Franchesca Lantz

Producer, Ardvella Entertainment
Formats Interested In
TV
Features
Manuscripts
Intellectual Property (IP) for Film/TV Development
Particularly Interested In

Thrillers, horrors, dramas and comedies that can be shot for under $2m, and $10m+ films that can attract A-list talent.

Women Writers
Writers of Color
LGBTQIA+ Writers
Writers Over 40
Writers with Disabilities
Neurodivergent Writers
Writers Outside LA
Authors (Fiction)
Authors (Non-Fiction)
Feature Genres
Drama
Comedy
RomCom
Sci-Fi
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Thriller
Horror
Budget Range
All Budget Ranges
TV Formats
Half-Hour Pilots (single-cam)
Half-Hour Pilots (multi-cam)
One-Hour Pilots
Miniseries
Limited Series
TV Movies
TV Homes
Network
Cable
Premium Cable
Streaming
TV Genres
Drama
Comedy
RomCom
Sci-Fi
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Thriller
Horror
Book Genres
Action
Adventure
Apocalyptic
Autobiographies
Biographies
Book Series
Buddy
Comedy
Comic Books
Coming-of-Age
Cookbooks
Crime
Detective
Drama
Dystopian
Faith-Based/Faith-Friendly
Family-Friendly
Fantasy
Female-Driven
Futuristic
High-Concept
Historical
Historical Fiction
Holiday
Horror
Inspirational
Kids/Children
LGBTQIA+
Literary Fiction
Magic
Middle-Grade Fiction
Mystery
Non-Fiction
Paranormal
Period Piece
Personal Growth
Post-Apocalyptic
Psychological
Revenge
Road Trip
Romance
Sci-Fi
Short Stories
Socially Relevant
Sports
Supernatural
Suspense
Thriller
True Crime
True Stories
Women's Fiction
Young Adult (YA) / Teen
Sub-Genres
Biopic
Book Adaptation
Buddy
Coming-of-Age
Crime/True Crime
Dark Comedy
Documentary Adaptation
Dystopian
Episodic TV
Faith-Based/Faith-Friendly
Family-Friendly
Female-Driven
Futuristic
Ghosts
Hallmark
High-Concept
Historical
Holiday
Inspirational
Irreverent
Kids/Children
LGBTQIA+
Lifetime
Mockumentary
Musical
Mystery
Period Piece
Post-Apocalyptic
Psychological
Revenge
Romance
Satire
Socially Relevant
Space
Spiritual
Spoof
Sports
Superhero
Supernatural
Suspense
True Story
Workplace
Young Adult (YA)
Specifically Not Interested In

Animation, shorts, unscripted.

More about Franchesca Lantz

Franchesca Lantz is a producer, EP and development executive with over 15 years experience in the industry. Based in Los Angeles, CA, Franchesca has focused the majority of her career on feature and scripted TV. She also has background in entertainment marketing, business, and creative advertising, which she uses to help shape her stories.

In 2018, Franchesca was recruited to head up development at a new production and financier company where she was the executive in charge of bringing in new IP and projects, developing projects from IP, reshaping projects, and ideating new film and TV projects. She follows these projects through to production as a producer and through post-production. In the company’s first two years they released ARKANSAS, starring Liam Hemsworth, Vince Vaughn, and John Malkovich, WANDER, starring Aaron Eckhart and Tommy Lee Jones, and THE COMEBACK TRAIL, starring Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, and Zach Braff.

Previously, Franchesca was named Vice President, Marketing & Development for a newly formed production company in Los Angeles. Here, she completed its first film in 2014 entitled CAKE, starring Jennifer Aniston and Anna Kendrick. Cake earned nominations from Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, and Critics Choice in 2015, as well as bringing awareness to the issue of chronic pain. They went on to produce numerous projects including, MR. CHURCH, starring Eddie Murphy, BURN YOUR MAPS, starring Vera Farmiga, THE COMEDIAN, starring Robert De Niro and Leslie Mann, and THE YELLOW BIRDS, starring Alden Ehrenreich and Jennifer Aniston.

Earlier in her career, Franchesca was named Vice President at one of the largest horror brands in the world. With her incredible team, she acquired completed horror projects, developed and produced new horror projects, and branded annual slates of original content turning it into a global brand called Horrorfest. Later on her company added action films to their content and expanded the brand to include Actionfest.

Franchesca was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Louisiana State University in 2005, and furthered her education to receive a Film degree in 2007.

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