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From Portland to Washington, D.C. : Bringing the Story of Film3 and Community Building to Congress

This week, Pippin and I traveled from Portland, Oregon to Washington, D.C. to meet with legislators as part of an advocacy effort organized by Stand With Crypto. It was a surreal experience to say the least. A few years ago, if someone had told me that building independent films and creative communities in Portland would eventually lead to conversations on Capitol Hill, I wouldn't have believed them. Yet there I was, sitting in congressional offices, sharing the story of film3, our efforts...

The Reckoning Hollywood Didn't See Coming

The most expensive films ever made are underperforming. Franchise fatigue is realer than real. Theatrical attendance has been declared dead so many times it’s practically a meme. And yet — somehow — a horror film made for pocket change sells out midnight screenings. A niche drama with no stars and no studio backing finds its audience and keeps it. A scrappy, weird, specific little film does what a $200 million blockbuster cannot...

Stop Performing. Start Making.

There's a version of film3 that exists entirely in pitch decks and Discord threads. Gorgeous whitepapers. Detailed roadmaps that go out eighteen months and somehow never fully arrive. Projects announced with fanfare and quickly forgotten, somewhere between the bear market and the next shiny thing. I've been in the space long enough to know the difference between someone building and someone performing building. The gap is almost always the same thing: they haven't sat down and done the actual...

Film3 is Punk.

In 1976, the major labels owned everything. They owned the studios, the pressing plants, the distribution, the radio airplay, and the narrative about what music was allowed to be. Getting a record deal meant getting permission from people who had never picked up an instrument in their lives. The gatekeepers didn’t care about your sound or what you wanted to say. They cared about their margin. So a bunch of kids in London and New York stopped asking. The Ramones played two-minute songs so fast...

Cinema Was Always Meant to Be Yours

For the longest time, people didn't know what film3 was. Many still don't — and that's okay. Like a lot of things in the blockchain space, it's a big idea that arrived faster than the words to explain it. I felt like I understood it the moment I entered the space, but I heard story after story of people who couldn't quite define it. And when it came time for the movement to catch on and grow, that gap caused a major stall. What is film3? Filmmakers were genuinely excited about it. Builders were...

Fear Without Experience: The AI Discourse Problem

I shared a post about a creator who trained a custom AI model at home and generated a short film in minutes. One person. One machine. Idea to video in hours, not months. The response was overwhelming to say the least. And none of it was from anyone in my network. We're talking +2s and +3s — strangers algorithmically delivered to my comment section, armed with sweeping statements, moral certainty, and very little apparent firsthand experience with the technology they were condemning. I'm not t...

The Book of Film3

People have been asking me what film3 is for years. At festivals, in DMs, after panels, at events with filmmakers who sense something shifting. What is film3? How does it work? How do I get involved? I've answered the question more times than I can count — in conversations, in Twitter spaces, on stages, over coffee, over beer, in articles, the list goes on. Every time, I gave the best answer I had. But a passing conversation was never going to be enough. So I wrote the book. This is my story...

What's Next in Film3

If you're anything like me, you're cutting your current film while developing the next one, managing a YouTube channel or three, running a podcast, and constantly in production while keeping teams on track. Maybe you also have a family and a household to run. Or a physical storefront or take on client work. To be honest, I love the chaos of it. I love being so busy I fall asleep without remembering my head hitting the pillow. I love waking up early to meet my screenwriting coach on UK time, and I love...

You Are Now the Studio

IndieWire published a piece recently that stopped me mid-scroll. The headline was "Don't Call It a Comeback: How Independent Film Will Be Rewired in 2026." It's a sharp analysis of where indie film actually stands right now — not the hopeful spin, not the doom spiral, just a clear-eyed look at the new operating reality. And one line in particular landed like it was written directly at me: "Producers are asked to think like founders. Directors are expected to articulate not just vision but value..."

Our AI Agent Raises the Money, We Make the Film

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: our AI agent is raising funds from other AI agents to produce a human-made stop motion animated film (and even trolling us a little for being so analog). Auctobot's pitch deck has no pictures. No emotion. No sizzle reel. Just code — a machine-readable investment memo delivered agent-to-agent, onchain, returning a yes or a no. And when it's a no, collecting data on why, so the pitch gets sharper with every pass. This is the first agent-to-agent production...

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