Alexander VanStone is a Virtual Production professional, filmmaker, musical artist, and actor.  VanStone is a cross-discipline artist and technology who loves creating new workflows and creative output through unique combinations of technology and talent.

 

VanStone’s last short film as a filmmaker and composer, “The Berserker and The Troll” premiered at the Fungi International Film Festival.  It is a medieval fantasy horror piece about a band of vikings facing off against a troll.

 

VanStone spent two years as an Unreal Engine Developer and Virtual Production Manager for Noitom International, a global motion capture and virtual production company.  In this role VanStone has run Audio Visual and Unreal Engine tech for trade shows while also writing, directing, developing, and performing in  house demonstration and marketing content.  VanStone also helped motion capture clients shepherd their project's through Unreal Engine pipelines.  

 

Before that he was the Media Manager for the Emmy award winning “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”.  In this role he managed and supervised the upgrade of archival media systems to preserve and fully utilize the 19 year media library generated by the production through the run of the show using cutting edge AI-Driven software and hardware integrations including robotics technologies.

 

Prior to this VanStone spent his career as a Camera Operator, Lighting Designer, and Key Grip on independent feature films, reality tv, commercials, branded content, music videos, and corporate/industrial content.

 

VanStone began his career in 2002 starting a business as a D-I-Y  live concert promoter and record producer for local bands in the Washington DC Area.  He grew the business to the point of producing 4 annual 2-stage 30 act music festivals along with regular shows throughout the year featuring local, regional, national, and international music acts. 

 

VanStone played bass and produced two records for his band, “An Awakening” and booked and managed subsequent Eastern US tours for both releases.

 

VanStone has a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia is Film and Video Production with a minor in Art and Visual Technology.  VanStone spent a semester abroad at Vaxjo University in Sweden where he studied Concepts in Film from a Scandinavian Perspective including documentary production, screenwriting, Swedish language, and history of the Swedish Film Industry.

 

VanStone completed the year-long intensive Film Production Diploma program at Vancouver Film School in British Columbia, Canada.  During this program he directed his first short film, “Return from Jarama Valley.”  A character drama set in 1939 Baltimore, Maryland USA after the close of the Spanish Civil War centered around a returning veteran of the Lincoln Battalion.

 

VanStone’s first major job in Hollywood was working as production coordinator and best boy electric on “Oprah’s Next Chapter.”  lighting field pieces of Oprah interview various guests around California, USA.

 

VanStone served as Associate Producer and media manager on Animal Planet’s “Whale Wars: A Commander Rises” where he was embedded aboard the SSS Bob Barker sailing off the Antarctic coast documenting global environmental activists enforcing the United Nations Charter for Nature against Whale Poachers violating the Antarctic protection zone to hunt endangered cetaceans.

 

VanStone’s second short film “Tourtilla” tells the story of a rock band on tour overstaying their welcome at a female fan’s house after a show.  It was selected by the Independent Filmmakers Showcase.  The film features cast members Josh Adam Meyers (The Goddamn Comedy Jam, F is for Family), Chris Reed (Sons of Anarchy), and Andrew Goldstein (Artist “FRND”).

 

VanStone now specializes in unreal engine cinematography and motion capture animation for both his individual work as a musical artist and as client services to other artists, institutions, organizations, and brands.