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One Must Imagine Wile E. Coyote Happy (opens the original)
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I was talking to my pal Eden this weekend, sharing how the indie film journey feels like infinitely pushing a boulder up a hill. We push. We pause. We pull. We do all the things in an attempt to just get to the top of the mountain. Or at least to keep the boulder from rolling back down over us. Or maybe, best case, figure out some contraption that takes some of the weight off. To build a system that keeps the boulder going up the hill. In response, she sent me this quote from Albert Camus:“The s
Micro-Budgets, Building an Audience, & Taking the Show on the Road (opens the original)
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Coming Down Off the Mountain (opens the original)
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Gargantuan: How We Film Fest (opens the original)
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That’s a Wrap on Before We Were Monsters (opens the original)
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