Buppie Productions is a film production company that develops and produces entertaining stories featuring Black characters for a mainstream film and television audience. Our company is constantly reinventing itself while charting a path to influence popular culture. We are the heroes and the villains, the good guys, bad guys, femme fatales and girls next door.
OUR Mission
The mission of Buppie Productions is to produce exciting, thought provoking, profitable, commercial media content for a worldwide audience. We are seeking to become an industry powerhouse by bringing intricate, culturally relevant stories to life. By masterfully bringing characters and stories to the screen who speak to the human experience around the world, our films connect to our audience on a visceral and deeply personal level.
OUR HERO
Gerard McMurray is a Filmmaker from the 7th Ward of New Orleans. McMurray is a graduate of Howard University and USC Film School’s MFA program. Shortly after graduation from USC, Gerard collaborated with Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan and Forest Whitaker as a Producer on the hit indie film Fruitvale Station which won the both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
McMurray’s first film as a Director, Burning Sands, produced by Stephanie Alain, Reginald Hudlin, and Jason Berman; is a Netflix Original that premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to great critical response. His sophomore film, The First Purge, produced by Oscar Nominated Producer Jason Blum and starring Oscar winner Marisa Tomei, through Blumhouse Pictures, is the fourth installment in the hugely successful series depicting the origin story of The Purge franchise. It was released by Universal Pictures on July 4, 2018, becoming the most commercially successful film of the franchise.
Gerard has since directed THE TWILIGHT ZONE - REPLAY, for Oscar Winner Jordan Peele, starring Sanaa Lathan. Currently, he is writing and directing the action franchise THE SILVER BEAR for Lionsgate starring Michael B. Jordan. Gerard is also co-writing and directing BOOKER with John Wick Creator/Writer Derek Kolstad for Sony Pictures with John Davis producing. Finally, Gerard is Directing/Executive Producing a series version of THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR with Lee Daniels for FX.
THE BUPPIE CREW
The creatives at Buppie are comprised of a talented group of filmmakers with diverse experience in writing, development and production across mediums. Our forward-thinking team has been able to identify compelling stories and develop them into beautifully crafted feature films and television viewed by millions of people around the world. We have successfully produced films for the Indie Market, New Media and Major Film/Tv Studios.