Introduction

Industry: Film&TV Production/Distribution 

Business Scope: scripts, production, music, canadian distribution 

Veni Vici Entertainment is a new company run by dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, Andy Halmay. The company was awarded a license from Canada’s CRTC for a digital cable channel, The Global Village Theatre Channel. Halmay's plan was to launch in both Canada and the U.S. but when a sufficient number of cable operators did not pick up the channel in the U.S., Halmay let the Canadin license expire with plans to later launch the channel on the web. While Veni Vici has no track record, Halmay goes back over 30 years as a multi-award winning writer-director-producer in radio-TV-Films and lyricist, composer, records producer with over 40 releases on all major record labels. Veni Vici Entertainment is presently developing films for international co-production with a formula called “Holly-Bolly Films” that uses stories about people from different cultures with action that takes place in different countries and a multi-cultural, multi-racial cast. Presently, three such films are in development targeting Asian countries – “Meng Ma & the Magic Brush” an animation feature about a young boy from a little village near the Great Wall of China who loses his family in the Taiping Rebellion and then travels the entire world in search of a magic brush. Along his adventures, he happens to be on the scene when famous people are born: Sun Yat Sen, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Pablo Picasso, Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, etc. Three live action features also involve Asian stories and characters: “The Horror of Surpanaka,” about three American college girls who visit India and encounter the monstrous woman from ancient Indian mythology who kills young men with poisonous lactic spray from her seductive breast; an action-adventure titled “The Dragon Dancer Vigilantes,” in which an African baby adopted by a Japanese trader and his Chinese wife is brought up with their natural daughter as brother and sister. The youngsters become world class exhibition dancers and karate champions. After the parents are killed by the Yakuza, the mixed-race siblings travel the world as dancers but in the dark of night as the Dragon Dancer Vigilantes, they execute all links to the assassins. To round out this quartet, there is a riotous comedy, “Beats Viagra,” in which a low brow American hustler teams with an Indian professor in an attempt to develop a chain of sex education schools.