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Coffee & Content: Crafting Cinematic Magic
Red Carpet Roll-Out: January 2025's New Executives & Education at Stage 32!
Talking Business: Necessary Clearances For Film & TV
Do Not Lose The Fire In Your Voice In 2025
32 Tips For Indie Feature Film Development & Pre-Production
How To Handle Constructive Notes & Nail Your Rewrite
Setting Intentions for the New Year: Creating My Mid-Life Peace (No Crisis Welcome!)
Forgive and Flourish: A Guide to Holiday Healing
Announcing the 4th Annual Female Driven Screenwriting Contest
My Stage 32 Story: Venturing Out Of My Lane in Year 2
Coffee & Content: Something for ALL Film Creatives
Happy Sunday, everyone. As you know, we love to share great content on Stage 32. In fact, we make it a point to share as much timely and inspirational content as possible across all our social media channels. It's an easy way of paying it forward (something that's pointed out in the So You Think You Have Nothing to Offer on Social Media? article below). All of the blogs below were written by Stage 32 members and are now featured on Medium. Enjoy them at you…
May Is Member Appreciation Month
As our way of saying thank you for being a loyal member of the Stage 32 community, we have marked May as our Stage 32 Member Appreciation Month. What that means for you is that if you've had your eye on any of our on-demand webinars, for the entire month of May they will be only $39. Whether you're looking to expand your craft, or learn more about the business, there is a Stage 32 Next Level Webinar available for you. To take the next step to improving your skills. Here's just some of…
Casting Call for Stage 32 Short Film Contest Winner
Stage 32's partnership with the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Film Commission continues as we announce that we are beginning pre-production for the short film script selected as the winner of our Short Film Script Contest. Screenwriter/director Tanya Carleton Lovrics from Niagara Falls, Canada has officially opened up the casting call for her screenplay DOLPHIN GIRL. Tanya is being mentored by Sundance alum writer/director, JT Mollner and will be flown to Florida thi…
Kickstart Your Creativity – 30 Tips!
A recent poll of creatives found that 37% experience the greatest dip in their creativity on Saturday. But not you, right? You’re going to use today to start, continue or shore up that creative project. Even if that’s not the case, or if you’ve lately found yourself in a creative lull, courtesy of our friends at lifehack.org, here are 30 inspiring and motivational tips to kickstart your creativity. Enjoy! Surround yourself with creative people.Hang out wit…
Cannes Roll Call - Who's Going? Who Has Films?
Hey guys. The 70th Cannes Film Festival is right around the corner, so stay tuned for an update of Stage 32's happenings at Cannes. In the meantime, we'd love to hear from all the Stage 32 members who are planning on attending the fest along with those who will have films playing in the festival. Last year we had an incredible 33 Stage 32 members who had films screen at Cannes - 2 of those films went on to compete for Oscars: Toni Erdmann and My Life as a Zucchini.…
Never Let Rejection Define You
If you've been around Stage 32 for any length of time, you know we believe that a positive mindset is paramount to finding success as a creative. We must draw inspiration and positivity from like-minded individuals who fully understand the challenges of the creative journey. As you also know, we're big believers in paying it forward. Nothing is more rewarding than sharing our experiences and knowledge with others. To us, this is a major aspect of the collaborative process. &nbs…
Coffee & Content: Podcasts & Webcasts
To all celebrating, a very happy Easter to you. (And a very happy Sunday to everyone else!) I always believe the holidays are for sharing, so I wanted to take a minute to post some podcats, webcasts and interviews that I hope will provide some inspiration today and as you move along in your creative pursuits. There's something here for creatives of all disciplines and all those multi-hyphenates out there! National Screenwriters Day with Spencer Robinson, Caytha Jentis, Rich…
Avoid These Crowdfunding Mistakes on Social Media!
One of the more popular requests we get here at Stage 32 is information on best practices for promoting a crowdfunding campaign on social media. Recently, spurred on by the sheer amount of crowdfunding spam he was receiving on his Twitter and Instagram accounts, our CEO, RB, republished his popular Medium article: 5 Ways You Are Incorrectly Using Twitter to Promote Your Crowdfunding Campaign. Although the article singles out Twitter, these mistakes and ill advised practices are common …
Just Finish The Book!
For the last 30 years I have been writing poetry, lyrics and songs, yielding some great achievements along the way, mostly with my songs, but I have had two poems published in the past and have continued to write for the sheer joy and love of writing. I've always enjoyed poetry and it's a shame that over the centuries, it has dwindled as a definitive form of communication, but people do still enjoy writing it as a way of expressing feelings and events that maybe are difficult to express…
Stage 32's 1st Annual Online Film Finance & Producing Conference
As the leaders in online education for film creatives, we're extremely proud to introduce our 2017 Online Film Conference Series. Throughout the year, we'll be announcing events designed to give you timely, applicable information designed to help you succeed in 2017 and beyond. We kick it all off today with our 1st Annual Online Film Finance and Producing Conference! No planes. No hotels. No expenses. No new wardrobe. No outrageous badge prices. Just you, your compute…
From USC to Sundance Labs: How Social Media Brought My Filmmaking To Life!
I knew I wanted to be a filmmaker around sophomore year in undergrad. I took this class called "Make a Movie" with Billy Field. He threw a camera in our hands and just told us to go make something. Now, the piece we made is something I'll never share, but it helped me to realize I loved filmmaking, and it's something I could do with my life, and be happy. The best lesson I've learned throughout my films is what it means to be a leader. Yes, you need to have a creative visio…
Stage 32'er Michel Merkt Wins the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film!
Last night was a very special one around these parts as our good friend Michel Merkt captured the Golden Globe for producing Best Foreign Film winner, Elle. As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, Michel has not only been a staunch supporter of all we do here at Stage 32, but he has worked with and mentored so many 32'ers through the years. Michel was kind enough to invite me to the premiere of Elle at the Cannes film festival last year. To be invited to be part of his tribe du…
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