Silicon Valley is embarrassingly bad at telling its own stories. I’m going to change that. Introducing The Silicon Valley Film Fund. Our first grant is $15,000 — awarded to a filmmaker to make a short film. svfilm.fund

last day for submissions

I was waiting for an article like this to pop up at some point vast material riches but people still find themselves spiritually impoverished this is the material I want to see in scripts. the real interior life of building in tech no one can talk about

one of the challenges of making film work on tech is that the place where actual work happens, in the dark recesses of your mind, the mental projector…that place doesn’t turn into a tweet easily at night I run through scenes, hear characters talking, move through space with them, adjust cuts/pacing. you want to find a way to share pieces of this process, but there is nothing to run, nothing to show. you could share storyboards, but a film won’t be out for 6-24mo. in an industry that changes every week, the timeline rushing with tweets everyday, it can appear as if nothing is happening. that you’ve died or gone and done something else. and if you try to find ways to make the work legible, you begin to write for the timeline, for what is tweetable, which makes for bad writing. so it’s a precarious situation. you have to be both terminally online, and terminally offline. all I can really share is that I read a ton of scripts and watch a ton of film. so you see scripts in my hands here and there. it’s the only physical artifact of actual work that has happened. I’m learning to become more comfortable staying in that place, the dark place. and waiting for good things to emerge.

5 days left to submit

first draft complete 5 weeks, 31 pages

I spent 3 days creating a map of every filmmaker in tech, my findings shocked me there are <30 filmmakers producing work, 0 professional writers, and 1 feature film in development the storytelling capacity for tech to create narrative film on itself is non-existent

I think a lot of confusion and angst comes from not realizing that the X timeline and San Francisco the city are 2 completely different places, 2 different geographies the timeline shapes the beliefs of a very narrow set of people, which in turn moves the city

tech needs more poets

here's jam it's the simplest interface for marketing in the agentic era we now have 2000 companies, developers, and operators enjoying jam we started it as a side project, then devtool founders paid us thousands to use it it's come a long way since, and we've just released it for anyone to try, no waitlist and also we are now hiring (see below!) you build, jam spreads

this is impressive but this mode of reasoning is precisely why tech does not produce memorable works of film

stories worth telling in tech outnumber filmmakers 100-to-1

enjoyed this not a single character wasted

there are a lot of founders, vc’s, heads of media/marketing that have vivid imaginations who could have ended up directors or producers in another lifetime the same imaginative capacity operates, finding applications in a different context

new tech is exciting, but I think this is like suggesting, if you give everyone a basketball they could be in the nba. tools don’t make world class stories, people do. and exceptional original IP is a deeply human/scarce asset that has nothing to do with the ubiquity of tools

one month left for submissions if you have a script you've been sitting on, now’s the time to send it

meaning problems can only be solved by artists and we have a lot of meaning problems

I’m trying to get anyone with any cinematic inclination and lived experience in tech to write a script