An influential and highly respected musician, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe began moonlighting in the production end of film in the 1980s, and went on to produce some of the highest profile independents in the late 1990s. Likening the contemporary independent film scene to the 1970s punk rock movement, Stipe saw a bustling untapped creativity that he wished to foster and decided to don a producer's cap in addition to his roles as singer, songwriter, photographer and activist. He formed C-00 (C-Hundred) Film Corp in the late 1980s with producer-director Jim McKay. The 1988 politically charged
