Anthony R. Page - - Complete Producing / Production Management Profile

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For more than 25 years I have produced a multitude of entertainment-based ventures across the spectrum of cinema, theater, television, visual arts, advertising, and industry development initiatives.


 During this period I have primarily served in the roles of the following:
  • Executive Producer / Producer / Creator & Writer
  • Line Producer / Production Manager / Project Management
  • Director / Production Director 
  • Director of Marketing / Marketing Communications / CopyWriter
My secondary skills are the following:
  • Post Production Supervisor & Editor 
  • Graphic Designer & Production Photography
Additional skills include:
  • Acting / Acting Coach 
  • Lighting / Grip Lighting
  • Grip / Production Assistant
  • Camera Operator 
  • Audio Acquisition / Boom Operator
  • Set Construction / Prop Master 


With more than 100 industry ventures under my belt, my depth of experience across the spectrum is flanked by consistently seeking education, operating from a professional standard of continuous improvement - leading towards mastery.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
  • Harvard University (Online thru EdX)
    • Leadership
  • New York University (Online thru YellowBrick)
    • The Film and TV Essentials Certificate Program
  • Emory University
    •  Arts Leadership Pilot Program
  • The Black Entertainment Economic Council
    • Monthly professional development workshops on a wide variety of industry topics
  • Sessions College of Professional Design (Tempe, AZ) 
    • Advanced Certificate in Multimedia Arts                           
  • University of Phoenix (Augusta, GA)
    • Master in Business Administration
  • Georgia State University - Robinson College of Business (Atlanta, GA)
    • Double Degree - Business Administration,  Accounting & Finance
  • Georgia State University - School of Arts & Sciences (Atlanta, GA)
    • Bachelor of Science -  Film & Video Production w/ minor in Theatre.
  • Saint Leo University (Saint Leo, FL)
    • Associate of Arts - - Humanities
  • Acting Coaches (Atlanta, GA)
    • Whitman Mayo - - Allison Biggers - - Tommy Houseworth
  • The Alliance Theater Acting Program (Atlanta, GA)
    • Character Mechanics / Story Analysis
  • The Actors Movement Studio (New York, NY) 
    • Stage fighting and Swordplay
  • The Southeastern Filmmakers Group - Education Initiative (Augusta, GA)
    • Cinematography - - Grip - - Lighting 
  • United States Navy Advanced Electronics School (Memphis, TN)
    • Avionics / Flight Deck Operations / Avionics Technician 
HIGHLIGHT OF PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE


