FOR YOU! ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
, FOR YOU! ENTERTAINMENT GROUP is the, documentary and movie production group of FOR YOU! FOR YOU! ENTERTAINMENT GROUP will be producing the new documentary and full budget movie titled LOST SOULS. This Documentary and full feature movie will have a combined budget of over $100,000,000. LOST SOUL is taken form the writing of the same name by Dennis M. Butts a highly decorated Marine Corps Vietnam Veterans who was awarded three Purple Hearts, Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnam Cross of Gallantryand other awards and medals for fighting in the DMZ with Delta Battery 212 as an Scout Forward Observer attached to the First Battalion Ninth Marines known as the "AKING DEAD" in Vietnam in 1967. Mr Butts served at Con Thien and Gio Linh the two most northern Fire Bases in Vietnam.
The documentary will be shot first an it will explore all the areas Mr. Butts operated in. The Movie will be the story of those battles and operations from Deck House V to the DMZ "Dead Marine Zone"
Mr. Butts is the Executive Producer and Cirina Catania will be the producer and director of the movie.
Cirina Catania and Dennis M. Butts a highly decorated Marine Vietnam Veteran who was awarded three Purple Hearts, the PUC Presidential Unit Citation for combat in Vietnam in I Corp, at Con Thien and Gio Linh and the All American Hero Award in 2013. Mr.Butts and Cirina Catania will collaborate on a full feature high budget movie production featuring the events of Mr. Butts, Delta Battery 212 and First Battalion Ninth Marines !/9 The Walking Dead in Vietnam.
Mr. Butts is currently Chairman of over ten corporations including Honor Valor Courage Corporation, Combat Arms Systems Corporation, Glass Bullet Ammunition Corporation, WorldGate Community International Corporation , WorldGate Minerals and Mining Corporation, LNG Consortium Project, LLC, ISBN.LIVE Broadcasting, Veterans National Center & Technology Educational Institute and FOR YOU! MILITARY MUSIC TOURS.
Cirina Catania is a Writer, Director, Photo Journalist, and former marketing executive with a long history of success in both the major studio and independent film environment. She is one of the co-founders and former director of the Sundance Film Festival.
Cirina Catania is a veteran writer/director with credits in scripted and non-scripted as well as documentary. She has created everything from feature-length films to television series to ground-breaking music videos.
Catania has chased lightning in the Southwestern United States and written about Orphan Elephants for National Geographic, covered Danny Glover in South Africa during his travels for the UN Goodwill Ambassador Programme, shot avalanche control training footage for the National Ski Patrol, written and directed 48 popular webisodes for Chivas Regal and MSN; post supervised the “Mi3 Collector’s Edition DVD” (for which she won a Satellite Award for Best DVD of 2006). She has directed and shot reality TV series such as “Untold Stories from the ER;” “Southern Steel;” “Worst Case Scenario;” and “Merge.”
Cirina is the host of the newly created show, “Conversations,” where she is doing something she loves…talking to interesting, smart and informative people.
She loves creating biographies of interesting people like Danny Glover, Ang Lee, Morgan Freeman, John Singleton, John Wells, Chaz Johnson, etc.
Cirina is an active member of such groups as the Producers Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America-West, the Publicists Guild, the National Ski Patrol and IATSE. In the very distant past Catania was a successful studio executive, (8 years at MGM/UA in the worldwide theatrical division as VP Worldwide Marketing). Catania won an Inky Award in 2009 for “Fab Freelancer.”
She is currently finishing a full-length documentary, recording her own podcasts and preparing for a trip to India where she hopes to be able to chronicle a Tiger conservation project!
Cirina devotes much of her time to charitable organizations specializing in global human rights and was one of the official filmographers for the UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Program (documenting the contributions of Danny Glover and Dkembe Matumbo). She has worked with such organizations as Furnishing Hope (for wounded returning warriors), the Free Wheelchair Mission, Amnesty International, the Global Health Network, Save the Children, Global Mothers and Children’s Aid International and the Producers Guild of America Diversity Committee.
Cirina has produced and directed numerous marketing campaigns in various capacities for over 100 major motion-pictures and mini-series including, “Rainman,” “Tombstone,” “Stargate,” “Yentl,” “The Arrival,” “Les Miserables,” “Rocky IV,” four James Bond films beginning with “A View to a Kill,” “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures,” “Poltergeist III,” “2010,” “Hamlet,” and “Total Recall.”
During her tenure as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Chief Operating Officer of the Theatrical Motion Picture Division of United Artists Pictures, Cirina was responsible for the management of an average yearly operating budget of $200 million. Departments under her supervision included, Strategic Planning, Creative Advertising, Licensing/Promotions, Publicity, Research, Music/Soundtrack Marketing and Budgetary/Administrative.
For the ten years prior to her move to California, she resided in Salt Lake City, Utah where she was one of the co-founders of the Sundance Film Festival, Associate Director of the State Film Commission reporting to the Governor and head of the J.F. Images Talent Agency.