Stuart Land: Screenwriter, filmmaker and director in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Watching Introduce Yourself Weekend on STAGE 32.

Mr. Cool! I took your 2 Day Film School about 20 years ago in LA. I sat next to Jonathan Frakes. Never too late to use your info, as I just made a trailer for my new film.

Hi Jan. Thanks for connecting. What do you produce? You have no profile.

Hi Stuart :), I hope your doing good! Thanks for accepting my network request. I m n actor from India. Please have a look at my Show_Reel ... (major part is in Hindi language, and there are no subtitles (sorry abt tht); but i hope to connect on a very visual and expressive level). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pi-KT3Wvwk&list=UU37tiB5CfvFnor0RTt5ghoQ Your feedback is very welcome! Best Wishes .. Take Care :)

Hey Stuart! My review of Gailene's Vow is up on Rock the Book: http://rockthebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-rockin-review-of-gailenes-vow-... Hope you like it! I really enjoyed the book!

I'm probably missing this somehow, but what are the karma points, what do they mean, what do they do, and how do you acquire them? Nothing I do or participate in on here seems to have any effect.

Looking for people who are interested in getting together and developing an Indie horror movie, not so much a slasher movie, I think those are not as popular as they once were but straight ghost story....

Ha! I created a Sci-Fi fashion show sponsored by the opening of Flash Gordon at Tramps Discotheque in Washington, DC, back in the early 80s. The best in cheese! Nice to know there still creatively warped brains out there.

I'm finally getting a breath to check in here at Stage 32 to yak about my Indie film project I'm doing where I live in Thailand. It's a crossover Thai ghost story with all Thai actors and an international crew from six countries so far. It's not a slasher movie, or a one location movie, but a supernatural thriller. What I mean about being a crossover film is that although it's a Thai ghost story in essence, it's written with a Western structure and story sensibilities that will appeal to multiple cultures. We're in the casting stage now. Next we'll be making the trailer to use for a crowdfunding campaign to shoot the entire feature. We're still looking for some key crew if anyone wants a working vacation in Thailand: SFX makeup; visual FX. This is a chance for a visual FX person to go all out creating something they design within the parameters of what we need for a truly scary ghost transformation. For the trailer, we'll need one or two super transformation effects. We can pay something, but not standard rates. Better rates would come later with the crowdfunding. Naturally, the visual FX person doesn't need to come here. For casting, We're still auditioning for the two main leads, male and female in early twenties. Must be Thai or half-Thai, but look Thai, and speak fluent Thai with no foreign accent. The female role carries the entire film, so this is a break-out role. For more info and to see the mock up poster, please visit www.facebook.com/nightkill.movie or email me at writer@stuartland.com.

Greetings! Thank you for the contact! My film Black Car Home has just been selected for the BAFTA qualifying London short Film Festival 2015. Do have a look at the trail and news at http://facebook.com/blackcarhome and also Nathan's blog http://blackcarhome.com and his daily news Twitter @blackcarhome to see some of the things I am doing!

I'm finally getting a breath to check in here at Stage 32 to yak about my Indie film project I'm doing where I live in Thailand. It's a crossover Thai ghost story with all Thai actors and an international crew from six countries so far. It's not a slasher movie, or a one location movie, but a supernatural thriller. What I mean about being a crossover film is that although it's a Thai ghost story in essence, it's written with a Western structure and sensibilities that will appeal to multiple cultures. We're in the casting stage now. Next we'll be making the trailer to use for a crowdfunding campaign to shoot the entire feature. We're still looking for some key crew if anyone wants a working vacation in Thailand: SFX makeup; visual FX. This is a chance for a visual FX person to go all out creating something they design within the parameters of what we need for a truly scary ghost transformation. For the trailer, we'll need one or two super transformation effects. We can pay something, but not standard rates. Better rates would come later with the crowdfunding. Naturally, the visual FX person doesn't need to come here. For casting, We're still auditioning for the two main leads, male and female in early twenties. Must be Thai or half-Thai, but look Thai, and speak fluent Thai with no foreign accent. The female role carries the entire film, so this is a break-out role. For more info and to see the mock up poster, please visit www.facebook.com/nightkill.movie or email me at writer@stuartland.com.

