Patience Wieland
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Patience (Sibby) Wieland is a geek whose professional interests link the performing arts, writing, and learning technologies. In recent years she has not only continued to work on independent productions, but also focused on corporate video production, instructional and game design. She is a writer, director, and producer of audio dramas, and was the former president of the Sound Stages Radio Network (2013-2017). After the demise of CBC's radio drama channel, and the re-branding of Sirius-XM's Book Radio channel), Sound Stages was the last modern-audio drama focused network operating in North America. Her literary, news and consumer bylines have run in three countries and include a San Diego Press Club award for Arts and Entertainment, and a popular piece about failed science fiction conventions, "Let's Stop Conning Ourselves", originally printed in Strange Horizons.
She is also a serial event producer: her past projects include founding and co-chairing a veterans film festival in Houston, headlined by best-selling author and TV host Wes Moore; multiple events for radio including World Audio Drama Day and Halloween horror marathons; and a special Canadian Film event in Massachusetts, featuring the regional premiere of work by filmmakers Guy Maddin and Noam Gonick. She invented "Love Your Robot Day", as a tie-in for geek musician Victor Lams' premiere album, which surprisingly is still being celebrated by schools, children - and not a few robot researchers - many years later.
She has blogged and tweeted extensively about mid-century popular culture, "retro" lifestyle and classic media, particularly classic movies and "old time radio" drama from the 1920s through the early 1960s. From 2002-2010, she operated NoirDame.com, selling rare and hard to find silent films, kinescoped TV from the 1950s, and audio drama (both modern and "old time"); the NoirDame channel on YouTube is popular among classic film fans.
She is also a serial event producer: her past projects include founding and co-chairing a veterans film festival in Houston, headlined by best-selling author and TV host Wes Moore; multiple events for radio including World Audio Drama Day and Halloween horror marathons; and a special Canadian Film event in Massachusetts, featuring the regional premiere of work by filmmakers Guy Maddin and Noam Gonick. She invented "Love Your Robot Day", as a tie-in for geek musician Victor Lams' premiere album, which surprisingly is still being celebrated by schools, children - and not a few robot researchers - many years later.
She has blogged and tweeted extensively about mid-century popular culture, "retro" lifestyle and classic media, particularly classic movies and "old time radio" drama from the 1920s through the early 1960s. From 2002-2010, she operated NoirDame.com, selling rare and hard to find silent films, kinescoped TV from the 1950s, and audio drama (both modern and "old time"); the NoirDame channel on YouTube is popular among classic film fans.