Joany Kane: Content creator, producer and screenwriter in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Joany Kane
Origins of a Christmas Romance Movie

Back in the mid 1990s I came up with an idea for a Christmas romance movie about a young woman who sends a Christmas card to a serviceman which sparks a love story between them.

The kernel of the idea originally came when I was watching TV with my mom and a holiday music video by Vince Gill came on;...

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Jim Boston

Joany, thanks so doggone much for posting this! So glad you're here on Stage 32...and all the VERY BEST to you!

Sam Sokolow

What a great story, Joany. A real life movie romance. If you’re still working on selling a romantic comedy as a made for TV movie please allow me to recommend Matt Bierman’s upcoming Stage 32 lab wher...

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Clayton Dudzic

Write the Christmas story idea about a letter sent to a servicemen, but later into the story enter a new character of that being the servicemen's brother the logger you suddenly became close to.

GENRE: Romance, Comedy
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A fretful phobic and a slovenly playboy must put aside their mutual abhorrence for each other to plan a festive Jack and Jill party for their BFFs (who abandoned them when they fell in love.) 

Tasha Lewis

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Bryan Mooney

Welcome, Joany! So good to hear from you again. I hope all is well.

Your screenplay of The Christmas Card is still my favorite.

As you may recall, I write Christmas novels but not screenplays. I take my hat off to you.

Question for you - I've had two of the larger Hallmark production companies expr...

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Joany Kane

Hi Bryan! Thank you for your thoughtful post. I'm not as active on here as I should be and I've been out of the Hallmark loop for awhile so I can't help that much with your question. From my own exper...

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Joany Kane
Happy Spring

Spring cheers, team Stage 32! I've been in the business for a couple of decades. My first movie was "The Christmas Card" for Hallmark back in 2006. It received an Emmy nom and was one of the inspirations for their current Christmas craze. Off of the success of that movie I had a whole bunch of Chris...

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Kimberly Anglemyer

Welcome! I would love to hear more about Passionflix. Can you attach a link or description?

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Joany. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

This is a network for you, built by you. Like...

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Amanda Toney

Hello Joany -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

Over the years Stage 32 has worked with over 500 industry executives and professionals to teach online webinars, classes and intensive labs exclusively for you - our Stage 32 community. We bring you instructors who have worked directly on some of your favorite films, TV shows or theater productions to teach you in-the-trenches information that you wo...

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