Introduce Yourself : Hope by Bipal Dahal

Hello Bipal Dahal - Happy Introduce Yourself Weekend and welcome to Stage 32! Here’s a great post that will help you navigate Stage 32: https://www.stage32.com/blog/how-to-successfully-navigate-the-stage-32-p...

Has your series been produced and available for watching?

Hi Bipal Dahal, welcome to Stage 32! I’m Ashley, Head of Community here on the platform. It’s great to meet you, and I really respect the intention behind your series. Building a story that not only explores real-world problems but also imagines solutions is a powerful approach.

You may find it really helpful to reach out to our Success Team at Success@Stage32.com. If you share more about your series, your goals, and what you’re hoping to do next with it, they can help guide you toward resources and opportunities that align with your vision.

Your concept feels very message-driven and expansive. What is the central character or perspective we follow through these different versions of the world?

Ashley Renée Smith!

Hi Ashley,

Thank you so much for the welcome — and for right question.

The central character we follow is MARK. President of the most powerful nation in a fictional world. Brilliant. Strategic. Completely certain. He controls governments, manipulates economies, arms both sides of conflicts he quietly designed. He is not a traditional villain — he genuinely believes power and control are the only language the world understands. And for most of his life, he has been right.

The series begins with Mark at the height of that power. And the world starting to burn because of decisions he made in quiet rooms, with clean hands, without ever seeing the people his decisions touched.

But the true engine of the story is not his power. It is the crack in it.

That crack is his seven-year-old daughter LILY.

She does not know what her father has done. She only knows that when she draws the sun, she makes it the biggest thing on the page — because it is. One morning at breakfast she asks him: "Can't everyone just be powerful together?"

Mark cannot answer. He opens his mouth. And closes it.

That question — from a child with crayon on her hands — is what starts everything.

Alongside Mark's arc we follow the people the world forgot.

ADAM — a young soldier who writes everything he witnesses in a notebook that becomes a book published in sixty-four languages.

SARA — a factory worker who loses her job to economic warfare and responds by writing, alone at 2am, the framework that becomes global trade policy.

AMINA — a young woman who starts with a megaphone and thirty people and does not stop.

DANA — a medical student turned soldier who carries traditional healing knowledge across a broken world.

NARA — a six-year-old girl in a displacement camp who gives a soldier a smooth stone, because when something is important, you should have a stone so you remember.

Watching all of it — from the universe itself — is HOPE. A celestial being. Ancient. Patient. Not intervening. Not judging. Just watching. And believing — even when everything he sees says not to.

Two seasons. 18 episodes.

Season 1 — the world breaks.

Season 2 — the long, difficult, deeply human process of healing.

Season 3 — what becomes possible when the right people are finally in the right room. (Yet to complete in co ordination with producing partner)

It ends with a round table. One hundred and eight chairs. No head of table.

I am reaching out to the Success Team at Success@Stage32.com today as you suggested. I would love any guidance on the best next steps from here.

Thank you again, Ashley. This platform feels like exactly the right place for this story.

Warm regards,

Bipal Dahal

Such an interesting concept- and totally blue sky as far as more and more content that could be created!

Libby Wright Thankyou for your you time.