We make stories about people caught inside that question. We want to put audiences inside questions they may not have considered before, then let character, choice and consequence take them the rest of the way.
The world is familiar. Until it isn’t.
We are drawn to stories that begin in the world we know, then move it one inch. A new technology. A buried fear. A system pushed too far. The change may be small. The consequences are not.
What does it mean to make a place your own?
We want to go beyond the familiar stories. To ambition. Family. Success. Love. Reinvention. History. Class. Culture. Memory. To the people who carved out a place, and to the generations deciding what to do with it.
How does service change the way we find our place in the world?
The story can begin before the uniform, inside the mission, or years after it ends. We are interested in what service asks of a person. What it gives. What it takes. And how duty, war, sacrifice and belonging can shape a life long after the moment itself has passed.
One Mr. Goose project may challenge the assumptions of another. The world is complicated. People are complicated. Our stories should be allowed to be complicated too.
We want filmmakers with something worth asking. A different way of seeing. A question that bothers them enough that they have to make something about it. Then we give them room to explore it honestly.
Filmmaking is changing quickly. We are not afraid of that. New technology can remove barriers. It can make an ambitious idea possible where yesterday it was not. We want to use those tools.
But the story still has to work. The performance still has to feel true. The image still has to mean something. The audience still has to feel it.
Mr. Goose is developing an original slate of film, television and documentary projects. Some look backward. Some look forward. All ask what happens to people when the world around them begins to move.
The name came from my father. My name is Gustavo. To him, I was Mr. Goose.
He was a cultural anthropologist and sociologist who taught me to look at people, culture and behavior with curiosity. My grandfather and father showed me that film and television could be windows into worlds beyond our own.
Mr. Goose is a nod to where that began, and to the curious, ambitious and creative version of me my father saw long before there was a company.
