SAGE OF RAGE
With his seven-year-old daughter’s future at stake, a professional MMA fighter risks everything on the only thing he knows how to do—fight—until winning for her could mean losing himself.
Goldwood Cinema · Original Storytelling
Original Film.
Premium Television.
Interactive Cinema.
Goldwood Cinema develops distinctive original stories for the screen—from cinematic features and character-driven television to experiences that invite the audience into the narrative. Exceptional storytelling, considered from concept through execution.
Founded by writer-director Johnny Olvera.
Original Feature FilmsPremium TelevisionInteractive Cinema
Current Priority Slate
Three projects. Three distinct paths forward.
These original features are receiving focused development, packaging and production attention. Each has a distinct creative identity and a considered path forward.
ICE MAIDEN
When a serial killer begins directing the investigation into his own crimes, Detective Jan Andreas must decipher his endgame before becoming the final piece of it.
DON’T CATCH FEELINGS
A famous anti-love podcaster puts a charming stranger through a seven-day experiment to prove romance is nothing more than biology—unaware the man she chose has a mission of his own.
Selected Television & Interactive Cinema
Stories Without Boundaries.
From character-driven ensemble comedy to expansive science fiction and audience-directed narratives, Goldwood develops original experiences built around compelling characters, distinctive worlds and ambitious storytelling.
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Discuss THE TEMPLAR
THE TEMPLAR
Descended from a secret line of Templar witches, Zephanie Abner can communicate with the dead. As hidden crimes and dangerous conspiracies unfold, audience decisions determine which truths she uncovers—and how her story ends.
8Audience Decisions
256Possible Routes
9Scripted Endings
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COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Six elite volleyball players follow an Olympic legend to community college. They're unstoppable on the court, a disaster everywhere else—and between a coach who won't open his wallet and a captain who won't let anyone near her little brother, every day becomes a campus-wide emergency.
Their game is elite. Their judgment is recreational.
Discuss COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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THE OLYMPIANS
Modern scientists enter an alternate dimension resembling the ancient Mediterranean and become the forgotten origin of humanity’s greatest myths.
Discuss THE OLYMPIANS
Execution Case Study
Constraint was the experiment. Execution was the proof.
THE WARREN was deliberately designed, planned and photographed under extreme production constraints—not as a model budget, but as a test of preparation, visual discipline, production architecture and capital efficiency.
The result: a 74-minute neo-noir detective mystery filmed across more than 30 locations in three principal photography days for approximately $3,200.
The lesson is not how cheaply a feature can be made. It is how much screen value disciplined planning can extract from limited resources.
The value of the experiment is not the number. It is the production discipline the number makes visible.
74 MinutesCompleted Feature
3 DaysPrincipal Photography
30+Locations
$3,200Production Budget
Nominee2025 SAG-AFTRA American Scene Awards
TubiStreaming Release
The Goldwood Operating Model
Develop the asset before taking it to market.
A screenplay is only one layer of a producible property. Goldwood develops story, production logic, market position and presentation together so a project can be evaluated quickly, discussed clearly and advanced with purpose.
Story Architecture
Concept, character, structure, world, theme and format are developed as one system.
Production Architecture
Locations, cast, schedule, coverage, visual ambition and budget logic are considered while creative choices are made.
Market Intelligence
Executive priorities, financing behavior, distribution shifts and audience signals inform positioning and timing.
Packaging & Path
Materials, collaborators, talent, financing strategy and outreach align around a credible path toward production.
Style is what people see. Taste is what people trust.
Goldwood Today
Original Stories. Expanding Possibilities.
Goldwood Cinema is expanding its creative relationships across original feature films, premium television, interactive cinema, creator-driven collaborations and cinematic commercial storytelling.
From original intellectual property to brand-led campaign concepts, our approach remains rooted in memorable storytelling, cinematic ambition and production discipline.
Creative Vision. Production Discipline.
Creative Capabilities
Discuss a Collaboration
One storytelling standard. Multiple paths to the screen.
Original Film, Television & Interactive Cinema
Distinctive scripted properties developed with story, audience, packaging and production in mind.
Creator Partnerships
Purpose-built scripted opportunities connecting talent, original IP and established audiences.
Commercial & Branded Storytelling
Campaign concepts, scripted spots, visual direction and brand-led stories developed with cinematic care.
Development Intelligence
Research before outreach. Signal before noise.
Goldwood studies how executives, producers, financiers, distributors and platforms describe their current priorities—then uses those signals to sharpen projects, packaging, timing and approach.
Market intelligence does not replace taste. It helps aim it.
The IP Library
A deeper bench without diluting the priority slate.
Goldwood maintains original properties across feature film, television and animation. These projects remain in development and may advance when the right creative partner, financing path or production opportunity emerges.
THE DEEP FRONT
An American teenager raised on Alaska’s fishing waters begins a new life in coastal Japan, where friendships and buried oceanic secrets draw him toward a hidden war beneath the waves.
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UNBOWED
In 1976 Beirut, a disgruntled former SAS captain assembles a multinational crew to rob the Middle East’s most secure bank—not for money, but for intelligence powerful governments will kill to recover.
MOB SQUAD
During World War II, the OSS recruits American mobsters for a covert mission no conventional military unit could survive.
KATUN GAL
When ancient rituals begin to fail, the creatures behind humanity’s darkest myths emerge from the shadows. Two genetically engineered rivals are sent from another world to hunt them—but as the women learn to trust each other, every victory makes it harder to tell predator from protector.
VERONICA
To rescue her missing father, a fearless shepherd girl and a sarcastic talking puppet must make a cursed prince laugh before a sorcerer buries the kingdom in fear.
INFORMATION SOCIETY
An intelligence network that can see everything has one blind spot: a terrorist no technology can find. To stop his next attack, a legendary operative comes out of retirement alongside the brilliant young agent who grew up idolizing him—only to discover their enemy may be watching them, too.
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Founder
Johnny Olvera.
The Producer’s Director.
Goldwood Cinema was founded by writer-director Johnny Olvera to develop original intellectual property with the ambition of a filmmaker and the production awareness of someone who understands how the work is made.
More than 30 years as a SAG-AFTRA actor and 12 years in script supervision shaped a philosophy that treats performance, visual language, logistics and editorial consequences as parts of the same creative system.
That philosophy was tested in THE WARREN and now informs how Goldwood develops every property: build the story, understand the production, study the market and engage the right partners.
30+ YearsSAG-AFTRA Actor
12 YearsScript Supervision
Writer-DirectorTHE WARREN
FounderGoldwood Cinema
Creative Vision. Production Discipline.
Partnerships
The right property. The right partner. A clear path forward.
Goldwood Cinema welcomes conversations with producers, financiers, representatives, talent, distributors and creative partners regarding original feature films, premium television, interactive cinema, development, packaging and production.
Goldwood CinemaCreative Vision. Production Discipline.