Watching the news,

I have been watching the news the last few days. Seems like covid is cuasing alot of problems out there. Who knows what this summer will look like. Things maybe all in lock down agian. I saw a posting somewhere that the last pandemic lasted 10 years. This one may stick around for a while. So if there is no filmin gthis summer, then so be it. I can always try agian next year. In the mean time while we are waiting for the pandemic to end, I need to start making some money. Im going to start making my film scripts into ebooks. If anyone is intrested in buying a copy please email me so I know at least one person would be intrested in buyin ga copy. Thank you for your suport.

Free Boat for $1

I'm working on a deal for a free boat for being the hearo boat in Greg's Treasure Map.It's a boat that requires alot of work but thats nothing new to me. I need to find a free motor that runs and outdrive for it. Also need to rig up steering system. I have had a line on a few other free boats with the parts I need so hopefully that works out. The trailer does not come with the boat so I will need to build a boat trailer as well. At some point I will need to dump some money into the boat to finish it off. I will post some videos on the boat build soon. It's the stuff one has to doto get a film made when you don't have any moeny. More time, more work but that's just fine with me as we are in Covid Lockdowns agian.

No Surprise.

Well no surprise we have more convid lockdowns. Hopefully things get back to normal around April so we can get some casting calls in.

Website Sponsored.

I have the website back up. We have a sponsor for the website fees. Hopefully we can rebuild and make at least one film in 2022. I'm going to be offering a Partron type thingy on my website for people if they wish to help fund film projects. More info soon. I may do some live Q and A youtube videos soon on film productions, directing and script writing.

Starting a new?

I'm thinking about starting a Patreon type service on my website. People can make monthly contrbutions to help fund new films projects and pay over head costs. What are your thoughts? Please coment below.

U12 boys diving film

The U12 boys diving film is still canceld and we have no plans to make it in the future. It takes years for people to learn how to dive and it costs a huge amount of money for the lessons. The pool rental fees for filming locations are too high. The film would cost more tan $100,000 to make and if I had that kind of money I would see about buying a house to live in. I do not forsee us looking into making the film anyfurther. As of today I'm still retired form film making but thinking about gettig Gregs Treasure Map made just becuase i dislike not finishing projects. I may or may not be writing and directing a large cast film this summer. Some else is producing it, maybe. Things are very much up in the air as the new Covid problem lands in Canada.

What's Up?

We are still looking into making gregs Map and some kind of large cast movie in summer 2022. It all depends on how the covid poblem roles out in the next six months. I really hate having unfished projects so I'm really hoping I can figure out how to make a film soonish.

Reopening put on hold?

One of th elocal schools had a covid outbreak so everything is on hold agian for a few more months. Maybe 2022 will be the year we can get filming or it may be 2023.

New Camera Good news

Hi Everyone, Good news, we have the use of a new 4K video camera for making films. Its not ours but we can use it whenever we need it and its free. I'm going to start working on buyng a computer that can edit 4K video in a feature langht format. The paln is to film Greg's Treasure Map in July 2022. Then post it on YouTube like other youtubers do. I'm hoping people suport the channel and make monthly donations or contrbutions like people do for other youtubers. I do need to make a paycheck this time aroud. I like volinteering my time and helping the kids but im now flat broke and the goverment doesnt let people live without paying huge taxs. I will be making up two budgets for Gregs Treasure Map. Here is a quick Guess. 4 actors 100 hours each actor times min wage $15 and hour.100 x 15= $1500 times four actors. $6000 Then I need at least min wage $15 times four months 40 hours a week x 4 four weeks x 4 months x 15= $9600. Production vehical gas, plus location fees, plus props, sets, basic set food. ???? I will work on the budget in more detail and I will make one where everyone volinteers their time. Below is a few photos from location scouting trip we took a few weeks ago. Its a perfet location for 1/3 of the film. This locaion scouting trip cost close to $300 Canadian.

