Stanley grew up loving movies. Some of his earliest memories are of watching double features at revival houses with his parents in San Francisco. He saw The Godfather I and II back to back at the age of six – probably not the best parenting choice, Mom and Dad. The shocking image of Robert De Niro putting a gun in a guy's mouth and pulling the trigger still sticks with him to this day. The magic of visual storytelling is what draws him to the cinema over and over again – sitting in a darkened theater and letting the sounds and images wash over him. But it wasn't until high school that he even considered the possibility of filmmaking as a lifetime passion. A graduate of UCLA Film School, Stanley's thesis project "World of Longing" was featured at the Hawaii International Film Festival and Asian American International Film Festival. Stanley went on to work for Roger Corman's "School of Film" at Concorde/New Horizons Studio. Following in the footsteps of his idols like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, he labored behind the scenes of numerous B-movie classics and worked his way up from being a Production Assistant to Director in just 18 months. He directed The Fabulous Miss Wendy's music video "Crazy Fucked Up Bitch", did first and second unit directing for SyFy's Black Scorpion television series, and co-directed the feature Sting of the Black Scorpion. Chink will be his feature directorial debut.
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