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Coffee & Content: The Genius of Weapons and How to Know When Your Script Is Ready
Stage 32 Is My Magic Key To International Networking And Education
Want Success in the Entertainment Industry? Start Writing Your Own Narrative
Green Lights and Grey Areas: Expanding Creative Collaboration in Publishing
The Author + Screenwriter Collaboration: Adapting A Novel Into A Screenplay
Insider Intel: The Studio War & The Rise of Indies
Find Your Footing on Stage 32: Join Our December Community Open House
State of the Industry 2026 Now On-Demand: RB & Geoff Break Down What’s Next for Writers!
Stage 32 Now Certifying El Paso, Texas!
A Practical Guide for Actors: Tips & Advice Every Performer Should Know
Please Vote for Stage 32 at SXSW 2015
For the past 2 years Stage 32 Founder & CEO, RB, was a mentor at SXSW and helped dozens of individuals one-on-one with advice about their careers and the industry. This year we want to expand the reach of Stage 32 to creatives who attend the conference and we need your help. If you haven't done so already, can you please pay it forward and vote "thumbs up" for our proposed panel at SXSW? It's as easy as 1-2-3! Please vote for the panel we have submitted: Build Heat for You…
Giving Yourself a Quick, Competitive Advantage
Hey guys. Hope you're all having a fantastic Sunday. As you know, we're in the midst of our monthly Introduce Yourself Weekend networking event. This edition has been a record breaker already. We've already surpassed the number of posts, network requests and network connections for a single weekend and we still have over a dozen hours to go. This seems like a perfect time to revisit a Stage 32 Blog post I made last month called The Most Important Page on Stage 32. As many …
RB's Stage 32 News, Notes, Discussions and Other Fun Stuff (August 21, 2015)
Welcome to the weekend, everyone. And, yes, it’s an Introduce Yourself weekend as well. Allow me to provide some content with your networking. This week under ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, how to improve your return on investment regarding film festivals; a filmmaker breaks all taboos by releasing his film for free on YouTube and lives to tell the tale; a look at the long list of troubled films produced by Harvey Weinstein; Premium Beat wonders what makes a film cult classic; the much malig…
On Stage With RB (August 2015) Announced
It’s that time again! Time for the August 2015 edition of On Stage with RB. Every month our Founder & CEO, RB, in an online webinar setting brings on special guests who work in the industry, such as filmmakers and executives to offer advice to our community, and he goes over the best way to use Stage 32 to help your career. Afterwards, he opens up the floor to you for a live Q&A session about anything and everything in the industry. Best of all, this is FREE, exclusively fo…
Only You Can Make it Happen
Since he left home at the age of 16, today's guest blogger and actor, Armen Gigorian has honed his skills on film and television sets in such locales as Armenia, Moscow, Mumbai and Dubai. Over the last 20 years, Armen has used his insatiable drive and determination to win jobs and gain invaluable experience working on shorts, features and television series. He even won a few awards along the way. From day dreaming about an acting career in a small village to dancing with pop stars to be…
Crowdsourcing vs. Crowdfunding
Today we bring you another installment in the Stage 32 Film Courage series on Crowdsourcing vs. Crowdfunding for filmmakers. Stage 32 Founder & CEO, RB, talks about how to identify, engage and move your audience. In this 9-minute clip, RB goes over the definition of crowdsourcing for filmmakers, and why it's different than crowdfunding. He shares a case study of Mile, Mile and A Half, and how they crowdsourced to help spread the word of their film. He talks about cultivating yo…
School's Back In Session At Stage 32
For those of you who don’t know me yet, my name is Shannon and I’m the Director of Education here at Stage 32. From its inception, Stage 32 has strived to bring the best quality education you can find online to film, TV and theater creatives all around the world. Stage 32 Next Level Education has a 97% user satisfaction rate and 91% of all those who have taken a Next Level Education offering say they would take another. Even better, 85% of them actually do. I’m thrill…
RB's Stage 32 News, Notes, Discussions and Other Fun Stuff (August 14, 2015)
Welcome to the weekend, everyone. Some really cool and interesting news articles this week I’m excited to share with you guys. Think they will inspire much discussion and debate (which I always welcome in the Comments section below). Starting off, if you’ve watched any of my On Stage With RB webcasts (all available for free right here) you have heard many of my guests and I discuss the growing opportunities for writers and filmmakers within the television medium. This past …
Jurassic Park - 22 Years Later
Most of us fell in love with the visual effects featured in the original Jurassic Park some 22 years ago. The impact our favorite computer generated dinosaurs made on the film industry was undeniable. This year, Jurassic World was released exploring new VFX horizons. Leave it to someone in our incredibly talented Stage 32 community to have the skills, experience and wherewithal to break down the evolution of these incredible effects, including that of our favorite guy, the T-Rex, from th…
Stage 32 Short Film Contest - Deadline at Midnight
The response to our announcement of the Stage 32 Short Film Contest has been nothing short of incredible. We have received short film entries from all over the world, proving that Creativity Is Universal! If you haven't submitted your short film into competition, you have until midnight tonight (August 12) to enter. We are searching for all short films between 3 - 25 minutes. The Top 8-10 Short Films Will: Be screened theatrically in a special Stage 32 Shorts Program at the 2015 23…
Battling Ron Burgundy
Opportunity knocks in the strangest of places, and sometimes it knocks multiple times. For Stage 32 member Fred Galle, opportunity knocked while mowing his lawn, and then again later in life at the Coca Cola 600 NASCAR race. Having been an actor and model earlier in life, Fred decided to take a different career turn for his 9-5 so he could retire early. After working in and retiring from the telecommunications industry Fred took advantage of his free time to get involved in various diff…
Join Us This Friday - HollyShorts Film Festival
Stage 32 has partnered with Film LA to kick off the keynote panel for the 2015 HollyShorts Film Conference in Los Angeles this week. The conference is set for August 14-21 at IgnitedSpaces in Hollywood, CA. Stage 32 has brought in some incredible panelists to talk about filming and financing in LA. Method Studios Presents: 11th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival Panel Conference Los Angeles 101: What you need to know about Filming and Financing in LA In today's independent …
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