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Filmmaking Tips & Inspiration from Director Bola Ogun (LUCIFER, QUEEN SUGAR)
Happy Wednesday Stage 32 Community! I hope this blog finds you healthy, happy, and creative while rocking self-quarantine. All of us here on Stage 32 team have been diligently working from home, just like you, and we are honored to continually bring you more ways to stay creative and connected online with our more than 600,000 members across the world. Stage 32 is committed to bringing you entertainment, education, and community from the comfort and safety of your own home. Today, I wanted t...


7 Questions to Develop Your Vision and Voice
What are Vision and Voice and Why are They Important? There’s a lot of good news for Creators and Creatives these days. The abundant Stage 32 opportunity announcements for meetings and pitches with agents, managers, and producers prove they’re hungry for content, which means they’re looking for new writers, actors, and directors who are strong in their craft, with compelling stories to tell. Whenever there’s competition, there’s also the challenge of setting yourself apart. Of getting notic...


Coffee & Content - Production Design Tips for Directors & How to Make a Cinematic Short Film
Happy Sunday Creative Army, Here's hoping you had a healthy and creative week. We had another amazing week of digital connections and virtual learning here at Stage 32 - and I am excited to say we have more online inspirational, educational, and aspirational content coming your way - stay tuned. So, is your coffee ready? Because your weekly dose of content is coming in hot. First up, our friends over at Studio Binder have done it again. Filmmaking is a very visual medium, and the director i...


Stage 32 Virtual Table Read Plus Cast Q&A: Now Available On-Demand!
Happy Saturday Stage 32! Last Friday night, we had the pleasure of hosting a live virtual table read and happy hour. It was a smash-success and brought hundreds of you much needed laughter and community in the time of #SelfQuarantine. Stage 32 is committed to bringing you entertainment, education, and community from the comfort and safety of your own home. For those of you who missed this online good-time, worry not! We are thrilled to announce you can now download the full table read and ca...


Special Global Edition of the Stage 32 Writers' Room Pitch Tank
Happy Friday Stage 32 Community! I hope this blog finds you safe, happy, healthy, and creative. Like all of you, the Stage 32 team has been diligently rocking that work from home life while in self-quarantine. Fortunately, things have been a little less lonely with the help of our epic Stage 32 community of over 600,000 worldwide (and growing by the thousands every week!). We are incredibly happy to be putting the "social" in #SocialDistancing. This Monday, April 6th at 1 pm...


Lessons Learned from the Film Market Trenches
Switching distribution guns to KILL MODE! The distribution journey for a Dutch-made low-budget action/sci-fi flick. Kill Mode’s Release Wasn’t Timed to Coincide with a Global Pandemic! (2020) Kill Mode was released in the United States on March 17 by RLJE Films, our U.S. distributor, through a deal brokered by our international sales agent, Raven Banner Entertainment (Canada). While this blog entry is principally about how the Kill Mode producers secured and negotiated distribut...


April Content Challenge – Let’s Lift Each Other Up!
Hey, guys. Hoping you are all staying safe, healthy and (relatively) sane. With thousands of new creatives and professionals joining Stage 32 over the last week, traffic, interactions, and network requests at an all-time high, and with all of us stuck at home for the foreseeable future, I thought this would be the perfect time to throw down a content challenge. For the next 30 days, and hopefully beyond, I’m challenging you to start new posts and contribute to existing posts within the Sta...


Stage 32 Presents: COVID-19 - A Conversation with Industry Professionals of the Current State of the Entertainment Industry
We sincerely hope this finds you safe and healthy during this strange time in the world. Over the last few weeks, we have been working tirelessly to ensure that you know that Stage 32 is your online home to stay connected with over 600,000 film, tv, and new media creatives from across the globe. Stage 32 is proud to be putting the "social" in #SocialDistancing. Now, we are looking forward to bringing you another virtual event to help you stay up-to-date about the state of the entertainment in...


Writers' Room Member Uses the Power of Stage 32 to take her Script to Screen!
I’ve been screenwriting for the past four years consistently, and the past ten inconsistently. I stumbled across Stage 32 from a Facebook post that a member made over a year and a half ago. I decided to check it out because of the great things that were said about Stage 32 in the post. Wow, I’m so glad I did! My life has changed so much since then. I've met some truly wonderful people who’ve helped me tremendously in my writing endeavors as mentors who spent extensive amounts of time to...


Coffee & Content - Casting Director Roundtable & 3 Common Logline Mistakes
Happy Sunday Creative Army! I hope you have had a healthy and creative week. This past week on Stage 32 has been an epic testament to the power of our growing online community of film, tv, and digital creatives worldwide. We had over 1,000 of you tune in live from every corner of the globe for my Ask Me Anything: Quarantine Edition. This past Friday night, we laughed together over socially distant cocktails during our virtual table read and happy hour. Stage 32 is committed to bringing you ent...

