BPS 381: From Micro-Budget to World-Wide Distribution with Shane Stanley

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.

Please enjoy my conversation with Shane Stanley.

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