WE TELL STORIES THAT EXPLORE THE COMPLEX CULTURAL EXPERIENCES OF AMERICA. OUR FILMS EXPLORE THE MANY WAYS ITS CITIZENS INTERPRETED THE NATION’S PROMISE OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
We make films that celebrate the stories of America.
In the 400 years from 1565 until 1965 the world witnessed the phenomenal rise of America. The singular culture which emerged from the mix of military figures, artists, explorers, intellectuals, inventors, entrepreneurs and social icons, transformed the human experience. We celebrate the most compelling of those figures.
We tell their stories.
In Development
All on Fire
Byzantine Productions acquires film and television rights to the biography “All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery” from award-winning author Henry Mayer.
After a childhood marked by poverty in the British immigrant community of Newburyport, Massachusetts, William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805 - May 24, 1879) rose from obscurity to become America’s most recognized and unrelenting Abolitionist. His fight to end Slavery was marked by a gift for the written and spoken word, shook the conscience of a new nation founded on liberty and justice for all. His insistence upon immediate and complete freedom for all, won him friends and foes on all sides of the matter, as the Civil War swept the new and fragile republic.
Marquis de Lafayette
Lafayette
Byzantine Productions develops original screenplay on the Marquis de Lafayette, national hero in both America and France.
Born to extreme wealth and privilege, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (September 6, 1757 - May 20, 1834) was a French aristocrat who gave up a life of luxury to fight alongside the Continental Army with the American colonists against the British in the American Revolutionary War. After returning to France, he was a central figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830.