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Whitestone Motion Pictures is a boutique film company based just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Whitestone pursues excellence in storytelling in film, while utilizing cutting edge technology with fiercely talented people.

History
Whitestone was founded in 2004 by Brandon McCormick who was then working as 12Stone Church’s resident filmmaker. In 2006 Whitestone made a short film called Smiling Addiction, featuring a song by composer/songwriter Nicholas Kirk and songwriter Billy Wilkerson, written specifically for the film. The short gained popularity online and became the launching pad for Whitestone’s future work. In 2007 and 2008 the company made several films including Alabaster, Off the Shelf, Consumerism: The Musical!, Watchmaker’s Son, Awake O’Sleeper, Wind, and an award winning musical short, That’s Magic!. Each of these films won awards, Watchmaker’s Son was sought out by the Heartland Film Festival and awarded a Crystal Heart Award. Whitestone approached Atlanta based PASTE Magazine to make a film for their Save PASTE campaign in 2009. The result was a civil war short called Lest We Forget. In the following year, Whitestone released Heartless: The Story of the Tinman, based on the back story of L. Frank Baum’s Tinman from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Heartless gain much momentum online and was featured on prominent filmmaking websites, as well as a spotlight in USA Today’s pop culture blog. Before moving to its next big project, Whitestone made a short suspense film called Fear Itself, an homage to Alfred Hitchcock, employing many of his filmmaking and storytelling techniques. In 2010 Whitestone released The Candy Shop, a fairytale about the sexual exploitation of children, as the spearhead of a movement in Atlanta to stop the sex trafficking of minors. The film stars Doug Jones (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy II) as the owner of a candy shop that turns little girls into candy for its patrons. Its November 8th premiere was held at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in the heart of downtown Atlanta. As Atlanta is known as a hub for child sex trafficking, with the partnership of a local organization called StreetGRACE, the website StoptheCandyShop.com was created to bring a halt to the epidemic. The film received much critical acclaim as it made it’s way through the film festival circuit.

Whitestone has been working on a feature film for two years. They are in the last stages of development for the project. While they have been approached by many larger studios in Hollywood, their course as an independent film company ensures that they will keep creative control and autonomy moving forward.