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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 …
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…
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…
Good morning Stage 32 Community! We are starting Week 2 of our November Write Club Challenge! Stay motivated and stay focused. There is a lot of time left in November to tackle your goal and we're here to support your endeavors. Last week, I promised you a big motivational blog to kick of the week and today I am delivering with a recap from the winner of our 4th Annual Comedy Writing Contest, Greg Mania, who flew out to LA from New York in October for a whirlwind tour of industry meeting…
Happy Monday Stage 32 Family! It is not only the beginning of a brand new week, but it is the beginning of a brand new month! November is going to be a busy one for us! Ladies and gentlemen, let's be clear, in November we're kicking it into high gear to finish this year off strong. If you are not already aware, we are right at the beginning of the November Write Club Challenge which kicked off on Friday. If you have not already, set your writing goal for the month of November, then …
Happy Monday everyone! As I am sure you know by now the 26th Annual Austin Film Festival kicked off last week and Stage 32 was in the middle of it all. Stage 32 has always had a presence at the festival and this year we expanded our relationship and became official partners with AFF. Our leader Rich Botto and I spoke on filmmaking panels, we screened our 4th Annual Short Film Program, we hosted our 7th Annual Rooftop Bash at the Handlebar and I was fortunate enough to personally conduct …
Good morning Stage 32 Family! It's Monday morning and we are buzzing at Stage 32! We have so much to be excited about from the last few weeks that it is hard to know where to begin. As you know, Stage 32's Founder and CEO Rich "RB" Botto and Managing Director, Amanda Toney just returned after incredible trips to the Raindance Film Festival in the UK, where Stage 32 screened our 4th Annual Stage 32 Short Film Program and Hamburg FilmFest in Germany! In addition, we also just an…
Good morning Stage 32 family! Welcome to another Monday of what I hope will be a creative and productive week for everyone. We’ve come to the end of September which means that Fall is officially upon us and we are in the last quarter of the year! So far, it has been an amazing year with so many successes for us all to celebrate. And we’ve had an awesome summer capped off by a fantastic month of September. In the first week of September, I was fortunate to host a Stage 32 me…
If you are UK-based, or plan to head to London for the 2019 Raindance Film Festival festival this week, we're looking forward to hanging out with you! We're going to be screening our 4th Annual Stage 32 Short Film Program and having an after-party for those who attend. Don't forget to get your Raindance Film Festival full credentials here. Come meet & greet with Stage 32 Founder & CEO, Richard Botto and Managing Director Amanda Toney as well as other Stage 32ers! We're…
Good morning Stage 32 Family! It's another week and another opportunity to kick your screenwriting career into high gear! I have been waiting to share this motivational story with you for a long time. I am a big fan of screenwriter Stephen Potts. He is dedicated to the craft of screenwriting and works hard to advance his projects. Stephen is also incredibly modest about his screenwriting success. Previously, Stephen adapted the film The Butterfly Tattoo, from the Phillip Pull…
For the 3rd time, we've partnered with the Raindance Film Festival to bring an impressive lineup of Stage 32 creative talent to London. After debuting our 4th Annual Short Film Program to a packed house at Hollyshorts, we're now taking the films to the UK where they'll be screened for international executives and Raindance festival attendees. The program screens on September 27, 2019 with a Q&A to follow. Afterward, we'll be hosting another Stage 32 London meetup directly fo…
One Stage 32 blog post.Two hours to write.Three opportunities as a result. (And one of them is in Scotland!)When Stage 32 member Joey Madia wrote his first Escape Room narratives for an organization, it was in 2017. He wrote them for two 5-star escape rooms on the Crystal Coast of North Carolina. Those rooms are still active today. Not long afterwards, he wrote and published a blog post right here on Stage 32 called Seven Steps for Writing Escape Room Narratives (And How to Find Op…