NRCA member Rudy Gutierrez, president and CEO of SHELL Roofing Solutions Group, Chino, Calif., recently celebrated the premiere of the movie "FOUND," a film he helped to finance; Gutierrez served as executive producer.
The film recently premiered at Raleigh Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles and has been accepted to the Pasadena International Film Festival, which will be held in March. Gutierrez has worked on the film for two years. His primary role was to finance the film, and he also helped manage the cost of the film.
"The film is about a journey of self-discovery through light and darkness," Gutierrez says. "A young man on his 26th birthday is driving through the desert lost in his thoughts and ends up getting physically lost in Death Valley, Calif. During his journey and a series of events, he ends up finding himself."
Gutierrez has worked in the film industry and was asked to read the script for "FOUND."
"Once I read the script, I was moved and told Vinny Macias, the film's writer and director, that this movie must be made," Gutierrez says. "I have a background in the entertainment industry, working in set construction many years ago. I owned a pre-production company and worked on projects such as 'Apollo 13,' 'U.S. Marshals,' 'Hook,' 'Total Recall,' 'JFK' and 'Titanic.' Based on my experience, Robert Herrera, the producer, and Vinny asked me to be the executive producer and investor in the film."
Gutierrez says the realistic characters in the film's script called to him.
"Vinny Macias wrote an exceptional script that brought the characters to life," he says. "The characters in the script seem real—when we see them on the screen, they appear to be people we know and circumstances with which we all are familiar."
Gutierrez says the film has been submitted to film festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada.
"We are looking forward to this journey and hope to sell the project," he says.
Click here to view the trailer for "FOUND."