FILM & TV PROJECTS
  • Touch
    • Co-Producer
    • Short Film
    • Post Production
  • Dear Bird
    • Producer, Director
    • Short Film
    • In Development
  • Building Black Hollywood
    • Executive Producer
    • Feature Documentary Film
    • In Production
  • Hamburg 
    • Executive Producer
    • Feature Documentary Film
    • Long-term Development
  • Reclaiming Destiny - - Alma de Samana Documentary Series (2024)
    • Producer, Director, Editor
    • Docu-series
    • In Production (Phase 1)
  • Minutes To Seconds (2023)
    • Executive Producer, Director, Editor, Story Editor
    • Short Film
    • In Post-Production
  • The Blue Series
    • Executive Producer/Showrunner/Writer/Director
    • Anthology TV Series 
    • In Development
  • The Deacon (2024)
    • Executive Producer
    • Feature Film
    • In Development
  • I Love My Hair Because...(2024)
    • Producer
    • Feature Documentary Film
    • In Development
  • Loren's Chimera (2023)
  • In Memory of Donkey Dante (2023)
    • Executive Producer
    • Short Film
    • Post Production
  • T!ght (2023)
    • 1st AD
    • Short Film - directed by Ty Williams
    • Post Production
  • A Train To Nowhere (2023)
    • 1st AD/Associate Producer
    • Short Film - directed by Rohan Harris
    • Post Production
  • Mood (2023)
    • Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
    • Short Film
  • Have Mercy (2022)
    • 1st AD/BTS 2nd Unit Director/Editor (secondary)
    • Short Film - directed by Sid Powell
  • A Kind of Peace (2022)
    • 1st AD/BTS 2nd Unit Director/Editor (secondary)
    • Short Film - directed by Sid Powell
  • What Had Happen Was (2022)
    • 1st AD/BTS 2nd Unit Director/Editor (secondary)
    • Short Film - directed by Sid Powell
  • The Blue Series (2022)
    • Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
    • Docu-Series
  • Blue Bistro Spotlight (2022)
  • Amnesia (2022)
  • The Moyani Experience - You (2021)
    • Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
    • Music Video / Short Film (For Neo-Inspirational Artist Moyani)
  • Men In My Bed (2021)
    • Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
    • Short Film (based on a book by Mercuries Ryzen)
  • DAQ (2021)
    • Producer
    • TV Pilot - directed by 
  • Mommas (2020)
    • Producer
    • Featurette - directed by Leslie Black
  • American Leopard (2020)
    • Producer
    • Short film - directed by Jasmine Guy
  • Know That I Know (2019)
    • Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
    • Short Film
  • Remembering Momma (2019)
    • Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
    • Short Film
  • The Conduit (2018)
    • Executive Producer
    • Short film - written and directed by Brain Wanjugu. 
  • Trauma (2018)
    • Executive Producer
    • Short film - written and directed by Brain Wanjugu.
  • Body and Son (2018)
    • Executive Producer
    • Short film - written and directed by Chris Anthony Hamilton.
  • WHACK (2018)
    • Executive Producer
    • Short film - written by Darian D'Anjou
  • Feral (2018)
    • Executive Producer
    • Short film - written by Darian D'Anjou
  • Armed and Dangerous (2017)
    • Executive Producer
    • Short film - written and directed by Brain Wanjugu.
  • Rj Sings the Blues (2017)
    • Executive Producer / Story By / Director / Production Manager / Graphic Designer / Production Stills
    • Short film - written by Jay Williams
      • It's a dark comedy with some supernatural elements. 
  • America Unfiltered (2014)
    • Executive Producer / Show Creator / Director / Line Producer / Production Manager / Editor / Graphic Designer 
      • This docu-series examined, how Americans view our country at its crossroads. We interviewed a variety of people, who are on the ground and in the fray of American life.  
Here's a series of clips related to this project: 
America Unfiltered (Post Election Community Panel - Highlights)
  • Sounds of the Underground (2014/2015)
    • Executive Producer / Show Creator / Director / Line Producer / Production Manager / Editor / Graphic Designer
      • The is a TV pilot that examined the rapidly changing, ever-evolving music scene in Atlanta, GA. 
      • During the production of this show we filmed interviews with Speech from Arrested Development; rising R&B superstar Vedo; Rapper Shawty Lo and Shanell from Lil Wayne's record label: Young Money. 
  • Breaking the Silence of the Sonic Boom (2015)
    • Producer / Director / Production Manager / Editor / Graphic Designer
      • Short documentary film centered on a culture of sexual abuse and apathy at TW Josey Comprehensive High School in Augusta, GA.
  • No Excuse for Sexual Abuse (2015)
    • Producer / Director / Production Manager / Editor / Graphic Designer
      • Short documentary is centered on a community rally held by the I Breathe, I Rise Foundation. The organization led a protest against the NAACP's decision to hold a special election, which would allow an alleged sexual predator to be re-elected as president of its Augusta, GA chapter.
  • Cycles - I'm Still Here (2015)
    • Producer / Director / Production Manager / Editor / Graphic Designer
      • TV series based on a novel by Dr. Marion Myers. The show is a character-driven drama with turmoil, redemption, hope, and a journey, although difficult, towards unconditional love.
THIS PROJECT IS IN POST-PRODUCTION
Here are a few links to early promos & webisodes: 


  • SPARK (2012) 5 Episodes - - Blue Bistro Creative LLC
    • Executive Producer/Director/Editor/Complete Multimedia
  • Stars & Bars Aflame (2011 - ) - - Burbank Rose Films
    • Associate Producer
  • Rear Vue (2009) Pilot Episodes - - Omniblue Media, LLC
    • Producer
  • Charlotte Riley-Webb - - Two Lifetimes of Work (2006)
    • Ambiance Films, LLC
  • Spoken Word: The New Negro Spiritual (2005)
    • Ambiance Films, LLC
  • Oral Histories: The Lucy C. Laney Museum (2003 - 2004)
    • Director / Producer
  • The Nexx Level (2001) Pilot - - Co-Producer / 
    • Executive Producer / Director (Metamorphic Media)
  • Unjust Cause (2001) - - Dir. Ed Banuel
    • Associate Producer
  • Gray Clouds (2000) - - Dir. Terrence Anglin (Independent Documentary Film)
    • Associate Producer
  • At Random (1999) - Student Film Project at Georgia State University
    • Executive Producer / Director / Editor
  • Magenta (1999) - Student Film Project at Georgia State University
    • Executive Producer / Director / Editor

 THEATER / LIVE PERFORMANCE
  • Somewhere in Summerville (2015 - 2017)
    • Executive Producer / Writer / Director
    • This is a stage play about the many personality clashes, romances, and continuous controversies behind the scenes during the production of a stage play, which is often more entertaining than what audiences will see on the stage. A limited tour of this production is in development.
  • Crisis & Courage (2014 - Present)
    • Executive Producer / Director / Production Manager / Graphic Designer
    • Crisis and Courage chronicles Dr. La'Veda's Wallace-Page's struggle with Sickle Cell Anemia as a patient, a sister, and a mother and includes testimonies of the many men and women, she has interviewed, who struggle against the disease. 
    • With this production we have held performances in Atlanta, Baltimore & Augusta, GA, and made presentations for many national institutions including The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, The Georgia Sickle Cell Community Consortium, Augusta University's Women's Studies Department as well as the Sickle Cell Warriors Association of America. 
    • These efforts are ongoing. 

