ghost seventy four
Richmond, VA independent film production

If you are at all involved in the film world you’ve probably noticed that over the last couple of years, conversations about AI tend to fall into a few different camps. Aaaaand, similar to our political environment, the conversation can seem somewhat polarizing at times. There are filmmakers who have fully embraced it and are using it every chance they get. There are filmmakers who won't touch it under any circumstances and are VERY vocal of their disdain for it. And then the

Festival strategy can get abstract fast. People talk about “getting into the right festivals,” “building buzz,” and “landing distribution” as if there is one clear path every independent film follows. The reality is much more complicated. A festival run is a combination of programming, audience, timing, relationships, and a little bit of luck. Every film enters that ecosystem differently, with different strengths, different goals, and different challenges. As I move HAPTIC th

One of the biggest lessons I learned from making HAPTIC is that finishing a film is its own skill. Writing is hard. Production is hard. Post-production is hard. But finishing is something different entirely. It asks you to keep making decisions after you are tired of making decisions. It asks you to be honest about what is working, what is not, and what the film actually needs — not what you hoped it would need three months earlier. There is a point near the end of any indepe

This week marks a new chapter for me creatively, professionally and personally. It’s the week I finished my first feature-length film and a story that I’m proud to get out to the world. HAPTIC marks a milestone in charting a path forward in creating films and in the types of stories I want to tell. As a queer person feeling the weight of the shift in opinions toward the greater LGBTQ+ community, I feel that our stories need to continue to be told often, out loud and unapologe