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Southern Gothic Productions - a film production company based in Wilmington, North Carolina - is run by Hilarie Burton and Kelly Tenney.

Still in its infancy, "SoGoPro" is dedicated to telling moving clever stories, while utilizing all of the assets that the [North Carolina film community] has to offer. The ultimate goal is to create and efficiently complete quality independent projects - the first of which is new-age romantic comedy "Pedestrian."

Background
Wilmington, North Carolina is known as the key location of filming for the hit TV show Dawson’s Creek, and the current hit show One Tree Hill. In 2007, an actress from the current hit series, Hilarie Burton, decided to further her career in the movie production business and create Southern Gothic Productions. "Gary [Wheeler, director of "The List"] inspired me to start my own production company down here in Wilmington, which we call Southern Gothic". Burton chose to station her company in Wilmington to help bring jobs to the many local film and television production crews that have made their homes in North Carolina.

Hilarie Burton is a 27 year-old actress who started out at MTV’s Total Request Live back in 2000, and was cast to play 17 year-old Peyton Sawyer on One Tree Hill in 2003. A chance meeting with an aspiring screenwriter (Nicholas Gray) led Hilarie Burton to the screenplay that would inspire her to create Southern Gothic Productions with One Tree Hill associate producer Kelly Tenney. Nicholas Gray's 'Pedestrian' is currently in pre-production.

“’SGP’ is a company dedicated to the creation of touching, relevant projects celebrating the influence of Southern Culture,” which was written by a Southern Gothic team member on their prototype website. Their official website should be showing up in a few weeks once everything gets under control and runs smoothly.

Current Productions
The company’s upcoming movie “Pedestrian” is a Modern Romantic Comedy about a young, witty photographer named Lincoln Booth who finds out he has cancer. During his struggle to find himself, he meets a young and beautiful brunette by the name of Mona Mills. After a few chance encounters, without the knowledge of his condition, Mona is asked to accompany Lincoln back to his hometown of North Carolina. Along the way, Mona finds out the truth about Booth, and has to ponder on whether or not she can trust him, and heads back to New York forcing the North Carolina native to face his dilemma alone. "Touching and relevant, ‘Pedestrian’ reminds us that we all have what it takes to be more than just a nameless face in the crowd,” says writer Nick Gray, who is the screenwriter of the film.

Austin Nichols was cast as Lincoln Booth in early February of this year by the SGP team and fans were ecstatic. Nichols's filmography includes the films Glory Road, The Day After Tomorrow, and TV shows, John from Cincinnati, and One Tree Hill, in which he played a past love interest of Hilarie Burton’s character 'Peyton Sawyer'. Nichols's gallant performances and real ways of life are what landed him the role. The company has yet to cast the rest of the characters in the film, but they will be casted very soon. “Pedestrian” will be Southern Gothic Production’s first feature length film. The minds of Hilarie, Kelly and the rest of the team make fans thrive to be a part of the company.

Mona Mills is yet to be casted.

The Infamous Blog
The Southern Gothic blog that Hilarie created back in January of this year only had about 10 followers the first week. She would post a few lines or words every few days and slowly but surely, more and more people would show up. Whether it’s just to see Hilarie - or legitimately be part of the company - fans and businesses around the world stop by. The blog is just one part of several that have helped this company achieve lift-off, and their first film hasn’t even finished casting yet. At the beginning of March, the blog site had received 500 followers, which is a lot for not even two months of website hosting. New companies rarely do this well, fan base wise, this early in the game. In all honesty, this company has really only been around publicaly for about 2 months, even though Hilarie Burton started talking about in 2007. As of right now, SGP has a solid fan-base. Typically, production companies that DO have high fan bases are already well known with years of experience and several distributed films. Southern Gothic Productions is just starting their journey and off to a great start!

T-Shirt Distribution
In a creative and unique approach to getting the word out and showing appreciation towards Southern Gothic Productions, on April 10th 2009 the company decided to sell t-shirts to raise funds for Pedestrian. The whole SGP team made them and personally folded, tied, packaged, and mailed each t-shirt sold. The first 1000 t-shirts sold were all personally signed by Hilarie Burton. Once receieving the package with the t-shirt a thank-you note was also included that had quotes, and an autograph. Hilarie, Kelly and James are currently processing t-shirts to get them out to everyone who ordered.

Friends and Crew

 * Hilarie Burton
 * Kelly Tenney
 * Austin Nichols
 * Bibis
 * Nick Gray
 * Eddie Jones