Hey everybody -
I'm Stephen. I'm a Super-Microbudget Filmmaker based in the Midwest (Iowa) region.
Along with writing too many scripts, I'm offered hired to Produce other screenwriters work and see it to the finish line. Simply put, I love making movies, and doing so in ways that are outside the box and more cost-effective! Aka get it done! Don't spend years thinking about!
Would love to know what everyone is working on and if you're stuck anywhere!
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Hi Stephen Folker! So glad that you're part of Stage 32! What kinds of genres do you like to produce?
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Emily J - I love absurd humor and arthouse type stuff. But I've done SciFi, Drama, Thriller, Horror. I just love making films and seeing them happen vs scripts collecting dust!
How about you, what are you working on?
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Hey Stephen Folker - I've just started working on an outline for a steampunk meets samurai story. Putting my producer hat on and looking for ways to bring the cost down.
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Hey, Stephen Folker. Is that a cave?
I've been outlining spec scripts. Now to just pick one to write. Haha
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Nice to meet you, Stephen Folker! Glad to have you here and love your passion for making movies!
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Hi, Stephen. Best wishes to you. Please read my bit: 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
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Love the pic! Just starting my production journey with a short film once I make a couple of script updates. The question "Am I ready?" always comes up, but I know it's just a case of getting it done! So, I'll lock the script, find some people and start making movies!
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That picture is impressive.
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Asmaa Jamil thanks! On location for film project in Iowa! Awesome park with cool rock formations.
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Edward Terry - you're never fully ready! Just go for it!
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Greetings from Waterloo :) Been thinking about delving into film making myself.