Shane Stanley
Shane Eric Stanley (born June 15, 1971, in Encino, Los Angeles) is an American filmmaker and founder of Visual Arts Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based film and TV production company. He is best known for producing Gridiron Gang for Sony Pictures and directing Night Train (2023) and Double Threat, which debuted at #1 on Netflix in 16/17 countries in August 2024. He wrote What You Don't Learn in Film School (2018) and co-wrote Bret Michaels' Roses & Thorns.
Stanley has earned numerous awards throughout his career. At 16, he won an Emmy for camera work on Desperate Passage, becoming the youngest winner in that non-actor category. He was later nominated for Emmy Awards for Maiden Voyage (1990) and Drug Watch L.A. (1991) and Drug Watch L.A. Second Edition (1991), with the Second Edition winning. He received a Christopher Award for A Time for Life (1992). In 1994, he won two CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Street Pirates and also earned a Silver Star at WorldFest-Houston. In 2005, A Sight for Sore Eyes won the Gold Special Jury Award at WorldFest-Houston, earned three Prix Aurora Awards for writing, screenplay and directing, and picked up two Telly Awards along with other festival honors. In 2006, he, along with Lee Stanley, Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, Sean Porter and Glenn Bell, received Los Angeles County’s Enriching Lives honors for their positive impact. A Sight for Sore Eyes was recognized by the International Family Film Festival in 2008. In 2011, My Trip to the Dark Side won a Gold Remi Award at Worldfest Houston. In 2016, The Untold Story won Best Screenplay at the Breckenridge Film Festival and was nominated for Best Picture at Central Florida’s Film Festival; the film has appeared at more than a dozen festivals, including Carmel, Garden State, and New York.
His father, Lee Stanley, wrote Faith in the Land of Make-Believe, a book about the family’s work with juvenile inmates in Los Angeles County, a cause Lee dedicated more than twenty-five years to.
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