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Out of the Ashes: Life after the Fires
Los Angeles after the January 2025 fires The first few days of 2025, I had been asking myself if this would be the year that Sarah—a film I’ve been making for 12 years, about a girl I met when I was making my second feature, Rich Hill—would finally be finished and whether I should sell my set of vintage lenses to pay for it, an action that meant I would likely not be able to make any more independent films. Sarah would be my swan song, finished in 2025 and then over and out. But on January 8th, our entire block in the Palisades burned, along with […]
