MASTERCLASS 2024

Since its inception, the YVFF brings A-List Talents to Yucca Valley for a Masterclass event.

Saturday, Nov 9, 2024, 2:30pm | Main Room (Yucca Room)

4pm: Picture Signing

2024 MASTERCLASS is with A-List Hollywood director and producer Shane Stanley.

• Two-time Emmy Award Winner

• Produced the #1 Box Office hit Gridiron Gang starring Dwayne Johnson

• Director/Producer of Night Train, Hulu’s Longest Running #1 Hit

• Director/Producer of Double Threat, Netflix #1 Global Hit in 16 countries

• Best-selling author

• Eleven-time Telly Award Winner

Shane Stanley is a multi-Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author who grew up in/around “the biz” in Hollywood. As a childhood actor he had appeared on-screen in over 100 projects with Hollywood legends which included June Lockhart, Lloyd Haynes, and David Arkin.

Along with his father, Lee Stanley, Shane produced The Desperate Passage Series. The docu-drama series was nominated for 33 individual Emmy® Awards and won 13 statues. Two episodes of the series went on to become successful feature films including Gridiron Gang which was acquired by Sony Pictures and became a #1 box office hit starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.

Shane served as Vice President of Sheen/Michaels Entertainment where he produced several motion pictures starring Marlon Brando, Mira Sorvino, Thomas Hayden Church, Donald Sutherland, Marisa Tomei, Sean Penn, John Travolta and of course, Charlie and Martin Sheen. During that time, Shane made his directorial debut with his own screenplay, A Sight for Sore Eyes. The film was honored with the Special Jury Award at WorldFest Houston, won two Telly Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Film & Television. It went on to win dozens of prestigious awards and was invited to screen at Cannes in 2005.

His other directing credits include Mistrust, starring two-time Golden Globe® winner Jane Seymour as well as Break Even with Tasya Teles, Steve Guttenberg, and Golden Globe® nominee, Joanna Pacula.

Since the Global Pandemic, Shane produced and directed the action-comedy, Double Threat starring Matthew Lawrence and Dawn Olivieri (Yellowstone, 1883), which The New York Times listed on their Top 5 Action Movies to Stream Now.

It was the sole indie feature on Amazon Prime’s “Top 10 in the US” list remaining there for two months, peaking at #4. The film has enjoyed similar success on Netflix’s world-wide charts, ranking #1 in 16 countries in its debut and remains on the platform’s list of most watched films in 2024.

Shane’s action-thriller, Night Train, starring Danielle C. Ryan and Diora Baird premiered on HULU where it reached #1 on the platform and remained in the top spot for an astonishing four weeks. The movie was partially filmed in the Hi and Low Desert.

Currently, Shane is in post-production on Six Days in Evergreen a music-drama presented by legendary producer, Mario Kassar (Terminator, Total Recall, Rambo, The Doors, Basic Instinct). Also in post-production is The Legend of Van Dorn which is the epic tale of the legendary Civil War general.

Upon conclusion, Shane will partner again with Producer Mario Kassar and direct the action thriller, Shooting Shadows which will be filmed on location entirely in Thailand.

Shane’s book, “What You Don’t Learn in Film School,” a best-seller earning a 4.5-star rating across the board was listed by CNN, FORBES, and BOOK AUTHORITY among the Best Filmmaking Books of All- Time, which covers filmmaking from concept to delivery. It has landed on required reading lists at several universities around the world and is endorsed by some of the most respected names in Hollywood including Producer, Neal H. Moritz, (Fast & Furious, S.W.A.T., 21 and 22 Jump Street) and Paul Williams, Oscar®, Golden Globe® and Grammy® Award Winner and Hall of Fame songwriter.

Shane’s accolades include 2 Emmy® Awards, 11 Telly Awards, 2 CINE Golden Eagles Awards, 5 Aurora Awards, 4 WorldFest Remi Awards, and 28 International Film Festival Awards.

He has spoken at several prestigious film and art institutes around the country including The Screen Writers Expo, alongside Oliver Stone.

He is on several advisory boards for film schools and art programs across the country and is a contributing columnist for Student Filmmakers Magazine and NoFilmSchool.com as well as an instructor on Stage32.com, FilmCourage.com and IndieFilmHustle.com and SXSW.

In April 2021 he testified before the US Library of Congress on behalf of prestigious universities to help amend a 1978 copyright law that made traditional learning difficult for film school students during the COVID/virtual learning era.