EXECUTIVE STAFF
Larry N Stouffer
Founder / Executive Director
Since founding SCSFe, Larry has become a quarter-finalist, semi-finalist and finalist in a number of screenwriting competitions. His writing hit the big screen as co-writer and Associate Producer for the dramedy Junkyard Ghost (Lee Majors). The Council on International Nontheatrical Events awarded Larry a Cine Golden Eagle for his doc Where Do The Children Play? In other documentaries he directed George Kennedy in Justice and the Art of Gentle Outrage, John Forsythe in Would We Not Long For the Fair? and Henry Fonda in the award-winning The Big Yellow Schooner To Byzantium.
Larry's screenplays, Rising Star - a family drama - along with Horror High - The Remake, (Larry directed the original cult-classic Horror High) - a campy horror script - and A Message for Martinez - action/adventure - are all projects seeking funding (novel, eh?). A co-writing project, Dance Magic, is set up at a fledgling production company in Florida to be produced.
Larry has sold three feature screenplays, two of which have been produced. He is currently writing a hybrid genre (drama/action) spec screenplay where a tragic mistake made by a young boy puts his grandfather's life in jeopardy.
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Joseph V Stern
General Manager
Prior to joining SCSFe, Joseph produced a Lazlo Kovacs (Easy Rider) lighting seminar and Steve Kemper (Face Off) editing workshop for the Santa Fe Film Festival. In Albuquerque, he produced the inaugural Insomnia Lounge, a mixed media space merging music, filmmaking, writing, and digital art sponsored by Apple, Bittorent and Intel. In Austin, he managed logistics for SXSW film and juried films for the Austin Film Festival.
As a writer / director focusing on action adventure comedies, his feature spec script "Cuba, NM" highlights a medley of panic attacks, girlscout cookies, Chinese ninja stars, pyro addictions and disco dancing. "Date-A-Bot," a comedic webisodic series about interspecial dating has a pilot in post and the first season budgeted. Spinners, his 2008 magical lowrider romantic comedy directorial debut stars Raoul Trujillo (Apocalypto) and 85 lowriders from Chimayo, NM (www.spinnersthemovie.com). He's currently directing music videos.
As a producer / unit production manager, he put together two low-budget films with HDNM Entertainment, Naked Fear, a thriller starring Joe Mantegna and Shoot First and Pray You Live, a bloody spaghetti western featuring Bill Pympton's animation. In search of low-budget high concept financing, Joseph is pushing a yoga crashing buddy comedy "Snags."
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CONFERENCE STAFF
Sheryl Brown
Transportation Coordinator
Sheryl Brown is one of the newest members to the conference staff. She holds a MBA in Entrepreneurship and is the president of Taking Care of Business, LLC.
In the last twelve months Sheryl has worked on two independent short films. The first, Water Torture, was an entry into the 48 Hour Film Project. The film made it into the top ten films for New Mexico, taking away the award for Best Sound Design. Sheryl co-produced the second film; a gothic horror entitled Undying Love. The two shorts have variously screened at film events including the 48 Hour Project, Duke City Shootout, The 9th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival, The Guild and The New Mexico Professional Filmmaker's Showcase. At this point, both shorts are entering film festivals throughout the United States. Sheryl is currently spearheading a webisode writing team and has been invited to participate in the 2009 48 Hour Film Project as a member of a writing team.
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Bil Clement
Technical Support
A native son of Santa Fe, Bil [sic] has managed to avoid fame and recognition for his writing and producing talents for decades. Sadly, he claims, word is getting around and will soon force on him the responsibilities he was born to. If you see him working during the conference, you will be one of a handful that can boast that claim. Please remind him his WGA fees are due for YEAR OF RUM, THE GREGOR BLADE, and WHERE LAZARUS LIES. Also, his mother misses hearing from her oldest son.
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Matt Dixson
Director, The Hollywood Connection
Matt is a native New Mexican. A graduate of the University of New Mexico, he double majored in History and Physical Education. Currently, he spends his days teaching Economics, World History, and Film Criticism. His involvement in the conference began three years ago as an attendee, and eventually moved into the faculty as a volunteer coordinator. Now as Director of The Hollywood Connection component of the conference, Matt is responsible for connecting with Hollywood producers who are real players and are aggressively seeking screenplays to produce.
Matt is an optioned screenwriter and is currently working on a project with a producer he met through the conference. The script which is based on a greek myth is titled: "Eros and the Goddess" and slated for production in late 2008/early 2009.
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Peg Durkee
Site Manager / Special Events
Here comes Peg: a capable gal who seems to love everyone she knows. Perky and bright, Peg is a singer and an award-winning songwriter. Her diversified background includes that she won a philosophy scholarship to Dallas Community College, has extensive experience in marketing, event planning, and administration (which is helpful as she is the SCSFe Administrator). She is writing her first drama/spiritual screenplay and intends to have it polished and ready to pitch at our 2008 Conference. Be sure to ask her about it. Peg was born in Dallas and is quick to say, "But that dont mean I like Country music."
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Darren Foster
Conference Advisor
Darren Foster teaches screenwriting at the University of Colorado, Denver and the Colorado Film School. He is the Founder and President of Film Scribe (www.filmscribe.com), a website dedicated to supporting screenwriters worldwide, and the Co-Director of the Screenwriting Contest at the Vail Film Festival (www.vailfilmfestival.org) where he is also a member of the Festival's Advisory Board. Darren has taught at various festivals, conferences and educational institutions nationwide and has been on the faculty of The Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe since 2005.
