Pensé Productions is in the business of developing motion picture properties for distribution through major studios and is the producer of innovative direct-to-internet programming.
Scott Sander - President - Writer/Producer
Scott Sander, screenwriter and producer, co-founded SightSound Technologies in 1995 and led the firm as it made internet history. In 1995 Mr. Sander negotiated the world’s 
first internet music distribution agreement and the company sold the world’s first downloadable music. He negotiated the world’s first motion picture internet distribution agreement in 1999 with Artisan Entertainment for Darren Aronofsky’s award winning feature film "Pi," which became the first full-length film sold as a download over the internet. In 2001, Mr. Sander negotiated the first studio internet distribution agreement with Miramax Films, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, for the pioneering release of the world’s first EVD™, a digital download with the full features of a DVD. Under Mr Sander’s leadership Sightsound Technologies was the first to sell encrypted movies and music through internet file-sharing programs, first to electronically sell into a movie theater projection booth via the internet for digital exhibition, and first to electronically sell a movie into a handheld PocketPC. Mr. Sander negotiated the sale of the SightSound Technologies’ patent portfolio of 20 domestic and international patents in the fields of: audio/video e-commerce, audio/video compression, applied encryption and trusted peer-to-peer networks to the General Electric Company.
Mr. Sander produced "Quantum Project," starring John Cleese and Stephen Dorff, the first fully digital motion picture produced specifically for internet distribution. Mr. Sander created the motion picture project "Buddy List," which was sold to Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios and began a relationship with the studio that evolved into Pensé Production’s First Look Agreement with MGM in 2004. Mr. Sander has spoken before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the US Department of Commerce, and the Senate Judiciary Committee as an advocate of intellectual property in the digital future. Mr. Sander served as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Pew Internet and American Life Research Project. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Poetry Forum.
Christian Sander - Director of Development
Christian Sander is responsible for maintaining industry relations with up and coming talent, and has served as a development intern for Original Film, (The Fast and the Furious) Jerry Bruckheimer Films, (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Sony Pictures. He earned his degree in Motion Picture Production from Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles.
Colin Sander - Production
Colin Sander is a graduate of the Chapman University, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, where he directed 20 narratives and documentaries ranging from comedy to drama, short to feature-length, and served as director of photography for 10 narrative, commercial, and experimental short films. He most recently worked as production assistant to Academy Award winning director Paul Haggis (Crash) on The Next Three Days Starring Russell Crowe.