Who is Tennyson E. Stead?

Telling fantastic stories had always been part of my life. As a boy, I literally learned to write so I could record what was happening in my imagination. Later, when I was sixteen, a friend came to me and told me that a spotlight operator had dropped out of his production of Merrily We Roll Along. His show was one day from dress rehearsal, and he asked me if I'd spend the night learning the cues so I could get them through the weekend. That was my first time backstage at a theater, all my friends were there, and that's when I finally understood who and what I was writing for.

Since moving to California, my priority has been finding a way to tell great stories, with the cast and crew I love, in such a way as to make our future together secure, sustainable, and as creatively challenging as we want it to be. Repertory is a concept we arrived at because it's worked effectively for centuries as a tool for performers to cultivate an audience, and because social media allows us to extend those principles worldwide.

Over the last two years, working together to build our audience has yielded strong results. We just wrapped a science-fiction webseries called "The Starmind Record", which is now in contention for 2011's round of web awards. The series itself is available for viewing at http://www.8sidedfilms.com, and our IMDb page is at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2058517/.

In terms of longer-term resources, we have cultivated good relationships with independent exhibitors. Our production relationships have afforded us Academy Award-Winning attachments to films we have now in development, and industry manager Katarina Garcia has begun the process of building an 8 Sided management company in partnership with our film and media production efforts. Her relationships extend to all the major agencies, many major festivals and markets, and financiers both inside and outside the US.

Right now, our focus is on producing microbudget films for limited theatrical release, as a stepping stone for a more global 8 Sided audience. At the same time, our management is diligently pursuing opportunities to leverage our creativity and relationships to give us a measure of immediate security and some investment capital of our own.

To meet the gang and find out who we are, please join us at http://www.8sidedforum.com/. My name is Tennyson E. Stead, and I look forward to seeing you there!