ELIZABETH STANLEY

After overseeing the DGA’s work with independent filmmakers for over 7 years, Elizabeth Stanley left the Guild in 2004 to establish Elizabeth Stanley Pictures and
Next Stop Management.

In 2006, Ms. Stanley produced the feature-length MotoGP documentary
The Doctor, The Tornado and The Kentucky Kid written and directed by Mark Neale.
It is currently being distributed in the US, Australia/New Zealand, the UK and Japan.

Her most recent producing effort is The Dark Path Chronicles, a half-hour VOD and webisode series written and directed by Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary, Pet Sematary, Music Video Hall of Fame) for FEARnet where it will premiere on November 6, 2008.  The film/webisode series is also being distributed internationally by Fireworks International/Content Film.

Together with director Joe Dante (Gremlins, Gremlins 2, The Howling) and Jonas Hudson of Digital Syndication, Ms. Stanley has produced the critically acclaimed internet and mobile-content series called Trailers from Hell (accessible via www.trailersfromhell.com).  In just a year after its launch, the site has received over 500,000 unique visitors and over 40 million hits and continues to post new content on the site three times a week.  Content International is distributing Trailers from Hell worldwide.

Ms. Stanley is developing a number of feature film and television projects in the US and abroad including The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes and Expecting Someone Taller, both of which will be directed by Joe Dante and The Price of Peace to be directed by Mary Lambert.

She also manages a small number of emerging writers and directors through Next Stop Management and provides consulting services for filmmakers, companies and organizations, including but not limited to: script and project analysis and development strategies, navigating and negotiating with the Guilds, career planning, alternate distribution strategies, and event planning and management.

From 1997 to September 2004, Ms. Stanley served as the Assistant Executive Director/Director of Organizing for the Directors Guild of America.   From 1987 to 1997, she was the chief executive for the Directors Guild-Producer Training Plan, the pre-eminent US entertainment industry joint labor management training plan.