The C-Hundred Film Corp was founded in 1987 by Jim McKay and Michael J. Stipe. In the early 1990s the organization produced an award-winning series of 21 public service announcements, collectively titled Direct Effect. Since then the company has developed numerous independent features, including Girls Town (Jim McKay, 1996), Benjamin Smoke (Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen, 2000), Our Song (Jim McKay, 2000), The Sleepy Time Gal (Christopher Munch, 2001), and Stranger Inside (Cheryl Dunye, 2001).
