Happy New Year. I slacked off insanely on this, by now it’s April and I’ve been gone for about 4 months now. I don’t do well in the cold but I’m here to update everyone finally. So what happened while I was gone:

Well, I developed several projects, scrambled to apply to some grants which I do not recommend, there has to be a better way for me to prepare for something like that.

I went to Sundance. First time ever, very eye-opening met a lot of cool filmmakers and watch almost damn near 14 films I think? Forgot to include the shorts blocks but I’m rounding up around 20 maybe? It was so refreshing being in a space where everyone was there to talk films and films people are passionate about making.

I’ll be honest. I reflected a lot on that trip and since coming back I’ve decided to scale back and then after a while I had inner thoughts and conflict and well I even had a moment where I thought I wasn’t going to make a feature anymore but I listened to my heart and myself and decided that I am still doing a feature this year.

I’ve got a plenty of things I’m working on and I’m grateful for it, truly. This feature means a lot to me and often times I felt like I had too many comments and thoughts coming my way and it overwhelmed me and it almost took me out really.

I hope that this year I’m able to surround myself with community, be able to bring filmmaking to the forefront for my city and create interest in what I think is the ultimate medium in the arts.

I plan on bringing back movie nights (first one incoming April 11th) even planning special screenings and maybe a movie club because community and gathering, it means a lot to me and it keeps me going, I’ll be preparing that. I’d anticipate me just focusing on working on making all these things happen and hopefully creating a healthy balance between creating a sharing overall for myself.

Talk soon.

- Michael .T

I met some incredible people at Sundance and well shout out Chris Carmona for the interview. Really cool to be in a video with some of the incredible filmmakers who had films screen at Sundance. What a cool dope, surreal moment. I love this so much haha.

This will most likely be the first project I release this year. Won’t reveal too much, I’m ready to give it my all.

For the very first time, I’ve completed all the Oscar nominated films of 2025. I plan on watching past years and hopefully completing it all in its entirety. This is one of those bucket list film challenges I hope to make happen. Check out the list I referenced the entire watch on Letterboxd.

Planning on screening some epic films, in an epic space, you do not want to miss this.

Lowell Film Festival coming up!

Final coffee, lock in moment at modular studios, if you haven’t been there, now’s a perfect time. Perfect place to work on things, read some books in the space and have some bomb ass coffee, tea and sweets that may have forever changed the course of my taste buds. Pull up, super sorry I never posted this in the past but now’s the time.

p.s. I’m working on getting Dos Golpes news soon, waiting on film festivals. Check out the reels I made about Lawrence MA, where I’m from and hold me accountable. If you see me tell me about the newsletter. I hope to be more consistent with it. Hope to create something worth sharing and I know socials can be overwhelming at times but I truly appreciate everyone who tells me they love these. I hope I can promise more consistency. Happy Birthday Ricky!

See you soon.