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Local event Filmmaker Friday credited with sparking a feature film collaboration
Summary
Foster says two filmmakers who met at Filmmaker Friday in 2022 later made and premiered a feature film in New York and Chicago, an example he used to highlight the series' role facilitating creative partnerships.
Parker Foster described a concrete outcome of Filmmaker Friday: two attendees who met at a small 2022 gathering later collaborated to produce a feature film that premiered in both New York and Chicago. "We had two filmmakers who met in 2022... and they actually ended up making a feature film last year," Foster said, citing the collaboration as an example of the events' practical impact.
Foster emphasized that the events are free and designed to reduce barriers to collaboration for people who might otherwise be isolated in freelance or nontraditional work schedules. He said the series' success is measured not only in attendance figures but in the projects and relationships that follow from repeated, low-cost monthly gatherings.
