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A word form Chris Moore

Greetings Potential Filmmakers!

We are thrilled that you have decided to experience the filmmaking process with us from the inside. My name is Chris Moore, and I have had the great opportunity to be a movie producer for the past 5 years. I have also had the pleasure of working with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for the past five years. When we made "GOOD WILL HUNTING", we were a lot like you might be right now. We had little experience and only a few industry relationships, but we had what we thought was a great script with two talented actors attached to it. After Castle Rock and Miramax picked us out of the large pool of aspiring filmmakers, it turned out we were right. We fully believed in our project, and this level of belief is what we are asking from you.

It is so hard to get into Hollywood, and it is so hard to get a movie made even if you are in Hollywood, that Matt, Ben and I along with Miramax and HBO decided to build a way for you-the struggling screenwriters and filmmakers-to help us pick an underdog with us every year. We will all make that movie together and help keep new voices coming to Hollywood. That is the purpose of greenlight.

We were lucky enough to convince Harvey Weinstein and Miramax that this would be a good idea, and then together we convinced Chris Albrecht at HBO that the behind-the-scenes story of how this all happens would make a good TV show. I want to tell all of you that this project would never be happening if it wasn't for HBO and Miramax supporting us in this idea. It also will not be possible if you, the aspiring filmmakers, do not remain tuned in, and interested and supportive of your fellow filmmakers. I mean, do we just want to watch studio movies for the rest of our lives? Don't get me wrong, I like big movies, but I also like new and different points of view, characters that I might never know about, and places I might never see in movies. I love movies and I want to see all kinds of them keep coming along.

So Matt, Ben and I wish you all luck and inspiration. We want you all to do your best work so we have some great movies to choose from. The rules for greenlight are on the site-please follow them. We hope to run many more greenlights in the years to come, but it only works if we all do our best.

-Chris Moore