Surviving Cinema
Eric Stanze is an award-winning director, writer, editor, producer, and 2nd unit director who primarily works on independent feature films. Stanze began interning on local commercials and music videos at the age of 16, and he entered the industry professionally when he was 18. More info, trailers, and news at ericstanze.com.
07/27/2012 - 8:00am
Before my age hit double-digits, I discovered on a 13-inch black-and-white television the films Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) and The Blob (1958) broadcast back-to-back over the airwaves in the dead of MORE
12/20/2012 - 2:00pm
Here at the end of 2012, if I had to choose two film titles that best sum up my year, I’d have to select We Are What We Are and Scrapbook. That’s pretty odd, because We Are What We Are is slated MORE
12/11/2012 - 2:00pm
I’ve been editing a lot lately, and working at the Avid is something I’m very comfortable doing. However, I must admit, long stretches of editing will burn me out. When I start to hit a MORE
09/05/2012 - 6:00pm
This weekend, Vice Squad (1982) will be screening as part of the Late Nite Grindhouse series, presented by Destroy The Brain! and St. Louis’s historic Hi-Pointe Theatre.
Vice Squad is about a hooker MORE
05/05/2008 - 1:19pm
Since September 2007, Eric Stanze, writer/director/producer/owner of independent film company Wicked Pixel Cinema has been given us the scoop on what it?s like to be a working director in the independent film MORE
03/26/2013 - 11:00am
In Part 1 of this journey, I began revisiting the production of an older movie of mine, the bizarre horror/experimental feature Ice From The Sun, shot entirely on Super 8 film.
I’d rummaged deep into the MORE
12/05/2012 - 2:00pm
If you have a new television, or are thinking Santa may bring you one for the holidays, chances are you’ve been exposed to the newest way films can be screwed up between the time they’re MORE
08/13/2012 - 4:00pm
Since the release of my last film, Ratline (2011), I’ve hesitated to begin writing another screenplay. This is not due to any writer’s block – in fact, I’ve had the opposite problem MORE