"When filmmaker Alex Bush received their acceptance to Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen's Square Peg Social (SPS), something shifted. "Just being accepted felt like a huge weight of confidence," said Bush, whose short film "Thaw" premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. "It was really affirming to be spoken to by these people in this way of, 'Yeah, so you as someone who's going to be doing this and who's already doing this.'""
"The 35 selected SPS filmmakers are uncommonly accomplished. Eli Raskin produced Doechii's Grammy-winning world tour. Haley Johnson recently produced "Obsession," the horror pic that premiered at TIFF and was acquired by Focus Features. Sally Oh won a Grammy for her work on Beyoncé's "Black Is King." Alexandre Singh & Natalie Musteata just won AFI Fest's Grand Jury Prize for "Two People Exchanging Saliva," a short they're now adapting as their debut feature."
Acceptance into Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen's Square Peg Social (SPS) transformed filmmakers' sense of belonging, converting adjacency into recognized industry membership and confidence. The 35 selected filmmakers possess notable credits: Eli Raskin produced Doechii's Grammy-winning world tour; Haley Johnson produced Obsession; Sally Oh won a Grammy for work on Beyoncé's Black Is King; Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata won AFI Fest's Grand Jury Prize and are adapting their short as a debut feature. Nigerian-American Boma Iluma directs for The Chi. Hawaiian Oz Go founded a nonprofit studio, Narrative Lost. Mentors and peers reacted with astonishment at the cohort's accomplishments and networks.
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