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How Networking Can Be a Game-Changer for Screenwriters
Coffee & Content: Let’s Talk About Where You’re Spending Your Time
Behind the Scenes Part 2: The Making of Catalyst Studios' ALIX with Leading Actors Cristal Aparicio & Roberto Urbina
Embrace Your Desire to Be the Best: The Art of Pursuing Excellence
Follow The Yellow Brick Road To Your Goals!
A Stage 32 Success Story: How I Networked, Sold My Short Script, & Watched It Come To Life!
Red Carpet Roll-Out: March 2025's New Executives & Education at Stage 32!
Celebrate the February 2025 Stage 32 Community’s Successes
The Writer As An Entrepreneur: Part Three- The Inner Work
Tapping Into Your Animal Instincts When Creating
How Writing a Stage 32 Blog Helped Me Get Distribution for My Transmedia Film Project
Today's success story comes from Las Vegas-based filmmaker and transmedia producer, Owen Ratliff. Back in October, Owen wrote a blog for the Stage 32 community about his experience developing his transmedia film project Black Salt. Now, Owen is back with an extremely excited Stage 32 Success Story - he procured distribution for his project after connecting with an agent who had read his blog on Stage 32! As the blog editor here at Stage 32, these success stories simply make my hea…
Coffee & Content: Behind the Lyrics of Disney's ENCANTO & Electro Effect from SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Tutorial
Happy Sunday Creative Army! Have you had a creative weekend so far? I have some content here for you that is sure to get the creative juices flowing, so grab your coffee and let's dive in. First up, the folks over at Film Riot have put together an epic tutorial on how to make the electro effect from Spider-Man: No Way Home. This tutorial uses Adobe After Effects and will add some major production value to your projects. Next up, Walt Disney Animation Studios recently shared a be…
Designing Your Creative Year in 2022: Plotting vs. Pantsing
It must be the storyteller in me, but I love endings and beginnings. December and January are my two favorite months of the year, in part because of the way they invite us to pause and reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed. I’m a planner and a goal-setter by nature and by practice, and I thought I’d share with you how I design my creative year by approaching it like a story. As I’m sure you’ve all discovered, there’s a long-standing…
Best of Stage 32 Community Posts 2021
Looking back on 2021, it's easy to see loss, confusion, and pain. If you look for it, however, I think you'll find the beauty and abundance you crave. For me, I see healing, growth, and productive friction. I can only see the many contributions of our nearly one million global members, the insightful posts of our Community Leaders, and the productive conversations with everyone in between. The Stage 32 community was built on the values that Hollywood all too often takes for granted - pos…
I Composed Music for 30 Days Straight: This is What I Learned…
Film composer, screenwriter, playwright, and fellow Stage 32 community member, Shanika Freeman, shares knowledge gained from a 30-day composing challenge. I invite all of Stage 32 to join me in starting your own personal 30-day creative challenge to kick start 2022! Screenwriters: try to write for one hour every day! Actors: spend an hour practicing self-tapes and reading plays! Producers: practice your elevator pitches every day! No matter what your creative entertainment interests ar…
Happy Holidays from the Stage 32 Team
On behalf of the entire Stage 32 family, I'd like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and loving Christmas and remainder of the holiday season. While the holidays are a time of celebration, I hope everyone will take a moment to reflect on the many blessings life has offered and afforded all of us. We personally feel blessed to have had so many of you enter and enrich our lives. The Stage 32 community has grown to over 800,000 members from around the globe, and we are beyond honored to pro…
The Secret's Out: Netflix & Stage 32 are Partnering for a Free Global Initiative
As you know, this past February, Stage 32 partnered with Netflix to present a global online television workshop taught by Netflix's own Chris Mack. To date, the workshop has been viewed by over 100,000 people worldwide, making it the most successful online entertainment industry workshop in history. Now we're taking things to the next level. I'm proud to announce that we have once again partnered with Netflix on an even bigger initiative which will run through the end of 2022 - The …
Coffee & Content: Screenwriting Advice from KNIVE'S OUT's Rian Johnson & Hans Zimmer on DUNE Film Score
Happy Sunday Creative Army! Have you had a creative weekend so far? I have some content here for you that is sure to get the creative juices flowing, so grab your coffee and let's dive in. First up, Behind the Curtain has a great interview with Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Star Wars: Episode VIII, Looper) about his writing process for Knives Out. Specifically, Rian talks about how he approached writing a modern whodunit, his experience as a writer/director, and more. Spoiler alert: if you…
Happy Thanksgiving from the Stage 32 Team: We are Thankful for YOU
Happy Thanksgiving, Creative Army! On behalf of the entire Stage 32 team, I'd like to wish everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. This year, we have welcomed hundreds of thousands of new members to our growing, creative community, and we are beyond honored to provide each and every one of you a safe haven to connect, be inspired, and come together to make art. We are all extremely grateful for the members of this community and for the incredible relationships and friendsh…
How to Network & Build a Lasting Career in Entertainment: Part 1
I recently gave some thought to what actions and strategies had made the most significant impacts in my success over the years. I was surprised to realize how it really was not the things most of us expect. Not agents. Not union membership. Not publicity. Not awards or accolades. Not proactive networking. The reality is far more subtle, nuanced and more powerful than any of those things. It took decades of perspective for me to recognize the indisputable…
How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Criticism of Your Art/Work
As an artist, you’re called to show up in the world. Whether it’s on stage, making a pitch, submitting your screenplay, putting on an art show, you make yourself vulnerable to others over and over again. Making art is a unique process. The initial stages of creating are deeply personal, but, eventually, you need the attention of your audience to bring your creative work to life. Though it began as something private, your art only achieves its purpose and full potential when …
Let’s Celebrate 10 Years of Stage 32 Together – And, Introducing the New Stage 32 App
In February of 2011, we went live with the first iteration of Stage 32. For me personally, this was the culmination of 3 years of plotting, planning, executing, and, ultimately, fully forming and realizing an embryonic idea that had been living in my head and keeping me awake at night. As you might imagine, it was an exciting moment. Still, I didn’t know how people would take to the idea. From a business standpoint, I had done it backwards. Normally, you take (what you believe to…
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