This is us

We are Helena Thom and Anthony Epp, and we formed “Habethy Film Productions” in 2016 to develop and produce our own feature film projects. Since it’s formation, we have completed and distributed our first feature film, 13 Miles, available now.

Helena started her career as a 3rd Assistant Director for a web-series entitled “PSI”. Anthony began his career as a Script Coordinator on the TV series “Sanctuary” before transitioning to full time Assistant Directing with Helena.

Now, we are focused on a wide range of projects, including two new in-house productions titled “The Quiet Canadians” and “Xing’er: Origins”, both slated for production in 2024. Meanwhile, we are building on our Producing experience with independent movies and working on a wide range of projects with fresh and interesting filmmakers.

Along the way, both as a couple and as partners, we realized that we really enjoy working together and collaborating — and it has become clear to us that we’re better, together.

And thus our name, “Habethy Films”. The movie company's name is a combination of our names, “Helena Thom” and “Anthony B. Epp” - side note, we found out that Bron Studios, which is behind some of the most high-profile films of the last decade including The Joker, House of Gucci, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

So we have Avenger’d this thing and are putting our collective energy towards producing movies the right way. Our conversations started as questions, and turned to ALL THE THINGS - the type of movies we want to make, the on-set experience for our crew and cast, sustainable filmmaking, and mentoring. We have learned that people in our industry are hesitant to share what they’ve learned so that we can help others. We don’t know why others filmmakers don’t share the process and decision-making and learning experiences.

We think it’s because people are afraid of showing the real, authentic, not-always-have-it-all-together moments of making a movie. On the journey to a finished film that the audience sees, there are always moments of doubt, tension, overwhelm and stress... yet most filmmakers fear that revealing these less-than-perfect moments will turn fans and audiences off.

We, however, feel the exact opposite.

We believe that peeling back the curtain lets you see how movies are made, from the initial script, the casting and how all those fun visual and special effects come to life. Behind-the-scenes moments actually build fans and audiences. We like the idea of showing you the reality of what it takes to actually make that a movie happen.

We feel this is our opportunity to turn that dial up to 100—to share whatever steps of the process we can from start to finish.

So this site and the “Making Of” blog you've found yourself on is our chance to do just that.

The good, the bad, and the ugly.