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Happy Sunday, Creative Army! I hope your weekend has been a creative one so far. Whether you have been writing, filming, editing, or sketching out the next spark of an idea, I have something today that will give you a boost. So grab your coffee, and let's dive in. This week's featured video comes from Adam Savage's Tested: Adam Tours the Vaults of Hollywood History. Adam spends twenty minutes inside the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library, and I walked away thinking less about the treasures...

We can all agree that it’s nigh impossible for a finished film to be even 90% close to the original screenplay. Budget and logistic constraints can be very limiting for the filmmaker, and often the creative vision changes according to the ebbs and flows of the production. Locations are changed, dialogues are added, and sometimes even characters are edited out. As a result, when the filmmaker has finished post and is busy procuring deliverable material required by film festivals or the distribu...

Five weeks ago, we asked you to do something this community has been doing since day one. Stage 32 wasn't built by an ad campaign. It was built by word of mouth: one creative telling another there was a place worth showing up to. It's a community built for you, by you. In our 15th year, we wanted to honor that the best way we know how. We asked you to invite the people who have made a difference in your creative journey, so they could come make that same difference for others. The acting c...

This blog post is co-written by Avril David and Adam J. Spencer. It started with a blog post. Heartfelt, thoughtful, a little disarming. Then a like. Then a comment. Then a request to connect. Not long after, we were trading paragraphs: notes, questions, arguments about each other’s pages. Neither of us had gone looking for a creative partnership. We were responding to work we respected. Somewhere between the pages and the conversations, we figured something out. Working alone was only goi...

Hey everyone, Sam here. Most of what we cover in this series is about what gets bought. This week is about what happens after. Lauren Caster did everything the indie playbook asks. Her debut feature, RHYTHM IS A DANCER, world premiered at the Austin Film Festival, played theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, and landed real press. Then it hit VOD, the numbers came back, and she learned what a lot of independent filmmakers find out too late. Finishing the movie is only half the job. W...

Ever dreamt of seeing your horror story come to life on the big screen or stream on flat-screens in living rooms across the country? This is your chance to turn that dream into reality! We're proud to announce the 13th Annual Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest to help discover the next great horror script! Our Grand Prize Winner will win a Career Accelerator prize package that includes script & career development, writer branding and an education package and will be first in line for V...

Twenty years ago, I packed my 2-door Honda and moved from Wichita, KS, to New York City. With my freshly printed journalism degree and the audacity of a young woman with nothing to lose, I walked through the doors of CBS News on West 57th Street. I would spend the next 13 years at the network chasing dreams that ultimately led me to Hollywood—which wasn’t originally part of the plan. From there, I went on to produce alongside an Emmy Award-winning director. These past three years, I have made...

Happy Sunday, Creative Army! I hope your weekend has been a creative one so far. Whether you have been writing, filming, editing, or sketching out the next spark of an idea, I have something today that will give you a boost. So grab your coffee, and let's dive in. This week's featured video comes from FilmStack: The Decade Hollywood Stopped Saying No. The greatest creative run in American film history happened because an industry got scared. Not because it got generous. The door didn't ope...

For decades, publishing has been a lane of its own - a road lined with ink and paper, where words and pictures told stories that lived quietly on shelves. But as the world of storytelling expands across screens, sounds, and platforms, those clear-cut lanes are beginning to blur. Between those blurred lines - in the grey areas - lie exciting green lights: new possibilities for collaboration, audience engagement, and creative reinvention. Today, the question for writers and publishers isn’t just...

Happy FriYay, Creative Community! Ten days ago, a horror comedy about a haunted island town off the coast of New England walked away with more Emmys than any freshman comedy series in history. Fourteen wins. Outstanding Comedy Series. Outstanding Writing. Outstanding Directing. Three acting trophies. A record for the most wins by a comedy series in a single season, and the most performance wins of any series this year. On Wednesday, October 7th at 4:00 pm PT, we're breaking down its pilot...