What makes a good director... this is where I start: The director is the Captain of the ship. They need a strong ability to visualize and a strong solid overall vision for a project, project management, personnel management, leadership, the ability to explain their vision properly to others, the ability to listen, a strong understanding of all the areas and disciplines required to bring their vision through to delivery, knowing that something can or can't be done within the time & finances allocated... A good director needs to be a good story teller. A good Director needs to know when an actor's performance has peaked and when to stop pushing, or when to step in and pull that last bit from the actor. A good Director has to know when to just sit back and let the actors run with it while knowing when to reign them in again. A good Director knows how to make an actor comfortable enough to step out of their comfort zone in order to get the best from them. Actors need to trust the director. If an actor cannot trust a director, they won't deliver a quality performance.. Directing is more than just calling action. Directing is a very difficult job. It starts the minute the project starts and ends after Delivery. A good director needs to be able to edit a script, understand music and its impact on a scene. know when to add the right sound effect to build an emotional moment. A good director needs to understand the emotion and technical impart of a given camera angle and movement. They need to understand editorial pacing and how it will impact and affect the story. A good Director cannot do everything... they need to know when to delegate to trusted crew and cast, to let the team have the space they need to create as well, while assuring it all fits into the final project.

Wow, 3,700 and 1! That's what I call a super guest list, Cliff. Thanks for bring me aboard. Which way to mini-hot-dogs?

Thanks for connecting, Raymond. Quite impressive life you're leading. I can relate in the smallest way having been a beat officer on the Washington DC Police back in '69-'70. No gangs then, just normal robbery, murder, domestic, and then all the anti-war demonstrations that came to town. Best to you in your author's life.

So, Carroll Trust, are you a person or a trust. What do you mean about being on lock down? What, exactly do your first two posts mean?

Hello, this is Dilli R Chapagai, i have been in the united states for six years. i was born in Bhutan and evicted along with 80,000 people from bhutan because of voicing for our basic human rights . i spent 17 years in refugee camp in nepal. now i am the united states citizen. i live in lansing, michigan. i did acting,directing, screenwriting and other production stuff in nepal. i want to do same here and learn more, i am looking for apprenticeship. if anyone want to make me their apprentice please contact me- Dillu_chapagai22@yahoo.com, facebook# Dilli R Chapagai, twitter# @DRChapagai. i did make one short movie here "yak living place" it is in real story. watch it in youtube and now i am learning to write screenplays myself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Swavm4pQP8

I am an American living in Mexico (San Miguel de Allende), author of 'Older Man Younger Man,' 'God On Your Own,' 'The Way of the Traveler,' and other books. I founded the film school at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in 1987 with the help of actress Greer Garson, who gave us $3.3 million to build an academic facility attached to two rent-out sound stages -- my students went to classes on one side of the building and worked on films at the studios (in the early days: City Slickers, Wyatt Earp - more recently 'Longmire,' 'Manhattan,' etc.). I've returned to my first love, writing screenplays. The first, just finished, is 'The Mayor Falls in Love' -- the true story of J.W. Lown, the closeted mayor of ultra-conservative San Angelo, TX, who was re-elected to a 4th term with 90% of the vote, but did not show up for his swearing-in...he fled in the night to Mexico with his lover, an 'undocumented' 20-year-old male student. It's an upbeat romance with twists around some serious 'today' issues, especially immigration law , same-sex marriage, and gays in politics. I'm new to Stage 32 -- looking for friends, contacts, connections, looking mostly to find agents/producers/anyone else in the business who will read the screenplay. Thanks, Stage 32, for this great opportunity. J.

Hi. I'm Stuart. I'm a writer and filmmaker. In the past I've worked in Hollywood for 15 years as an effects sculptor. I've written 19 screenplays, and published 8 novels, and this year won two screenwriting contests so far. At present, I'm in pre-production on a horror/thriller I wrote to be filmed in Thailand with an all Thai cast, but an international crew. So far we have folks from five countries taking part. though I've been lurking for a while, and meeting some amazing folks from time to time, this is my first true introduction. Sooo.... Hi there!