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We’re building a film studio in public.
Not a newsletter about our films. A real account, written as it happens, of what it actually takes to build something meaningful outside the systems built to produce it for you.
My husband, Josh David Jordan, and I have made films almost entirely outside the traditional system. Our second feature, El Tonto por Cristo, is the first widely embraced English-language Eastern Orthodox narrative feature, made for a fraction of what most people assume it cost. What it took instead was community, ingenuity, and people willing to bet on something before they knew it would work. That gap, between what a thing looks like it cost and what it actually took, is most of what this publication is about.
We’re documenting the whole process here: the financing, the discipline, the failures, the faith and beauty underneath it. Not the polished version. The real one.
Who this is for
Cinephiles who want a deeper literacy in how films are actually made
Filmmakers looking for an honest account of the road outside the industry
Artists and makers building something difficult of their own
Entrepreneurs more interested in meaningful work than simply scaling
Anyone who loves watching an improbable thing unfold
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