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A Practical Guide for Actors: Tips & Advice Every Performer Should Know
Don't Let the Momentum of November Write Club Die: How to Stay Active Into 2026 & Beyond!
Green Lights and Grey Areas: Expanding Creative Collaboration in Publishing
How Modern Franchises Became Our New Religion
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What Stage 32's Community Is Really About (Beyond Scripts, Sets, and Showreels)
2nd Annual Feature Screenplay Contest Winners Announced! Stage 32 Happy Writers
It comes with great delight as we announce the 2nd Annual Feature Screenplay Contest Winners! Our judges were simply “wowed” by the writing caliber and talent of this group, and we couldn’t agree more. The 3 Grand Prize Winners are in for a Hollywood treat. They’ll be flown to Los Angeles to have meetings with a group of industry execs, enjoy a cocktail hour with some of our executive contest judges, be mentored by a Stage 32 Happy Writers team member for 1-year, …
How To Get Commissioned for British TV Right Now!
Stranger Things is killing it among the industry people I know right now. Almost everyone who watches it drinks it straight down. I thought I'd try half an ep to see what it felt like. I watched five episodes non-stop, then finished the series off the following evening. Same with the recent Ashley Pharoah show The Living and The Dead from the BBC. I watched it as fast as I possibly could. One is glorious 1980s nostalgia, one is a heart-achingly beautiful journey into Thomas Hardy …
Get $20,000 To Make Your Short Film
Today we announce some exciting news for our filmmakers. Stage 32 has partnered with St. Petersburg/Clearwater Florida Film Commission to turn your short screenplay into a produced short film that will screen at 3 festivals! The amazing team at St. Petersburg/Clearwater Film Commission are providing a $20,000 production grant to a lucky winner who will have the opportunity of a lifetime! The winning writer and director will be flown to Florida, cast & crew their film using Stage 32…
Stage 32 Happy Writers 2nd Annual Feature Screenplay Contest Finalists Announced
We are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2nd Annual Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Screenplay Contest! With hundreds of submissions this year, these talented writers cut through to the top with their amazing scripts. Now, it’s off to the races! Winners will be announced September 7th on the Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Screenplay Contest page expertly selected by our amazing judges. Please celebrate with us on social and tag us on Twitter: @stage32 and Inst…
Robert McKee Teaching LIVE! - Exclusive to Stage 32! - Special One Day Event!
Hey Guys! I am very excited to continue our tradition of bringing you the best education in the industry by working with legendary author and story authority, Robert McKee on a very special and exclusive one day only LIVE event here on Stage 32! For our Masters of Craft Series, Mr. McKee will be teaching you how to write believable, engaging & impactful dialogue. Here's a video from me with more information! Since 1984, more than 100,000 students have taken M…
Stage 32 + Hollyshorts Film Festival - Events All Week!
We have an exciting week of events lined up at the HollyShorts Film Festival beginning this Friday! If you are in or around the Los Angeles area, you are more than welcome to come join us for any one or all of our special Stage 32 panels, parties and screenings! "HollyShorts is the benchmark most up-and-comers are striving for - and the festival is impressively dedicated to advancing the careers of its filmmakers", says Daniel Sol, Co-Founder of HollyShorts. "We are equally impressed, d…
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival: New Horizons Studio 2016
Organized within the framework of the 16th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, the 7th edition of the New Horizons Studio took place from 24 to 26 July in Wrocław, the 2016 European Capital of Culture. The most important training program of the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival has two objectives: to teach, during three days, young European directors and producers about the workings of the international film market, particularly producti…
2nd Annual Feature Screenplay Contest Semi-Finalists Announced. Stage 32 Happy Writers
The 2nd Annual Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Screenplay Contest semi-finalists list is here! We pen-salute these talented group of writers on this achievement. Be sure to check back here on the Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Screenplay Contest page August 17th for when we announce the finalists! Please celebrate on social and tag us on Twitter: @stage32 and Instagram: @stage32online #stage32rocks Congratulations to the semi-finalists and best of luck! A LITTLE TURBULENCE …
Polish Days at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival 2016
Launched in 2013 in cooperation with the Polish Film Institute, Polish Days is the top industry event of the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival. According to Magdalena Sroka, the general director of the Polish Film Institute, this joint initiative of the Polish Film Institute and the festival has become one of the most interesting events dedicated to promoting Polish cinema. Indeed, the importance of Polish Days for the international promotion of Polish cinema cannot be ov…
T-Mobile International Film Festival: A Sunday in the Country 2016
For the 5th time, “A Sunday in the Country,” one of the most inventive and out of the box workshops for young European film critics and journalists, was organized within the framework of the 16th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival in an old guest house by the Bystrzyckie lake during the first weekend of the cinematic event (21-24 July, 2016). There, in Zagórze Śląslie in Lower Silesia, during three days, the group watched and discussed films,…
Welcome Sadie Dean to the Stage 32 Team!
The Stage 32 community and platform just got a whole lot stronger… I’m thrilled to announce that Sadie Dean has joined the Stage 32 family. Sadie comes to us by way of The Writers Store and F&W Media where she headed up a variety of initiatives for screenwriters including online and live education, seminars, contests, coverage services and much more. As a screenwriter myself, I can tell you first hand that Sadie is one of the most plugged in and knowledgable people work…
What's New at Stage 32 This Week Part II
This week on Stage 32 we have 3 great webinars for producers, directors, financiers, actors and writers. I'm looking forward to seeing you in a Stage 32 Next Level course! Dynamic Duo Uma Incrocci & Christian Petersen, who have worked on dozens of film and TV shows including Jane The Virgin, The Good Wife and The Longest Week, will bring you Audition Ammunition: Booking The Room. They will go over physical setups of what you can expect when going into any audition, includi…
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