4HG Entertainment

NRT Entertainment Group™

4HG Entertainment

4HG Entertainment is an impressive team of professionals, with established connections to Hollywood production teams, writers and global distribution. 4HG functions as an independent movie finance operation, targeting carefully chosen film and television market projects, including animation, family/faith themed films and story driven “independent” films. 4HG member Mike Alvarez's Los Angeles based NRT Films serves as the production company for 4HG financed films.

4HG is in production, producing its first film project, a 45 minute traditional animation movie based on the Steve Stephens novel The Greatest Escape (see: Steve Stephens - Published Author and Writer, below).

4HG Members and Associates

CEO - Steve Brown

Steven W. Brown served as Principal-in-Charge of architecture/engineering design and construction for several multi-million dollars projects, including: the $60 million, 14,000 seat multi-purpose arena for the city of Bossier City, Louisiana; the $100 million Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana casino expansion project in Kinder, Louisiana (the project included a $10 million multi-purpose entertainment venue, $20 million golf course and clubhouse, $40 million 450 room hi-rise hotel, $10 million 200 room budget hotel, casino restaurant/retail/back-of-house additions, 5,000 vehicle parking spaces, passenger loading facilities, central laundry facilities, central offices, and numerous other support facilities); the $20 million, 8,000 seat multi-purpose arena for Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana; and the $2 million renovation of the 1920's Art Deco Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana. Mr. Brown is the former owner and Project Manager of the $10 million Hal Sutton signature golf course, the Olde Oaks Golf Course, in Haughton, Louisiana.

Chief Creative Officer - Steve Stephens

Steve Stephens is an accomplished storyteller, telling creative Biblical tales and first hand stories about racial integration of the South. Mr. Stephens has written three books to date. Mr. Stephens' first published book, Anybody Love, is the story about racial integration strife in Louisiana in the 1940s. His second novel, God In Our Schools (AmericaHouse), is the story of the first black student to enroll in the all-white Louisiana school system in the 1960s, using a “Formula” of what Christ would do given this situation. Mr. Stephens' recently published book The Greatest Escape – It Could Have Happened This Way (Axiom Press), is the fictional tale of King Herod's attempt to eradicate the coming of The True Messiah, and is currently in production by 4HG Entertainment. The 45 minute traditional animation movie is being co-produced with South Korea's Sun Min Pictures and is being directed Kevin Altieri (see: Kevin Altieri - Director, below).

Chief Operating Officer - Mike Alvarez

Mike Alvarez's Not Records Tapes (NRT) is a pioneer of the independent music market. NRT contributed in the shape and changing course of the music industry through his Not Records Tapes music company. NRT Films, under the NRT banner, has produced several projects outside of music production including documentaries and music videos (see: Mike Alvarez - Producer, below).

Producers and Directors

Mike Alvarez – Producer

Mike Alvarez was one of the first Hollywood-based producers to see the merits and possibilities of producing movies in NW Louisiana – before the tax credit programs of the State became an incentive for Hollywood producers and long before the disaster of hurricane Katrina forced Louisiana production to move from New Orleans to the NW Louisiana region. Since 2002, Mr. Alvarez has built an impressive network of Louisiana government and business leaders, Hollywood producers, directors, actors, distribution deal makers and more. Mr. Alvarez is serving as the head producer for 4HG's first three film productions planned for the company - The Formula , The Greatest Escape and Anybody Love .

Mr. Alvarez has a long history in the world of independent music. In 1984 he formed the independent music label Not Records Tapes (NRT) in Austin, Texas. Alvarez quickly built a reputation of recording artists that went directly from NRT's living room studio to major record labels, including Daniel Johnston (Electra), The Reivers (Capitol), and The True Believers, with Alejandro Escovedo (EMI).

In 1988, Alvarez relocated to Los Angeles to serve briefly as an in-house music producer for the famed music-recording studio Paramount Recording Studios. A year later, Alvarez went to work at The Sony Video Institute, a world leading audio/video production training facility located on The American Film Institute campus in Hollywood California. In 1995 Alvarez began working in television as an audio professional working for NBC, ABC and many other cable networks.

Currently, in addition to heading the development and production of feature film projects for 4HG, Alvarez continues producing his own and others independent music and documentaries for the NRT music catalogue.

Demon Angel – A Day and 2324

Night With Roky Erickson Not Records Tapes

Triple X Records (CD/Video) (CD/3D-DVD)

Robert Myrtle – Producer

Robert Myrtle has worked as a Producer, Production Coordinator, First Assistant Director, Location Manager and Key Grip over his 20 year career in the motion picture industry. Currently the Senior Resident Producer at one of America's most prestigious film schools, The American Film Institute , Robert is responsible for the production logistics of the student film productions at the school. As an independent producer, Mr. Myrtle has produced over twenty television commercials, short films and music videos over his career. He won the Silver Cleo for 60-second commercial for the feature film “the Fugitive”.

Robert's credits include, My Ambition , Fair Trade , The Early Bird Special , The Little Cobras and many other films, television commercials and music videos.

Robert has known and worked with NRT Films' Mike Alvarez nearly twenty years and has been crucial in the recent developments of 4HG Entertainment film projects.

Kevin Altieri – Director

Award-winning writer, producer, and director Kevin Altieri's talents range from music video director, comic book artist and publisher, to cartoon animator. Kevin was nominated for a Grammy Award for the Best Short Form Music Video for co-directing Pearl Jam's Do the Evolution. Kevin directed the Emmy-award winning animated television series Batman (Warner Bros.). Mr. Altieri also served as a development and concept artist for Disney's The Lion King . Mr. Altieri is currently directing the latest Scooby Doo franchise film Scooby Doo and the Shadow Goblins and is currently directing the first 4HG project, The Greatest Escape, the Steve Stephens fictional Biblical tale recently published as Mr. Stephens's third published book.

In the comic book world, Altieri earned the Will Eisner Award for the Batman Adventures Holiday Special (DC Comics) and is the creator, publisher, writer and artist for the comic book series Joshua Warrick Werewolf for Hire (Catatonic Comics).

Julie Dash – Writer/Director

Julie Dash is the first African American woman to have a full-length general theatrical release in the United States. Her work as a director includes The Rosa Parks Story , starring Angela Basset (Ms. Dash was also a co-writer of the published book of the same name. And, Ms. Basset was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the film), Love Song , starring R&B singer Monica (MTV/Viacom), Incognito , starring Vanessa Williams and Richard T. Jones. Ms. Dash frequently lectures at many of the leading universities across the United States and is slated to direct Anybody Love, the screenplay based on the Steve Stephens novel Anybody Love (see: Steve Stephens - Published Author and Writer, below).

Steve Stephens – Published Author and Writer

Steve Stephens wrote the published book Anybody Love , the story about integration strife in Louisiana in the 1940s, published by University Edition. Steve also wrote the published book God In Our Schools, the story of the first black student to enroll in an all-white Louisiana school system in the 1960s, published by AmErica House. Anybody Love and God In Our Schools have been adapted to the screen by 4HG, with The Formula (the screenplay name chosen for God In Our Schools) currently in pre-production. Steve wrote the recently published book The Greatest Escape , which was also adapted to the screen and is currently 4HG's first animation film project in production.