Our Team
As various folks join our filmmaking team, you will find information about them here.
Executive Producer/ Writer / Director
Dale Griffiths Stamos
Venice Sky Productions
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Dale Griffiths Stamos is an award-winning screenwriter, director and playwright. She has written and produced or co-produced six short films—three of which she directed—which have been official selections at 70+ film festivals, including Palms Springs Shortfest, LA Shorts International, Dances with Films, and The Newport Beach Film Festival. They have garnered two audience and eight jury awards. She has penned three feature-length screenplays which have been named finalists or semi-finalists in various festivals and screenplay competitions including Creative World Awards, Story Pros, the New York City International Screenplay Awards, and Flickers International Film Festival. She is in the process of co-producing one of those scripts, BLUE JAY SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, as a feature film with the three-woman team VEW Productions. https://www.vewproductions.com/. In theater, Dale’s short and full-length plays have been produced around the country. She is the recipient of the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville, and is a top-ten winner, twice, in the Writers Digest Stage Play Competition. Dale is also co-author of the nonfiction book RenWomen: What Modern Renaissance Women Have to Teach Us About Living Rich, Fulfilling Lives. Dale is on the faculty of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and has led workshops at the San Miguel Writers Conference, taught writing classes at Santa Barbara City College, adult ed., and is a private manuscript consultant. For more information, go to: https://www.veniceskyprods.com/ and http://www.dalegriffithsstamos.com/
Producers
Erin Miracle
Founder & CEO Miracle Makers Productions
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Erin Miracle is an award-winning producer, writer, actress, dancer, and choreographer. She studied dance at CalArts, musical theater at American Musical & Dramatic Academy, writing and producing at Colorado Film School, as well as Theology at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Her first self-written, directed, and produced short films continue to receive accolades from around the world. Erin is passionately dedicated to advocacy and service to communities, marginalized groups, and individuals in need. Supporting women is of particular importance to her. Included in her work professionally to create opportunities for women specifically, she travels to places like the Middle East to serve women and children in need through organizations like Seeds of Hope. In 2019, Ms. Miracle founded Miracle Makers International Film Festival. After continued success in independent film producing, Erin expanded her vision into the inception of Miracle Makers Productions, providing a vast range of essential consulting services, from concept to distribution.
Gretel Snyder
Co-Founder & COO Miracle Makers Productions
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Gretel Snyder attended Charleston Southern University in Charleston, SC. She began working in the industry in 2010 and has amassed over a decade of production experience; from assistant director to production management, line producing and casting. She will also, very happily, make you the best spreadsheet of your life! Gretel is tremendously talented in managing details, problem solving, communicating between departments, organizing information across multiple platforms, and keeping the machine well-oiled and running. Beyond managing production and operations with Ms. Miracle, Gretel is equally as involved in creative development. She is rare in her ability to work on the macro and micro aspects of a project. She has a heart for service and advocacy as well and is truly a Miracle Maker in every sense of the term. Gretel has the skills, passion, and discipline to elevate any production she is a part of.
Creative Co-producer/Cinematographer/Editor
Sean Blodgett
Creative Motion Entertainment
Sean Blodgett is a producer, cinematographer, director, editor, and actor. He is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix. He studied producing and screenwriting through the UCLA Extension program. He is a member of the Los Angeles Post Production Group and has been working on both sides of the camera since the '90's. As the owner and operator of Creative Motion Entertainment, Sean has produced, directed and edited multi-media productions of varying budgets including music videos, behind-the-scene featurettes, promotional videos, short films and charity web series, among others. His production company provides end to end solutions for video/audio production, post-production/editorial, and multimedia delivery. Creative Motion Entertainment delivers a Hollywood style cinematic look at an affordable cost.