ABOUT US
Torchlight Productions, based in Los Angeles, CA and with offices in Portland, Oregon and Valencia, Spain, is a team of international, multi-lingual professionals in investment and finance and award-winning creatives who have been behind some of the most successful movies, series, TV specials, documentaries and albums in recent decades. Torchlight Productions is always ahead of the curve in technology and imagination when it comes to telling a story that will entertain, inform and inspire audiences and investors to dream on.
President/CEO, Torchlight Productions
Torchlight Productions’ story starts with Producer/Executive Producer Kurt Fethke. Kurt began his career in the industry over thirty years ago as a student at UCLA before going on to write, direct, produce, and executive produce dozens of projects for different media. His experience includes documentaries, international feature films, music videos, live concerts, and television specials. One notable event was Fusion 2007: a groundbreaking two-day concert to celebrate the Chinese New Year – Year of the Pig, in collaboration with the Government of the People’s Republic of China, MC’d by Jackie Chan and featuring Kanye West, Gnarls Barkley, and Lupe Fiasco, among others. Fusion 2007 rang in the Chinese New Year onstage in Las Vegas for over 220 million Hunan TV viewers and marked a turning point in mass media and global entertainment production.
Throughout his career, Kurt has helped finance and produce hundreds of hours of film and television involving A-list actors from all over the world. He has also provided digital intermediate and other post-production services to a long list of successful producers in the entertainment industry. Kurt’s most recent projects include “Bandit” (2022) starring Mel Gibson and Josh Duhamel and the upcoming features “Cult Killer” starring Antonio Banderas and Alice Eve, “The Fog of War” starring John Cusack, Jake Abel, Brianna Hildebrand, and Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino, “Mort in Sherman Oaks” featuring Lucy Hale, Monica Potter, and Francesca Eastwood, and “Nowhere Men” starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, and Jack Quaid.
MISSION
Lux in tenebris lucet
In the darkness, light
There are no longer any limits to the audience that can be reached with audiovisual content, and Torchlight Productions aspires to be the beacon of light to follow as we implement the newest and most disruptive technology and business models to maximize creative returns for a growing public worldwide and maximize financial returns for our stakeholders.
Moving forward, in this next phase of growth, we will be focusing on investing major human and financial resources to bring current and future global entertainment projects to fruition. From software development to content creation and partnerships with the boldest innovators in financing, production, post-production, and distribution, Torchlight is on a mission to redefine and capitalize on the exciting and ever-evolving entertainment industry in its multiple iterations, whether our associates are located across the street or across the sea.
Like everything else in life, success relies on balance, and Torchlight Productions pivots on a point of perfect equilibrium between financial innovation and strategy and creative vision. Our team believes that “the art of the deal is just as important as the art itself”, and we adhere to a firm set of core values that allows us to bring projects into the light that are 100% solvent in a financial, but also an ethical and creative, sense. That is how we got where we are, and it is the way we will continue to produce exceptional global entertainment content that is extremely lucrative for Torchlight Productions as well as for all of our partners and investors.
Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas
The Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, contains an exceptional assemblage of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago. It takes its name (Cave of the Hands) from the stencilled outlines of human hands in the cave, but there are also many depictions of animals, such as guanacos (Lama guanicoe ), still commonly found in the region, as well as hunting scenes. The people responsible for the paintings may have been the ancestors of the historic hunter-gatherer communities of Patagonia found by European settlers in the 19th century.
The Cueva de las Manos is one of the oldest existing pieces of art known to humanity and was the original inspiration for the name “Torchlight Productions”.