‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ Filmmaker Cooper Raiff & Clementine Quittner Launch Production Company Small Ideas

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Sundance prize winner Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth) has partnered with former Black Bear Pictures development executive Clementine Quittner to launch Small Ideas—a new production company that will develop and produce indie projects across film and television.

Raiff hinted at the move, and even cited the name of his new shingle in a recent chat with Deadline, which had him discussing the viability of small, carefully crafted projects in the ever-evolving entertainment marketplace. “I feel really confident about small things.

I’m going to start a company and probably call it Small Ideas,” the filmmaker said in the interview published back in June. “There’s a very good, lucrative market for making small things and flipping them, and if you’re okay with them being maybe like a streamer-theatrical duo, I think everyone should be really feeling great and confident about getting their stuff made that they want to make.” Driven by a commitment to protecting the passion and intention of artists, Raiff and Quittner intend to produce projects from emerging filmmakers and creators, as well as those written and directed by Raiff.

Their first effort will be an undisclosed television series which Raiff will write, direct, and produce alongside Quittner. During his recent chat with Deadline, Raiff may have also offered a hint as to what we can expect from his as-yet-unnamed series. “After I make this next movie [The Trashers], I know for a fact the next thing I’m going to do is make a really, really, really small TV show by myself, because I’m fortunate enough to have enough money to do that,” he said. “My goal is to totally just bet on myself and flip it in the way that I did with Shithouse, and the way I did with Cha Cha.” Sai