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I think I first realized that such a thing as a director existed when I was 14 years old. The nasty voices immediately started in my head: “Only old white men get to do that fun stuff. Like Scorsese and Coppola and George Lucas. Not women. Especially not tiny hijabi Sri Lankan Muslim women from Dubai.”
Not only was Braid her first feature as writer and director, it was also the first feature film fully funded by cryptocurrency (raising a reported $1.7M in just two weeks). And no, I don’t super know what that means either…
The Goonies, Stand By Me, E.T. The Extraterrestrial. These are all the films that I couldn’t stop thinking about as I watched writer/director Joe Cornish’s latest film, The Kid Who Would Be King…
“Raise funds for your feature? Gain an audience? Oh...and potentially have The Duplass Brothers executive produce? Heck yes!”
“Aye, yo. You see that new movie?” I’m sitting in a cubicle staring at a screen for a job I’m grateful to have but slightly depressed because of. “It’s crazy! You gotta check out this trailer.” …
“Whatever you do, you have one thing that’s unique. You have the ability to make art.” - Neil Gaiman
The thing about beginning anything is IT’S TERRIFYING. And no one really tells you that. You assume that after you create something enough times, that the fear goes away. But unfortunately it...
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Mirror Box Films is a production company started by me (with the help of friends way more talented than me) in order to “build community around genre film that reflects humanity”. Basically, I wanted to make fun and beautiful things with fun and beautiful people in a world where fun and beauty are severely lacking. So here we are...
