We make movies that are more than images. Every move a story, every silence a voice, every word a universe. We’re Developing Movies That Create New Genres, New Audiences, And For The People who Have Grown Weary of Watching The Same FormulaMatic Plots and Characters Over and Over. That’s What We Do
Films Beyond Ideas, Writing Beyond Words
Stories That Have No End
Writing and publishing books, magazines and newspapers since I was 13, even that young when starting Renegade Company I understood movies and books were powerful magic. Igniting imaginations, they touch people with messages and images. Writing fiction, I gravitated to novels based in human experience; powerful and compelling. Writing how-to and self-help books, I learned an author doesn’t enlighten anyone. The reader, looking for a way to make life better searches for answers, finding them in a book. Readers are the true how-to, and the real self-help. Seeking answers, they change their life, not the author.
Making films and teaching filmmaking, I saw movies as stories that came alive on the screen. I learned the viewer first related to a film based on their own life experiences, yet a movie could give them a life experience they hadn’t had. Be part of different world, a different place, a different time. They could be on the screen, or part of the story. Most times they are a voyeur engaged, moved, and touched by what they see.
Today, I see no line between a story, a book, a movie, or life itself.
Each starts with life experience, becomes a story, becomes a book or movie, then becomes part of a life . That’s what makes books and movies magic. They are life the way we wish it could be, or afraid how it may end up. What‘s on pages or the screen is a reflection of life and dreams. A flight of whimsey, a tear in the eye. It is the same for all people wherever they are.
And that’s why I love my company name.
Wherever.
Wherever books are sold. Wherever movies are watched. Wherever people live and dream. That’s where I want to be. Wherever a story comes from, it can go wherever it needs to be told. A person puts themselves into a book or movie… Always. The book or movie is the house, the reader or viewer the occupant. A house without someone living there? Not a home.
My mission is to tell stories touch people, and last forever.
Terry Ulick, Founder
Wherever Books and Movies
We broadcast test concepts on our Roku TV Channel: Fantasy Realized.