Sasha Nonas-Barnes, Producer and Development Executive
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Webinar hosted by: The Pitch Tank
Sasha Nonas-Barnes is a producer working alongside producer Tiegen Kosiak on a new slate of projects, including a script discovered through a pitch on Stage 32. Before breaking out on his own, Sasha was the Development Executive at Ineffable Pictures, a full-service production company led by Raphael Krysek (THE ROAD WITHIN). Ineffable was founded in 2010 with recent credits including ARMED RESPONSE with Alan Arkin, Clea DuVall and Ethan Embry; and LATE BLOOMERS with Maria Bello, Brittany Snow and Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons. Allen James Roughton is the Stage 32 Script Services Coordinator, a screenwriter, reader and development researcher who has consulted on over 100 projects, scripts, books, comics and films and conducted research on life stories, exposés, professions and locations for development at major production companies. Nick Assunto is part of the Stage 32 script services team and a screenwriter himself. He was previously a reader for the Austin Film Festival, a writer for the 2017 CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase, co-host of the Sunday show B.Y.O.T. at UCB, and dabbled in acting, having been featured on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, an eHarmony commercial directed by Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst (for real), and is infamously known as Tony, the annoying party member from the 'Four Friends' Elder Scrolls spots. Full Bio »
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Producer Sasha Nonas-Barnes joins our Panel as we listen and read your pitches live to help educate the Writers' Room screenwriters on what is and isn't working in their pitch.
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We take a look at live and written pitches for a short romance film, a swashbuckling female-led feature, and a supernatural procedural.
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