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An Industry Leader Emerges
Echoes of Innocence was released theatrically in the top 32 US markets last year. The film made cinematic history by becoming only the third movie to ever be released digitally nationwide. Partnering with the nations largest theatrical exhibition company, Regal Entertainment Group, the film was released without 35mm film prints into Regal, United Artists, and Edwards theaters. On March 28, 2006, the movie was released nationwide on DVD. That project was produced through his startup entertainment venture, New World Pictures. Sims' corporate oriented production company, Fusion Productions , is listed in the July 28 edition of the Dallas Business Journal as one of the Top Ten largest audio/visual production companies in the area. This is the third year in a row that Fusion has received the distinction. Fusion Productions also just won its 15th Telly Award this year: a Bronze Award for Countdown: To the Future, a 15 minute motivational video produced by Sims for the Space Shuttle Program Office. In addition to NASA, clients include Nokia, United Space Alliance (USA), Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and UTC (United Technologies Company). Sims has been in charge of more than 150 film and video projects over the past 16 years. Sims has come to the forefront of the film and video production industry in Texas. In June he was elected to a second term as president of the 29 year old Dallas Producers Association and was elected to the board of the newly created Texas Motion Picture Alliance. He is the DFW Regional representative and chairman of the organization’s legislative committee. He is responsible for developing policy that will create incentives for the motion picture industry: incentives that will allow Texas to compete effectively with aggressive incentives being offered by neighboring states. An affective state incentive program could bring an additional $300 million into the state economy in the first year. That number has legislators interested in talking with Sims. At just 38 years old, Sims is looking to expand quickly using the momentum behind his success, "We are putting together an entertainment fund to raise $20 million to produce projects in Texas." His efforts have caught the attention of Hollywood with national film critic and talk show host Michael Medved stating that, "Nathan Todd Sims is a young filmmaker with impressive levels of ambition, talent, and audacity. I look forward with enthusiasm to his upcoming projects." And Movieguide’s Ted Beahr writing, "It is clear that Nathan Todd Sims has great talent and should become a major force in the movie world."
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Irving, TX (July 31, 2006) A couple of weeks ago Nathan Todd Sims was in the state capitol talking to political staffers and Governor Rick Perry’s deputy chief of staff about the efforts of the Texas Motion Picture Alliance. He’s off to Canada this week, working on an internet video streaming deal, then to D.C. to meet with officials at NASA headquarters about the latest video production efforts that he will produce. Before he leaves town, however, he will oversee the board meeting of the Dallas Producers Association and from his office 
next to the Studios of Las Colinas make some marketing calls to promote his feature film Echoes of Innocence.
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