  • Urban Expressionism (2016)
    • Executive Producer / Production Coordinator / Director / Graphic Designer
    • The show was an exploration of Black Culture through live theater, spoken word poetry, photography, music as well as performance art. The show centers around "What we see," " What we hear," "What we feel," and "What we remember" as Black people living in America.

  • Double Lives (2016)
    • Director
    • Double Lives delivers a full dose of drama, sprinkled with the right amount of humor and a valuable lesson in the dynamics of forgiveness. Audiences may even question events in their own past as they see the Dickerson Family deal with difficult revelations about their lives. This play is the 8th stage play produced by I Heart Radio Personality Miss Monique LaShon & her company: Raisin' AJ Productions. 
    • This play included R&B Singer Ray Lavender. 
Double Lives (Additional Background & Info)
Photography & Design by Anthony R. Page

  • Shades of Love (2015)
    • Director
    • Shades of Love looks at the struggle for acceptance by an interracial couple as they attempt to win the approval of their families.  It's a story of hope, inspiration, and laughter. This play is the sixth stage play produced by I Heart Radio Personality Miss Monique LaShon & her company: Raisin' AJ Productions. 
    • This play included actor Tony Grant from Tyler Perry's hit TV series: Love Thy Neighbor. 
  • Unavailable (2014)
    • Director
    • Unavailable tells the story of three women who must overcome the love they once shared with their now “Unavailable” men. This is my first collaboration as a director with I Heart Radio Personality Miss Monique LaShon & her company: Raisin' AJ Productions. 
    • This production included R&B Singer: Terrell Carter and the talents of notable hip hop celebrities Benzino, Thi Thi, and Erica Pinkett from Love and Hip Hop Atlanta. 
  • Augusta Comedy Hour (2010 - 2011)
    • Executive Producer / Writer / Show Runner / Director / Actor
    • This was a sketch comedy series we produced in Augusta, GA. 
  • The August Wilson Reader's Series (2004 - 2007)
    • Producer / Director / Actor
    • During my tenure at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, I started the Heritage Theater. One of the projects we undertook, was to bring the entire August Wilson to play series to local audiences. From 2005 - to 2007, we completed 9 of the 10 plays in the series.
    • This series included notable Broadway performers Jerome Preston Bates (August Wilson's Seven Guitars), Russell Joel Brown (Disney's The Lion King), and D'Reginald Lewis (Suzi Lori-Parks' Top Dog, Underdog).
  • A Voice on the Winds of Change (2003 - 2004)
    • Writer / Director
    • This was my first feature-length stage play, which was a biographical piece on the life of legendary educator: Lucy Craft Laney, who lived from 1854 until 1933. 
    • This production also featured Russel Joel Brown. 
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SPECIAL EVENTS / ADVOCACY / ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
  • The Nina Simone Experience (2009 - 2010)
    • Project Manager / Marketing Communications / Business Development /Art Curator
    • This was a week-long tribute to Nina Simone that included a visual arts show with a collection valued at over $600,000. The show included renown visual artists: Cynthia St. James, Jonathan Green, Paul Goodnight as well as a painting by legendary actor: Billy Dee Williams, . 
    • The event also included a series of live performances from many of Atlanta's most notable spoken word artists, anchored by a performance from Nina Simone's daughter: Lisa Simone Kelly, who had previously played Aida on Broadway. 
  • James Brown Music Festival's Visual Soul (2005 - 2006)
    • Project Manager / Marketing Communications / Business Development / Art Curator
    • Visual Soul was part of the overall James Brown "Soul of America" Music Festival held in May 2006 in Augusta, GA. 
    • This was the only art exhibition in history that was dedicated to James Brown, during his lifetime. The exhibition included more than 100 visual artists from more than 50 cities across the world. During the festival, the show was displayed at various venues across the city. 
  • Writing Samples 
    • I have worked in a variety of capacities as a writer including business writing, press releases, editorials and interviews in addition to various creative writing and editing. 
    • In the past I have published work for periodicals including the Urban Pro Weekly and The Metro Spirit. 

  • Graphic Design Portfolio
    • To improve the quality and synergy of the projects I support I have learned the entire Adobe Creative Suite. 
    • I am most proficient in Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects, Lightroom and Audition.
Here's a link to some of my graphic design & photography work
Photography & Design (SEP - NOV 2016)
Photography & Design (JUN - AUG 2016)
Photography & Design (MAR - MAY 2016)
Photography & Design (DEC 2015 - FEB 2016)
Photography & Design (up thru NOV 2015)

Contact Information:
bluebistrocreative@gmail.com
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