Nestled in the charming town of Pelahatchie, Mississippi—where the tea is sweet and the dreams are sweeter—Saint Studios Films, LLC is proving that you don’t need a Hollywood zip code to make movie magic. Since its official rebranding in 2008, the independent film company has grown under the creative vision of its founder, Curtis Everitt, who affectionately refers to it as “the community theater of independent film production.”
Everitt’s journey into filmmaking started not with a camera, but with a dream of being on screen. “I used to want to be an actor,” he said. “But then I discovered actors have very little control over the final product. That didn’t sit right with me—so I decided to get behind the camera and call the shots. Literally.”
Everitt first started making movies in 2004 under the youthful (and appropriately nostalgic) banner of Kids Co. “By 2008, I was no longer a kid—and let’s be honest, the name needed a glow-up,” he joked. That glow-up came in the form of Saint Studios, a name inspired by the Val Kilmer film The Saint. “In the movie, you have to perform three miracles to be a saint,” Everitt said. “For us, those miracles are pre-production, production, and post-production. If you can pull all three off, you’re basically a saint in my book.”…