Being an A-list television actor and chart-topping country singer isn’t all John Schneider has in his artistic arsenal. The switch hitter is simultaneously in the midst of a burgeoning movie career with executive producer Alicia Allain under their own John Schneider Studios and Maven Entertainment banners. It’s thus far been the launching pad where acclaimed independent movies such as Sometimes Bad Things Do Happen to Bad People, Inadmissible, Anderson Bench, Smothered, Like Son and Collier & Co. Hot Pursuit (all written and directed by Schneider) are made and continue to catch wind like wildfire.

 

And considering John Schneider Studios sits on a sprawling 58-acre property in Holden, Louisiana that offers camping, lodging, trails, ponds, a bamboo forest, a 200,000-gallon swimming pool and more, its doors are also regularly open to empower fellow filmmakers with an innovative infrastructure that provides all the tools needed to create their stories and shoot in a single location.

 

“The balance of careers really takes care of itself,” he insists of the delightfully crazy calendar he and Allain keep. “We spend time recording an album and then there’s time spent mixing the album, which gives me time to be off either touring with music or working on a movie. When the movie is finished filming, there are many aspects of postproduction that need to be done, and if I am not doing them myself, then naturally so I don’t get bored, I am out on the road. I guess the moral to the story is that Alicia and I are both hard, hard workers who don’t really, at this point anyway, seem to need any downtime!”

 

The idea of setting specific goals still appeals to Schneider on the professional front as well, who rather than coasting on his ever-increasing list of countless of accomplishments, keeps on dreaming of the next field he’d like to cultivate. “We would like to have one of our films take off and sell over 100,000 units. Same thing with the music,” he says matter of factly. “Once we get into the area where we are fairly certain we can sell this number, we will be able to continue to make movies, music and other forms of entertainment without having to seek outside funding. Then we will truly be independent and have autonomy.”