Citizen 007 Media is a start-up collaborative outlet for news, film and entertainment-related projects.

Citizen Media Films

Conceptualizing, directing, funding, and producing media intended to spur social change, with over two decades of projects spanning documentary and narrative film, television, and short form participatory digital entertainment.

A Mouthful of Air (2021)

Brought to you buy executive producer James Ferrari. A feature film written and directed by Amy Koppelman and starring Amanda Seyfried, Britt Robertson, Jennifer Carpenter, Finn Wittrock, and Paul Giamatti, among others. The film features an author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.

Returning to earth (2024)

An upcoming family drama short film directed by Tim Hunter and set in the Montana wilderness. “Returning to Earth” follows a grieving father who meets his estranged daughter on a ranch in Montana, where she challenges him to confront a life of questionable choices.

MALADJUSTED (2024)

Had a great time working with the gifted Cameron Bossert of New York’s own Thirdwing on the hilarious short film “Maladjusted.” Always a privilege to work with such talented people, be it on stage or in front of the camera.

A brief synopsis:

“A homeowner’s big mistake renders her insurance claim un-filable. But when a hurricane suddenly threatens to hit land and FEMA takes all the nearby hotels, she allows her insurance agents to stay at the house (giving them a head start on ‘catastrophe deployment’) if they can find a way to help her.”

One Day Peace (2006)

A musical collaboration in the name of international peace. Featuring Swizz Beatz, John Legend, Flowetry, Eve, Cassidy, Fabulous, and James Ferrari.

After the Fall (2023)

“After the Fall” (Working title) is a documentary currently focused largely on the trauma associated within and around COVID-19 and 9/11. While not inherently related, these two events have inextricably altered human discourse forever. James Ferrari and Citizen 007 Media have found the dialogue between these two places in history to be to be incredibly insightful and wish to bring this relationship to a broader audience.

The project is a summation of both actively gathered and archival footage. In October of 2001, crew members gathered first hand testimony of trauma affecting various individuals in and around downtown Manhattan. Ferrari is bringing renewed interest to this archival footage, wishing to contemporize these valuable accounts with a new set of insights from the participants, a full 19 years later. The intersection between COVID-19 and 9/11 is a deep well of potential insight into not only individual trauma, but a whole nation of individuals under emotional siege.

UNTITLED REBECCA GROMPERTS FILM (2023)

A film based on Rebecca Gromperts, a dutch doctor who founded an overseas abortion clinic for those with no legal alternative. This project is written by Olivia Hetreed, and produced with Maven Pictures and Citizen 007 Media. This film is slated for production in 2024.

HUMMINGBIRDS (2023)

Winner of the Generation Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

In Laredo, a city in southern Texas on the Mexican border, best friends Silvia and Beba know that the long summer nights of their youth cannot last forever. Their hang-out spots are so familiar but, stuck in an immigration process over which deportation hangs as a constant possibility, home still seems a fragile concept. Between bars, drive-thrus, friends’ couches and the borderlands, they confront the stresses of survival, the future, and community building. For them, this means protest action for legal abortion and against border control abuses, in a politically divided America. But the dusty half-light is also a time for poetry and dreams. Their laughter and creative expression cement a sense of solidarity and belonging in togetherness.

Kettle of Fish (2006)

Feature film directed by Claudia Myers and co-produced by James Ferrari, Produced by Michael Mailer. starring Matthew Modine, Isiah Whitlock Jr., and Gina Gershon, and debuted at the 2006 TriBeCa International Film Festival. A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy are on hand to provide perspective.

Denny Moe’s “The Word” (2007)

Spoken word and poetry reading - Denny Moe's Superstar Barbershop in Harlem, New York. Shot, Directed and Produced by James B. Ferrari and James Ferrari Media.

Short film written and directed by Michael Doyle and produced by James Ferrari, starring Amy Ryan, George Morfogen, Alex Roderick, Austin Valentine and debuted at 2006 TriBeCa International Film Festival. An elderly obsessive-compulsive hoarder sits contemplatively on a stretch of sand underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. Along comes a boy whose face bears the telltale signs of physical abuse, immersing the man into memories of his own childhood when he suffered abuse as well.

SHINER (2006)

Peter Beard Documentary (2023)

Peter Hill Beard was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrated his photographs, have been widely shown and published since the 1960s. James has compiled videos of Peter and his collaborative friendship.

HARRY BELAFONTE: The Dream Revisited (2022)

An excerpt from Harry Belafonte: The Dream Revisited, where Harry talks about the last thing Martin Luther King said to him before his passing. This film is ...An upcoming documentary that explores Harry Belafonte’s commitment to Civil Rights, Political Activism, and Democracy throughout his lifetime, where he has always been in the rhythm of current the happenings.

LoveLite (2023)

The inaugural collaboration for Tribal Truth is a controlled lighting installation on an open field that features a 60’ steel tower and celebrates the spirit of a global village.

The work evolved from Richmond Burton’s and James Ferrari’s ideas about utilizing an overgrown and partially destroyed steel tower located on Ferrari’s property in Bellport, New York. The tower had been previously constructed in a grid form, and Burton’s primary compositional tool is often a grid. In Lovelite, the artists expanded the grid element into the notion of meridian lines on a map, and suddenly the meridian lines extend off the tower and into the 130 by the 70-foot field at the tower’s base. The artists used colored rope lights and controlled theatrical lighting to realize vibrant intersecting lines that surround and consume the artists and viewer.

From close-up, the viewer is interactively involved with the movement of the majestic light-layered grid. From a further perspective, the individual is invited to assume a macrocosmic perspective as they can view the component parts working together in a delicate, interrelated balance between the planet and our influence over it, as portrayed by ever-moving lines of colored lights in concert with original music James Ferrari recorded which is sung by orphans and vulnerable children when traveling in the Ugandan Rain forest while trekking mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Forest in 2004

An Interview with Malcom Morley (2007)

Malcolm A. Morley (June 7, 1931 – June 1, 2018) was a British-American artist and painter. He was known as an artist who pioneered in varying styles, working as a photorealist and an expressionist, among many other styles. As a teenager, Morley was sentenced to three years at Wormwood Scrubs prison for housebreaking and petty theft. While there, he read Irving Stone’s novel Lust for Life, based on the life of Vincent van Gogh, and enrolled in an art correspondence course.

The Anchor (2023)

A feature film in development which centers around a television anchor from a third tier station who gets released from captivity from a militant branch of Radical Islamic Fundamentalists while on assignment in the Middle East. The anchor hijacks the airwaves to espouse the Arab world's view on US foreign policy and how it is shaping popular opinion abroad and the epiphany of “eminent domain and the greater good” times well with a new sense of purpose in his life.

Samuel BecketT (2005)

We held a gala on my terrace located at 21 Chelsea in New York, NY. We celebrated Samuel Beckett's 100th Anniversary with a reading from Patrick McMullan's "Kiss Kiss" book launch party.