It’s GOSCH, By Gosh!!
Think its only companies like 20th Century, NBC, Paramount, etc, steeped in production work here in Hollywood Land? Well think again! There are lots of small production companies up to their movie projector switches in work, and one of the best is GOSCH PRODUCTIONS, hiding behind a little blue door in Burbank.
It is a complete production and post production co. started by Pat Gosch and her husband 21 years ago, and at the ripe old age of 68, Pat is busier than ever. They’ve directed, written, video taped, filmed and edited over four hundred films, commercials and videos. And, by gosh, we now have a clip from their pilot production, LITTLE DREAM FACTORY, in our ‘Films By Others’ section under “Films By You” on the In the Trenches Productions Website! I can only hope that they are able to get this pilot seen, as I think it would make a really fun show. Directed by Bob Basso, it follows the ins & outs and daily stories of a little indy film company…found behind a little blue door. Featuring actors like Jamie Lee Curtis and G.W. Baily of The Closer, it could give people an interesting behind the doors look at how indy companies survive here in La La Land.
Pat Gosch told me the amusing story of GOSCH PRODUCTIONS’ birth the other day, and it fits right into the subject of indy-ville. She said that she and her husband, after writing, acting and directing in Boston, New York and here in the early 80s, became involved in a group of actors, directors, writers and would-be film makers, who met daily from 6 to 8 in the morning before going to their jobs, in hopes of coming up with projects. Well guess what? The fork ran away with the spoon! i.e. the leader of said group ran off with everyone’s money! So she and her husband, left broke and disallusioned, with only a car full of old film equipment left, ended up turning crap into crepes! They went ahead and shot a pilot that turned into gold…Kiddie’s Castle, with an 8yr old Stacy Ferguson (Fergie) in it (she was recently ranked #35 on the Maxim Magazine ‘Hot 100′ list this year), and GOSCH PRODUCTIONS was on its way to being born.
Testimonials abound: for the 7th year in a row they have shot spots for Children Affected by AIDS, with Pat as a director…and Jaimie Lee Curtis says no one lights her like the Gosches, Blair Underwood (Eclectic Entertainment) praises their technically sound but creative atmosphere, and the cheers pile up.
How could Pat have known on what was possibly the worst day of her life up to then in 1982, at the age of 42, what would grow from the ashes of her dissapointment? May all of us stick-to-it ladies be rewarded in such a fashion.
Judith remember-we-can-do-it-no-matter-what-ladies Drake, Blogger for In the Trenches Productions, The First Entertainment Website Celebrating the Power and Beauty of Women Over 40
