THE SHAREHOLDER

THE SHAREHOLDER is the tale of a wealthy "outsider" who shakes up the status quo and changes corporate America. Based on an original story by Johnny Langdon, Susan O'Connell, and Writer/Director Stefan Schaefer.

Synopsis

Upon the sudden death of her business tycoon husband, family matriarch Winnie Preston does the opposite of what her family and Greenwich, Connecticut society expect. Jolted by the awareness that she has been ignorant of her husband's eroding values, she comes alive and forsakes society galas for the corporate boardroom as the largest shareholder of Preston Holdings, a $6B public corporation. She invests all of her time and energy to shift the corporate priorities away from "profits no matter the costs to everyone else" and toward environmental and psychological sustainability, and a culture of transparency.

She is assisted in this quest by her party-going granddaughter, Caroline, whose life takes a positive turn at the urging of her re-awakened Grandmother. Together, these two enrage other family members, rattle the Wall Street establishment, and endanger their livelihoods — and ultimately their lives, while experiencing a heightened sense of being alive and on the right side of a great shift in the way the world thinks about the relationship between Society and free enterprise, while merging two very different generations.

Current Status: In Development

Writer/Director

Stefan Schaefer

Producers

Johnny Langdon

Carolyn Pfeiffer

Susan O'Connell

Casting

Pam Dixon