The hometown film producers, in brief

1960 — the present · told in full in the Film chapter

Cross-references, one line each: The producers of Fort Wayne's own film record are carried with their films in the Film section of this history, and are named here only to complete the roster. Richard Galbreath, whose Galbreath Pictures made industrial films and television commercials for the city's factories, produced and directed the Fort Wayne-made feature Night of Evil (filmed 1960, premiered at the Embassy in 1962). Mark Archer, a Fort Wayne commercial and industrial producer, produced In the Company of Men (1997) — the city's one landmark of American independent cinema — and American Reel out of his Atlantis Entertainment on East Coliseum Boulevard, declining, in his own words, to leave for Los Angeles. Rich Owens, a California producer and Scrubs storyliner, brought two thrillers home to Indiana through his 1008 Cine Co in 2012. Glenn Berggoetz, the city's most prolific micro-budget filmmaker, produces his own pictures under his Driving With Our Eyes Shut company. And the standing commercial sector is typified by Punch Films, founded in 2005 by Derek Devine and John Cuneo — the shop that made corporate and broadcast production a durable Fort Wayne trade.

Sources:

1. The Film section of this history — the production layer, the Galbreath and Archer records, the Owens productions, Berggoetz, and Punch Films, each with its sources.