About
ARTE FILMS is an independent film company that develops and produces films that entertain and engage the audience, stimulating thought and discussion.
We create screenplays with strong, multi-dimensional characters and well-developed stories that hold the audiences’ attention to a satisfying ending.
ARTE FILMS combines a sound business strategy to the less predictable, subjective, artist elements inherent in the motion picture world. In both domestic and international markets, we will focus on realistic market projections for theatrical, television, DVD, streaming and ancillary markets. We continue to develop solid business relationships with distributors, sales agents, producers and film professionals to enhance our opportunities for financial success and to deliver a respectable return on investment to our partners.
ARTE FILMS finances projects via equity investment, institutional financiers, co-productions, and pre-sales.
People
James A. Amatulli, Jr. (Jim), President
Jim is an award-winning director, writer and producer, and is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
He wrote, directed and produced his first feature, ARTWORKS (2004), a romantic, heist, drama feature film, starring Virginia Madsen and Rick Rossovich. The film screened at 16 films festivals, and Jim received the Best Director Award for ARTWORKS at the California Independent Film Festival. He was selected as a participant in the Sundance Independent Producers’ Conference.
Jim wrote the screenplay for FLYING BY (2008), and was the director and a producer of the film, a drama with music at its core, starring Billy Ray Cyrus, Heather Locklear, and Patricia Neal (her final film). “Flying By” was the opening night film at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival and the Beverly Hills International Film Festival.
Jim’s current film in development is WERNER’S TURN (a/k/a INDICTMENT), the true crime story of an undercover Massachusetts State cop caught between the criminals, the FBI, the state and his law enforcement colleagues. Co-written with Brien Master, the script has received numerous competition accolades.
Jim’s other screenplays include: The Liquidators, a thriller centered around international antiquities (competition honors); LIFE AFTER, a supernatural suspense story set in a cemetery; and Magic Feelings, a romance set in Kentucky’s thoroughbred country; as well as treatments for other features and TV projects.
A communications professional, Jim founded Amatulli & Associates in 1985, and developed marketing, training and business communications programs in all media for clients ranging from Fortune 500 firms to privately owned companies.
Hazen Brien Master- writer, producer
Brien is a writer with experience working in various disciplines of the film and writing industries. He has developed numerous original screenplays. “The Perils of Shadowboxing” script was an Official Selection of the Beverly Hills Film Festival.
As an Associate Producer/Writer for Arte Films LLC, Brien worked with director Jim Amatulli in the production of the motion picture Flying By; filmed in San Diego.
Brien is the co-writer (with Jim Amatulli) of “Werner’s Turn”, and they share in the the screenplays’ numerous competition hours.
Brien was in the Sound Department for the film CAROL, Salt Productions, LLC, filmed in Cincinnati, OH.
Brien is an Adjunct Instructor, Writing for Media, and screenwriting, at the University of Cincinnati.