Introduce Yourself : Hello Fellow Stage 32's by Clive Woollands

Good afternoon (where you are), Clive Woollands. These might help you find an agent or manager:

https://www.scriptreaderpro.com/screenwriting-managers/

https://freshmenscreenplay.com/screenplay-managers-accepting-scripts/

IMDb Pro has managers and agents you can look up. https://pro.imdb.com/signup/index.html?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpro.imdb.com%2F%3... IMDb Pro has a 30-day free trial, but it costs $19.99 a month after that.

Hi Maurice, I am in Oxford, UK. Thanks for the list, I will give them a read-through. I have tried most of the agents in both UK and America. I am beginning to think my query letters are not good enough.

Hi Clive - it’s great to meet with you here at Stage 32. I’m the Director of Education at Stage 32 and a film and television producer - I’m currently an executive producer of the Nat Geo/Disney+ series GENIUS MLK/X. If I can ever be of any help on your Stage 32 education journey please email me directly at edu@stage32.com.

You're welcome, Clive Woollands. Query letters are great, but I think interacting with agents, producers, etc. is the best way to build relationships and get scripts read/bought. That's one great thing about Stage 32. You can interact with so many creatives and professionals.

Hi Sam, many thanks.

Hi Maurice, Many thanks, I will look into interacting with other members. I need to further myself into getting my scripts, read and hopefully produced.

You're welcome, Clive Woollands. Hope you find an agent or manager. You're always welcome to comment on my wall or message me about your projects, ways to network on here, or just to shoot the breeze.

Hi Maurice, Thank you.

You're welcome, Clive Woollands.

Reginald, I don't understand.

I think Reginald was a spammer, Clive. Stage 32 deleted the account.

I think you are right, Maurice, the links went to a sight where you could buy reviews. I really want to sell my scripts, but I don't intend to go in that direction.

Yep thats annoying

Clive Woollands yay for Ethics! I am looking for a writing partner to write something commercially viable - something I am okay with letting creative control go - for a sweet check.

What kind of horror? I love it, except I like more stories, less gory...

Hi Erin, it is. I have noticed a lot of people out there that take an advantage of people. I had a lot of it when I was just writing books, and about the same amount of people have tried it while trying to become an established screenwriter.

Clive Woollands the “pay to play” market... and a lot of jobs were shed this year in light of a possible writers' strike. Even pre-wga you cannot cross the line. If another happens my prediction is that opportunities for jobs will be easier to get. If you want to be a scab and that's not good. I am expressing an opinion - just predicting

Clive Woollands, I have found many people who want to form a readers group flake out.

BUt right now Hallmark is accepting unsolicited manuscripts for Holiday family movies. I think that's my next turn.

Hi Erin, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but I went out last night and didn't get back till late. That's the trouble with time differences. I write different kinds of horror, my main story is psychological horror, whereas my other is supernatural. I have written creature features, in my novels Blood Moon and the sequel, The cursed kiss, which had werewolves, vampires, and ghouls. Collaboration sounds good to me, two heads are better than one and if we can read each other's work, we can help each other out and have more success. Are you sure you are not English? I have never heard an American use the word scab, apart from using it as a word to describe a dry piece of skin of a wound. Other here, we do use the word as a dry piece of a wound, but it was mainly used in the eighties when we had the miner's strikes when workers crossed the picket lines. I agree with readers groups, I went to a few in the past and found it not what I was looking for, I even found some screenwriter groups online that spend most of the time online just working on their scripts and not chatting about them or listening to a read-through. I wish you luck with Hallmark and if you do want to collaborate as writing partners, then let me know. Speak soon, Clive.

If I can help, please drop a dime! [currently writing a period piece and getting a kick out of the old colloquial phrases.]

Hi JD, I certainly will.

Hi Clive! I'm also a British-based writer interested in (among other things) horror! Nice to meet you.

Welcome, Clive! Nice to meet you. Glad you're here.

Hi John and Matthew, nice to meet you both. What kind of horror are you into?

Hi Clive. I'll watch just about any sort of horror from any era and any country. To randomly name some favourites (in no order, and not even exhaustive) - Los Sin Nombre, Dellamorte Dellamore, Who Can Kill a Child?, The Wicker Man (the '73 original, obviously), Plague of the Zombies, Pit and the Pendulum ('61), The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, Session 9, Dog Soldiers, Suspiria, Opera, The Evil Dead ('81), Carrie ('76), The Devil Rides Out, The Thing ('82), Videodrome, The Hills Have Eyes ('77), Black Christmas ('72), Deep Red, Twins of Evil, The House With Laughing Windows, Happy Death Day, [REC]... and yeah, there's a whole heap more I could ramble off.

I generally prefer to write supernatural/occult, mythological, or just a straight-up slasher.

Hi John, just my kind of horror, especially The Wicker Man. Ingrid Pitt was a friend of mine, and one of my scripts, Entombed, was written for her, just before she passed away. I'm not a zombie fan, although one of my WIP scripts has zombies in it, both original body control and flesh-eating ones. I also like world war 2 stories, I have a few outlines for stories and I am halfway through one. Have you ever thought about working with a writing partner?

Ingrid Pitt was an excellent actress. I have to say I somewhat envy you for having known her. Would have loved to have met her just because she was an icon for those of us into Hammer and Amicus - Countess Dracula, The Vampire Lovers, The House That Dripped Blood.

I put some zombies - of the necromancy kind, not the "braaaains" kind - in an urban fantasy script I wrote that made the Second Round of the Austin Film Festival this year.

Regarding writing partners, I did have one years back for a brief time, but there is a whole story there and suffice it to say, it didn't end well. The TL;DR is he ended up pilfering a short story I'd written and tried to pass it off as his own work. If he'd actually got anywhere with it, I might have been annoyed.

I won't lie, that experience did sour me a bit - least of all because I thought he was a friend - but I'm not completely averse to trying again in the future. I think I was probably a bit naive back then.

I hate it when that happens. I was speaking to another member the other day about doing the right thing. My editor wrote out a contract for something I was going to do a couple of years ago. A friend of mine had an idea for a story for a live-action Captain Scarlet film and wanted me to write it. My editor sent them to me, just before we contacted Gerry Anderson's son, Jamie, for permission to do and he said, it wasn't in his hands but the ITV company who had the rights. So it didn't happen, but I still have the contracts on file. When or if, you are ready, let me know.

"The Thing" is one of my favorite movies, John Austin.

Maurice, it's one of my favorites as well, I have the prequel, but haven't watched it yet.

Thanks, Clive. I'll keep it in mind. Contracts definitely seem the way to go.

Yeah, it's a fantastic film, Maurice. I think I must have been about 13 when I first saw it.

John, you are right. If you want any help, just let me know.

I haven't seen the prequel either, Clive Woollands. I actually haven't heard much about the movie.

I don't remember when I first saw "The Thing," John Austin, but I remember playing the game as a teen.

I wish these people who are from buy verified reviewers and Neteller, that try and connect with me would stop it. I want to connect with other people in my field, not spammy scams. Can't the admins of stage 32 stop this and any future waste of spacers?

Hi, Clive Woollands. Stage 32 has Moderators, Lounge Crew Members (myself included), and Thought Leaders who report spam accounts. Stage 32 works to delete spam accounts soon after they pop up. Anyone can report spam accounts to Stage 32 by contacting Support (support@stage32.com).

That's good. They are annoying.