Hey, Stage 32 members! We'd LOVE to hear your questions, comments, and any words of encouragement for our contest winners. COMMENT BELOW to keep the conversation going during and after the panel! Here's a little about the event:
"We officially announced the winners of our 6th Annual Stage 32 Short Film Contest, and now it's time to hear the story behind the films with this Emerging Voices in Filmmaking Panel! Throughout the course of the contest, we welcome thousands of entries from filmmakers all over the world. We had films submitted from over 40 countries, and our 9 winning films hail from 5 different countries!
Since 2016, winners from Stage 32's Short Film Contest have gone on to be signed (UTA, Echo Lake, Verve, Circle of Confusion, and more), financed, and produced. Congratulations to all this year's winners - we cannot wait to see where your talents take you!"
What were your big takeaways from the panel? SHARE BELOW!
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I am SO excited to moderate this panel of amazing filmmakers! You can watch all of their films here:
https://www.stage32.com/blog/Worldwide-Virtual-Premiere-of-the-of-the-6t...
You will also be able to follow all of the filmmakers on social in the comments below! As for me, you can find me here:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TaylorCBaker
https://www.instagram.com/taylorcbaker/
https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorcbaker?lang=en
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Ready for today!
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If you haven't registered, you can still sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2gHyUYrHR-iy1mdnfc3big
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So excited to be a part of the panel! I was the lead actor and co-writer of Ada, and Steven Kammerer is the director and co-writer. :) You can find us on social media at:
Julie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julie.bruns/
Julie Twitter: https://twitter.com/thatjuliebruns
Steven Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevekammerer/
Steven Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevenkammerer5
Ada the Film Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathefilm/
Ada the Film Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdaShortFilm
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I'm watching now. I like behind-the-scenes videos and behind-the-production videos, so it's great to see the writers and filmmakers speak about the process of their films.
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Such great information from the panelists! Love hearing about how they set up their shoots, how they gathered their crew and worked with their cast. So interesting!
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Rough Cuts in Philadelphia recommended by David from WHATEVER IT TAKES: https://roughcutsfilmmakers.com/virtualevents
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The key to affording a Period Piece? Make sure you invest in your costumes and your location and get the best price! I love that Cate had a prop sent from Croatia - what dedication!
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My favorite thing I learned in this is how each had to over come an obstacle and chose to keep pressing forward to find a way to get the story filmed, completed and shown! So happy and proud of the filmmakers and their commitment!
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Slow clap for Dicky's Fortune Teller! LOL Wow, what a story!
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Loved being here! Thanks for checking out our films. You can find more about #ThePlumber at theplumberfilm.com and on socials:
@catecarson everywhere (Cate Carson -writer/director)
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Loved being part of the panel! It was great meeting the other filmmakers
Producer of Invisibles &Joel is the director you find us or more in the film or contact us via the website https://www.joe-vision.com/ or
https://www.instagram.com/joel.haikali/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/joevisionproduc
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Thank you so much for arranging this panel! It was wonderful to see you all and learn about everyone’s journey.
I’m the writer-director of ANGEL. You can find me on social media at:
https://twitter.com/dickychalmers
https://www.instagram.com/dicky_chalmers/
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Hi all!
It was super cool to meet you guys and hear all your stories on top of seeing your brilliants films.
We put up a website for the Passport and upcoming film productions, 5 in the making, here;
https://www.studiosupremefilms.com/the-passport-movie
My insta https://www.instagram.com/herodirector
+ Michael's https://www.instagram.com/michaelkoltes
All the cast & crews, BTS, and interviews are on the site in case you are more curious about our work and workflow!
Best from Shanghai!
And thanks again to Stage 32 for the amazing support!
Cheers,
Olivier,
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It was truly our pleasure to connect with such wonderful filmmakers today, and we thank you Stage32 for this opportunity and for your amazing platform which brings us all together.
