If Megan Ellison shows what a very, very rich person with a yen for moviemaking can do, Cynthia Stafford is determined to show what a “a mini-mogul” who got her funding from a big lottery win, can do.
In the last few months, as Ellison, daughter of billionaire Larry Ellison, has counted the profits and losses from such high-profile films as Kathryn Bigelow‘s “Zero Dark Thirty,” Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “The Master” and John Hillcoat‘s “Lawless,” Stafford has seen three of her own films come to the market.
With a smaller fund and less experience in the business, the former single mother of five from Hawthorne, Calif.,