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4 Reasons To Have Audio Description On Your Film
My Stage 32 Story: Persistence, Healing, & Creative Breakthroughs in Year 3
Stage 32 Now Certifying Centro de Portugal Film Commission!
Find Your Footing on Stage 32: Join Our December Community Open House
Coffee & Content: Why Your Next Step Matters More Than the Perfect Step
Stage 32 Now Certifying the Dallas Film Commission!
Stage 32 + DramaBox Join Forces to Launch World's First Vertical Drama Incubator
Coffee & Content: Low Stakes Stories, High Stakes Decisions
Insider Intel: 2025- Your Year of Breakthroughs (+ What's Coming in 2026)
How to Get Help from Stage 32: Meet the Teams Behind the Scenes
Stage 32 Mentoring Session Leads To Distribution Shopping Agreement for Filmmaker!
Good morning Stage 32 Creatives! Believe it or not, it’s time to kick off another week of creative endeavors. There is no better way to start than to highlight a member of our community who took the bull by the horns, financed and produced his own film and who just signed a shopping agreement with a producer after getting feedback on his pitch deck through a Stage 32 Mentoring Session! Stage 32 member, Antoine Allen is a screenwriter, director and producer. Antoine began his care…
Coffee & Content - PARASITE'S Perfect Montage & Rian Johnson's KNIVES OUT Scene Breakdown
Happy Sunday Creative Army, Here's hoping you had a healthy and creative week. I've got my coffee in hand and am bringing you some piping-hot content to help you stay creative and inspired while rocking self-quarantine. First up, the folks over at Nerdwriter have put together an amazing video highlighting one of the many reasons Bong Joon Ho's Oscar-winning film Parasite is so cinematically stellar. In this video, they breakdown the masterful use of montage in scene where (spoile…
How to Think Like a Film Studio: Perfecting Your Pitch, Outline & Script
If you are thinking of writing a script that becomes a movie, you need to think like a film studio and distributor if you want to sell the concept. Whether you are going to pitch the idea to a major studio or finance the movie yourself, you need a winning idea that will capture audiences if you want the movie to succeed. That means right from the start you will need to think like a film studio even before you write your script. What follows are some tips that will help you turn your id…
Why I Wish I Knew It Was Okay To Ask For Extensions On Deadlines
Sometimes, aspiring writers ask me a question. What’s one piece of advice you’d give an aspiring writer? Or, if you could tell your younger self one piece of writing advice, what would it be? To properly explain my answer, I need to tell you a little story. After a rather rough few months at the end of 2013, I found myself at the tail end of a six-week writing slump. For the only time in my writing career, I’d only written 300 words in those six weeks (the least …
Socially Distant & Successful: Stage 32 Writers Made 100 Exec Connections in Less than 3 months!
Good morning Stage 32 Creatives! I hope your week is off to a great start. I want to give you some updates that I think will make it even better. Obviously, if you have been following Stage 32 for any length of time, you know that despite the temporary hiatus in production, business is still going on in the industry. In fact, during the recent Global Pitch Tank I hosted last week, Manager Spencer Robinson of Art/Work said, “I’m reading more than ever and I’m on the ph…
Stay Connected & Stay Creative with Stage 32: Watch Our Virtual Events On-Demand Now!
Happy Saturday Stage 32 Community! Today is Saturday, right? What day is it?! How long have we been in quarantine?! Time is starting to feel a little like this... Name that Classic Movie! Worry not folks, because Stage 32 is committed to bringing you entertainment, education, and community from the comfort and safety of your own home. Over the past several weeks, we have had the supreme pleasure of hosting a number of live digital events! We sipped cocktails in our re…
7 Questions to Develop Your Vision and Voice
What are Vision and Voice and Why are They Important? There’s a lot of good news for Creators and Creatives these days. The abundant Stage 32 opportunity announcements for meetings and pitches with agents, managers, and producers prove they’re hungry for content, which means they’re looking for new writers, actors, and directors who are strong in their craft, with compelling stories to tell. Whenever there’s competition, there’s also the challenge of sett…
StudioCanal's Horror Thriller 'Baghead' Lands Stage 32 New Blood Contest Winner!
Good morning Stage 32 Creatives! I hope you had a productive, healthy and creative weekend. We’re kicking off an exciting week of creative excellence at Stage 32, and there is a lot to look forward to! There is so much going on at Stage 32 that it is difficult to keep up! As I mentioned before, in the months of February and March, there were 79 meeting requests from industry executives, producers, and literary managers looking to connect with writers and filmmakers through Stage 32…
Stage 32 Virtual Table Read Plus Cast Q&A: Now Available On-Demand!
Happy Saturday Stage 32! Last Friday night, we had the pleasure of hosting a live virtual table read and happy hour. It was a smash-success and brought hundreds of you much needed laughter and community in the time of #SelfQuarantine. Stage 32 is committed to bringing you entertainment, education, and community from the comfort and safety of your own home. For those of you who missed this online good-time, worry not! We are thrilled to announce you can now download the full table read …
Special Global Edition of the Stage 32 Writers' Room Pitch Tank
Happy Friday Stage 32 Community! I hope this blog finds you safe, happy, healthy, and creative. Like all of you, the Stage 32 team has been diligently rocking that work from home life while in self-quarantine. Fortunately, things have been a little less lonely with the help of our epic Stage 32 community of over 600,000 worldwide (and growing by the thousands every week!). We are incredibly happy to be putting the "social" in #SocialDistancing. T…
April Content Challenge – Let’s Lift Each Other Up!
Hey, guys. Hoping you are all staying safe, healthy and (relatively) sane. With thousands of new creatives and professionals joining Stage 32 over the last week, traffic, interactions, and network requests at an all-time high, and with all of us stuck at home for the foreseeable future, I thought this would be the perfect time to throw down a content challenge. For the next 30 days, and hopefully beyond, I’m challenging you to start new posts and contribute to existing posts wit…
Writers' Room Member Uses the Power of Stage 32 to take her Script to Screen!
Good morning Stage 32 Family! I sincerely hope that everyone is healthy, safe, and despite being cooped up, happy and maintaining a positive attitude. Just like every Monday, I want to kick off the week with a message of inspiration and motivation. This week I am excited to share the story of a dear friend of the Stage 32 community and myself personally. Chaun Lee is a member of the Stage 32 Writers' Room which - if you are unfamiliar - is a community of screenwriters from ar…
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