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Don't Let the Momentum of November Write Club Die: How to Stay Active Into 2026 & Beyond!
Insider Intel: 2026 Predictions
Stage 32 Certification Featured In IndieWire!
Insider Intel: The Studio War & The Rise of Indies
Insider Intel: Packaging your Project- The Chicken or the Egg Dilemma
Stage 32 + DramaBox Join Forces to Launch World's First Vertical Drama Incubator
State of the Industry 2026 Now On-Demand: RB & Geoff Break Down What’s Next for Writers!
Making Our First No-Budget Feature: The Pure Vortex Production Chaos (Part 2)
My Stage 32 Story: Persistence, Healing, & Creative Breakthroughs in Year 3
Coffee & Content: Low Stakes Stories, High Stakes Decisions
5 Steps for Creating Your Own Content in 2020
Actors, Writers, Creators - Now is your time! After winning a bid to write and produce a five part low budget series for a client - the pandemic hit. Sets were shut down, and even when they started to come back, the cost of operating a safe set was way out of our budget. So I had to get creative. I came up with a plan for filming, without putting myself or others at risk, and executed it through delivery. Spoiler alert - you’re going to have to learn how to do a lot more departmen…
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Stage 32 and Raindance Film Festival Partner for the 2020 Virtual Festival
Stage 32 is proud to continue our partnership with Raindance Film Festival for the 5th year in a row! This year, Raindance is going virtual with an impressive lineup of features, shorts, and documentaries from amazing filmmakers all over the world. While we are sad we cannot all come together in London to celebrate these amazing and talented filmmakers, but we are thrilled to partner with Raindance to highlight global talent virtually from the comfort and safety of our own homes. …
Screenwriter working with JUMANJI & TERMINATOR Producer after connecting through Stage 32!
Good morning Stage 32 Creative Crew! Happy Monday! I hope you spent your weekend enjoying yourself while finding time to dig in and be creative. This week's story comes from Stage 32 member Christopher Morrison who has spent years looking for ways to break into a highly competitive industry. As you will hear from Christopher, he has invested in film-related books, courses, pitches, and more in an attempt to improve his craft and get the "big break." Well - spoiler alert - th…
Coffee & Content: 3 Simple Horror Effects & How to Terrify the Audience
Happy Haunting Season Stage 32! With Halloween just around the corner and pumpkin flavored everything on the shelves of Trader Joe's I saw it fit to bring you Coffee & Content: Halloween edition. Today's content is jam-packed with tips and tricks for taking your horror projects to the next level. Grab your piping hot PSL (or some black coffee) and let's dive in. First up, the editing wizards over at Cinecom.net have curated a quick and easy guide to three haunting visual and …
Creativity in Quarantine: How I Made a TV Show During Lockdown
It has long been said that laughter is the best medicine. Comedy provides a way for people to cope with and alleviate stress, anxiety, and most of all remind us of better days. This past March, while California was shut down during ‘shelter in place,’ four bay area filmmakers (Sean O’Hare, Kevin Loader, Kevin Moore, and Roth Rind) wrote and produced the three episode comedy web series, “Quarantine in Pink.” It’s a story about three roommates survivin…
How to Overcome Stress & Anxiety and Unleash Your Creativity
When I first began writing I would sit in front of my computer and struggle to focus. I thought if I stared at that screen long enough that inspiration and creativity would eventually flow onto the page. Rarely did this happen. In fact, probably never. I could not focus for 2 minutes. Really, not even 10 seconds. I did not know it, but I suffered from PTSD and crippling anxiety. The craziest part is that I never considered WHY I had such incredible difficulty sitting still and writing. …
No Stopping Stage 32 Writers!: Over 66 Executive Meetings Requested through Stage 32 this Fall!
Good morning Stage 32 Creative Crew! I hope amidst your busy weekend you were able to carve out some time to introduce yourself to the rest of the Stage 32 community. If not, there is still time! Get in the mix, let people know what you’re working on and see if there are ways in which you can contribute your thoughts and ideas to other posts. It is a great way to get involved with like minded creatives. We had reach Fall and the momentum has not slowed down one bit from our busy …
Stage 32 Presents: Top Television Comedy Professionals Discuss The Current State of the TV Comedy Industry During COVID-19
Happy Saturday Stage 32 Community! On behalf of everyone here at Stage 32, I am thrilled to announce another free virtual event to help you stay up-to-date about the state of the TV comedy industry featuring some of the top writers, producers, and agents of the genre. We invite you to virtually join us on Monday, October 19th 1pm PST for our Top Television Comedy Professionals Discuss The Current State of the TV Comedy Industry During COVID-19. Register here. Seven month…
Shape Up Your Calling Card - The Importance of a Polished Stage 32 Profile
It’s the tedious but oh-so-necessary maintenance of being in this industry: online presentation. Just as we once toiled over the formatting and tone of a resume and cover letter, so now must we polish our profiles. Selling ourselves can be exhausting, but look at it this way - your Stage 32 profile is your invitation to play! We all love what we do, and we love meeting people that make the experience magical. Here’s your chance to set the tone for your fantasy-project-made-re…
How to Make a TV Show Sizzle Reel
THE POWER OF A SIZZLE REEL So many of us here on Stage 32 have a dream; a dream of either writing or producing or starring in a project. That project could be a movie, a television show, a musical, a short film, and so on. It all starts with an idea, which could be an AMAZING idea, however unless that idea is translated into something tangible like a script or treatment, that amazing idea will never be realized. Let’s take that a step further. An idea, on paper, can only go so fa…
How to Make a Short Film Over Zoom
ACT ONE: PANDEMIC, YOU SAY? Things were going great. We had just finished shooting our first horror feature film. I had spent the last four months working with the editor and now it was in the hands of our sound and colour experts when… calamity struck, in the shape of our old friend Covid-19. Allow me to explain. Under the banner of Vamoose Productions, our newly formed production company based in Manchester, England, we had just finished our first feature film, the realistic …
Another Success!: Writer Signs Shopping Agreement with Producer through Stage 32!
Good morning Stage 32 Creative Crew! I hope you had a wonderful weekend full of creative endeavors and noble pursuits. To kick this week off, I want to introduce you to a Stage 32 member who completely embodies the spirit of the platform and has the tenacity to succeed in an extremely competitive business. Cameron Tendaji has been a member of Stage 32 for a little over a year. He joined in September of 2019 with a dream to become a screenwriter. As Cameron explains, he spent …
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