Stephanie Bell - Award Winning Producer

STEPHANIE BELL, PGA

A member of the Producers Guild of America, Stephanie is an Emmy nominated & multi-award-winning producer and line producer with over 25 years experience in film, TV & digital content. Her films (both features and shorts) have screened in over 75 film festivals around the world, garnering more than 50 awards, including 14 for “Best Feature”.


Stephanie’s goal is to tell daring and provocative stories that spark a dialogue about the human condition and how our actions impact it.


She is the founding partner of three production companies, BelLipoma Entertainment, HatLine Productions, and Remote Films. She is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America. Stephanie is also an adjunct professor at College of the Desert in Palm Springs, CA, where she teaches producing and line producing.

She also serves as a casting director through her casting company, 2 Tall Dames, based in Palm Springs.


In addition to her teaching, Stephanie has served as a mentor to high school and college students in the Coachella Valley. As a member of the Palm Springs Women in Film & TV (PSWIFT), Stephanie served as Co-Chair of the Events Committee. Stephanie also has a background in business and legal affairs, having worked in the legal departments at Paramount Picture, Interscope Communications, and Franchise Pictures.


Stephanie began her career in the entertainment industry as an actress, performing Off- Broadway and regionally. She had the honor of studying in New York City under the tutelage of the Oscar-winning director, Mike Nichols.

www.bellipoma.com
www.hatlineproductions.com

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Show Notes (Timing is approximate):

7sec  Stephanie Bell Intro - 
1min - 3 production companies - Bellipoma Entertainment, HatLine Productions & Remote films
1min 10 sec - adjunct professor at the College of the Desert in palm springs
1min 20s - casting director at 2 tall dames casting company
2m study under oscar winner Mike Nichols
2m 30 sec oscar winning producers, directors, actors always want to do more
3m 04 sec mike Nichols and improvisation - new actors workshop 
3m 20 sec Paul Sills and Second City Improv
3m 30 sec Paul Sills, George Morrison broadway director - 3 teachers for improv training program 
4m 07s - Viola Spolin’s sister
4m 43 s - how is Stephanie so prolific,  how did Stephanie get started, how is Stephanie so successful?
5m 02s - growing up in family where acting is a hobby
5m 9s - environmental lawyer, english literature major, public relations
5m 28 s- started acting as a young child
5m 35 s - decision to be an actress
5m 54 s - regrets article by Erik Erikson, therapist 
6m 20 s - oldest all female theatre company, The Snarks 
6m 35 s - left job, in NY city, auditions, etc.
6m 45s - accepted into the New Actors Workshop, acting took off
6m 54 s - workshopping off broadway play brought to Los Angeles
7m 09s - stayed in LA, temp job at Interscope
7m 15 s - hired full time at Interscope, late 90’s, lots of activity in small theaters
7m 45s - involved with Sacred Fools Theater Company 
7m 53 s - asked to produce a play
8m 6s - fell in love with producing & why
8m 15s  “Don’t wait for people to create work for you, create your own work” 
8m 26 s - started doing short films, produced 35 plays in Los Angeles, won awards, segue into features 
8m 57 s - always said yes, accepting every offer, can’t give it up
9m 28 sec - recap and timing of decision to act and progress
10m 37 s - great advice Stephanie received from a working actress
11m - get your process and use it to build your acting career
11m 38 s - new actors workshop
11m 42 s - George Morrison taught wesley snipes, edie falco, and more
12m - new actors workshop - so many formats of teaching, find what works for you - your own process
12m 52 sec - 2 years at new actors worksop, then 4 years doing theatre in NYC, then went to LA and never left
13m 22sec - George Morrison said it takes 10 years to hone your craft, ie Sharon Stone, Hank Azaria
13m 54sec - use every audition as an opportunity to work your craft
15m 36sec - everyone has a special quality and finding your special quality
16m 14sec - Stanley Tucci story, right out of school
16m 40 sec - hard part of being an actress - can’t be worried about what other people think about you. Believe in Yourself.
17m 36 sec - remembering who you are 
18m - Trust your instincts
18m 51 sec - LA timeline 
18m 57sec - 45 yrs old and want to be an actor? 
19m 36 sec - involvement with Sacred Fools
21m 50 sec - finding the yes within the no
22m 25 sec - learning which mountains to climb and which battles to fight
22m 50 sec - compromising with other producers
23m 03 sec - producers as writers
23m 54 sec - being too close to the material
24m 57sec - transition out of acting into producing
27m 40 sec - Stephanie teaching
27m 56s - getting involved with the palm springs women in film and television
28m - networking and teaching film development and producing at College of the Desert
29m 02sec - Line producing responsibilities
29m 53 sec - how a producer gets paid
30m 49sec - independent film world
32m 18sec - thoughts of success and failure as an artist
33m 08sec - everything that can go wrong, did go wrong on music video
35m 43 sec - wonderful things about the film industry
36m 28sec - working with people you enjoy
37m 49sec -how to get through when a person is challenged
40m 22 sec - “I am still here” film drama about child sex trafficking in the U.S. on Amazon
40m 58 sec -  “Inverse” sci-fi/drama film on Amazon
41m19sec - current projects Stephanie is working on
42m10sec - writer Michael Lipolma
42m 15 sec - writer Mischa Marcus, @sanemenmovie.com
42m 19 sec - Stephanie’s active production companies: Bellipoma Entertainment and 
HatLine Productions
42m 36sec - how to contact Stephanie
43m 50 sec - Stephanie great at auditioning
44m 10sec - why Stephanie was great at improv