Filmmaking

My name is Alix, and I make buttons. Before I continue, no matter what discipline you are in the entertainment industry, the journey I am about to take you on will apply to all creatives, so, stick with me. Buttons are such small, seemingly insignificant things but they hold everything together. They are one part of a whole and are crucial and vital to help a film, tv or theater set - much like many creative professions can be described. The buttons that I specialise in are Dorset Buttons. Th...

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...

Just a mid-month reminder that we are in the middle of our 1st ever Spring Member Drive. We’re asking all of our members to take a look at their contact lists, their social media followers and friends, their acting, writing or other creative groups or the cast and crew they’re working with at the moment and send them an invite to Stage 32.   We're all in this together!   Every person who joins Stage 32 helps strengthen the community by inspiring more communication, more opportunity, mo...

I have an awful confession to make: I’m a corporate video scriptwriter. I’m not sure how many scripts and proposals I’ve written for the corporate and public sector market. More than 100? Easily. 150? Perhaps. I don’t do it full-time anymore, thank the stars, but I keep my hand in as a freelance, working on an average of a project a month. To be absolutely frank, it subsidises my other life as an author and screenwriter, thus obviating any need to tend bar or sell body parts. I’ll be the f...

We are honored that Film Reverie had our fearless leader, Richard "RB" Botto on their popular podcast. For 90 minutes RB talked with hosts Michael Bekemeyer and Brad Kingston about all things creative, industry, networking, filmmaking and more. Just some of the things that RB, Michael and Brad go over are: What you can do to help your networking to improve your career How social media is playing a large part into today's independent filmmaking Fears that all filmmakers go through a...

Here's how to use Stage 32 Meetups You can locate Stage 32 Meetups on your menu bar: The Stage 32 Meetups page will welcome you with a search bar allowing you to search for any meetups near you. Keep in mind that this is a brand new feature, which means that your hometown may not have a scheduled meetup yet. Feel free to add one and invite all of your creative friends to it.   On the left side you will notice a calendar of events. This will list only the next 20 upcom...

I am a filmmaker. That’s what I do. I am also a podcaster, a high school TV instructor, a dad, a friend, a son, among many other things I just won’t go into. You get the point. But when someone asks me what I do, I almost always say, “I’m a filmmaker”. The response to that answer always gets a head nod or comments about how interesting and exciting it sounds. But that’s only if the person I’m speaking to is not a filmmaker them self. If they are a filmmaker, the answers range from looks of...

This year Stage 32 is taking SXSW in Austin, TX by storm! SXSW has always, and continues to be, a leader in emerging developments in film, tech and music. As the shift for filmmakers continues to evolve into the tech space, Stage 32 is at the forefront of this revolution with our platform that helps connect filmmakers and film creatives all over the world. We have 2 exciting opportunities as you plan your trips to visit SXSW this year!   SXSW Mentoring Session - Sunday, March 15  ...

Upon graduating from UC Santa Cruz in 2004, I knew I wanted to work in the entertainment industry. However as many recent graduates soon discover, there isn’t a clear path and soon, that dreaded “what now?” question emerges.   The logical thing to do was to find a way to get my foot in the door. With that said, I polished my modest resume (which at the time consisted of one internship at a small startup film company) and knocked on the doors of every major studio in Los Angeles...

In the February 2015 broadcast of On Stage With RB we were able to increase the number of viewers with our new system, and what a difference it made - there were some great questions! For over 2-1/2 hours RB had on 2 special guests, Tiffany Boyle, VP of Packaging & Sales at Ramo Law, and actor David Banks, who's appeared in numerous features and over 100 commercials. Once the floor opened up for questions, RB hit on everything from filmmaking, acting, distribution and more, and then finished wit...