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
