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STAGE 32 NEWS This week we announced this year's Finalists in the Stage 32 Happy Writers Annual Feature Contest! We will be sending their script titles and loglines to our entire roster of over 400 executives to gain interest in scripts. This group of writers will also advance to the final judging round, where we will select the top 10. Our top 10 writers will have a variety of prizes, including Skype meetings with executives, classes and pitching sessions. And, the top 3 writers will receive...

If you haven't signed up for Thursday's free On Stage With RB free online webinar broadcast, make sure you do soon. Only the first 2,000 Stage 32 members are able to attend the online broadcast for free. Spots are filling fast! On Stage With RB - July 2015 Edition Thursday, July 30 1pm PDT Register here (spots limited!) Special guest Jen Grisanti Joining RB is Jen Grisanti, a former studio executive, Story/Career Consultant and Writing Instructor for Writers on the Ver...

During my high school years, I created a broadcasting show for the community and went on to be production manager of the Clemson cable network in college. After graduation, I was accepted to Florida State’s Master of Fine Arts program in Screenwriting. However, I am from a long line of small town family physicians, and the societal expectation that I should take over that role intensified when my grandfather passed away during my first year of film school. Science was always the subject I care...

I’m an independent filmmaker. I am very passionate about storytelling and I love doing it through a visual medium. I grew up watching movies and I always imagined how awesome it would be, to grow up and be in the entertainment industry. This dream of making movie magic, has lead me on an amazing, exciting and very rewarding journey to make my dreams of making films into a very awesome reality. I was recently asked by Stage 32 to write a guest post and I’d like to share my personal experiences i...

STAGE 32 NEWS This week Stage 32 announced our involvement with a film project that is near and dear to our hearts. This project is a documentary titled Crutch and chronicles the life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, break dancer and skateboarder, who wields his crutches as tools of expression and weapons of provocation. Bill provided the filmmakers with over a decade of access, plus a lifetime of archival footage, to allow them to depict him from his early years as a disab...

I’m an independent film producer. I love film, I love to travel, and I love working with other creative people. When I was asked to write a guest post for Stage32, I thought I’d share my personal journey with you and explain how I’ve used networking to get me where I am today. I have recently started traveling and living around the world indefinitely while I create content with other international artists as well as expand my global short film and (web) original series festival. I wouldn’t b...

To kick off this year's TriBeCa Film Festival, Stage 32 paired up with Film Interchange to host an educational and entertaining Filmmakers Lounge. During the evening, we had two excellent panels on using social media as a filmmaker and crowdsourcing & crowdfunding your film, which included industry executives from Stage 32, Film Interchange, Indiegogo and Seed & Spark on the panels. Over 400 Stage 32 members RSVPed for the event and it was a smashing success! However, we know not everyone was...

We are excited to announce 2 very special industry guests for this Tuesday's On Stage With RB FREE online webinar broadcast! On Tuesday, June 30 at 1pm PDT join our Founder & CEO RB for an exciting and jam-packed online broadcast. We will go over new features and improvements of Stage 32 and then RB will interview 2 special guests from the industry - screenwriter & filmmaker Steve Desmond and Composer & Music Supervisor Timothy Andrew Edwards. Steve Desmond Joining RB is Steve Desmond,...

We were all broke musicians, so it ended up on the shoulders of the family of the director to come up with the funds to create a film print. Somehow, they worked that out and we prepared the film for the big screen. Knowing the film would be in theaters, we started thinking of it in a few new ways. We had heard that a film gets shorter each time it plays a new theater as it arrives in several reels. Those reels get patched together by a projectionist. Each projectionist ends up cutting at...

I came to movie making the hard way - by accident. Add to that my “thing” about doing everything as perfectly as possible - which in this case was impossible. The result is best illustrated by my motto “When ignorance meets ridiculousness - out of the box stuff happens.” It all seemed to have “worked out” as my first film as a producer and star, Won’t Anybody Listen, resulted in rave reviews in all the major trades, theatrical distribution, sale of broadcast rights to th...