NOT your AVERAGE STORYTELLERSTM

At Wise Child Studios, we’re flipping the script on an industry where the best creative ideas—and creatives themselves—often get sidelined. 

Uniquely offering the tools and expertise of a larger production company while delivering the client-centric attention of a boutique shop, we work closely with our partners to overcome industry stumbling blocks, attentively shepherding projects through every stage of the development and production process, from inception to distribution.

True to our moniker, Wise Child is dedicated to producing premium, thought-provoking, and character-driven stories, with just the right amount of wit, irreverence, and charm.

COLLABORATORS PAST AND PRESENT
Documentary Feature

Call the Doctor

The untold story of the “mother of media psychology” turned celebrity, who sparked a feminist fury and ire of the American Psychological Association’s, forever changing the health and media landscape.

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Color Bars

Max Robinson, the trailblazing Black broadcaster unafraid to ruffle white feathers, grapples with the unbearable weight of being "the first" to sit at the national anchor desk.

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Up the river

In the wake of America's deadliest prison riot, a ragtag group of filmmakers infiltrates New York's notoriously hellish Sing Sing Prison, capturing a historic concert and exposing the realities of life behind bars.

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Tannenbaum

In anticipation of a new retrospective exhibit, photographer Allan Tannenbaum reflects on his storied and unprecedented sixty-year career spanning shoots with celebrities and music icons in 1970s NYC to the world’s bloodiest war zones and back to an America forever changed by 9/11.

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Scripted Feature

The End

Tom, a down on his luck Montauk mechanic, finds unexpected love with a fellow outcast named Freckles, but their romance is put in jeopardy when the Town of East Hampton conspires to forcibly remove him from his beachfront home and auto repair shop. Based on a true story, the tale of Tom and Freckles devolves into a battle against greed and power in the rapidly changing town of Montauk, which locals call “The End.”

Scripted Series

Candy Store

Based on an unbelievable true story, a husband and wife’s new store – and its secret, fetishistic backroom - brings both ecstasy and tragedy to their quiet suburban community.

Scripted Feature

No hard times

Battling a two-front war against terminal illness and obscurity, Jimmie Rodgers, the former railroad worker turned legendary father of country music and great-grandfather of rock’n’roll, makes his way from Texas to New York City on his deathbed to record one final album.

Scripted SERIES

Pardon my wrath

After barely surviving a brutal racially-driven attack, a vengeful Black actress returns to the lunacy of Hollywood, determined to turn her trauma into a killer Oscar-bait film.

DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Dad Didn’t Do It

A prominent small-town doctor, twice convicted of murdering his wife, finds an unlikely defender in their four children, fighting to free him and hold accountable the power-hungry prosecutor who will stop at nothing to win.