Stage 32Reviews of stage32.com

Given its ten minute pay-to-pitch structure @ $35 a pop, I'd say it's a waste of time and money. Ten minutes is simply inadequate; you can't possibly hit more than the highlights of your project - only to be criticized by the exec/agent/manager for not providing enough details. It's frustrating and annoying and that's just for starters. For example, I've gotten great coverage (unpaid) on most, if not all, of projects yet the pitch feedback often cites a failure to not mention X or Y in that extremely abbreviated time frame. On top of that, a given individual often imagines what was pitched, rather than actually listening and/or taking decent notes. And I believe a lot of the people being pitched are out of work themselves, trying to make ends meet. I'm left thinking 'who's more desperate - the writers or the execs/agents/managers who participate?'

An absolutely horrible site that runs on the cash it receives from newbie screenwriters desperate for industry attention. It's pathetic, really. Also, if you deign criticize them for any reason, they suspend your account. Their "pitch sessions" are a joke. Forking out my hard-earned money to "connect" with someone who has low or no credibility in the industry is not my idea of advancing. The founder is a millionaire whose own "credits" are shite. Once you join, you're immediately besieged with DMs for scammers trying to sell you their "editing" services or from fake producers who want to know what you're working on. There's absolutely no vetting process, because they don't care. As long as the money keeps flowing in. Steer clear. Do your own research. Educate yourselves. You don't need a scam site like Stage 32.

I was new at writing a series script and I didn't feel things were explained well for a beginner as advertised until I spoke up about it. The 1-1 meetings were only 15 minutes, not mentioned in the beginning and just surface feedback. A lot of time was wasted in class when they let me read my entire story instead of stopping me at one episode. Good possibility it can be stolen. Long unnecessary writing during class which we never read aloud. Communication was poor throughout, and at the last day of class I was advised to make changes that would require me to start from the beginning leaving me with no one to review it. Then the nerve to ask me to sign up for another class!!! Wish I'd checked here first. Totally not enough bang for the buck.

They will not let you on their site without entering your date of birth. I don't want my date of birth in their database, because they WILL sell that data, or allow hackers to steal it. Yes, they will. So! Do not do business with companies that insist you enter your date of birth into their database.

I've had subpar experiences with Stage 32 in the past but this last one makes me wonder if they're just a scam now. I had scheduled a meeting with a producer to discuss a script and she just didn't show up. There was zero follow-up from Stage 32. I emailed their support a couple times and only received an automated response that they were looking into it. They had already taken my money. I still have not heard back from an actual person. They're preying on people and it needs to be publicized so more people don't lose money (and hope) on these dorks.

I signed up way back when they started, and worse, there's no "unsubscribe" to get off it! But I've been contacted by anyone except people trying to sell me "services", newbies naively hoping I can find THEM work, and veritiable scam artists who pose as producers, using imdb profiles that are not theirs, asking to read a script then replying the new day (as if they'd read it) offering to "help" produce it for 4 grand or more. Never pay a producer, if you don't know better. It's a sure sign they are NOT a producer. PS - the date I put refers to the last time it happened but it's been going on for YEARS.

I've had a frustrating experience with Stage32 that reflects poorly on their professionalism. Last year I repeatedly asked them, through their own platform, to stop emailing me — I was told I was unsubscribed, yet emails kept coming until I had to mark them as spam in Gmail. More recently I initiated account deletion and received no confirmation it was processed; weeks later my account is still active and generating notifications. I also had a post I made in a public "Lounge" moved to my private wall without my consent, defeating the purpose of posting it. Repeated attempts to get a straight answer from their team have gone nowhere beyond a generic auto-reply. For a platform serving the film industry, this level of unresponsiveness and disregard for basic account/privacy requests is hard to justify.

Through Stage 32, I paid for a screenplay competition by Page International. The fee was $189. Stage 32 charged me twice for the same entry, for a total of $378. It showed on their website as two separate charges of $189 each for exactly the same thing and with the same ID #'s. Page International confirmed they received $189. After I complained to Stage 32, they changed their website to show only one charge of $189, but they haven't refunded the over charge. I have initiated a fraud charge with VISA.