SIXTH SENSE
Productions
ABOUT
Our Mission
At Sixth Sense Productions, we believe that a compelling story can truly make a difference in how one sees the world. Whatever the form of media, we strive to tell meaningful, entertaining stories suited for the mainstream market that, at the same time, create awareness of the real issues that shape our lives.
Founded in 2004, Sixth Sense Productions works to bring stories from development to production and has successfully raised equity funding domestically and internationally for the production and financing of quality projects. We pride ourselves on the value we put into our relationships with our investors and co-production partners.
The company’s first big venture was playing a key role in financing the 2005 Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated film, Hotel Rwanda. Our most acclaimed accomplishment to date is producing The First Grader, released in theaters internationally in May 2011.
RICHARD HARDING
PRESIDENT & CEO
Richard founded Sixth Sense Productions in 2004 and has worked in the film industry for over fifteen years. He studied film at UCLA and has worked with companies such as BBC Films, Kennedy/Marshall (Jurassic Park, E.T., Indiana Jones), Silver Lion Films (Crocodile Dundee, Death Wish) and Samuel Goldwyn Films (The Preacher’s Wife).
Richard’s goal is to create a multifaceted and integrated company that brings the most original, innovative and captivating stories of our time to the big screen. As the company’s CEO, his philosophy is to create feature films that are of the highest caliber, have significant mainstream appeal and great commercial potential, while also maintaining an extraordinary level of critical excellence.
Richard is also President and Chairman of Life Learning Leadership, a non-profit organization that helps raise life-saving bed nets for African families to end the spread of malaria, the deadliest disease for children in Africa.
FILM PROJECTS
Everything But a Man
Logline
Comedic, dramatic and sexual tensions collide when a man and a woman from two different worlds meet, fall in love, and then discover they have totally opposite beliefs and ideas about life, love and what it takes to be happy.
Writer / Director
Nnegest Likké
Cast
Monica Calhoun, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Camille Winbush
Producers
Richard Harding, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Nnegest Likké, Steven J. Wolfe
Awards
Best Film Nominee (ABFF); Best Feature (Houston); Foreign Language Film (Houston)
The First Grader
Logline
In a remote Kenyan primary school, a Mau Mau veteran in his 80s knocks on the door, desperate to learn to read. A powerful true story of the fight for education.
Writer / Director
Ann Peacock / Justin Chadwick
Cast
Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Oliver Litondo
Producers
Richard Harding, Sam Feuer, David M. Thompson
Awards
Best Film (Palm Beach), People’s Choice Runner-Up (Toronto), Audience Choice (Doha)
Benghazi Six
Action Thriller
Logline
The thrilling true story of six Bulgarian medics falsely charged and imprisoned for orchestrating an outbreak in Libya. A battle for justice against an infamous autocracy.
Producer
Richard Harding
Partners
TBD
In Pre-Production
Tethered
Oasis
Logline
Kenyan runner Henry Wanyoike defies the odds to become a world-class Paralympian.
Logline
One man’s journey through the trials of the Lençóis Maranhenses, fighting the elements.
Director
Ekwa Msangi
Status
Writer
In Development
Director/writer
Mess Santos
Status
In Development
Wanjiru Kairu
LET'S CREATE
Inquiries
studio@sixthsense.com
Presence
Los Angeles / New York