Steve Carlis involvement in fine film making

Over almost a decade, Shooting Gallery has created a reliable base of nearly 900 private investors. Steve Carlis recounts that “in the beginning, it was the usual [money] was from friends and relatives.” After Sling Blade, people from Wall Street began directing their attention towards the company.  Sling Blade was a big hit in 1996; it is a Southern gothic tale about a mentally disabled man named Karl Childers who was released from an asylum after having murdered his own mother and her lover. He is forced to begin a new life in the Southern town where he grew up and soon lands a job. Thereafter, he forms a friendship with a young boy named Frank and his widowed mother. When he discovers the mother’s abusive boyfriend, he devises a plan to save Frank from years of abuse.

Sling Blade has also received significantly positive reviews from some of the most widely known news sites. Dallas Observer stated: “Sling Blade is perhaps the year's most impressive debut because it is an uncompromisingly told tale with a minimum of frills.” Baltimore Sun says the film “builds slowly but passionately, not dancing to some Hollywood tune, but finding its characters where they are and letting them be who they are.” Another widely known news source, Washington Post, portrays it like this: “Like the eloquent, darkly funny dialogue, the film's characters, setting and cadences draw us into its world, with all its terrors and tenderness. What emerges is a masterpiece of Southern storytelling that draws a sharp line between good and evil.”

Another one of his highly successful productions, You Can Count on Me, a 2000 American drama film which tells the story of a single working mother who reunites with her brother after being separated for a long period of time. It is a tender film which has received many notable commentaries from some of the best known news sites. The New York Times described the film as “a melancholy little gem of a movie.” Entertainment Weekly describes it as “beautiful, compassionate, articulate domestic drama. Rolling Stone states “there may be bigger, costlier, weightier films this year. There's none lovelier.” The Miami Herald recounts it as “one of the most rewarding and engaging movies of the year.”

All of Steve Carlis’s work has been of the highest caliber. Steve Carlis has always kept his enthusiasm and zeal for the entertainment industry and his passion and devotion to doing exceptional work  have won him this honorable mention by Merit Worthy, engage news wire,  as well as his many successes in the entertainment industry.