About Scene Lift Treasures
The collective love that goes into creating a good movie has the power to uplift us and also entertain. There’s nothing else quite like it. To further appreciate this form of art and entertainment I started Scene Lift.
Scene Lift Treasures is a tangential site about movie memorabilia that often inspires the articles I write for Scene Lift. It’s where I feature items I’ve collected and share items for sale from around the web that you can buy to build your own collection.
The treasures I collect and share are value buys and come from my interest in thrifting for movie collectibles, mostly print material like screenplays, press kits, and movie stills from the 1990s and early 2000s.
My interest in collecting and sharing movie memorabilia arose after discovering that some shooting scripts I was reading to improve my screenwriting skills were actually quite valuable.
I feature a new item from my collection every week and send out a newsletter at the end of each month that includes greats deals on movie memorabilia you can consider buying for your own collection.
As a kid who collected sports cards, this hobby is quite nostalgic and fun for me. My hope is that the items I share and recommend let you appreciate the movies you love in new, exciting ways.
About Me
My name’s Rob and I’m a practicing screenwriter from Pittsburgh who works for HP as a content marketer.
Ten years before this I applied to jobs in Los Angeles just to get closer to where movies were made. I had no intention of creating them but wanted to be close to the spirit of them. With only two years of professional writing experience, landing a job on the other end of the country was a longshot but, after months of persistence, I was eventually hired by an awesome tech startup in “the valley.”
The office was in Studio City directly across from Universal Hollywood. I would wake up in a beautiful villa-style house in North Hollywood and ride my bike to work in the SoCal sun. During my ride, I passed the studios that funded the movies I love.
This love for movies can be traced back to seeing movies like Air Force One, The Negotiator, Can’t Hardly Wait, Gladiator, The Fellowship of the Ring, and other movies from the 1990s and early 2000s. I grew even more fond of them when my mom gifted my dad a 43-inch “big screen” on Christmas 2001.
These days, I’m back in Pittsburgh and still love being close to the spirit of movies. I stay connected by reading screenplays, writing spec scripts, covering scripts for local film festivals, and yes, watching movies. However, after a spiritual awakening in 2019 my taste in movies changed a bit. I had always loved movies with big hearts but they were the only movies I could watch after this experience. Less positive movies just didn’t make sense anymore.
Thankfully I’m more grounded now from the experience and can appreciate all types of movies, even scary and somewhat disgusting ones like Barbarian (2022), though even that movie is sweet in a way. So I suppose that preference for positivity is still alive and well.
Want to get in touch? Send me a note at rob@scenelift.com
