Happy Monday, Creative Community!

Look at what this community just did together.

Through the July Filmmakers Club, we shared our work, took on weekly challenges, learned directly from executives in AMAs, and celebrated each other's wins. Then all through August, we dug into crowdsourcing: how the biggest success stories of the year came from creatives who built their crowds first, and how a crowd that believes in you becomes the engine that carries your career.

Two months of the same lesson from two directions. Your community is your greenlight.

So this September, we are going to put it into practice. We are building the Creative Army, and I want you in it.

You Don't Want to Miss This

This community is your crowd. It is the one you are already standing inside of, and every creative you bring into it makes it stronger for you specifically. More collaborators who work in your genre. More people who understand your corner of the industry. More conversations, more champions, more chances that the person who needs exactly what you make is in the room when you post about it.

You already know creatives who would benefit from being here. The people in your acting class. Your filmmaking group. Your writers' circle, your Discord, your community theater, the folks you met at that festival and still text with. Every one of them makes this place better, and a better community is a better resource for you.

That is the whole idea. So each week in September, there is one simple mission: bring the call to your creative world.

This is How Stage 32 Was Made

I have been Head of Community here long enough to know exactly how this place got built. RB invited 100 people. He asked each of them to invite five more. That was it. That was the entire strategy, and it turned into 1.5 million creatives in 190 countries.

Every single person in this community is here because they found us when they needed us or because somebody told them about it. Somebody in your position, at some point, mentioned Stage 32 to somebody in your position.

That is what we are doing this month. Same move, fifteen years later.

How It Works

Five weeks. Five missions. A prize every single week, and a Grand Prize at the end.

Every mission launches on a Monday and runs through Sunday, so you have a full week to complete it. When you have done it, comment on that week's Creative Army post in the Producing Lounge and tell us how you raised the call. I will send your prize code directly, with a personal thank-you.

Click here to see the Week 1 Lounge Post!

If you would rather keep it private, email me at Community@stage32.com instead. Either way works.

One prize per member per week. And complete three or more missions across the month and you are entered for the Grand Prize.

The Grand Prize

A FREE Stage 32 Career Development Call!

For anyone who has not done one, a Career Development Call is a one-on-one conversation with an industry professional about your specific career, where you are, where you are trying to go, and what your actual next move should be. It is one of the most useful things we offer, and it is the reason I want you doing more than one week of this challenge.

The weekly prizes go to everyone who completes the mission. This one is different. Complete three or more missions across the month, and you are in the running, and the members who show up all month are the ones I will be looking at. At the end of September, we will award the call to a standout Creative Army member, and if the field is strong enough, more than one.

The Grand Prize will be announced in the Wrap Blog on Friday, October 2nd.

Week 1: Raise the Call

Monday, August 31 through Sunday, September 6

Your mission this week is simple. Share Stage 32 with one of your favorite creative communities.

A social post. A message in your group chat. A mention in a forum or a Discord. Your newsletter, your Substack, your YouTube channel. The bulletin board at your community theater. Your acting class, your 24-hour filmmaking group, your film school alumni network. Wherever your creative people gather, that is where the call goes.

To make it easy, you can send an invite through the Stage 32 invite system by clicking here.

Or if you'd prefer to post it yourself, here is copy you can use as-is:

If you're a filmmaker, writer, actor, producer, composer, author, or any kind of creative, you should know about Stage 32. It's a free community of over 1.5 million creatives across 190 countries, active around the clock, with 3,500+ hours of world-leading industry and craft education and 3,000+ executives who give mentorship and feedback and take pitches directly. Nowhere else has a community like this one, with real industry access every day. stage32.com

Copy it, paste it, or write your own version in your own voice.

This week's prize: a FREE Stage 32 Webinar of your choice!

To claim it: raise the call, then comment on this week's Creative Army post in the Producing Lounge by clicking HERE and tell us where you shared it. I will send your webinar code directly to you!

Your Move

Go raise the call. Then come tell me where you took it, because I want to hear about the corners of the creative world this community reaches that I have never even heard of.

And tell me in the comments below: what creative community are you bringing the call to? Your class, your crew, your group, your corner of the internet. Name it. I will be reading every one.

Let's build this thing.

Let's hear your thoughts in the comments below!

Got an idea for a post? Or have you collaborated with Stage 32 members to create a project? We'd love to hear about it. Email Ashley at Community@stage32.com and let's get your post published!

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