Lions of Light Media

As the new production company of Writer/Director Geoff Cunningham, we only produce media he has written. Focusing on the production of the library, Lions Light Media can produce 1-2 films a year for the next decade. Challenging conventional thinking, we seek aligned artists and investors to collaborate on inspiring audiences through visionary character-driven films. Our goal is to produce great entertaining films that heal at scale.

Appropriate accredited angel investors and VCs are welcome to contact us for an initial interview. This new private venture offers impactful rewards beyond an Alpha ROI to our equity investors. Eventually, with good fortune, the business plan calls for an IPO in a few years.

Focusing artist talent into impactful stories on contemporary social issues, we carve a new path in the ever-changing media markets. Many movie stars will choose to collaborate with our conscious, character-driven artist brand not only because they want to compete for Oscars, but also because they feel the call to help heal the wounded world.

It’s time for us to shine our light.

BIO

On 1/1/2025, CEO and award-winning filmmaker Geoff Cunningham ended a 10 year conscious poverty pledge of listening, traveling, meditating and writing. This unusual monkish path taught many insights that developed into a flurry of Oscar-competitive scripts that tackle challenging subjects such as homelessness, mindless money, personal growth and other controversial topics..

Geoff is the eldest child of the founders of an alternative community, Shannon Farm, which some categorized as a 1970's hippie commune. Raised by Sixties visionaries blessed with double Ivy degrees, Geoff felt the gentle tug to improve the world from a very young age. After attending the University of Virginia, Geoff commenced with honors in Politics from Oberlin College.. He moved to San Francisco and became the newsletter editor for the universal health care ballot proposition ballot in CA. While mastering database programming in the Silcon Valley, he wrote his first screenplay, "Flower Child." Two years later, he moved to Los Angeles and finished his second screenplay. Six months later, he completed his first feature film “Rocky Road,” which examined contemporary prejudice and racism from the perspective of a black female, first generation West Indian American dating a white man. As fate would have it, “Rocky Road” opened in NYC theaters right after the World Trade Center bombings, leading to many life lessons, none of which was an immediate financial bonanza.

Processing the pain of the commercial failure of a his first film - his first Oscar swing - Geoff pursued other endeavors, such as using his coding skills to support Obamacare implementation and serving on the Board of Health Care For All - CA. He returned to his entrepreneurial roots in tech and worked on friends' documentaries on the side. Figuring writers write and directors shoot, he chose not to sell his growing pile of screenplays.

Ten years ago, he felt stuck and left corporate coding. Lacking dependents, he embodied the poverty pledge, inexpensively traveling the world and delving deeply into yoga and meditation. He founded two non-profits, one focused on homelessness and the other on health care reform.

Now is the time to set an example. Recharged with the gifts of the pledge and a script library, Geoff implements his lean new business plan with aligned partners.

Interests: positive psychology, personal growth, wellness, meditation, yoga, nutrition, peak performance, dance, public policy (health care reform, homelessness, housing, and Keynesian stimuli), basketball (coached a high school team), football, bridge, chess, strategy games (Settlers of Catan and all variations) and travel.

Producers

We are currently interviewing experienced producers. If you've produced theatrical films, aligned with our values and are looking for a fun job that will improve the world, let's talk.

Geoff Cunningham

Writer/director/Producer