Fictionville Studio, LLC (formerly Prometheus Cinema) is an independent production company established in 2007 by husband and wife team Melissa Hibbard and Hamid Rahmanian.  Our goal is to produce engaging, socially responsible films that challenge our audiences’ perceptions about what they know and how they look at the world around them.  Acknowledging that the medium of film is the most powerful tool available to motivate the world around us, we strive to create artistic works that inspire and inform. 

Under Prometheus Cinema, we have produced the following: AN I WITHIN (1999) which received Kodak’s "Best Cinematography Award", “Best American Short” from the LA International Short Film Festival and “Special Achievement Award” from the USA Film Festival.  It was shown at various festivals. BREAKING BREAD (2000), premiering on Los Angeles PBS station KCET, and SIR ALFRED OF CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT (2001), which was one of the sources for Steven Speilberg’s The Terminal, have been well received by the media and worldwide audiences.  SHAHRBANOO (2002) first premiered on New York PBS station WNET where it received the highest rating for an independently produced documentary of its kind.  As a result, the film was picked up by stations all over the country and has shown as festivals and conferences around the world.  Our first feature length fiction film, DAY BREAK (2005) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and received a special prize at the Fajr Film Festival in Iran, the “Jury Award” at Annonay International Festival of First Films, “Best Actor” from Tereno International Film Festival in Italy, “Special Jury Award” from the Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema of Milan, and “Best of the Middle East” from the Indianapolis International Film Festival. It has been used by US-based anti-capital punishment organizations to promote an end to capital punishment in the US.

Under the newly formed Fictionville Studio, we produced THE GLASS HOUSE (2008) which premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Sundance Film Festival in the US under the World Cinema Documentary Competition category. It is co-produced by Impact Partners and the Sundance Channel. THE GLASS HOUSE received OSCE's "Human Rights Award" at Dokufest and "Best Feature Documentary" at the Dallas VideoFest.

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