You can find all things BriGuel - Brianne and Miguel - writer, director, producer, editor, composers of BABY'S PHONEY FRIEND here:
www.briguel.com
https://www.instagram.com/wearebriguel/
https://www.facebook.com/WeAreBriGuel/
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Loved being part of this panel! Personally I could've gone for another hour, just because it was so interesting to hear everyone's stories :)
Thank you Taylor C. Baker for moderating!
Thank you Karen "Kay" Ross for the tech support
And thank you Stage 32 for including my film - RAG - in this great Short Film Program!
Social media:
http://www.instagram.com/shellyuval
https://twitter.com/shellyuval
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It was such a joy being part of this amazing program. Thank you again to Stage32 and everyone involved.
You can connect with me at...
www.instagram.com/jperreca
jeffperreca.com
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It was truly fantastic to meet everyone and to have been a part of this really lovely event! You're films are really fantastic!!! Thank you Stage32, Taylor C. Baker and Karen "Kay" Ross! Would have loved to have heard so much more of everyone's stories!
www.davidkellycrow.com
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During the panel, I spoke briefly about the Taiwanese fortune-teller who predicted that the original shoot for my short was going to be a disaster. I wrote an article a couple of months back where I tell the story in a little more detail, and also go into the perils of shooting in Taiwan during 'Ghost Month'. You can check the article out here:
https://dickychalmers.substack.com/p/superstition-and-moviemaking-in-tai...
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To prepare for ANGEL's shoot, and to accommodate limited time in the location, and limited time with actors, I did extensive storyboarding using Cine Tracer, a process I found incredibly rewarding. You can read about my experience using Cine Tracer here, and also see some side-by-side comparisons between previs and final shots:
https://dickychalmers.substack.com/p/how-to-storyboard-a-short-film?r=17...
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I’m sure all of us on the panel had so many more stories we wanted to tell, and so much more advice we wanted to impart. If there had been time to throw one more thing in there, I would have wanted to talk about marketing — getting one’s short film out there, and getting people to watch it.
Making ANGEL was hard enough, but I wasn’t at all ready for the fact that I would then have to spend the best part of a year submitting it to film festivals, and convincing people to watch it. While sites such as Film Freeway do make the process of festival submission much easier, every festival still has its own specific requirements as regards press materials, screening formats etc. I have lost count of the many hours I have spent making new posters, social media assets, rendering out different specifications of the short film, writing up press releases, tweaking the word counts of bios and synopses. Anyhow, I now know that this is all part of the gig. However, the advice I would like to impart connected to this is: make sure you get lots of BTS.
Behind the scenes footage and photos were very much an afterthought on my shoot. I only had enough budget to have a photographer on set for a few hours on one day. But now, I wish the photographer had been there for the entire shoot. At the time, I was only focused on making the film, and to that end BTS is irrelevant. However, BTS is a crucial part of a film’s marketing, and the more assets you have, the easier that marketing will be. If your film is accepted, many festivals will ask for 3~5 BTS photos. Also, if your BTS is interesting, festival marketing teams are more motivated to publicise your film over others. Furthermore, having lots of good BTS images will make your social media posting much easier, since you won’t need to keep on reposting the same poster or framegrabs from your film. And to clarify, when I say BTS, I mean not just images of the set showing the filmmaking process, I also mean photos that tell the story of the film. The latter can be used to create poster images, and are very useful for press kits and social media posts.
And keeping on this topic of trying to get one’s short film out in the world… I am incredibly grateful to Stage 32 for letting my film be a part of this Short Film Program. With one submission fee, a film has the possibility of being screened at TWO film festivals, and being featured in an exclusive online screening that is viewed by Stage 32’s network of executives and agents. This helping hand in giving a film exposure is priceless!
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Thanks for the Cine Tracer review, Dicky Chalmers! Even though mockery of my stick-figures and poor drawing skills has been the source of many instances of much-needed comic relief on sets in the past, I do see how this software can be beneficial in so many ways. I will definitely check it out. And with the time and money saved on set, using this storyboarding program, I may even be able to afford other means of entertainment for cast and crew in the future!