From Micro-Budget to World-Wide Distribution with Shane Stanley

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At sixteen years old, Shane Stanley had already received his first Emmy Award for his work on Desperate Passage (1987) which starred Michael Landon. Over the next few years he learned filmmaking under his father Lee Stanley on what became known as The Desperate Passage Series (1988 to 1995) starring Sharon Gless, Edward James Olmos, Marlo Thomas and Louis Gossett Jr..
The self-produced series earned a total of thirty-three Emmy nominations, (winning thirteen) as well as numerous Christopher Awards and CINE Golden Eagles. In 1994, the Stanleys feature film, Street Pirates (1994) was a two-time winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award for best feature documentary and film editing.
In 2001, Shane launched Visual Arts Entertainment, his own production company, most notably credited with Gridiron Gang (2006) starring Dwayne Johnson & Xzibit as well as the critically acclaimed independent film, A Sight for Sore Eyes (2004) with Academy Award nominee, Gary Busey.
The film, (produced for under $10,000) marked Shane's directorial debut and went on to win the Gold Special Jury Award at Worldfest Houston, Best Dramatic Short Film at the International Family Film Festival, a Telly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film and Television as well as two Aurora Awards for writing & directing. The film was also invited to Cannes to compete in the annual international film festival.
His new film is Double Threat.
After skimming money from the mob, a, well-trained fighter, Natasha (Danielle C. Ryan), finds herself on the run with a kind, naïve accountant, Jimmy (Matthew Lawrence) whose life is about to get more thrilling than he could ever imagine.
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[@g-bodermalmasfilmsinemaken8867]

haa!!! am just traying to put gas in the car😂😂😂 film hustle indeed, you guys motivate me men

[@IndieFilmHustle]

Go for it!

[@KMcDevitt]

question for Shane or anyone else with some insight... I'm curious why it wasn't possible to transcode and sync Double Threat yourselves? Why send to Egypt ?

[@officialshanestanley]

Great question (sorry, just now seeing this). We had 2 AE's scheduled locally in LA. Sadly, one's mother died and the other's father within 2 days of COVID. Hollywood had just re-opened for business, and with having such a micro budgeted film, we had agreed on rates for the massive transcode/sync and prep for edit. Because no one had worked for so long, the starting offers were WAY too much. We found an American who was stuck in Egypt visiting family when the lockdown happened. He gladly took what we had and did the work in Egypt and didn't miss a beat. He's become my AE now that he's back in the states. It delayed us a few weeks, but he did a great job.

[@grantgreyguda]

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[@landonp629]

Too many people, especially in low budget situations, put all their emphasis on the story. While story is important, it's only one factor in what keeps someone's attention to watch a movie. If it looks like crap, it's going to be crap no matter how good the story. If it sounds like crap, its crap. If the actors act like they are reading their lines from a script, it's crap. Period.

[@ParisDylan1]

Great job Alex! I seriously can see you taking to heart the comments on your last vid!!! Thank you man!!

[@BillZebubproductions]

Shane is one of my favorite guests on your channel

[@officialshanestanley]

Thank you, Bill.. You're in the will. :)

[@dominicstclairstudios6324]

Where can i connect with shane stanley

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[@JamesFleming1]

I am sooo pumped to hear about the 11 minute rule. In my screenplay, I need to get the reader to page 11 where the hook gets set. The 1st 10 pages are necessary backstory that IMHO would suffer if done as a flashback.

[@JamesFleming1]

What are the most expensive budget items in bringing a film (outside the marvel universe - I.e. for your tribe) to the screen?

[@successsystem2468]

28:35 In fact, no one's even been to the moon once Shane...

[@officialshanestanley]

Correct. That was the 'joke' -

[@daisyguerra2780]

Great, great interview!!

[@buzztalklive5465]

Great interview! Very insightful about the Indi biz..Alex would love to have you as a guest on my show..lmk thanks 😎🎬

[@elixirOC]

Legitters!

[@TheViolenceConductor]

Ah. Been a fan of hers since Dragon Lore.