The
story of Freedom Productions begins in 1966 when an ambitious
six-year-old named Scott Freiheit wrote his first screenplay,
Thirteen Days of Glory, an epic tale about the Battle of
the Alamo. Needless to say, bringing it to the screen was a bit
beyond his skill and resource level at the time but it didn't
stop him from trying. In a way that typifies the Freedom Productions
"tilting at windmills" philosophy that still drives
the company to this day.
Throughout the remainder of the 60's and into the early 70's Freedom Productions embarked on a staggering schedule of film production. The projects were usually far too complicated and grand in scale to ever be completed by a kid with a home movie camera in his backyard but the lessons learned from each film undertaken would prove to be more valuable than a doctorate from a major film school.
As Freiheit and his friends got a little older the quality level of their productions rose dramatically and some of the films were actually completed and even won awards in film festivals. In the late 70's an attempt was even made to publish a magazine about filmmaking but it never made it to the presses.
Another thing happened in the 70's that would
change Freedom Productions forever, and that was the introduction
of live theatre, 
especially
musicals, to the production slate. No longer just a backyard movie
studio run by teenagers, Freedom Productions took its first major
step towards creative diversity.
In 1978 Freedom Productions presented Freiheit's original musical play Welcome Home Mr. Carlton at a local auditorium in Monrovia, California. That show would continue to be staged at various venues for the next seven years, establishing the pattern of alternating between musicals and films that still continues. In additiom to producing original works by Scott Freiheit the company also staged classic musicals such as Man of La Mancha and Fidler on the Roof.
In the early 1980's Freedom Productions added yet another dimension to their repertoire as they became involved with the recording and live presentations of various rock bands and tribute shows. Blue Haze was a popular band playing the club scene in Los Angeles for several years and the Beatle tribute shows Liverpool and Beatles Forever also performed in various nightclubs and casino showrooms. The Phoinix, an ambitious studio-based music project would serve as the prototype for other bands that would come some years later.
Later
that decade the company would shift from motion picture film projects
to the relatively new field of videotape production and also began
to incorporate computers into every aspect of their endeavors.
From desktop publishing to computer music scoring to non-linear
editing, Freedom Productions has always been a "cutting edge"
company when it comes to technology.
While gathering some potential stock footage for a planned feature film at a Civil War re-enactment a spontaneous decision was made to turn that footage into a short documentary about the event. From that spur-of-the-moment inspiration Freedom Productions would spend a good part of the 1990's traveling all over the country documenting Civil War re-enactments and other living history events. That led to an association with a software developer called Talon Soft, which resulted in some of the first computer games to incorporate video sequences into the game play.
The 90's would also see a large amount of television commercial production and web page design as well as the creation of some of their strongest musical theatre pieces.
As the new century began attention turned back to feature filmmaking. Major projects like Paradise and Earth Women took center stage for some time but the company also made a return to the pop music field with the bands Jackalope and the Fluorescent Penguin Exchange.
While certain periods of the company history have been dominated by one type of project or another the core elements of music, theatre and film are always at play on some level. There are always short, mid and long range plans being developed but new doors open all the time that lead to unexpected adventures. And that's what Freedom Productions is all about…the excitement of new challenges and new opportunities.
