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FilmStack Daily Digest Dispatch #2

A collection of the FilmStack Daily Inspo Challenge Days 11-20

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Ted Hope, Donny Broussard, Avi Setton, and 10 others
Sep 21, 2025
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how did Hemingway’s shortest saddest story about the baby’s shoes go?

You know what is going on on FilmStack, right? I gave you a little taste of it yesterday with the FDDD#1. I was going to wait a week, but I am continuing with this variation on a theme with FDDD#2 today.

So what will happen when I catch up with where we are on the daily challenge with…

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Donny Broussard
I am an educator and filmmaker from Lafayette, Louisiana. I write about micro-budget filmmaking and the independent film industry.
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thebigbreakfilm.com
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a woman from Idaho. film & television producer. big thinker
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Skip Berry is a former magazine and newspaper journalist, the author of several nonfiction books for kids and adults, a screenwriter, and a poet.
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Tom Violett
I'm making my first documentary at 62, Voices for Change, with my kid Ray, a talented filmmaker at 19. I'm writing about this journey here.
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Taylor Lewis
one more time with feeling.
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young industry professional building what's next for film & tv
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Director. Producer. Documentary & Fiction Films. INVISIBLE NATION (PBS). Co-Writer, Co-Host LOVE IS A CRIME (Vanity Fair). Writer, Host vHOPEFUL CONVERSATIONS podcast w inspiring filmmakers & authors, listen (Apple. Spotify), watch here, HopeForFilm
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LA-based Filmmaker. Critics Choice Award winning Producer of over a dozen films, from festival darlings to studio pictures. Formerly an actor, talent manager, and touring rock musician (but not all at the same time)
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Ed William
ROUGH CUTS: a home for the ambitious cinephile
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Michael Lavine
I was a music Photographer in the 90s. Now I'm a filmmaker working on a micro-budget feature about a photographer who becomes a filmmaker. It's complicated.
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Writer and Director of the upcoming "biblical b-movie" Gulf of America, a NonDē horror film re-telling the Old Testament tale of Abraham and Isaac... all set inside a blood-sucking motel in the desert.
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