, film producer-musicians Greg Richling and Jonathan Sheldon have announced the launch of their production company Pfonetic and are unveiling a slate of music-driven film and television projects.
The roster includes a long-in-the-works authorized documentary on the enormously influential but unsung producerwho produced Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” Simon & Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence” and the first Velvet Underground album and recordings by John Coltrane, Frank Zappa, Sun Ra and many more — which is now titledOther film and television projects currently in production include:– Music doc on the legendary jazz musician, with Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgenson directing.
Richling, a veteran filmmaker who was also a longtime member of the Wallflowers, says, “Pfonetic is a place where we can develop IP from the ground up as we just did for ‘Immediate Family,’ and also field work from the studios to oversee high-level music needs on their projects handling the creative and business side in tandem.”
Sheldon adds, “As Greg and I are both musicians and film producers, we can uniquely get into the DNA of a project as an artist-executive managing the creative side and business as one whole.” “Immediate Family,” directed by Denny Tedesco, is the follow-up to the “Wrecking Crew” doc which focused on the legendary ‘60s session musicians who performed on literally thousands of hits by everyone from Phil Spector to the Beach Boys and beyond. “Immediate Family” focuses on the musicians who would craft the singer-songwriter sound of the early 1970s.