Screenwriting

Hello Stage 32ers!   We have now posted the video of On Stage With RB-May 2014, hosted by our Founder & CEO, Richard "RB" Botto.   We opened 1,000 spots for this exclusive Stage 32 Next Level Webinar and we were humbled when all 1,000 spots were filled! We had Stage 32 members from 82 countries in attendance. A huge thanks to all who showed up and asked such great questions.   All in all, RB spoke for 2-1/2 hours including a 20 minute tutorial on how to best utilize the Stage 3...

Hello all.   We have now posted the video of last week's first ever On Stage With RB, hosted by our Founder & CEO, Richard "RB" Botto.   We opened 1,000 spots for this exclusive Stage 32 Next Level Webinar.  At the peak, 989 Stage 32 members from 77 countries were in attendance!  Thanks to all who showed up and asked such amazing questions.   All in all, RB spoke for 2 hours including a 20 minute tutorial on how to best utilize Stage 32 to create meaningful contacts, find work, post projec...

I was a guest on Ashely Scott Myers fantastic podcast, Selling Your Screenplay. Ashley and I discussed all things 32 past, present and future, how I used the site to land options and development deals, managers and agents, the state of the industry as it relates to screenwriters and filmmakers, and much more. I hope you enjoy and welcome your feedback! http://www.sellingyourscreenplay.com/podcasts/sys-podcast-episode-012-an-interview-with-screenwriter-producer-entrepreneur-and-ceo-of-stage-3...

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours. -Richard Bach Excuses. Sometimes the most creative thing we do as creatives is make creative excuses for why we can’t be creative (trust me, it makes sense.) Over our last few Happy Writers / Stage 32 Online Pitchfests, we’ve had some amazing success stories. Today I’d like to highlight one of them courtesy of a creative who never argued for his limitations and only made excuses to keep on creating and believing in his skill...

Last summer I was forlornly staring at my computer, a feature spec on the screen and came to the realization in my mind it would likely never sell. As I mourned the loss of my creative baby and remembered the good times, I just couldn’t pull the plug on the first five pages. So I turned them into a short, which I was fortunate enough to have produced. Since then I’ve written many more. I’m finding that not only does it really help hammer home disciplines I should be applying to my feature wr...

A few months ago, we joined forces with The Happy Writers for our first Stage 32 Creativefest/Pitchfest.  Our purpose was to offer our screenwriting and filmmaking members a unique opportunity to gain access to top-level managers and executives looking for new talent and material. Our hope was that these executives would find a diamond in the rough here and there. We were wrong. They found a virtual mine. Here are some of the remarkably talented people who have found success through our...

It seemed to take me forever to get my filmmaking career underway. I grew up in a show business neighborhood where my friends’ parents were film and television stars and, as a teenager, I found a mentor in a family friend who directed an unending series of episodic TV shows and some TV movies and welcomed me onto the set whenever he was working. Still, as I came out of college having gotten stellar grades in all of my cinema courses, it took ten years before I found myself in Paris making my fir...

Just a quick word of thanks to all who took the time to participate in this month's version of Introduce Yourself Weekend.  Once again, a record number of connections – over a quarter million! - were made during the 3 day event.  For those of you who are new to the community, welcome aboard.  And for those who either re-introduced themselves or simply took the time to greet and connect with a new member, thank you. This past weekend was also our 2nd Online Pitchfest with our friends at The Hap...

What is the deal? If you're over 35, are you as good as dead? Do you really absolutely have to pick a genre? And is the spec market really dead? There are some rumors that seem to have become truths out there, while other realities have been written about again and again. Yes, you can make it if you're over 35. And, for the launch of your career, you are indeed better off picking a genre and sticking to it. As for the spec market, look no further than The Scoggins Report to confirm that the spec...

ACTING – 10 Monologue Tips from Ruth Kulerman  1. CHOOSE AN AGE APPROPRIATE MONOLOGUE. Now I could do Juliet’s monologues deliciously but they’d call Bellevue or the loony bin, since if Juliet had a grandma it’d be me. Just because you can play 35 doesn’t mean you should choose Lady M’s letter scene–if you are 17 years old. The saddest audition I ever saw was an exquisite innocent angelic awkward 12 year old singing a sexy, come-on suggestive bump and grind number. I wanted to cry–but only...