Dr. Xavier "X" Mitchell

Dr. Xavier "X" Mitchell is the founder of Providence Film Group and the CEO of Valiant Eagle, Inc. (OTC: PSRU). Film Faster is a Providence Film Group platform. He began in the creative side of the business — writing for television and film, directing and shooting music videos, and producing concerts for emerging artists. He founded Providence Film Group to take on larger film and television projects, and has since overseen productions including The Knock and Ambush Karaoke, alongside international partnerships and financing structures for independent features. That work expanded into a group of entertainment companies under Valiant Eagle, spanning film and television, publishing, gaming, digital television and a record label. The through-line is the same problem in different forms: how a project gets financed, made, seen and paid for. He writes here about what he has actually had to figure out — packaging, financing, distribution, audience, and the professional habits that determine whether a filmmaker gets asked back. The perspective is a producer's and an operator's rather than a critic's. A U.S. Army Desert Storm veteran, he founded San Diego Community Assist and has run it for more than thirty years.