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A Practical Guide for Actors: Tips & Advice Every Performer Should Know
Happy Thanksgiving From Stage 32: We Are Thankful For YOU
Coffee & Content: Why Your Pitch Needs to Be Human
Stage 32 Is My Magic Key To International Networking And Education
Stage 32 Now Certifying Centro de Portugal Film Commission!
Coffee & Content: Low Stakes Stories, High Stakes Decisions
State of the Industry 2026 Now On-Demand: RB & Geoff Break Down What’s Next for Writers!
What Stage 32's Community Is Really About (Beyond Scripts, Sets, and Showreels)
Forbes Spotlights Stage 32 Certification!
Stage 32 Featured at the 43rd Torino Film Festival!
Two New Yorkers in Hollywood: How Do You Approach Someone You'd Like to Work With, but Don't Know (with Richard Botto & Bradley Gallo)
We all know the age-old-adage about show business: "It's not what you know, it's who you know. So how do you get to know these magical gatekeepers of Hollywood? Do you bombard their office with postcards with your face on it? (No.) Do you Google sleuth to find out their home address and send them homemade cookies? (Definitely not, don't be creepy.) Do you find common ground (alma mater, hometown, etc) and compose a clever, short, personalized message to them? (Bingo.) In t…
How to Have Successful Q & A’s at Film Festivals
It is thrilling after all your work on a film, to have the exhilarating experience of a dynamic and successful Q & A at a film festival with a packed audience. Conversely, most of us have experienced the shock of seeing a Q &A where no questions were asked. Worse, is having your short screened with others and ending up the only one not having a questioned asked after hearing, “Well, guys, that’s all we have time for as the next film is coming in”. You Can Pack …
Read Some 2020 Oscar Contender Screenplays
With 2020 just around the corner, we are all speculating potential Oscar contenders. We all have our guesses, but the folks over at Entertainment Weekly have already put together their 2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions. This list details everything from "Top 5" to "longshots" in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Read More: Enter…
Happy Thanksgiving! We are Thankful Everyday for You
From the entire Stage 32 team, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving. Let me be the first to say, I am incredibly grateful for every single person that is a part of the Stage 32 creative army. I am forever in awe of the amazing connections, projects, and friendships that have grown out of our community. As always, here at Stage 32, we aim to help entertainment creatives make connections and share their stories with the world. In our 8 years, we have had nearly 2,000 articles writt…
Two New Yorkers in Hollywood: What You'll Learn When You First Get into Entertainment & What Not to Do (with Richard Botto & Bradley Gallo)
New people flock to LA every day with big dreams and their hearts set on "making it". However, as anyone who has moved to LA for entertainment can tell you, no one is going to roll out a red carpet for you just for showing up. Often times, arriving in "tinsel town" can be a lonely and unforgiving place. Fortunately, our two favorite New Yorkers in Hollywood have teamed up to teach you What You'll Learn When You First Get into Entertainment & What Not to Do. In this clip …
Your Success is Our Success! Thanks for Sharing Your Inspiring Stories!
Good morning Stage 32 Family! I hope you have all had a wonderful pre-Thanksgiving weekend. We’re heading into the last week of November and one that largely kicks off the holiday season for many of us. During this time, it is important to stay focused on our screenwriting and filmmaking goals. I want to remind everyone who is participating in our November Write Club Challenge that this is the last week to knock out your writing goal for the month of November. For those who have …
Coffee & Content - How A Title will Help You Write & How Music Shapes Your Film
A very Happy Thanksgiving week to you Creative Army! This Sunday, we've got some great content for all you filmmakers out there. My coffee's brewing, how about yours? First on the docket, can your project's title shape how you write your story? Writer/Director Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok, What We Do in the Shadows) thinks so! Learn more in his interview with our friends over at IndieWire. Next up, film editor Tom Cross (La La Land, Whiplash, First Man, Joy) tells …
Screenwriter Review: How Stage 32 Script Services "Makes You a Better Writer"
Hello Stage 32 Community! Today's amazing blog contributor is Rosalind Winton, a writer and editor based in the UK. She wrote a script based on the postcard her great grandfather send to her great grandmother from the Titanic, days before the infamous sinking. (Color me interested!) Throughout the writing process, she utilized Stage 32's script services offers to get notes and advice from our esteemed board of executives, producers, and mentors. Read on to find out more about R…
The Top Five Myths About Screenwriting Exposed
Becoming a screenwriter is a truly incredible process, that will challenge you, reward you, disappoint you, but never bore you. That being said, it’s important to go into this path with eyes wide open, and know the truth about being a screenwriter. These are the top 5 myths about being a screenwriter that you should know first. Myth #1 - It Doesn’t Involve Much Writing Although screenplays are short, usually from 90 to 100 pages, with a lot of empty space on the page, they…
Despising The Free Lunch- How to Get Paid Like a Pro
Getting paid for being a filmmaker is an art form and rarely taken to heart, so artists starve for their craft. This image of the "starving artist" must not and should not be perpetuated. Most people believe that the work of a writer, a producer, a filmmaker is based on passion alone, and as a result it is assumed that all artists are meant to work for free, or to get paid later, because their passion for the craft will make them accept work under any condition, including the freebies or…
Cashing In Your Million Dollar Idea
Probably the most coveted of all Hollywood’s many careers and titles, more widely sought after even than the dream of becoming a movie star itself, is the position of “idea guy.” Someone has to be doing this job, according to popular wisdom. What’s more, all the remakes and adaptations we see in theaters today make it clear beyond doubt that this person, whoever they are, is doing a pretty terrible job. If someone is going to sit in a room all day, getting paid mi…
Another Stage 32 Success Story: "Winning This Contest Feels Like a Game Changer!"
Good morning Stage 32 Family! We have got another big, busy, creative week ahead of us as we plow through the remaining weeks of this year. To kick off this Monday right, I asked the winner of our 3rd Annual Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Contest, Bill Poore, to recap his recent trip to Los Angeles. As I hope many of you must know by now, the winner of every Stage 32 screenwriting contest is sent on a round of meetings in Los Angeles with industry executives, managers, agents, and p…
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