An active screenwriter, Darren has written more than a hundred screenplays with several under option and/or contract. He is the Owner and President of Film Scribe Productions and the Co-Founder of Serotonin Rising Pictures, LLC. His latest projects include co-writer on Nephilim (www.nephilimthemovie.com) slated for production in Wisconsin in 2009 and writer and co-producer on the film Serotonin Rising (www.serotoninrising.com) currently in hiatus but scheduled to resume production in late 2009. Darren also co-developed the TV pilot Happiness 101 with Tony Perri and Warren Miller Entertainment that is currently being pitched to a variety of networks.
Darren resides in Estes Park, Colorado with his wife, Shana.
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Dart Hardiman
Staff at Large
D'Artagnan Hardiman has written over ten screenplays and is currently working on his second novel. Dart's screenplay "Eddy Ray" was one of the seven winners of 2006 Duke City Shootout. His screenplay "Pollster" was a second runner up in 2006 New Mexico Governor's Cup Competition. Dart completed the Film Technicians Training Program (FTTP) at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dart recently completed a mentorship on Crash, the TV series. The mentorship was with Lester Berman, the UPM for episodes 108-113.
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John Hayes
Actors Choice Awards Producer
John Hayes is a Founding Staff Member of SCSFe, a 20-year resident of Santa Fe, a Friday child, a midnight baby, a fire dog Aries from Kansas.
John has also been long involved with the Santa Fe Playhouse as an actor, photographer, and board member, and with the Santa Fe Opera as a super nummerary and weekend graveyard security guard (and star watcher). Carpe noche.
He has worked in film production as an actor, background artist, photographer, security guard, co-screenwriter, film production budgeting, and assistant to the esteemed Mr. Stouffer.
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Vicki Joyce
Hospitality Coordinator
Vicki was a semi-finalist in the American Accolades Screenplay Contest for her screenplays Hell Gate to Golden Gate and Geode. She was a quarter finalist in the 7th Annual International Screenplay Competition for her screenplay Hell Gate to Golden Gate.
She has placed in the top 10% of the Nicholl's Fellowships in Screenwriting. Her newest script, Frat Mom, has received attention from several production companies. Vicki has been on the SCSFe staff for the past 4 years.
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Laura K. Marsh
Co-Technical Coordinator
Laura grew up in southern California a surfer, an artist, and a birdwatcher. Not, remarkably, a screenwriter.
Several degrees later (B.S, M.S, M.A., Ph.D., and a post-doc at Los Alamos National Lab), she has worked all over the world in tropical rainforests studying everything from plants to monkeys to jaguars to people. She has published in professional journals on many aspects of science, including a book, and she has discovered a new species of saki monkey in Ecuador.
She began formally writing screenplays nearly four years ago and now has five feature scripts being sent out for funding by her manager. In her spare time, she owns True Believers Comics & Gallery in Santa Fe and volunteers for SCSFe.
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Mahree Munding
Volunteer Coordinator
Mahree was born and educated in New Mexico. In the past, she served as a WGAw Signatory Agent and is a member of Women in Film. She also published and edited "It's A Wrap" magazine, an entertainment industry quarterly that showcased New Mexico talent to the LA and New York film industry during the 1990s. She began her love of screenwriting again in 2006. Her favorite genres are comedies and horrors, but she has also written a thriller and a sci-fi. She attended the PGA Awards in 2007, and DGA Awards in 2008.
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David Shepard
Troubleshooter
Shep began his movie career very early in life when he starred in his first film as a one year old at a birthday party. This also marked the decline of his acting career due to failing to follow simple directions, destroying the cake, and redecorating the set in frosting. Shep partially recovered from this travesty and has been our "Trouble Shooter" (Troublemaker) for the past nine years.
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Keturah Shepard
Supreme Consultant
Since graduating from the University of New Mexico with a double bachelor's degree in Marketing and Human Resource Management, Keturah as written numerous novels and screenplays. Her screenplays have placed in the following contests: Austin Film Festival (Semi-finalist, Top 25), Anything But Hollywood (Finalist, Top 10), Nicholl Fellowship (Quarter-finalist), The Writer's Network (Semi-finalist), American Screenwriters Association, and Hollywood Gateway/StudioNotes (Semi-finalist).
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Kirsten Sigurdson
Advertising & Promotions Manager
Kirsten was born and raised in New Mexico. During her teen years she became a member of the Screen Actors Guild, but found she had a love for writing scenes, not acting in them. In College, she worked with a WGA Signatory Agency as a script reader and then wrote her first screenplay. After graduating from the University of New Mexico with a Degree in Journalism and Business, Kirsten set screenwriting aside and broke into the creative world of Advertising, but recently returned to her love of writing. Currently she is pursuing a professional screenwriting career and is actively taking classes, writing and marketing her projects.
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Melissa J. White
Program Book Designer
Mel is an award-winning designer/writer and studied screenwriting at the New Mexico Film Intensive with Tom Musca. Her short screenplay, "ID", won 1st place at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in 2008. Mel works as a script supervisor in New Mexico and was appointed to the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission in 2006. She owns Whitespace Creative, Santa Fe, a branding-design studio. Sample her writing at (www.melissajwhite.com).
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