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“Stories create community, enable us to see through the eyes of other people, and open us to the claims of others.”

– Peter Forbes

TEAMWORK

Collaborate with us in the development, budget and production of your project; our commitment is to realize a creative, meaningful vision that evokes the emotions you want.

PRODUCTION

We'll be bringing your vision to life with the most current video, sound and editing equipment. Your video will look amazing until the end of time with Ultra-HD 4K.

CONNECT

We work with you to help reach the intended audience and strategize a plan to maximize your video's impact.

Who We Are

Stone's Throw Films develops stories that connect people and produces content that matters for:
Independent features
Short films
Documentaries
Corporate & Non-profit communications
Websites & Behind-the-Scenes videos

LISTEN - Tell us what your vision is:
    - the kind of story you want to tell
    - the ideas you want to develop
    - what you want your audience to take away

CREATE - We offer creative storytelling solutions that allow your audience to connect with why what you say matters

ENGAGE - You collaborate with us in the development, budget and production of your project; our commitment is to realize a creative, meaningful vision that evokes the emotions you want.

Laura Hart McKinny

President

Laura, the President of Stone’s Throw Films, Inc., is a producer, writer and professor of screenwriting at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she is a member of the founding faculty of the School of Filmmaking. She earned her BA and Lifetime Teaching Credential and did graduate course work at UCLA. Laura earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University in Charlotte. Most recently, she produced the feature film “Susie’s Hope." She wrote and co-produced the feature documentaries “In Broad Daylight” and “Remembering Frederic: The Genius of Chopin.” Co-writer of "Ashtree: Pig Helmet's Return,” a series in development; she also wrote and co-produced the filmed stage adaptation of “The Land Breakers,” a novel by John Ehle. Laura has recently launched her novel, Men against Women.

John Hart McKinny

Vice President

John is Vice-President of Stone’s Throw Films, Inc., and most recently produced the feature film “Susie’s Hope” starring Emmanuelle Vaugier and Burgess Jenkins. He has worked as an assistant producer, co-producer, and script supervisor on numerous short films, industrials and documentaries. He’s co-writer of the series in development, “Ashetree: Pig Helmet's Return."

Daniel George McKinny

1946-2013
Founder

Founder of Stone's Throw Films and founding faculty member of the UNCSA School of Filmmaking. McKinny was a camera operator, director of photography and director. His credits included movies-of-the-week, theatrical motion pictures, documentaries, and TV series "Perry Mason" and "90210."

A Few STF Projects

Susie's Hope

A feature film about the true story of an inspirational relationship between a survivor of a pit bull attack, who adopts Susie, a pit-bull mix puppy found beaten, burned and left for dead. Together, they change the law in North Carolina to seek protection for all animals.

Stone’s Throw Films producers worked with the feature director in the development of the script which needed to appeal to a family audience; we met with community animal lovers to facilitate confidence of regional investors, worked on a complex, economical budget that embraced animatronics from LA, hired a competent crew and collaborated with other producers to hire an affordable, talented cast.

Superb performances and excellent production value make credible this sensitive content. Viewers, for some, this feature their first glimpse of animal cruelty, champion this feature as a heartwarming story.

Labor of Love: The Healing Build

A marketing video that tells the story of the first collaboration, building a home, between two internationally renowned non-profits: Habitat for Humanity and Hospice & Palliative Care.

The “bond of hope” happened with just the right mix of interviewees expressing authentic emotions, montages, music and the confident voices from leaders of these two organizations creating a powerful, positive message.

We appreciate the opportunity to team up with non-profits and we work together to realize a cost-effective budget.

Ashetree: Pig Helmet's Return

Raymond “Pig” Helmet is considered to be a man with a wild imagination — a gift even — for seeing things no one else can. His beloved stories of a wood nymph and creatures lurking about are a part of his charm, and as sheriff of Ashtree he lives in a blissfully ignorant bubble. That is, until he is whisked away to war, where he experiences the terrors of reality for the first time. Now a troubled returning vet, detached and emotionally flat, his first few days back are anything but calm. Sheriff Helmet’s charge to find a missing girl thrusts him into the limelight and forces him to knock on doors, searching for the truth about the girl, the town, and himself.

Find out more at
www.pighelmet.com

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