Shellie Schmals: Actor, film festival director and host/presenter in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Do You Want To Raise Money & Find Investors For Your Film Or Series?

Stage 32 is excited to welcome back Sara Elizabeth for this 4-part class on Raising Money & Finding Investors. You'll discover everything you need to find, pitch, and secure quality investments from someone who has raised over $15 million in financing for her own projects! You don't want to miss thi...

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Karen "Kay" Ross

Here is the Stage 32 Pitch Deck Consultation if you'd like to sign up with Sarah Elizabeth: https://www.stage32.com/scriptservices/coverage/buy?id=60...

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Foster West Foster West

Raising money and finding investors for your film or series, structuring your business efficiently is crucial. One effective strategy is forming a company in a jurisdiction known for its favorable bus...

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Maik Donath
A Star Wars Fan Film:
starwars #empire #sidious #fanfilm #fanfiction #stardestroyer

After more then one year of production, simulating, rendering, shooting at different locations and editing , we are more than honored to showcase the first trailer of the StarWars Fanfilm adventure: The son of the Empire. https://youtu.be/jqbmrWK3r_w

Sam Sokolow

Very cool!

Shellie Schmals

Wow!!! Beautiful work!!

Maik Donath

Thanks everybody

Shellie Schmals
Video Game starring cats! Can dogs be next?

As someone whose console video game experience lived and died with my Atari and Space Invaders, a premise as simple as cats navigating an apocalyptic world could get me interested in checking one out again. It's a heavy topic, but interesting. More if it were dogs, but that's just my own preference!...

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Why Did 'Stray,' a Video Game About a Cat, Become This Year's Surprise Hit?
Why Did 'Stray,' a Video Game About a Cat, Become This Year's Surprise Hit?
Cats are undeniably cute, but that hardly explains why grandparents who haven't touched a video game in decades are interested in 'Stray.'
Eon C. Rambally

Most certainly sounds interesting and of course, challenging. "New ideas", "new concepts", creates "new energy"!

HB Duran

I"ve been meaning to play this game, I hear it's really good!

Paien Bois

During the global pandemic and quarantine, people became more interested in how to make money online as many found themselves out of work. I do this with the help of an online casino at https://crownp...

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Shellie Schmals

Toni, this is a beautiful personal experience you've shared with us. Your grief, resilience, love for learning, relationship with your mother, the loss of your husband, and your undeniable commitment to just keep moving forward inch by inch. Thank you for sharing with us, and your talents are written in the stars.

Mike Boas
Corridor Digital brings AI to anime

A unique approach to animation. Perform with live actors. Train Stable Diffusion models on their faces, give them the Vampire Hunter D aesthetic. The results are fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48Y...

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Kevin Jackson

I can't wait Mike Boas I really need to try this technique.

Eon C. Rambally

This is all, most certainly, important info, Mike Boas! I'm grateful for this!

Sam Sokolow

Fascinating topic in general. Stage 32 is hosting an upcoming webinar on the practical, legal and ethical implications of A.I. for creatives. Will be a vibrant discussion with an entertainment attorne...

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Shellie Schmals
Explaining Hollywood: How to become a composer for film and TV

I found a really great article on the various ways to break into the Composing world ... the good advice, bad advice, and things to look out from industry pros ...

How did you get your start?...

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Explaining Hollywood: How to become a composer for film and TV
Explaining Hollywood: How to become a composer for film and TV
Composers write the original music that helps underscore the emotional cues of action on screen. To be one, you'll need more than just musical talent.
Kerry Kennard

Shellie Schmals - thank you for the article; it is very helpful Ana the BMI Incentivizes look great- need to check out.

Have a great week !

K. Kennard

Leonor LeRu

Thank you for sharing Shellie!

Mark Thomas Taylor

Shellie Schmals Thanks for this! I can't wait to check it out

Kevin J. Howard
Honorable Mention in Southern California!

Very excited my horror feature "Box of Glass" was listed as an Honorable Mention in the Southern California Screenplay Competition @SoCalScreenplay! A huge congrats to David Bowman for Winning and Michael Buonocore @BuonocoreMars for Winning with his TV pilot 'Small Town Boy' and to Kyle Rizor @KyleWriteStuff for his Honorable Mention placement!!

Richard "RB" Botto

Congratulations, Kev!

Sydney S

Congrats! This is so beautiful!

Robert Sacchi

Congratulations! Great Going! Wishing you more success.

Morgan Aitken
What's the going rate for a Graphic Novel artist?

Let's say I want to hire an artist for around a thousand images or more. What's that gonna cost me?

Morgan Aitken

Yeah, this project has nothing to do with the mental run for our lives, and more to do with nearly being squashed flat by a UFO falling from the sky and digging a trench in our beach. If we hadn't bee...

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Shellie Schmals

Morgan Aitken - I guess those are pretty limited! Here's an article I found on the topic ...

Do you have potential designers in mind?...

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Morgan Aitken

Shellie, just saw this now! Thanks for the link.

Amanda Toney

Very cool. We just brought in Guillermo's former assistant Paul Dykstra who founded Fantastic Fest and is now producing films. He just taught a webinar for us: https://www.stage32.com/webinars/How-To-...

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Kevin Jackson

Shellie Schmals Pinnochio is amazing. I have it picked as my winner for the Oscar's

J.M. Gulmire

Stop motion animation is my fav underrated art form. (But I'm biased since I make claymation LOL)

Lynn Santer
It's a win in santa fe

WE JUST WON BEST DOCUMENTARY AT THE The Santa Fe Film Festival

Shellie Schmals

Way to go Lynn!!

Shadow Dragu-Mihai, Esq., Ipg

Cool! maybe it would go to the IIPG Awards! iipgawards.com

Lynn Santer

Hi Shadow! Thank you for the invitation. I just signed up to your newsletter. I would like to know more.

James C. Watson

Hi everyone, I’m new to the community and looking to grow my network with meeting like mind writers.

Julio Caro

Welcome...

Maurice Vaughan

You're welcome, James.

Geoff Hall
M Night Shyamalan Self-finances his movies

Now this is an interesting article on how Shyamalan gets his movies made. Yes, he self-finances them. Of course, I wouldn't recommend re-mortgaging your house. Please don't. Shyamalan has a bankable track record and an audience that loves his films, which let's face I don't have and probably you don...

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Robin Chappell

You know, getting financing from Other Peoples Money, helps to provide feedback on your project. And just because he can "the films he wants to make," doesn't mean that they're any good. Same goes for Spike and Tarantino (all three being on my 'no watch list').

Geoff Hall

Robin Chappell well, Robin, have you seen the box office returns on his films? The only feedback he seems to care about is from his fans.

DAvid Rorie

wow! i never knew that

Tryphena Wade
Hello All!!

My name is Tryphena Wade. I'm an actor/writer/producer based in LA (pandemic transplant from NYC!!). Most of my career has been theatre based but I've recently pivoted into more film work. I'm at the tail end of the editing process for a short film that I wrote, starred in, and executive produced (y...

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Tryphena Wade

Thank you Lisa Lee. I'm really enjoying film work! I feel like a big kid, learning and soaking up everything I can. And I absolutely love being on set. I still love theatre and always will. But the nu...

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Maurice Vaughan

What was your favorite play to be in, Tryphena Wade?

Shellie Schmals

Hi @Tryphena - so nice to meet you and excited to hear all about what you've got going on! Congrats on your recent successes.

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