Screenwriting

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...

We are thrilled to announce that the June 2015 edition of the On Stage With RB broadcast is now available to watch On Demand! In this jam-packed over 3-hour broadcast, RB had on 2 special guests. Timothy Andrew Edwards is one of the most diverse and accomplished Composers and Music Supervisors working in entertainment today. He has over 75 credits in Feature Film and Network Television, including two Emmy award-winning shows. And, in RB's almost 30-minute interview, Timothy goes over the 3 mos...

In today's digital age everyone is vying for attention and engagement on social media. Today we're excited to bring you another clip in the 3-hour installment of our Founder & CEO RB's Film Courage interview, which discusses how to identify narcissistic behavior from creatives on social media. In this 4-minute clip, Identifying A Narcissist on Social Media is Easy, RB talks about the characteristics of a filmmaking, acting, producing, screenwriting narcissist and the mistakes they make by usin...

Today we bring you another clip in the 3-hour installment of our Founder & CEO RB's interview with Film Courage. Film Courage has begun releasing the interview in segments and we're happy to announce that we'll be bringing these videos to the community right here on the Stage 32 Blog. The wide ranging interview covered a plethora of subjects including filmmaking, acting, screenwriting, distribution, indie film, the state or the industry, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, social media, and networkin...

I’m at the traffic lights, sat on the back of (my then) boyfriend’s sports motorbike. “One more blast round, or go home?” he said. My silent voice inside instantly urging me to say, turn right, lets go home. “Turn left”, I said thinking he would prefer another 20 minutes out in the early evening sun. It was Sunday evening, August 9th. Five minutes later a red car hurtling up our side of the road at 70 mph came into view. In a nano-second I shift into paralyzing terror. Th...

I grew up in a crofting and fishing family in the village of Lochinver in the Scottish Highlands. It’s opposite the Summer Isles (the setting for The Wicker Man). You can’t help but be moved by the rugged landscape. Every hillock and glen has a Gaelic story. Sure, there's water kelpies (shape-shifting spirits) and huge black dogs with eyes like peat fires that haunt bogs and lochs, but it’s also the land of Dolly the Sheep and John Logie Baird! I started off my artistic journey painting and sc...

It’s that time of year where our friends wonder where us aspiring screenwriting friends have disappeared to, why we tense up at the thought of going to the movie theatre, and why we escape out the bathroom window when it’s our turn to buy a round. They don’t understand that May is the month when, for many of us, our funds run the lowest and becoming a squeegee bandit at nearest busy traffic tailback looks like a positive career move. You see, it’s competition season. Fantastic opportunities ma...

Over the last few years I have been very blessed to see my entire world turn around after experiencing massive loss in both 2011 and 2013. The one thing that kept me going was always holding on to my dreams and learning the technique of visualization. When I was first starting out as an author of books, I decided to look at those authors I admired and respected and wanted to learn from. I researched what they did to write their books and to make them successful in a publishing industry that was...

A lot of screenwriters owe their initial success to film festivals, pitch sites such as Stage 32’s Happy Writers (isn’t that an oxymoron?) or just dumb luck. I owe mine to two things – the inability to hit a 95-mile per hour fastball and the mob. In the following tale of how I lost my screenwriting virginity in LA, I have not included anyone’s names to protect the not so innocent. My latest production When I realized I couldn’t hit my weight, 162 pounds in a soaking wet unifor...

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." - Herbert Spencer I'm very excited and proud to announce the launch of our new and improved Next Level Education section. When I first conceived of Stage 32, my wish was to bring education to all film, television and theater creatives r...