Filmmaking

Given the remarkable advances in technology and accessibility of resources, it has never been easier to make a film. In this DIY, control your own material world, legions of filmmakers are turning to short films to have their voices heard. Further, with more and more film festivals adding short programs into their lineups and with so many filmmakers shooting short films as proof of concept to showcase their talents, short films are finally getting the attention they deserve. We hear all the ti...

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...

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...

As a young Chinese-American, I grew up thinking I wasn’t important in American society. This is because every time I turned on the TV, all I saw were white people playing the leads on the shows and all the commercial advertisements. Asians were non-existent on TV. Our family suffered particularly during the 70’s when anti-Asian sentiment was high due to the attitudes created by the Vietnam war. Racist attitudes towards Asians still are rampant, even though everyone ignores the idea or claim it...

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...

My journey as a composer of music to picture has been so far a non-straightforward one. Whilst studying Applied Arts in France (graphic design, architecture, fine art, etc) I started off in my teens singing and playing guitar, writing songs, fronting a live band. I then started producing other artists on the UK Soul scene in my twenties and thirties, and eventually began editing music and composing on TV shows, short films and documentaries. I've worked on projects big and small, some very cr...

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...

Over the past month we've been posting clips from the awesome interview Film Courage did with Stage 32 CEO RB Botto. These clips cover a variety of subjects including screenwriting, filmmaking, acting, distribution, indiefilm, the state or the industry, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, social media, and networking in person, online and outside of LA to name a few, and serve to provide you with some free educational tips and advice. Film Courage has begun releasing the interview in segments and we...