Introduce Yourself : Hi, I'm Amanda Toney! What do you want from Stage 32 in 2025? by Amanda Toney

Happy Holidays, Amanda Toney! You do a fantastic job overseeing this wonderful community and our amazing in house team!

Congratulations on PARADISE FALLS: A CHRISTMAS STORY being in theaters!

I'd like to see more live AMAs next year, like the ones RB does. If I think of anything else, I'll definitely let you know.

Amanda Toney Congratulations on your film and for another year of @stage32! You and your team constantly surprise with new offerings daily! Bravo!!

Hi Amanda! It’s fantastic to connect with you! Your work with Stage 32 has truly helped shape this amazing community, and it's incredible to see how much it’s grown. I've had the pleasure of having you and Brandy's guidance throughout onboarding and joining the commnunity and you have made this experience a smooth and exciting one!

As for 2025, I think it would be exciting to see more interactive opportunities for members to collaborate on projects—whether that’s through pitch events, group workshops, or live feedback sessions with industry experts. Something that helps foster real-time collaboration and learning.

Looking forward to seeing how Stage 32 continues to evolve and wishing you a Happy Holidays!

wow love that you’re still on here. I took a 6 year break from the app. time to get back on.

Amanda Toney Hi Amanda, what do I want from Stage32 in 2025? Well, I would like to take more certification courses. Then I’d like to connect with people in the community whom I can work with, on future projects.

And then, turning it around as to what I could give to Stage32, I’d like to explore the creation of traineeships on the various projects, so that beyond certification, new talent can actually get real-time work experience on a production. It’s just a thought at the moment, but that’s what is circulating in my mind at present.

Hi Amanda Toney Happy holidays my good friend and congratulations on PARADISE FALLS: A Christmas Story, hope to see it soon :))

You are a force of nature and I am inspired by you. You do so much for us at Stage 32, and I am grateful for that!

What I expect from Stage 32 in 2025: in a personal way, I want to match the producer who can champion my script with me :) I want to help others screenwriters to achieve their goals through S32 as I am doing. I want to bring S32 to Tribeca Festival Lisboa to partner and be part of it! I want S32 to expand more to Europe :)

In a global way, I want the same Maurice Vaughan shares, to have more live AMAs like we had with RB and Education team, because that allows us to be together realm time and meet up at the same time! And for now, I think it’s all :)) big big hug :*)

As I don't have budget for Stage32, but do have time I wandered if Stage32 could find a sponsor in 2025 that will make (f.e) finding a producer or manager free of charge. I generally think that your to pay for educational approach is not in the advantage of talent that is trying to lift their business or career from the absolute ground. Maybe a party like AT&T or T-mobile is interested, in combination with an innovative online add campagne that promotes all the brands involved, I have been in this type of campaigns with o.a TBWA succesfully. At this point your or the system is not fair towards filmmakers that have little money, while those often have the most outstanding talent and unique creative apporaches towards filmmaking. But maybe I am dreaming. Happy Holidays!