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Since then:

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Happy birthday Kickstarter!

Today, agnès films is shouting out our 15 most anticipated films being featured at SFFILM this week directed by women/non-binary filmmakers! Comment your most anticipated films! Lucy Walker Vicki Abeles Dawn Porter Jazmin Jones Tania Hermida Farah Nabulsi Iram Parveen Bilal

1/ A new Nature Human Behaviour paper by Martin Wiener et al - 'Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)' - reports some interesting results linking subjective duration to visual scene size, clutter, and memorability: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Waste Land, the film that I came up with and directed about Vik Muniz’s collaboration with waste recyclers in a garbage dump in Rio, is the #12 top best-reviewed movie of all time. That is a wow. Thank you Rotten Tomatoes Variety

“You Know At Least One Nicole..OJ Simpson is dead but domestic violence is alive and well” “You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Simpson, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her.” evergreenreview.com/read/in-memory…

One writer with an independent sensibility.
An all-expenses paid trip to Sundance Film Festival 2025.
Invaluable mentorship from producer cassian elwes.

Submit your feature script for consideration in the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship TODAY: bit.ly/4ax1SIw

San Francisco update: #mountainqueen sold out so we've been given an encore screening Fri May 3rd 8:30pm Roxie Theater with a big thank you to SFFILM. Please join us, I'll be there in person along with the unmissable Lhakpa Sherpa, and tickets are here roxie.com/film/sffilm-fe…

Mountain Queen will have its US premiere 4/26 @sffilm, and the incredible Lhakpa and I will be there freaking out along with our wonderful team, including from the Sonoma Sherpa community. It sold out instantly but I'll post more ways to see it soon ❤️🏔️👑 sffilm.org/event/mountain…

Aldous Huxley gazing out over Los Angeles from a hilltop during his first mescaline experience, Monday May 4 1953.

(Photo by the man who provided the drug, Humphry Osmond)

'scientists who have studied ibogaine have reported startling findings' The New York Times also reporting on the subject of our new movie Of Night and Light. I started making the movie 7 years ago, and the wave of research is finally breaking nytimes.com/2024/03/05/hea… thx Andrew Jacobs

Wowza listen to @rickrubin and @eugenejarecki's Tetragrammaton on stun, electrifying not just because of the gorgeous gush (starts 32 minutes in) about my movie Devil's Playground, which follows Amish young people through their rumspringa period of freedom podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eug…

This is what my new film Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine is about. Can't wait to share the eye-opening real story with you soon when it's released later this year. Thanks for reporting David Ovalle Daniel Gilbert The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/health/2024/03…

The Up Series rightly just voted UK's most influential TV show, but 'there's been no confirmation that 70 Up will come out, now that Apted is dead - a huge shame, like a great book missing its last pages.' But Apted wanted it to continue, and we need it! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Look !
New exhibition in Los Angeles at Fahey Klein Gallery
Retrospective of photographies from 1949 to 2002 💥🌟💜🌟💥Institut pour la photographie Mathieu Demy
Curated by Rani Singh
Till April 12 Th

Thanks ⁦⁦⁦StreamingRant⁩ for including Bring Your Own Brigade
32 Best Documentaries Outside USA on Paramount Plus in 2024 streamingrant.com/channels/param…

Dancing smashing it as an anti-depressant... I wonder how psychedelics would compare? Imagine adding them together.. what were ravers thinking!

On My Radar

Merman director Lucy Walker highlights the importance of AirTags and gets serious about Barbie, as she reveals what's on her creative radar.

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