First Thing First

The first step in reopening is to sell some stuff off to raise the money for webhosting and get the website back up and running. I have some photo prints left over from the onlne auction we did a year ago to try to raise money for the replacement camera. The photos are 8"x12" prints. $45 each. Avlible Pictures will be posted soon.

Reopening ???

Hi Everyone, We are looking into reopening Sterling Productions in 2022. It really depends on a few things. Mostly if Covid 19 has subsided and schools, pools are back open. Once things are back to normal we will be posting new casting calls for Greg's Treasure Map and U12 Boys diving. I'm also hoping people want to help contribute to a new replacement camea for the one I went for an unintensioanl swim with. I'm so thankful each day for 12 year old actor Evan Drake for jumping in and saving me. I kind of know how to swim so I couldnt figure out why I wasnt floating when I fell in. Then I remebered i had a 20 lbs camera in my hand. First thought drop the camera and float, NO dont drop the camera it would be the end of filimg as the water is 40 feet deep. we would never getthe camera back. I hung onto it and Evan pushed me to the cliff wall so I could climb out. I should have just dropped the camera as it doesnt work. No repairable. Makes a nice door stop. If you're intrested in making a contrabution to the restart costs please feel free to contact me. sterlingjohnstonfilms@gmail.com or you can use the PayPal button on the right of this blog. Thank you for your support.

Web address and stuff

I finally got the web address set up to redirect to this blog. It's a free way to have a website so people can keep up today with whats going on. The U12 Boys diving film will have to be pushed into 2024 or 2026 as the actors requie one to 2 full years of lessons to learn how to dive. Cocid keeps intorupiting the lessons by closing down the pools. I still have no found a company of group to produce the flm at tis point. All other productions are on hold or cancield. Sterling Productions is history do to Covid sut downs. It owes about $6200 in private loans for fundraising short falls on past productions. They will need to be cleared up as soon as possible. Maybe once I get my personal finacal problems fixed i can cover the lones. Please contact me if you would like to help bail me out on the lones front. sterlingjohnstonfilms@gmail.com There is a guy intrested in starting a new production company but he wants to waite until the world gets back to normal in a year or two.

Retired

Hi Everyone, I have retired from making films. It was a lot of fun helping parents help their kids. Some parents had spent upwards of $32,000 on headshots and acting lessons but their actors didnt get any adutions booked. It was clear that they just needed some pratical experiance on their CV to land agents; audition and eventualy work. Thats where my film making hobby came in. With the help of some people kicking in a few bucks to help cover the cost of making films we made quite a few productions for next to no money. I paid the outstanding balane of trying to get the films completed. My number one rule was safty, then completion. Becuse if your not going to complete a porject then why start it. I wrote the scripts custom talered to making the actors look as good as possible. Much like a block buster Hollywood film. I cast the film, meet the actors then write the script. The parents offent thanked me for helping them and remarked how great it was to meet other parents who also had kids intrested in acting. Many actors moved onto film industry work and other found that acting was not their cup of tea. This freed them up to follow other intrests. Everyone that worked on the film projects was a voliteer. The films where never ment to make money so they didn't. Money was not a goal. Finding actors work was. Also the films were never made for grown ups. The target aduiance was the actors age 8 to 14. Something they would be proud to show ther freinds. A great big thank you goes out to all the supports and parents. We made a huge positive differnce in so many lives over the years.

Hey new location and its free!

Hey everyone. I can't afford to pay for the webhosting anymore as I wouldnt be cloectiong donations as I have retired form making films. But the fans floating around out there can still keep up with what im doing now days, All that palnning jst to have it canceiled do to Covid locks downs really took it toll on my stress levels. Constanly wiating waiting and waiting is just too much. my stress levels were just way too high to funtion. i did a huge house cleaning of my online stuff. It feels so good to bring the amount of stuff to mange to a size thats managible. It was kind of a waset have people spread all over the place. Now everyone is centerly located. I'm going to live a sympler life for a while.