# APR 70 Pictures

> APR 70 Pictures is an independent film and television studio in Long Island City, New York. Human-written scripts, classic storytelling, modern production methods, with machine-generated imagery disclosed wherever it appears.

- Studio: APR 70 Pictures, Long Island City, NY, US (founded 2026)
- Writer-producer: Marco Caruso
- Divisions: (212) Pictures; (310) Pictures; New Renaissance Cinema
- Contact: caruso@apr70.com
- Site: https://apr70.com

## Pages

- [Home](https://apr70.com/)
- [Slate](https://apr70.com/slate)
- [Craft](https://apr70.com/craft)
- [Methods](https://apr70.com/methods)
- [Contact](https://apr70.com/contact)
- [(212) Pictures](https://apr70.com/212)
- [(310) Pictures](https://apr70.com/310)
- [New Renaissance Cinema](https://apr70.com/nrc)

## The slate (nine public properties, in order)

- [A Need Grows in Brooklyn](https://apr70.com/work/a-need-grows-in-brooklyn) · Feature · New Renaissance Cinema with (212) Pictures · drafted. In the summer of 1986 on a Borough Park block, a sensitive 17-year-old who dreams of acting at NYU is pulled from petty mischief into the seductive club-and-crime world of older dealers, losing his innocence, his first love, and ultimately his life to the casual violence of his neighborhood.
- [L.A. Dolce Vita](https://apr70.com/work/la-dolce-vita) · Series · (310) Pictures · pilot + nine on the page. When a presidential candidate is caught via live stream with a mysterious woman, the ensuing scandal unravels fifteen years of secrets: a journalist's vanished fiancée, his hidden daughter, and a crime family's plan to claim her as heir.
- [Sea Gate](https://apr70.com/work/sea-gate) · Feature · New Renaissance Cinema with (212) Pictures · drafted. A private town at the end of Brooklyn, present day, high summer.
- [Alpha YY](https://apr70.com/work/alpha-yy) · Feature · New Renaissance Cinema with (212) Pictures · drafted. In the underworld of Staten Island, two reckless enforcers collect debts through savage work and coded prison-gang demands, until a final betrayal forces them to confront the cost of their chaotic existence.
- [Da Hook](https://apr70.com/work/da-hook) · Feature · New Renaissance Cinema with (212) Pictures · in development. Red Hook, Brooklyn, the fall of 1970.
- [The Movement](https://apr70.com/work/the-movement) · Series · (212) Pictures · in development. Seven international students, recruited into a secret class by clues to a campus bomb, are trained through covert missions, never suspecting that every mission serves the hidden consortium they believe they are fighting.
- [Cleopatra](https://apr70.com/work/cleopatra) · Series · (310) Pictures · in development. A divorced Sicilian-Brooklyn woman scraping by in Los Angeles wakes after every sleep into a different version of her own life in the same city, and must master her shifting reigns before a rival who travels the same way collapses every version of her into the one he can own.
- [Shadowmaster](https://apr70.com/work/shadowmaster) · Feature · New Renaissance Cinema with (310) Pictures · in development. In a televised hybrid of esports and live-action drama, elite gamers called the Shadow Masters command real-life human avatars through high-stakes scenarios. Their avatars may defy orders when survival, greed, or conscience takes over, pitting strategy against free will.
- [U Bruculinu](https://apr70.com/work/u-bruculinu) · Feature · New Renaissance Cinema · in development. An expatriate returns to his ancestral Sicily in the 1970s seeking a quiet life. The land, and its people, will not let him be quiet.

## Facts

- Scripts are written by people; Marco Caruso is the author of record.
- Images and motion are machine-generated under studio direction and labeled where they appear.
- Archival imagery is public domain only, verified, dated, and credited.
- Two further properties travel only inside private materials (eleven on the working slate in all).

For the full text version see https://apr70.com/llms-full.txt.