Andrew Barnett: Student in Mansfield, United Kingdom.

Hello Andrew -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

Over the years Stage 32 has worked with over 500 industry executives and professionals to teach online webinars, classes and intensive labs exclusively for you - our Stage 32 community. We bring you instructors who have worked directly on some of your favorite films, TV shows or theater productions to teach you in-the-trenches information that you won't find anywhere else on producing, directing, financing, writing, packaging, acting and more.

Our Next Level Education has a 97% satisfaction rate and averages 4.5 out of 5 stars. Plus, we've had the honor to be called "LinkedIn meets Lynda.com for film, television and theater creatives" by Forbes Magazine.

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I'm grateful you've joined the Stage 32 community. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Amanda

I have worked outdoors for the last thirty years; mending walls, fixing roofs and and cutting wood. I don't have a Facebook page or Twitter account. The younger students at my university are always tapping at their iPhones, on Facebook and Twitter, but I've never got around to asking them what they are doing and why. At Stage 32 I keep getting requests to network with some very interesting and skilled people. I'm trying to be polite by accepting some requests, but I'm not sure what it means.

What is this networking? Why do you do it?

I'm a mature postgraduate student. I was really enjoying the module on screenwriting and thinking I wouldn't mind working in this industry. It suits me I have an acute visual sense and strong visual imagination. "Enjoying it", that was until a panel of agents showed up. They told us that we couldn't just sell a screenplay, we would have to visit London and work with them. We couldn't nail them down to the point at which we got paid. After that, they said, we would have to work with other screenwriters and members of a production crew. They couldn't understand why anyone wouldn't want to do that.

I am in my fifties, I've had hearing loss all my life. I'm mostly asocial and I certainly don't want to travel to a city, work with agents or anyone else in an office or a team. Is there any way I could sell a screenplay without all the follow through? I'll quite happily redraft it from home, if they send my written instructions and pay me for the work. I must be the only screenwriter who doesn't dream of going to LA, but it's the last thing I'd ever want to do.

Hi Andrew. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

This is a network for you, built by you. Like most things in life, the more you participate, the greater the rewards. We ask all new members to pay it forward by inviting 5 fellow creatives to the network and by spreading the word of Stage 32 through other social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. The more creatives, the stronger the network. The stronger the network, the more opportunities.

Thanks for joining the movement and for being a part of this most talented and inspiring community. I very much look forward to your contributions.

Thanks, and have a creative day!

RB

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