Grande Rana Productions

Ron Montana is the author of seven published science fiction, mystery and mainstream novels. His book, Face in the Snow, was a Doubleday/Dell Hardcover and a Bantam paperback. He sold the movie rights and adapted it to a film script in 1998.

 

His short stories have appeared in many of the major Science Fiction, Mystery Magazines and hardcover anthologies.

 

His first stage play, Community Property, enjoyed a 20-week run in the San Francisco Bay Area and he was the humor columnist for San Jose Magazine and the City Editor of the San Jose Downtown Post Newspaper for two years.

 

In the 1980’s and 90’s, he created and ran the Writer’s Digest Magazine Screen Writing work shop which turned out many successful writers.

 

He has written ten screenplays, two sold and several have been optioned by major producers.

 

One of these.  The Sailmaker, an epic multimillion dollar film was sold for a high six-figure amount. He worked with Sir Richard Attenborough on a Directors Draft for a year, then Simon West took over when Sir Richard retired.

 

From 1984 to 2000, he produced, directed and hosted a weekly TV show on San Jose Public Access consisting of in studio interviews combined with complex remote shooting.

 

As an Intel Corporation executive for many years, he created and managed the Santa Clara site in house TV station and production facility where he produced, directed and acted in major international training films, commercials and the quarterly global Intel In Review TV broadcast.

 

In 1991 he traveled to Israel to set up an Intel satellite video training center and TV studio.

 

In 2000 he retired to Auburn and joined the PCSO volunteer STAR program where  he wrote two training manuals for the  Sheriff’s Department dealing with Child Abduction Response and the Department and is currently an active S.T.A.R. with hundreds of  hours to his credit.

 

From 2001 to 2003 he was a member of the Auburn Community TV Board of Directors and twice Interim Station Manager in that period.

 

He also worked for the Auburn Police Department Volunteer Program in 2005 as well. In this capacity he was involved heavily in criminal investigation, wire tap analysis, report writing, and cataloging evidence

 

As Producer/director of the 2006 PLEA video program, he wrote the scripts, shot the video segments and directed the edits, did the voice over and managed the presentation.

 

In 2007, Ron helped create the infomercial “The Gutterguard Show.”  At the 2007 Annual Telly Awards, this show received five outstanding achievement awards for overall production and design, use of music, animation, editing and graphics.

 

Ron also worked on a series of training films for the Placer County Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Program to assist police officers in dealing with families of crime victims.