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Derek Presley. Director: Tonic. Derek Presley was born in Fort Worth, Texas. After making numerous short films and music videos he began his feature filmmaking career and has never looked back. He is the writer and director of Red Stone (2021), Boon (2022) and Tonic (2024).
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Derek Presley. Writer: Red Stone. Derek Presley was born in Fort Worth, Texas. His passion for storytelling started at the age of eleven when he made his first home video with his mom's hi-8mm video camera. He followed that up with a novel he started writing at 12 years old (he never finished it).
Derek Presley does a breakdown of the Whitetail. He talks about his work as a filmmaker, writer, and producer and his future projects.
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For the past decade or so, low-budget genre films- particularly indie horror- have enjoyed a sort of renaissance. Filmmakers have not only been able to get their smaller films financed and made, but they also have an ardent audience ready to embrace that effort. A similar trend is now emerging in the world of independent crime/thriller films. Becau...
The latest entry in the burgeoning genre, Red Stone, follows a classic crime drama trope of finding an innocent character caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Red Stone, the unwitting player is Motley (Dash Melrose), a teenager who witnesses the murder of his older brother. Under ordinary circumstances, a person would just report the eve...
In addition to tapping local resources for his North Texas shoot, Director Derek Presley has also assembled a fantastic cast of accomplished performers alongside some amazing lesser-known talent. As the notorious hitman on the hunt, Neal McDonough (Band of Brothers, Minority Report) offers his inimitable steely demeanor. While his intensity is aptl...
Elliott: Hi Derek. Thank you for taking time to chat with me about your film Red Stone today. I really appreciate it. Presley: Oh, thanks for having me. Elliott: Red Stone is this great little crime thriller and I see some influences in there but I’m curious, what are your cinematic influences? They don’t necessarily have to be the thriller genre o...
Mar 4, 2021 · “Boon” director Derek Presley laughed when looking back at his Spokane experience. “What I think I enjoyed the most was the reaction from the people who live there,” Presley said while ...
Aug 5, 2021 · EXCLUSIVE: Cinedigm has acquired North American rights to Derek Presley’s action thriller Red Stone, starring Neal McDonough (Yellowstone), Dash Melrose (Ida Red) and Michael Cudlitz (Clarice...
Jun 16, 2021 · ComingSoon is debuting the exclusive trailer for writer and director Derek Presley’s upcoming southern gothic thriller Whitetail, releasing in select theaters on July 2, 2021.
