With over 30 credits by age 30, Kyle founded Carte Blanche. With less than a month away from graduating film school in 2017, an offer arose to physically produce a film “boots on the ground,” and he made the bold decision that the finale to his education would not take place in a classroom, but the field. After physically producing a handful of projects, he also got involved in the financial world of filmmaking, analyzing different finance structures and helping produce only a select few of the projects reviewed.

Every project has a different need, but if he aligns creatively with the filmmaker’s vision, there’s many ways in which collaboration can occur. Whether developing a script with a debut or sophomore feature filmmaker, optioning novels in-house, helping filmmakers connect with talent, building finance plans, producing on the ground, or helping to finance a moving train of a picture.

Kyle also works as a consultant occasionally, helping others with the use of his festival, distribution, and talent relationships.

His love for film once drove him from Los Angeles to Berkeley years ago to watch a 35mm print of Tarkovsky’s Stalker, and at the film’s end, drove back home to LA to make his call time on a film set the next morning. He also watched 9 double features of Ingmar Bergman’s films in a 3-week period at the American Cinematheque after a disenchanting breakup.

“‘Photography is truth. Cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.’ -Godard, circa 1960” –Kyle Stroud, circa 2020