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Every year thousands of filmmakers flock to Park City, UT for one of America's most well-known events - the Sundance Film Festival. Some legendary films have been born out of Sundance including: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Whiplash, Little Miss Sunshine, Clerks and The Blair Witch Project. It's always an exciting time for filmmakers to congregate and celebrate new independent films. The 2015 Sundance Film Festival starts Thursday, January 22. Are you headed to Sundance this week? If so…
Just a reminder that tomorrow, January 20 2015, at 1pm PST, our fearless leader, Stage 32 Founder and CEO, RB, will be hosting a FREE online webinar to the first 1,000 Stage 32 members who register. Less than 75 spots remain! To register, click here. Each On Stage with RB broadcast is designed with you in mind. Every month RB spends at least 2 hours of his time bringing you updates on the latest and greatest site features of Stage 32, and teaches you the best way to utilize the platfo…
It's time! Tuesday of next week is the January 2015 broadcast of On Stage with RB. We are inviting 1,000 Stage 32 members to join us LIVE Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 1pm PST for On Stage with RB. RB will be covering some of the latest and greatest site features, speaking to members of the community and spending at least 90 minutes answering questions about the industry, your chosen discipline and just about anything else that's on your mind. Plus, RB will have on 2 special…
I'm thrilled to announce that the newest and, by far, the best version to date of the Stage 32 app is now available for download. This version improves upon and introduces a myriad of features that will make it easier than ever to network, share content, search for jobs, participate in the Lounge, search for connections and much, much more. Additionally now you can share all your photos through the app. Whether it's headshots, on set candids, storyboard pictures or…
Hello Stage 32ers! We have now posted the video of On Stage With RB-May 2014, hosted by our Founder & CEO, Richard "RB" Botto. We opened 1,000 spots for this exclusive Stage 32 Next Level Webinar and we were humbled when all 1,000 spots were filled! We had Stage 32 members from 82 countries in attendance. A huge thanks to all who showed up and asked such great questions. All in all, RB spoke for 2-1/2 hours including a 20 minute tutori…
This Thursday, May 15 at 1PM PDT, we will be presenting our second edition of On Stage With RB hosted by our CEO, Rich Botto. This exclusive 90 minute Next Level Webinar is FREE to the first 1,000 people who register. RB will be going over some of the new Stage 32 site features as well as pointing out some of the finer points of the Stage 32 Happy Writers. Additionally, he will be holding (at least) an hour long Q&A session where he will take questions from the Stage 32 …
So we've been live with Stage 32 2.0 for almost a week now. Thanks for all the positive letters and messages. I've shared them all with the Stage 32 team and everyone is deeply appreciative. We've also thank those who have written in to let us know of some glitches and feature issues. Many of you noticed that there was no way to upload resumes, delete or arrange photos, or follow and unfollow a Lounge discussion. All of those features are being worked on and will be remedi…
Sorry to spring this remodeling on you so early in the morning. Hope you didn't bang into anything or stub your toe. So, whaddaya think? Take a look around. Hit a few buttons. Explore your Toolbox. Upload some photos or a video. Search the Job Postings section. Make a post or two. Like someone's comment. Make a network connection. Shoot someone a DM. Send an invite to a peer. Just don't break anything, capiche? A huge shoutout to our CTO, Derrick Ontiveros, who worke…
Hope you all had a terrific and creative weekend! I have a guest blog ready to roll tomorrow, but in the interim, I thought I'd take a moment to make an announcement and clear up some questions. First off, by request, we are extending the sale dates for a few of our exclusive New Year's Resolution Series Next Level Webinars: How to Write a Sitcom in One Easy Webinar, Acting: Mastering the American Accent, and Producing: On-Set Insurance &nda…
One of the features we'll be adding to the blog this year is the Stage 32 Mailbag. Feel free to write in about anything on that beautiful mind of yours – Questions about the site or your chosen craft, rants about the current state of the industry (theater, television, or film), why Wolf of Wall Street is the best film of 2013 (I'm ducking), or anything else you can conjure up. To submit, just send your questions to mailbag@stage32.com and let us kn…
The New Year is always time for reflection. 2013 was an incredible year for Stage 32 and its members. Our thanks to you for paying it forward and inviting your peers to join the community. Because of the organic growth we experienced, Stage 32 grew to over 200,000 members in 186 countries. Some major milestones from 2013: Stage 32 became a top 8,000 website in the United States and 25,000 in the world. (Again, our thanks to our loyal, active members for helping make this so.) We lau…
The new version of the Stage 32 app is now live for the iPhone and Android. Our thanks to all who provided input as to what improvements and features they'd like to see added. And my personal thanks to Derrick for all the hard work he put into this iteration. Some new features include the ability to post to and simpler browsing of the updated Stage 32 Find Work section, the addition of the Stage 32 Deals section, the ability to view user's headshots in full screen, improv…