Ricardo Islas: Director and producer in Chicago, Illinois.

Ricardo Islas

This sounds very interesting, Michael. Maybe you should give us a workshop on this

Ricardo Islas

Have you talked to anyone at stage32? Joey or other folks? If you have something to show us, I think there would be interest.

Astante James

Im interested!

Ricardo Islas
Ricardo Islas

Ricardo Islas here, filmmaker from Chicago. alphastudiosfilms.com

Ricardo Islas

Hola Roberto. Bienvenido!

Roberto RT

Hi Ricardo. Welcome you too. Keep in touch.

Ricardo Islas
Ricardo Islas

Thanks for the connection, Ray!

Ricardo Islas

These are some of my Youtube channel numbers. With low budget indie movies, I know I would never get these many eyeballs through conventional distribution, (which I also do in addition to the channel). I think this is the way to go; treating a youtube channel as if it was a TV channel. However, some...

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Johnny Cinematic

But did they make any money? Or: How many views do you have to get to get paid anything, and how much is that? In other words: What the point of views for your film when you're not making any or pennies from all the views?

Ricardo Islas

It's a revolving door, money comes in and out, and I get to break even almost all the time. The revenue share from google is very bad, no doubt about it; but so is conventional distribution for low bu...

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Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.)

Thanks for connecting on Stage 32. You can view my complete CV at http://www.police-lieutenant.com. You can also join me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/policeofficer. Best, Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.)...

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Ricardo Islas

Thank you, Raymond!

Ricardo Islas

FRANKENSTEIN DAY OF THE BEAST

We know the story, we have seen the movies. You may think that it’'s impossible to have a new approach to Frankenstein…. Think again. In a foggy winter morni...

Preston Poulter

I enjoying Roger Corman's Autobiography, "How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime." I would love to work with someone like him: no non-sense, hates bureaucracy, refuses go rule by committee. So refreshing.

Ricardo Islas

I read his book almost 20 years ago, and I've been following his steps as much as I can for all these years.

Jan S. Utstein
Funding Package Financials - Budgets +

You are putting your package together to raise those needed funds for your Film or TV project. You have the script, the deck, maybe actors and a director all signed up. Most funding sources care more about how the financials look than anything else in your submission. Things like the a budget, perha...

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Mark Ratering

Jan contact me mrateringg@hotmail.com

Chris Bath

Jan, could you please direct message here or contact me at my personal email christopherbath52@yahoo.com regarding a future film project that I will be participating in?

Erik A. Jacobson

THREE. YEARS. AGO???

Joaquín Carrasquilla
I can raise your sell tickets film in my country .

Hello I'm an actor-writer-producer, I'm producing and writing several projects, but in the mean while would like to participate in other productions besides mines as an actor, or connect with casting agents. Because I'm famous in my country Panama, when your film or series are presented in Panama, c...

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Ricardo Islas

Bienvenido, Joaquín. Suena bien

Joaquín Carrasquilla

Sí, ya lo hice, gracias a todos , pero no hay mucho, abrazos !

Joaquín Carrasquilla

Hello Noelle, I've read your profile, I like too sports like those, in the other hand I think we can collaborate, in the social media, I have an experience that could be very enlightening for you !

Ricardo Islas

Hi Hyder. Thank you for the network add. Here's my last movie, which I did with the Indian community in Chicago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-9n9ZqRjKY

Mark Cabaroy
Looking to work with a great producer who has no money

Hi Everyone, I'm Mark Cabaroy, I've been on Stage 32 since 2012 and have met and worked with some really great people, but the one person I haven't met and worked with yet is a great producer and I know there has got to be many of them on this website. You see most people are looking for a producer...

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Richard "RB" Botto

Hey Mark. For obvious reasons, mainly since we have 500,000 creatives on the site all with something to promote, I do not put personal projects in my Weekend Blog. It's up to you to network and make t...

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Serafin Soto

You can't buy character.

Ricardo Islas

A great producer with no money? Anybody called me?

Ricardo Islas
Chicago producer

Hi, I'm Ricardo Islas. Producer from Chicago; just finished 2 movies back to back. I'm looking around to see what's next... https://www.youtube.com/user/newalphastudios

alphastudiosfilms
alphastudiosfilms
We've been making movies since 1985 and we can't get enough of it...
Ricardo Islas

I am... I think I can take about two more weeks of relaxation before jumping into something else :)

Ricardo Islas

"The Sacrifice is an enjoyably effective horror thriller with plenty of elements of action cinema thrown in just for good measure, all carried by a very engaging storyline that twists and turns enough to keep you guessing throughout, to then culminate in an explosive finale. And that the whole thing...

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Jack Angry
Horror movie tv series looking for indie horror filmmakers

Greetings all, It has been a while since I was last here since then I and my crew have increased the presence of the show to 10 roku channels 5 online networks and 7 public access networks across the country. Here's the deal we want to take the show to the next level here's what we need independent...

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Ricardo Islas

Hi there. Here's my youtube channel. Please, tell me more https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Db5_n9oZML5xx-u0n5S9w

Ricardo Islas
From Chicago with Horror

Hi all, I'm Ricardo Islas with Alpha Studios. We've been producing horror for three decades. Great to be here.

Joe Toplyn

Wow, that's amazing. Does that include post-production? I'm guessing you did a lot of careful pre-production and have a lot of friends who were willing to help out. Great work!

Ricardo Islas

Thank you, Joe. I have a group of great guys with whom I've worked for years. True that I do a lot myself, since I'm an editor and DP. There's a method to make this work, and I would lie if I said tha...

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Joe Toplyn

Thanks for the background information. How does that saying go, "The only mistakes in production are the mistakes made in pre-production?" I've been involved in TV production and know how important it...

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Ricardo Islas
Ricardo Islas - Alpha Studios

Just saying hi. We have been producing independent features for 30 years, mostly on the horror genre. Our approach is pretty unique, taking low budget to a different level by having our movies look as if they were made with much bigger budgets than they actually had. We invest smart, that simple. If...

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Stage 32 Staff - Julie

Hey Ricardo, this is Julie from the Stage 32 team. I just wanted to let you know I moved your post from Filmmaking / Directing to Introduce Yourself, as it fits much better there. Let me know if you have any questions, and all the best to you!

Ricardo Islas

Thank you!

Ricardo Islas

Hi Rob. Thank you for reaching out; I would say it all depends on what you like. Even when most of them are horror in the youtube channel, there are different kinds of horror to them.

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