Chapter 1 Media is a literary production company based in Santa Monica, dedicated to turning remarkable written worlds into film, television, and premium narrative projects.

Our focus is on voices and lives that don’t fit neatly into pre-sold franchises: the quirky exuberance of Edward D. Wood Jr., the intimate, upstairs-downstairs vantage point of Lillian Rogers Parks and her three decades in the White House, and the strange, human corners of history and culture that deserve another telling.

Chapter 1 Media acquires and develops underlying rights—books, life rights, estates, and overlooked cult classics—and shapes them into industry-ready packages: treatments, bibles, pilots, and series decks designed for studios, streamers, and producing partners. We think like novelists and structure like showrunners, aiming for work that is both commercially viable and literate, equal parts character and concept.

At heart, we’re in the business of beginnings: finding the first page of the next story worth betting on, and building the creative and practical bridge from the written word to the screen.