Screenwriting

We have an exciting week of events lined up at the HollyShorts Film Festival beginning this Friday! If you are in or around the Los Angeles area, you are more than welcome to come join us for any one or all of our special Stage 32 panels, parties and screenings! "HollyShorts is the benchmark most up-and-comers are striving for - and the festival is impressively dedicated to advancing the careers of its filmmakers", says Daniel Sol, Co-Founder of HollyShorts. "We are equally impressed, dedicate...

It's a great week here on Stage 32 with 2 extremely informative webinars for filmmakers, writers and producers, and for those members based in or around LA, we have an educational panel on Friday at the Hollyshorts Film Festival! Let's get to it!     Distribution: Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix 101 - Wednesday, August 10 If you are interested in distributing your project via a VOD platform, I've brought in Chad Miller, who has spent over a decade in on-demand entertainment and specializes i...

This article focuses on the issues that can arise and the pitfalls to beware of with respect to collaborations between and among creators of books, screenplays, stories, theatrical plays and television show scripts. Under the US copyright law, although ideas alone are not protectable, an author or creator owns a copyright in his or her work the moment the author’s expression of the idea is 'fixed in a tangible medium.' (i.e., when the expression of an idea is written down or recorded in some m...

I remember being at work, in addition to being a filmmaker I'm a full-time bus driver for one of the largest transportation companies in the country. So I'm driving and out of nowhere a thought popped into my head. Why aren't there any award shows for indie filmmakers in Philadelphia? The talent is here, so why nothing to acknowledge that? Then a second thought popped in there, why don't you create one? And that started a year and a half long journey that culminated with the Philadelphia Indepen...

The 2nd Annual Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Screenplay Contest semi-finalists list is here! We pen-salute these talented group of writers on this achievement. Be sure to check back here on the Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Screenplay Contest page August 17th for when we announce the finalists! Please celebrate on social and tag us on Twitter: @stage32 and Instagram: @stage32online #stage32rocks Congratulations to the semi-finalists and best of luck! A LITTLE TURBULENCE Hugh Brown...

We’ve had some incredible success stories lately here on Stage 32. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be shining a light on those 32’ers who have found success either through networking on the platform, through our Jobs section or through pitching with the Stage 32 Happy Writers. Today, we congratulate screenwriter Joe Downey! Joe contacted Erik at the Stage 32 Happy Writers with information regarding a screenplay he was looking to pitch. Joe was looking for suggestions on an executive Erik felt m...

  This week on Stage 32 we have 3 great webinars for producers, directors, financiers, actors and writers. I'm looking forward to seeing you in a Stage 32 Next Level course! Dynamic Duo Uma Incrocci & Christian Petersen, who have worked on dozens of film and TV shows including Jane The Virgin, The Good Wife and The Longest Week, will bring you Audition Ammunition: Booking The Room. They will go over physical setups of what you can expect when going into any audition, including film, TV, th...

OUR WINNERS GET RESULTS Over the last two years, our contest winners and finalists have been signed, optioned, put in development, staffed and secured high level meetings with some of the top executives and companies in the film industry. Our track record with the Search for New Blood has been off the charts. Now we’re back with year 3 of this incredibly popular contest designed to give our horror and thriller writers the chance to have their work exposed to some of the top execs in the in...

Results are in for the quarter-finalists of the 2nd Annual Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Screenplay Contest! Our judges were simply amazed by the amount of writing caliber that was submitted this round. Join us as we congratulate these talented scribes! This talented group of writers will move on to the semi-finals, which we will announce on August 3rd on the Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Screenplay Contest page. Please celebrate on social and tag us on Twitter: @stage32 and Instagram: @stag...

Hello to everyone in the Stage 32 community! It is a busy week here with Stage 32 Next Level Education with 3 really exciting webinars and 1 class starting. I'm covering social media for filmmakers, supporting characters & subplot, VOD distribution to Amazon, iTunes, Hulu & more, and breaking into screenwriting. If you are a producer, filmmaker, screenwriter or actor take a look at my video below to see what is in store!     Tuesday July 19 Jennifer Winberg, a social media expert who's...