Hermosa’s indie film company Rogue Arts heads for higher ground
With the Academy Awards just around the corner, this is a good week to talk about movies. Everyone likes the glamorous stars and the glamorous stars enjoy the red carpet ride, but there’s a heavily competitive business aspect to the film industry with huge amounts of bartering and investment involved just to get films made and then distributed. Burbank has Warner Brothers, Hollywood has Paramount, and we can go right down the list, but Hermosa Beach has Rogue Arts and that’s our baby. Kirk Harris, left, and Don Franken of Rogue Arts. Photo Kirk Harris is a screenwriter and an actor, and in 2004 he started up a company called Rogue Arts. “We’ve made eight films and we’ve handled the distribution of about 60 others,” he says over breakfast at Good Stuff in Hermosa Beach. One of the recent titles, directed by Miguel Necoechea, is called “The Kid: Chamaco,” and, very simply, it’s a boxing film that stars Martin Sheen, Gustavo Sanchez, and Harris himself. Don Franken we know as the man behind Method Fest, a yearly film festival that began locally and then settled up in Calabasas for several years. Franken and Harris met during the early days of that endeavor, when Harris was one of the…
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