Longtime Goal of Being an Independent Filmmaker: TOMMY STOVALL Now With 2 Hit Films Including SEDONA

Oct. 8, 2012 - PRLog -- Tommy Stovall is a film director, writer, and movie producer.  Tommy’s first film, “Hate Crime,” won 10 major film festival awards, including an award for Best Director at the Breckenridge Film Festival. His latest movie is “Sedona,” described as a charming, inspirational, quirky, feel-good magical mystery adventure about finding miracles.  “Sedona” has had a successful theatrical run, resulting in a string of sold-out film festival audiences and is now released on DVD, Blu-Ray and video-on-demand.  Tommy is the President of Pasidg Productions; with a degree in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas he started out in the business in the early 1990’s with his own video production company. Tommy’s longtime goal of becoming an independent filmmaker has been realized through his successful making of and distribution of two well-received movies.  To learn more go to: www.SedonaMovie.com

If you’ve ever visited Sedona and fell in love with its slightly quirky nature, it’s possible you may have thought that the area would make a great setting for film. That’s exactly what happened when writer/director Tommy Stovall moved to the Arizona town.  The film stars Francis Fisher and Barry Corbin, written and directed by Tommy Stovall, Sedona depicts the profound personal transformations experienced by a powerful advertising executive and a stressed-out lawyer over the course of one life-altering day in mystical Sedona, Arizona.

As President of Pasidg Productions, Tommy started out in the early 1990's with TRS Productions, his own production company in Texas which specialized in industrial, promotional, and special interest video projects.  He spent many years as a one-man show, doing everything, including writing, producing, cinematography, directing and editing.  His longtime goal of becoming an independent filmmaker began to take form when he started writing his first screenplay, Hate Crime, in August of 2003.  By December of 2004, Hate Crime was in the can – a finished feature film with an all-star cast in which Tommy also directed and produced.

Marc Sterling serves as executive producer and production accountant on all Pasidg Productions. He’s a highly accomplished businessman, speaker and teacher, who worked for the IRS and two CPA firms before his foray into filmmaking. Pasidg Productions can be contacted at: info@pasidg.com.

Sedona (The Movie), starring Frances Fisher (Titanic), Seth Peterson (Burn Notice), Christopher Atkins (Blue Lagoon), Barry Corbin (Northern Exposure), Lin Shaye (Insidious), and Beth Grant (The Artist), is entering the “new world” of distribution as the first narrative feature on the “Filmmaker Direct” label created by Distribber, the first company to offer indie filmmakers access to digital retailers for a flat fee while taking no revenue share or rights.

Beginning Fall 2012, the film “Sedona” became available on DVD and Blu-ray, and obtainable through On Demand on most major cable, satellite and telco content providers. Through its new partnership with Beverly Hills based Brainstorm Media, Distribber guarantees accepted films placement in at least 80% of the estimated 75 million VOD households nationwide. Consumers who buy films on Filmmaker Direct will know that 100% of profits go directly to the filmmaker, instead of the usual chain of middlemen under the traditional Hollywood distribution model. Pasidg Productions is also using Distribber to put the film on all major online VOD, digital download and SVOD outlets.

To learn more, listen to Debbi Dachinger as she interviews Tommy Stovall on Dare to Dream radio, as it airs live or on podcast at: http://www.deborahdachinger.com/interview-archives. Debbi Dachinger’s Dare to Dream radio show is a syndicated, multi-award winning program, featured in news sources around the world. Dachinger is the bestselling author of the book Dare to Dream: This Life Counts.