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Garrett Patten

Garrett Patten

Actor, director, and producer; founder of TBK Productions (2016), involved in ~15 independent films including "Bandit," "Self Custody" (with Adrian Grenier), and his festival-winning directorial debut "The Iron Door."

Oct 16, 2026

8:14
Jeez.
8:14
And I remember at the same time the company was potentially, the Caterpillar distributor, was being sold.
8:22
And so I had a decision to make.
8:23
Do I, do I go back and, you know, put my best foot into the dealership and see if, if I could acquire the shares and, and run the organization, or do I go down the path of NBC? I ch- I, I knew that I'd always regret it if I didn't go back to the business.
8:36
And obviously once I got back to the Caterpillar distributor...
8:39
First off, when it...
8:40
When you say family business, yes, it's a private, private organization.

45 MINS LATER

53:45
Yep.
27:11
Right
27:11
...
27:12
I, I learned a ton.
27:15
I, you know, I was a, I was a sponge on the set.
27:17
Not only was I producing it and setting everything up, but I, I, I was just trying to really absorb.
27:22
It was a decent-sized set.
27:24
It wa- you know, it's a good-sized budget.
28:14
Wow.
0:36
So could you start off by just telling us a little bit about yourself, about some of the projects that you work with in the past, and especially in terms of the funding and the distribution aspect, but also which ones you might have directed and so on?
0:49
Yeah, yeah, I mean, well, there's a lot in that question.
0:52
Yeah, I think I've roughly been involved now with about 15 films.
1:00
I've directed a handful.
1:02
I've acted in films.
1:03
I've produced a bunch.
1:04
I've EP'd films.
4:11
But aside from that, have you figured out any other kind of, you know, metrics or key points that a film needs to have in order to be considered marketable in your mind?

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