Shane Stanley

Who is Shane Stanley?

Shane Stanley is a multi-Emmy Award winning filmmaker best known for Executive Producing Gridiron Gang starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for Sony Pictures and directing Bret Michaels music videos supporting the show Rock of Love and Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It. Stanley was the youngest to ever win a production Emmy Award, his first at sixteen and his second at nineteen for his work on The Desperate Passage Series. Stanley made his directorial debut helming his own screenplay A Sight for Sore Eyes which starred Academy Award nominee Gary Busey. Besides being honored with dozens of awards and film festival honors, the film was invited to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.

Also a commercial and music video director, Stanley's work includes campaigns for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino and various PSA's for the Nation Diabetes Association. His most known music videos include StorySide:B's "Miracle" as well as Bret Michaels's Go That Far which reached #1 and remained on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown for over three months. The video is ranked on the network's list of 100 Best Music Videos. As of 2010, five of Stanley's music videos have been on VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown, two simultaneously. Recently, Shane co-wrote Bret Michaels's autobiography, “Roses & Thorns" for Simon & Schuster which will release February 1, 2014.