Alex Bogomolov

About

Alex Bogomolov is a Vancouver-based film producer who came to film after a decade in business - founding a tech startup, running a transport company with 350 staff, building a construction venture. He treats indie film as startup work. Produced features include Ruthless Bastards (2025, sold to 40+ countries) and Pitfall (2026, AMC theatrical). Next: Lookout - folk-horror, summer 2026 shoot, Sundance target. He is founder of CineMeta and co-founder of Dragon Bear Pictures.

Biography

Alex Bogomolov is a Vancouver-based film producer with a business background. Before film, he founded a tech startup, owned and managed a transport company with 350 staff, and ran a construction business focused on B2B negotiations. He holds two masters in Business Administration and Finance.

After moving to Canada and exiting his businesses, he turned to film, driven by the urge to create work that lasts, not just operate something that earns. That business discipline shapes how he produces: each film runs like its own small company, with transparent investor economics, recoupment waterfalls disclosed before the wire, and cash-flow reports after delivery. His approach asks four questions before pre-production: who the film is for, how they hear about it, what the recoupment path is, and what could kill it.

His produced features include Ruthless Bastards (2025), with Casper Van Dien, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Parmish Verma - sold to 40+ countries; and Pitfall (2026), with Randy Couture, Richard Harmon, and Alexandra Essoe - AMC theatrical via Voltage Pictures, Screamfest LA and Panic Fest selections. His next feature, Lookout - a folk-horror set at a remote BC wildfire lookout - is in pre-production for a summer 2026 shoot, targeting Sundance with an Oscar-nominated cast attached.

He is co-founder of Dragon Bear Pictures and founder of CineMeta, a platform connecting indie film financing to audiences via watch-to-earn economics on Base. He also publishes The Producer's Desk, an essay series on indie film economics, financing mechanics, and the parts of the business most investors don't see.

Films

Media coverage

Production & platform

Dragon Bear Pictures · co-founder. Vancouver-based production company. Producer credits include Pitfall and Ruthless Bastards.

CineMeta · founder. A platform connecting indie film financing to audiences via watch-to-earn economics on Base. Tokens tied to specific films, not a general fund.

The Producer's Desk · weekly essay series on indie film economics, financing mechanics, and the parts of the business most investors don't see. Read at desk.alexbogomolov.com.

Speaking topics

• How an indie film really makes money From idea to investor return - the mechanics most decks gloss over.
• Investing in independent film Protecting capital, sizing the upside, reading recoupment waterfalls before you wire.
• Soft money explained Tax credits, pre-sales, minimum guarantees, gap financing - the producer's real superpower.
• Where Web3 fits into film Financing primitives the industry hasn't built yet, and what tokenized audience capture actually unlocks.
• AI agents and vibe-coded workflows for film production Pre-visualization, marketing tests, casting comps, automating the routine layer of the producer's job.
• From 350-person companies to film sets What running businesses taught me about producing - and where the analogies break.

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