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I started my journey into acting and filmmaking in 2007 as an actress. I found myself interested in all facets of filmmaking because, honestly, being in front of the camera just was not enough for me. I wished to contribute much more to every production I could come to be a part of. This would eventually lead me towards editing and more specifically – becoming a demo reel editor. A lot of my peers at the time didn't see a reel as being a necessary tool to market themselves. Meanwhile, I was ge...

STAGE 32 NEWS This Saturday and Sunday The Stage 32 Happy Writers is thrilled to bring you the Online PitchFest XXXIII – ManagerFest! On tap we have Haven Entertainment, Intellectual Property Group, Generate, Management 360 and Chatrone. We are thrilled to have some executives that are first time participants with us and each executive is a direct result from a referral from another executive who raved about our writers. To read more about this Online PitchFest and to sign up, click here: O...

We've probably all heard the famous Robert Frost quote, "Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." The road less traveled, by its very nature, can at times be a lonely road. And yet, it’s also an adventure. Yet you and I have chosen this road for our own individual (read: warped) reasons. We skip happily along some days, and we sit and swat at the flies on other days. I can say that I came late to this path in life, writing my fi...

Two weeks later, we celebrated over cocktails. I had the opportunity to rub elbows with a few of the exec judges, the two other finalists and the fine folks of Stage 32. I met two fantastic producers I’m privileged to call mentors. I’m currently collaborating with one of them on a short film I will direct in June starring Danny Trejo, the one and only! I’ll be sure to post crew positions soon on Stage 32!   \ Stage 32, execs, and the finalists celebrating at the cocktail party of the Stag...

It just dawned on me. The end of April will mark my four-year anniversary since my pilgrimage to Los Angeles. Like most folks, my first year was learning the real ropes in the industry – mostly through trial and error. Although I served as a busy producer at a TV station in Savannah, Georgia with a Journalism & Mass Communications degree from USC (the University of South Carolina – sorry, not sorry Trojans), there was nothing at that time which could prepare me for Southern California’s entert...

When I was younger I wanted to be an actress. After graduating from college with a degree in Drama I quickly realized that I had a head for business and that I enjoyed working WITH actors more than I enjoyed being one myself. I meandered around the industry a bit - first working at a talent agency, then at a television production company, until I finally became a casting director. I started as an assistant and quickly rose to becoming a partner. Jennifer Rudolph I realized I had a kna...

I was born in the sunny Fiji Islands and was raised on a small farm with eleven other brothers and sisters. Even though my father passed away at an early age, my mother, Lord bless her soul, made sure that we all got a good education. After finishing high school, I was accepted as an electrical apprentice with the Fiji Sugar Corporation and hence was sent to Fiji Institute of Technology, where I attained my degree in Electrical Engineering. A few years later and away from home, I st...

As I reflect on the last four years of my life, sometimes I feel as though I’m watching a horror film and the protagonist is someone other than myself. It’s hard to believe that not only did I survive the massive transformation that engulfed my life beginning in 2011, but that I grew and blossomed into the person I was ultimately meant to be. Somehow deep inside I always knew I was an artist, but I didn’t feel I was allowed to express myself as such. I came from a family who believe...

If only I had a nickel for each time someone at a bar found out I was a writer and told me, “Hey, my life would make a great movie!” I would be rich. Everyone has a story. But so few take the time to write it down and show the due diligence to publish it. That’s why I’m here… to show you how to become a published author. Let me take you back to my late 20’s… chasing a dream in 1998… having an epic, supernatural screenplay that could tentpole a studio… right in my back pocke...

When I graduated from college and stepped into the world of entertainment, I was determined to climb the mountain in front of me and achieve the career success I had singularly focused on since high school. No matter what unknowns lay in the terrain ahead of me, I had the ability to conquer them. I was naive, I was unprepared, and I had no idea how challenging the path I had chosen would turn out to be, unstable and full of rejection. But of course that confidence, even if it comes from inexperi...