@jamescsanchez.bsky.social
Director of Writing & Rhetoric at Middlebury College Documentaries: Man on Fire (2018), North Putnam (2024), The Spiritual Advisor (2025), and In Loco Parentis www.poundofsnow.com
spending all day color grading the newest feature, and I fucking love this part of filmmaking
25.02.2026 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can't wait for Grok to do some war crimes!
25.02.2026 15:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I fear that I cannot write a letter of recommendation anymore without sounding like Trump--using way too many superlatives that really do not make sense in context of one another.
24.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you Randall. I needed someone to affirm this take!
23.02.2026 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mike Lee: ICE are just like cartel hitmen. Another example of fierce agreement bsky.app/profile/sahi...
23.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 1073 🔁 202 💬 23 📌 4
A book titled SAY NOTHING
THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ AND NOW YOU HAVE TO READ IT TOO SO I CAN TALK ABOUT IT WITH SOMEONE PLEASE AND THANK YOU
23.02.2026 13:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm in the middle of SAY NOTHING, Patrick Radden Keefe's story of the IRA, and damn if it isn't nonfiction at its best.
21.02.2026 20:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dante Spinotti sold his soul and seems to not gained a single thing out of it.
"It's well executed." LOL.
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i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
02.02.2026 00:32 — 👍 1511 🔁 209 💬 22 📌 31
Bon Iver is releasing a live version of "Naeem (Can't You Hear Crying)", now only on Bandcamp. 100% of proceeds will be donated to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Join in to support those organizing, protecting, and sheltering against ICE in the state.
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I think I might put part of that quote on a poster.
Thanks to all the support from Rolling Stone Films and Alex Dale, the David Dodge Foundation, and Documentary+ and Justin Lacob.
Lastly, Unseen Films calls THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR "One of the best films at DOC NYC."
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The world premiere of THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR at DOC NYC was this weekend, and we had two sold out screenings!
After the first, an elderly woman turned around and said, "I'm pretty conservative, but you changed my mind about the death penalty...but not for that Luigi Magione."
A poster for our film with three screening dates
Our world premiere is today. We are sold out but there are still rush tickets available!
16.11.2025 13:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A screenshot from IndieWire saying Rolling Stone Films and Doc+ have acquired The Spiritual Advisor
Some big professional news:
Rolling Stone Films and Documentary+ have acquired a short film I produced, titled THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR.
The film premieres at DOC NYC on Sunday!
A screenshot from IndieWire saying Rolling Stone Films and Doc+ have acquired The Spiritual Advisor
Some big professional news:
Rolling Stone Films and Documentary+ have acquired a short film I produced, titled THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR.
The film premieres at DOC NYC on Sunday!
omg
14.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'The Spiritual Advisor,' a short documentary about death-penalty activist Rev. Jeff Hood, will premiere at DOC NYC.
13.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We made it to DOC NYC!
13.11.2025 00:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We need to teach older people how to use headphones because I can't be on public transit listening to someone's grandfather watch Instagram reels at maximum volume.
12.11.2025 22:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A review that says, "Be prepared to sit in stunned silence at the end."
The first reviews of THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR are rolling in ahead of the film's premiere this week!
10.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A review that says, "Be prepared to sit in stunned silence at the end."
The first reviews of THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR are rolling in ahead of the film's premiere this week!
10.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
sunrise from the window
sunset
The best part of stick season in the mountains is that you can finally see sunrises and sunsets
07.11.2025 11:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don't know how studios continually fumble making a good Jurassic Park movie.
Instead of following their big CGI action-oriented formulas, make people be stuck on an island with raptors hunting them.
Make it Alien but with raptors.
IT'S NOT THAT HARD.
chickadee mornings
02.11.2025 12:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don't know how studios continually fumble making a good Jurassic Park movie.
Instead of following their big CGI action-oriented formulas, make people be stuck on an island with raptors hunting them.
Make it Alien but with raptors.
IT'S NOT THAT HARD.
A student has been missing from my college campus since Friday evening, and online discussions around this disappearance are wrapped in anti-trans discourse.
I fucking hate people.
A still photo of The Spiritual Advisor with three screening dates
First screening -- SOLD OUT
Second screening -- SOLD OUT
DOC NYC added a third screening! If you are in NYC come out to Village East on 11/19 to see our new short!
You are making me scratch that itch!
21.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@kairosrtp.bsky.social just posted our newly updated Reviews CFR list. @danmartin7.bsky.social and I are looking for innovative webtext reviews of games, apps, software, and podcasts. We are always open to proposals of other texts and technologies not on our new list. Got an idea? Pitch us today!
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