About South Side Films |
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South Side Films is a film and television production company founded by Charles Robert Carner in 1984. Carner grew up on the South Side of Chicago, and while he has spent most of his professional life in Hollywood, his heart still belongs in the City of Big Shoulders.
Carner enjoys a longstanding creative collaboration with two fellow Chicagoans, cinematographer Michael Goi and editor Marc Leif, both of whom attended Columbia College Chicago with him in the late 1970s. Goi and Leif have worked on most of the films Carner has made over the past dozen years. In addition to the Columbia College connection, South Side Films has also had a fruitful relationship with Act One, the Christian screenwriting and producing program founded in Los Angeles by Barbara Nicolosi. Carner has served on the faculty of Act One since its inception in 1999, and numerous alumni have worked for South Side over the years. But the key collaborator in the South Side creative experience is writer/actress/producer Debra Sharkey. In addition to helping shape the scripts for all of South Side's productions, Debra has performed in several of the films, and has added her own original screenplays - "The Condemned" and "Nanny Killer" - to the company slate. South Side Films is committed to the creation and production of quality feature films and television across the spectrum; we’ve made everything from comedies to dramas, political thrillers, westerns and action movies. Recently, South Side has expanded into other realms: network series drama (“The Fixer,” being developed for CBS, based on a film Carner wrote, produced and directed for Showtime), feature animation (“Scary Critters,” a Carner screenplay that is being produced in partnership with Ittina Studios of India), and graphic novels (“Sword of the Gael,” based on the exploits of the legendary Irish hero Cú Cullan, distributed through Top Off Entertainment).
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Many of Carner’s films take place in Chicago, from the romantic thriller “Seduced,” his first television movie of the week in 1984, right up through “Witless Protection,” his 2007 feature film comedy starring Larry the Cable Guy.
In the fast-changing world of entertainment, South Side takes pride in flexibility and innovation, while honoring its core principles of honesty and loyalty. We are pleased with the body of work we have produced, and look forward to even more exciting projects in the future!