November 24, 2003
For immediate press release
Contact: Brett Hanavan; (858) 748-1326
Neighbors Productions Announces Partnership
San Diego (November 24, 2003) - Neighbors Productions, a San Diego-based collaborative writing effort between Brett Hanavan and Shanna Stanton, announces its creation and conceptual beginning.
Hanavan and Stanton come together as a writer and an artist. Collaborative efforts are planned in children’s books, children’s television show production, screenwriting and artistic impressions.
They both have children and are inspired to enter the child entertainment arena by their families. Stanton has three kids while Hanavan has a daughter and their involvement in neighborhood and community educational endeavors is also strong.
They are both members of the screenwriting foursome, Left Coast Productions that is currently developing screenwriting concepts.
Hanavan is the publisher and managing editor of Childcare in San Diego (www.childcareinsandiego.com) and works as a freelance writer.
Neighbors Productions’ first work is collaboration on a television pilot called “On The Shanna Show.” It is a mom-kids show “All About Things In Life.” The pilot, about transportation, is currently in production.
“We hope to have final footage shot in December with final editing coming in the 1st quarter of 2004,” Hanavan said. “We are excited because the concept of a real, cool, suburban Mom, talking in a pretty cool fashion to kids is unique. We think it has great potential for success.”
Hanavan contributes freelance submissions to San Diego newspapers, worked in the magazine publishing industry, and with KWGS-FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Hanavan recently produced Clean Up Aisle 3, an independent short film he made with Tom Bennett that was presented at the Wilmington Independent Film Festival in the Philadelphia/Wilmington, Delaware metro area in the Fall 2003.
Neighbors Productions hopes to market the concept of “On The Shanna” show to networks or productions company’s interested negotiations regarding the show or in working with the pair.
On The Shanna Show features Miss Shanna as the show’s host. Its cinematographic feel is unique and the production features a normal, fun, communicative, mom-like roll-model female in the lead role. She relates ideas, enthusiasm, thought, history, various interesting and exciting topics, and ultimately teaches kids how to enjoy and learn about life from a pure Mom's perspective. Communication models within the show are to assure adults’ talk to children in normal linguistic tones. Kevin Curry is directing the pilot.
“Kids do enjoy being talked to and will respect real interaction,” Stanton said. “We will choose settings and shoot locations that will provide intriguing settings in natural public settings.”
We invite you to the Internet home for the “On The Shanna Show” It is our launching pad for information about the show’s production.
Stanton attended Gardner Webb University in North Carolina and graduated from Winthrop University in South Carolina in 1991. She holds a degree in Psychology and a minor in Art.
Hanavan graduated from The University of Tulsa in Oklahoma in 1985 with a degree in Communication and minor in Marketing.
Stanton has worked as a counselor for the Boy’s Home of York County and for a television production company in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has also worked as a residential counselor for Lutheran Family Services in Charlotte and for the Clover School District in South Carolina as an intervention counselor for disturbed youth. In 1993, she worked for Family Services in Quantico, Virginia working directly with U.S. Marine Corps families in need.
“I then found myself preparing to be a mother,” Stanton said. “I realized it was the one true happiness of my life. There was nothing that would fulfill my heart like taking care of my little one, so I left the realm of working and dedicated my life to being a wonderful mother. It is the only true gift I can give my children.”
Stanton’s love for children is something she wants to give back through “On The Shanna Show.” Hanavan and Stanton both believe strongly, each from separate Mom and Dad perspectives, that children need better role models in children’s television programming.
In addition to movie-making, screenwriting and video pursuits, Hanavan’s freelance writing work has appeared in the San Diego Daily Transcript, newspapers within the San Diego Community Newspaper Group, London’s Internet-based RiskCentric, The Specialist (an educational publication distributed by the Chartered Property-Casualty Underwriters of America) The St. Louis Business News Update, Limousine Digest, Crossfire Magazine, San Diego Sports Voices.com, and Child Care in San Diego.com. Hanavan has written about the insurance industry for Rough Notes magazine and was a Senior Staff Writer for Insurance Journal magazine in San Diego.
Stanton also brings a lengthy, stylish and impressive professional art career. She has been painting professionally for 13 years. Her works include The Retreat; Rebirth; The Coming; Criss Cross; The Artist Perspective, Alone, and several others. She has worked both with galleries and marketed herself through independent sales.
The adoption of Neighbors Productions as the collaborative name takes its tradition back to the early 1990s. It was a name associated with Hanavan and Curry’s softball team. The original name “Neighbors” was a team name for a Men’s A league softball team that Hanavan and On The Shanna Show director Kevin Curry played on in the 1990s.
We look forward to hearing from you and appreciate your interest in our endeavors.
Neighbors Productions - P.O. Box 503691 - San Diego, California 92150-3691 - (858) 748-7192 – e-mail: shanavan@san.rr.com
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