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How Networking Can Be a Game-Changer for Screenwriters
Insider Intel: What The Spec Market Is Actually Looking For Right Now!
Why Emotion Regulation In Acting Is Important
Insider Intel: Stop Pitching Blind- Why Matchmaking Is the Most Underrated Tool in Your Career
Getting The Best Out Of Stage 32: As Easy As Do-Re-Mi
Lessons From a 76-Minute Single-Take, Single-Character Film
The Skill That Will Change Your Career: Training Your Reading Brain
Our Past TV Comedy Winners Got Signed to IAG and Hired on SNL. You Could Be Next!
Coffee & Content: Why the Creative Process Is Meant to Change & Challenge
Coffee & Content: Your Voice Is Your Superpower, No Matter the Budget
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How I Created a Self-Directed Animated Short While Maintaining Authorship at Every Stage
The Myth of Push-Button Filmmaking It took me roughly nine months to make a two-minute film using tools that are supposedly instantaneous. When people talk about AI-assisted filmmaking right now, the conversation usually breaks in one of two directions: the tools are treated either like magic or like contamination. Neither framing has been especially useful to me. What interested me was something more practical: could one independent creator, working on a limited budget and without st…
So You're Going to Cannes. A Survival Guide for First-Timers: From Someone Who Showed Up With a Horror Film and Lived to Tell the Tale
Let me paint you a picture. It's May 2025. I'm standing in a room in the South of France wearing sequins and what can only be described as a bridal party sash, clutching a microphone, about to pitch a drag queen horror film to some of the world's most discerning genre enthusiasts. The rosé at the after-party is ice-cold. My hands are not. And above all else I am stressed because as Australians, we're still collectively butchering the pronunciation of Cannes, but that's fine. Ever…
Coffee & Content: Why Big Ideas Need Smart Execution to Succeed
Happy Sunday, Creative Army! Let’s kick things off with a huge shoutout to everyone who has already jumped into this month’s Introduce Yourself Weekend. Thousands of creatives from around the world are connecting, sharing their stories, and building relationships that can lead to collaborations, opportunities, and lifelong friendships. If you haven’t made your introduction yet, you still have time. Head over to the Introduce Yourself Lounge before the weekend wraps. B…
How Networking Can Be a Game-Changer for Screenwriters
Hello, Stage32 Creative Community! I hope you are all good at these challenging times of creativity. Today, I'd like to talk about networking and how it can change the game for screenwriters. I am a communicator, but occasionally, I am not! I am not typically extroverted or introverted. It all depends on how I feel about the situation and the day. What did I do to achieve a balance between my two sides? Before I share it with you, I'd like to talk to you about something that became t…
Making Your Own Super Micro Budget Feature
As an independent producer, I'm always planning my next project. With a stack of screenplays (many of which are my own), and no Mr. Moneytree waiting to spread his love, it can be challenging. This is why I've taken the Robert Rodriguez approach when it comes to filmmaking. For those of you unfamiliar, Robert Rodriguez's first feature film, El Mariachi, had no crew. And almost no budget. At a meager 7k, he was the writer, director, cinematographer, location scout, sound, and editor. With…
The Writer's Journey: Common Obstacles & Strategies to Achieve Your Creative Goals
Every writer hits roadblocks. It's not a question of if so much as a question of when, and more importantly, how you push through them. Recently, we asked the Stage 32 community a simple question: What's holding you back right now? The responses flooded in. Writers from 40+ countries shared their struggles. Many familiar, some personal, all valid. What became clear is that the obstacles writers face aren't just about craft. They're about access, resources, confidence, and navigati…
Insider Intel: What The Spec Market Is Actually Looking For Right Now!
The data doesn't lie. What producers and buyers want right now is different than what writers write. They want scripts that are efficient. Scripts that can attract talent and directors. Scripts where the story doesn't just move forward…it is propelled forward.Catapulted. Every scene earning its place. Every page keeping the reader hooked and turning to the next one. Lean. Mean. Purposeful. I recently spoke with a literary manager whose sentiment echoed what we've been hearing co…
Lessons From a 76-Minute Single-Take, Single-Character Film
How One Film Rewrote My Idea of Cinema As a producer and co-director of An Order from the Sky, I’ve learned that every film changes you in some small way, but once in a while, a film resets your entire understanding of what filmmaking means. An Order from the Sky did that to me. The idea began years ago, during my work as part of the team behind Pebbles: The film that went on to win the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2021. There was a long take in Peb…
Our Past TV Comedy Winners Got Signed to IAG and Hired on SNL. You Could Be Next!
Exclusively on Stage 32, the FUNNIEST TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest in the World is Back! And we're excited to share our 3rd Annual TV Comedy winners Maxwell Gay & Tucker Flodman signed to Literary Agency IAG (after a meeting Stage 32 set them up on), and IAG got them hired on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE! Hey Stage 32 Community! Ever dreamt of seeing your TV Comedy script come to life and stream on flat-screens in living rooms across the country? This is your chance to turn that d…
Coffee & Content: Making Great Work Is Only Half The Battle
Happy Sunday, Creative Army! I hope your weekend has been a creative one so far. Whether you have been writing, filming, editing, or sketching out the next spark of an idea, I have got something today that will give you a boost. So grab your coffee, and let’s dive in. This week’s featured video comes from Film Courage- Hollywood Is Not A Movie Making Town. In the interview, filmmaker Pedro Correa shares a perspective that may feel jarring at first, but it is one every creat…
Why Emotion Regulation In Acting Is Important
There is no shortage of acting techniques for the actor in training. From Stanislavsky and Chekov to Demidov and Meisner and Adler to Strasberg and everything in between. There is a shortage, however, of methods for safely accessing and regulating emotion in the process of using these acting techniques when developing a Character. The Traditional Traditional acting techniques have their own philosophies on how to access emotion. From Demidov’s “passively surrendering&rdquo…
The 10 Pillars Of A High Achiever
In over 15 years of working in the entertainment industry, I’ve learned that there will be many ups and downs in a dream pursuit. There will be obstacles, and good days, and opportunities, and rejections. The High Achiever (a.k.a. you!), needs a game plan through it all. The High Achiever needs to handle all of these moments intentionally and carefully, in a way that effectively keeps them on the path to success. That’s why I developed the 10 Pillars of the High Achiever. Her…
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