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STAGE 32 NEWS This weekend Stage 32 and the Stage 32 Happy Writers descend upon Austin, Texas for the Austin Film Festival. We are proud to be a sponsor of the 2015 Austin Film Festival and we have a week filled with educational panels, events and more! We invite our Stage 32ers to come join us! To find out more about the events and to RSVP to join, click here: Stage 32 at the Austin Film Festival   The October 2015 edition of On Stage With RB is now available to watch on-demand!  This bro...

The October 2015 edition of On Stage With RB was almost 3 hours jam-packed with incredible tips and advice! Up first RB interviewed Jeff Kitchen. Jeff Kitchen has been one of the top screenwriting teachers in the film industry for twenty years, and is a sought-after script consultant. He worked as a dramaturg and taught playwriting in New York theater, and is the author of Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting. Jeff has taught development executives from all the major H...

This week Stage 32 and the Stage 32 Happy Writers descend upon Austin, Texas for the Austin Film Festival. We are proud to be a sponsor of the 2015 Austin Film Festival and we have a week filled with educational panels, events and more! We invite our Stage 32ers to come join us!   Here's what's in store:     We invite all our Stage 32 members for a fun night to celebrate the most creative community on the planet at the Handlebar Austin Rooftop Patio. This is a 21 and over event. Last...

STAGE 32 NEWS Starting today, all Stage 32 members have automatically been set to receive a single email a day with all network requests. Keep in mind, you have full control of these settings. So if you would still like to receive a single email for every network request sent to you on Stage 32, you can change the setting accordingly. To learn more about this exciting site update and learn how to manage your settings, click here: Manage Your Networking!   Stage 32 is heading to the Austin...

Whenever a script is submitted in the industry, it is passed off to a reader for analysis. The reader will give the script a "recommend," a "consider" or a "pass." And unless it gets a recommend, probably no one else is going to look at it. So how many scripts get a recommend? About two percent....which means roughly 98 percent of spec scripts are dead on arrival. Many of these scripts make the same mistakes. Here's my take on the ten most common mistakes reported by the studio and network rea...

It’s been said that luck is where preparation meets opportunity. Only one of those things is completely in your control — preparation. Whether you’re a screenwriter, a filmmaker, an entrepreneur or anyone else trying to draw attention and support to a personal or professional endeavor, there’s no excuse not to have your elevator pitch down cold. It needs to be practiced, honed and memorized so that when opportunity rears its head, the words roll off your tongue with an undeniable confidence. T...

Don't forget this Tuesday, October 20 is the FREE monthly online webcast hosted by our fearless leader, Richard Botto. This is FREE to our first 2,000 Stage 32 members that register. Every month RB goes over tips to best utilize Stage 32 for your networking and education, has on 2 industry guests and opens it up to answer questions from our Stage 32 community about the industry and your craft.   Join us at 1pm PDT for the October Edition of On Stage With RB by registering here!   Joining...

STAGE 32 NEWS It’s that time again! Time for the October 2015 edition of On Stage with RB. Every month our Founder & CEO, RB, in an online webinar setting brings on special guests who work in the industry, such as filmmakers and executives to offer advice to our community, and he goes over the best way to use Stage 32 to help your career. Afterwards, he opens up the floor to you for a live Q&A session about anything and everything in the industry. Best of all, this is FREE, exclusively for St...

STAGE 32 NEWS Stage 32 was featured as the top story on Variety's website this past Saturday. Needless to say the entire Stage 32 team is quite excited to have our efforts recognized. To see a video from RB and to read the article, click here: Stage 32 Featured in Variety   The September 2015 edition of the On Stage With RB webcast is now available to watch on-demand for FREE! This broadcast was a smashing success jam-packed with over 3 hours of information and 2 exciting guest interviews...

Leonard Lowe is a man, who as a teenager, became comatose for decades with no hope of any cure. When Dr. Malcolm Sayer gets permission to try a possible chemical cure, Leonard awakens. The result is an adult man who only knew life as a teenager discovering the delights of life. Countless times over the years, I’ve coached people who have “left” the business. I put quotes around ‘left’ because some have literally left for various reasons (illness, relocation, family matters, caring for a family...