Garlin Pictures is a Los Angeles based production and development company. The Company’s principal shareholders and Chief Executive Officers’ are Josh Etting and Brian R. Etting. Between the two, this team has substantial and varied experience in the entertainment industry, representing a balance between innovative and creative thinking, financing, production expertise, and marketplace applicability.

The Company develops and produces film, television, and web content in all genres, including Comedy, Romance, Drama, Horror and Thrillers. The projects are produced at all budget levels. At present time, GP has a slate of over fifteen feature film properties in different stages of development.

The Company’s operating strategy and primary focus is to produce high quality film and TV product, and to supply this product to domestic and foreign theatrical and home entertainment marketplaces, mitigating the risk of production by leveraging cost with various strategies.

Joshua H. Etting

Partner

Josh’s experience encompasses film financing, development, production, talent and literary management, as well as screenwriting for both television and film.

Josh’s film credits include the Warner Bros. comedy hit, "Malibu's Most Wanted" starring Jamie Kennedy and Taye Diggs. Additionally, Josh produced the critically acclaimed Showtime thriller "Tough Luck" starring Armand Assante & Norman Reedus, "The Godfather Of Greenbay" starring Lauren Holly, Tony Goldwyn, & Tom Lennon, and "Relative Strangers" starring Danny Devito, Kathy Bates, & Neve Campbell. Josh also was an Executive producer on the feature film "Kickin It Old Skool” and was a contributing writer on the upcoming film "Gawd Bless America".

Josh’s television credits include writing and producing on all three seasons of the hidden camera sketch comedy show, "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment", for the WB Network. Additionally, Josh co-created, co-wrote, and co-executive produced two other shows for the WB: "The Starlet", with Faye Dunaway and Vivica Fox, and "Living With Fran", which ran two seasons, starring Fran Drescher. Josh was also a co-creator and an executive producer of the TV pilot "I Will Survive" for VH1 with Gay Rosenthal, and has sold television shows to New Regency, Warner Bros., Hearst Entertainment, and Comedy Central.

Josh recently Executive Produced the comedy pilot, “What’s Going On With Mike Mitchell?” for FX & FOD (which included celebrity guests Will Ferrell and Jennifer Lawrence), and two seasons of HBO’s Funny Or Die Presents series, including the “Drunken History” sketches (“Lincoln/Douglas” – Won Best Short Film at the 2010 Sundance Festival and “Edison/Tesla”). Some of his Season 2 episodes include works by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant (“Night at the Museum 1 & 2”; “Reno 911”) and Romany Malco (“The 40 Year Old Virgin”).

Josh is currently producing a comedy documentary series with comedy legend David Steinberg and Carousel (Steve Carell’s production company) and is attached to Produce the feature film "Dreamgirl" for Warner Bros., "Flipped" for Dimension films, "Spy High" for Bold Films, and has various other feature projects in development at both the studio and independent level, including “Reclaim” for Screen Australia.

Brian R. Etting

Partner

Brian started off his career producing premiere cable movies for HBO, Showtime and Lions Gate TV, before segueing into independent features and commercials. Some of his recent feature credits include the upcoming Sony comedy "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” (release date: September 2011) starring Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Will Forte and Lake Bell, the noir thriller, "Night Train" starring Danny Glover and Steve Zahn and the drama, "Broken" starring Heather Graham and Jeremy Sisto which premiered at the AFI Festival and was distributed by First Look Pictures.

He formed the development/production shingle Garlin Pictures with his brother Josh in 2004 where he produced the comedy, "Relative Strangers" starring Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates and Neve Campbell for Comedy Central, the indie comedy "The Godfather of Green Bay" starring Lauren Holly and Tony Goldwyn, as well as the Showtime thriller, "Tough Luck".

Some of Brian's TV credits include the HD reality series, "Technology Jones" for the MOJO Network, which he served as an Executive Producer on, as well as the VH1 reality TV pilot, "I Will Survive" which he Directed, Co-Created and Co-Executive Produced along with Gay Rosenthal Productions. In addition, he wrote and directed the TV Dramedy pilot, "Viagra Falls" which won Best Drama at the 2006 New York Television Festival.

Brian recently Executive Produced the comedy pilot, “What’s Going On With Mike Mitchell” for FX and FOD (which included celebrity guests Will Ferrell and Jennifer Lawrence), and two seasons of HBO’s Funny Or Die Presents series, including the “Drunken History” sketches (“Lincoln/Douglas” – Won Best Short Film at the 2010 Sundance Festival and “Edison/Tesla”). Some of his Season 2 episodes include works by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant (“Night at the Museum 1 & 2”; “Reno 911”) and Romany Malco (“The 40 Year Old Virgin”).

Brian is also a seasoned Commercial and Fashion Producer. He recently produced an Orville spot directed by Miguel Arteta (“Cedar Rapids”, ”The Good Girl”), an IBM Documentary for acclaimed director Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”, “Waiting for Superman”) and multiple campaigns for such brands as Fed-Ex, McDonalds, Kia, Best Buy, AT&T, Jim Beam and Burger King to name a few. He also produced two fashion videos for the Olsen Twins’ clothing line, “The Row”.

He is currently attached to produce the comedy “Dreamgirl” for Warner Brothers, “Spy high” for Bold Films, and “Reclaim” for Screen Australia.