Roll the Tape: September 11th, 2024

Good day.

How was your summer? I hope the last three months treated you so well.

I’m pretty sure it’s almost as good as mine.

If there’s one word to describe my summer, it’d be growth. And I want to continue growing with The Produced newsletter, and you all.

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Today’s agenda:

• Get Localized: past film festivals that I’ve gone to and upcoming ones this September.

• Food for Thought: “why do movies on dysfunctional families hit so hard?”

• Resources for Filmmakers: the sum of my brain-rotten digging process for resources, events, workshops and tools for filmmakers.

In case you missed it, read The Produced’ best issues:

• Reel Talk: Kevin Jin Kwan Kim, the director behind the viral 1-minute short What Did They Say (2024) with up to 2 million likes on TikTok.

• Vietnam’s Modern Auteur in the Making, and the rise of Vietnamese cinema.

• Rising A24: Hollywood Got Beef and how this art-house production is becoming Hollywood biggest business contender.