Stunt3 Multimedia hires 6, plans to hire more

Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Source: metromode

Stunt3 Multimedia might be working on a film about the little leagues, but it's starting to line up some big league hits.

The downtown Detroit-based start-up is finishing a promising documentary about Little League Baseball and is getting ready to take on an even larger project about it this year. All of this work has allowed the company, which works out of the Ford Building, to hire six people, bring on an intern, and give work to two independent contractors. The company hopes to double or even triple its employee staff of seven people within the next two years.

Brian Kruger started the company a year and a half ago after he sustained a profitable exit from another company he started in 2002. Stunt3 Multimedia focuses on motion picture production, film restoration, and online media software.

The company has spent the last eight months working on The Girl in Centerfield, a full-length documentary about Carol King and how she became the first girl to play Little League Baseball in 1973. It is looking at either taking the film through the festival circuit or selling it to a premium cable TV channel, such as HBO.

"We're planning for a June 1st release date," says Kruger, who serves at Stunt3 Multimedia's president and CEO. "It's 90 percent done."

The company is also planning to film a series of 5-10 minute vignettes about famous Little League players for ESPN this summer. The series would focus on people who might be legends in the Little League world but didn't necessarily latch on to professional sports.

Stunt3 Multimedia is also trying to bring film restoration (both traditional and digital film) work to Detroit. The industry, which is mainly based in India at present, could lead to 100-200 new jobs at the company if it can pull off its plans to make that happen.

Source: Brian Kruger, president and CEO of Stunt3 Multimedia
Writer: Jon Zemke