Introduce Yourself : Hello Stage32 friends! by Phillip Chavez

Phillip Chavez Hi Philip, welcome to Stage32's IYW. What are you working on at the moment? What genres do you prefer?

Hey, Phillip Chavez. I don't think I've seen a Psychological Thriller/Dark Comedy before. Sounds really interesting.

Hey Geoff Hall, I'm planning a microbudget, getting a crew together, and then hopping over to crowdfunding. I like drama, but varying degrees of it.

Hi Maurice Vaughan some of my favorites I recommend are Parasite, American Psycho, and Fargo to name a few.

I stand corrected, Phillip Chavez. I have seen Psychological Thriller/Dark Comedy movies. I saw "Parasite" and "Fargo." "Parasite" switched between genres. Incredible movie! I've never thought of "Fargo" as a Psychological Thriller/Dark Comedy though.

please feel free to contact me for the film music!

Hello Andre Williams thank you for reaching out and offering to help me with the music! I'll add you and we can chat more about it

Hey Phillip Chavez - I'm always open to chat about filmmaking. Just wrapped a psychological thriller / in post at moment.

Great to see you again, Phillip

Hey Stephen Folker very cool shot for your psychological thriller project! Looking forward to chatting more

Thank you and likewise Richard "RB" Botto

Phillip Chavez Thanks , Phillip. Have you done much crowdfunding?

Maurice Vaughan sadly Maurice, I’ve yet to see Parasite. Is it on any of the streamers?

"Parasite" is on Hulu, Geoff Hall.

Welcome to Stage32, Phillip Chavez! Happy to connect with someone from the Bay Area (me: North Bay). I'd love to hear more about your upcoming project and see if I can be of any help.

Maurice Vaughan darn it, Maurice. I just can't catch a break!

Geoff Hall only once before! but it was for a music campaign so this will be exciting

Thank you for the welcome Ty Strange! Always awesome to meet someone local. I just sent an invite and looking forward to chatting

Hi Phillip Great to meet you and welcome to Stage 32!

Thank you for the welcome Morne Patterson! Great to meet you and look forward to chatting

"Parasite" might pop up on another streamer, Geoff Hall.

Maurice Vaughan I will check. Thanks Maurice.

Phillip Chavez any tips you’d like to pass on to a rookie like myself, Phillip?

You're welcome, @Geoff Hall.

Hey Geoff Hall, for that project I learned that outreach is key and something I didn't do well initially. I received a message or two afterward about people wanting to know updates about the project, during and after. I kind of just posted it and hoped for the best, but I now know that when people say it's a full-time job, that it truly is and customer support is key throughout.

Phillip Chavez Thanks, Phillip, your advice. Full-time job. Noted. Outreach is the key. Noted.

Hello, Mr. Chavez, I'm a screenwriter and play writer, an American in London. I love SF, though. I wonder if one or two screenplays, or one stage play, might interest you. Please read by entry here on Introduce Yourself. Here it is. And good luck to you and all your work. Screenplays and Stage Plays

Braggarts irritate me, but if I don't toot my own trumpet (just as a tin thing) I won't get the interest in my work that it may deserve. I start my 'music' with a true tale. A retired MGM producer once read a screenplay of mine. We met here in London and he said to me, "You write better than most of them."

My next seeming achievement was to get the interest of Gregory Peck and Richard Farnsworth for the lead part in A REGULAR JOE, another screenplay, but my ad hoc producers who had connected me with those famous actors, and others, were unable to come up with the money for the project.

Going back further, I've had three stage plays produced in London theatres. The last play was translated into Russian and German. It was nearly produced in Moscow at a marvellous arts theatre near Red Square. Lack of financial backing was again the problem. Too bad, as the Russians loved my satire, SMALL TALK. (Russia had just become Russia again.)

(A German theatre producer owns the production rights to the German translation of Small Talk.)

Since those times, I've completed several other scripts. I have a full length drama for the stage and a short religious comedy, THE TRIAL OF GOD, which one actor has called "a beautiful comedy". Both plays should be performed in the UK first. The "God play" could also be a film. It needs one set and five players.

Two newer and other screenplays would most suitably be shot in the USA and Canada, both comedies and dramas. STAYING WITH FRIENDS is a comedy that explores the question whether neighbours can truly be friends.

Now that I have dropped some of my names as well as some of my projects, I'd love for some of you to drop your names to me, and your own interests.

I'd appreciate it if some of you who are looking for a new movie or play to look at some of my work. I didn't just do it for myself. Thank you,

Yours warmly,

Dale Reynolds writdale@gmail.com

Hey Phillip, nice to E-meet you!