay, bringing in many of the members of the cast and crew, and working with Kim on locations and budgets for the film. And he never ceases to generate excitement for the first film to be made of Luke's work.
Luke Rhinehart, Producer and Screenwriter
Luke is the acclaimed author of eight works of fiction: The Dice Man; The Search for the Dice Man; Whim; White Wind, Black Rider; The Book of the Die; Long Voyage Back; Jesus Invades George: An Alternative History; and Naked Before the World, soon to be the first film based on one of his novels.
A BBC production has named The Dice Man “one of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century,” and Loaded Magazine honored it in 1999 by naming it “the Novel of the Century.” More recently the book has been cited by the London Telegraph as one of fifty great cult books of the last fifty years, and by the Toronto Star as one of the twenty great novels not yet made into a film.
Interest in Luke’s work has undergone a miraculous rebirth in the last several years and is now at an all-time high. The Dice Man has been published or republished in more than twenty countries and is now selling more copies throughout the world than at any time before. In addition, numerous plays, TV series, and documentaries have appeared in the last decade based on or about Luke’s work.
Visit Luke's site at: www.lukerhinehart.net
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