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Making Our First No-Budget Feature: The Pure Vortex Production Chaos (Part 2)
November Write Club Week 4: The Art of the Pitch- What Managers & Execs Actually Want to Hear
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Coffee & Content: Why Your Pitch Needs to Be Human
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When we launched our screenwriting contest series, our goal wasn't just to give away some shiny prizes, it was to make sure our winners were given access to some of the top decision makers in Hollywood - the managers, agents and producers who could make a difference in their career. The Stage 32 | The Blood List Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest garnered major attention around Hollywood first with coverage in trade publications such as Deadline Hollywood, The Hollywood R…
I Have a Secret. I Write Screenplays.
Today's entertaining guest blog comes from Stage 32 member Eoin O'Sullivan. Eoin is a screenwriter, playwright, actor and voice actor from Dublin, Ireland. Below, Eoin shares his story about how he created his award winning short, An Bean Sidhe, which started all from a connection he made on Stage 32. Starting with no screenwriting experience, it was with determination, networking and collaboration that Eoin was able to make his vision a reality. Along the way he lets us…
Stage 32 | The Blood List Search for New Blood Quarter-finalists Announced
We received an amazing amount of quality scripts for our first Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest. Our judges repeatedly told us how blown away they were by the inventiveness and creativity of the material and how difficult it was to cut the list down to those listed below. A heartfelt congratulations goes out to all our quarter-finalists. These writers/scripts will qualify for the semi-finals We will announce the semi-finalists October 8 on the Stage 32 | Th…
Introducing the Next Generation of Filmmakers (Top 10 Announced)
It’s an exciting week for filmmakers under the age of 18 who submitted their trailers to the Stage 32 and U + Trailer Film Festival. After receiving over 150 entries, we have chosen the top 10 trailers. We were simply amazed at the talent that poured in from the next generation of filmmakers. The top 10 contestants will be judged by a panel of celebrities and industry professionals including: Nicola Pearcey (Managing Director, Lionsgate UK), William Romeo (American Gladiator), K…
Shining the Spotlight on Our Incredible Members
We appreciate you taking a trip down memory lane and letting us reflect on our history during this 3 year anniversary week, but now it’s time to turn the spotlight on you, our amazing, talented, selfless, brilliant members. I've said from day one that the community is what makes the network. Below is proof. We have pulled together some of our most recent success stories and collaborations which have formed through Stage 32 and The Stage 32 Happy Writers. Al…
3-Year Update: Stage 32 Meetups and Success Stories
(Due to time constraints, there won’t be RB's News, Notes, Discussions and Other Fun Stuff this week.) Last week in our blog, Stage 32 Turns 3 Next Month - Come Celebrate With Us!, we asked that the Stage 32 community join us in September as we celebrate our 3 year anniversary. As a result, there have been over 2-dozen Stage 32 meetups formed from all over the world. For those of you who do not have a designated Stage 32 meetup in your area, we still want you to pa…
On Stage with RB (August 2014) Now On Demand for FREE
The August edition of "On Stage with RB" is now live and free to view on On Demand in our Education section. You can click here to view the video. Stage 32 Founder and CEO, RB spent over 2 hours going over site features and answering your questions. **We highly recommend you listen around the 1:35 mark for some incredible and powerful advice about Stage 32 – “What’s the #1 networking mistake people make on Stage 32 and what would RB’s best tip f…
The Journey of Becoming an “Overnight Success”
Today’s guest blog comes from Stage 32’er, Writer/Director/Producer David Rountree. Starting out as an actor, David came to realize his true passion was directing. He now owns and runs Psycho Rock Productions and has written and produced 5 feature films, directing 4 out of those 5. David is currently assisting with development for Multiplexing with Hilary Duff, John Heder, Danielle Panabaker, and Rob Schneider. But what David most often gets noticed for his past acting …
No Boundaries
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours. -Richard Bach Excuses. Sometimes the most creative thing we do as creatives is make creative excuses for why we can’t be creative (trust me, it makes sense.) Over our last few Happy Writers / Stage 32 Online Pitchfests, we’ve had some amazing success stories. Today I’d like to highlight one of them courtesy of a creative who never argued for his limitations and only made excuses to keep on creati…
The Sweet Smell of Success
A few months ago, we joined forces with The Happy Writers for our first Stage 32 Creativefest/Pitchfest. Our purpose was to offer our screenwriting and filmmaking members a unique opportunity to gain access to top-level managers and executives looking for new talent and material. Our hope was that these executives would find a diamond in the rough here and there. We were wrong. They found a virtual mine. Here are some of the remarkably talented people who have found success thr…
Shhhh Don't tell Mom...
Screenwriters face all sorts of challenges when writing a screenplay. But talk to any screenwriter who has had even the slightest degree of success and they'll tell you their biggest fear doesn't involve the blank page, structure, or act breaks. It's releasing 110 filled, seemingly perfectly crafted pages into the wild. That's when control transfers from the writer to the reader. When subjectivity enters the picture and doubt looms in the shadows. I've always belie…
Stage 32 Screenwriter Optioned (and other success stories)
What a start to 2013. It seems many Stage 32'ers have to put the pedal to the floor as it relates to their dreams and aspirations. The success stories have been coming in fast and furious. Over the last few days alone, we've heard from: Two actors - one in Denmark, one in Chicago - who landed agents. An editor from Los Angeles who has cut no less than 23 shorts who scored his first feature job. A composer from Sydney who has been hired to score a film for a New York p…
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