ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Remember we’re doing something significant. As we grow and get more eyes on what we’re doing, folks will have more questions, more doubts. That’s a GOOD thing. It proves we’re doing something new.
• Tag me (Courtney Romano) or DM me your posts/Notes on Substack with your ND50 project updates so I can include them in the FilmStack Daily Digest updates.
• Don’t forget, Taylor Lewis and I are compiling YOUR RECOMMENDED BEST PRACTICES. This is a way to organize and document the actions that worked this year. Each month we’ll send you a set of questions to answer and by the end of the year, we’ll have an entire book of infrastructural RBPs. Fill out Your January RBP here:

ND50 Recommended Best Practices January 2026

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“A rising tide lifts all boats. That’s about creating a system to make that true.” - Taylor Lewis

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NonDē Creative Development: Projects in Motion

Presented & spearheaded by Gita Kapila & David Brownstein

• The NDCD is an ongoing developmental lab of works in progress organized and run by the NonDē 50 Films Project.
• Working Tenets of the NDCD:
  • Start audience-building from development.
  • Build the community within, so we can build it without.
  • Significant things happen when we become implicated in each other’s stories and in each other’s work. Community and true connection comes from working on projects together.
  • RBP is to get as much on the page as far upstream in the process as you can and you make the process itself easier.
• What Kind of Work Can Be Developed:
  • We will work at work in all phases of development (from script to rough cut, from logline to pitch deck, if it’s in process and you want feedback on it, it’s welcome.)
  • We want the development process to be as inclusive as possible, and people express themselves different ways, so it does not always need to be written work that’s being developed. Again, everyone welcome.
• How It Works (For Now):
  • Development and feedback are driven by the writer’s questions about their work first and foremost
  • Here are the roles in each session:
    • WRITER (creator) in ND50 brings work to the group for feedback.
    • HOST organizes the meeting, perhaps shares their Zoom room, links, etc.
    • ACTORS/READERS will read script or other materials during meeting
    • FACILITATOR is one person who gets the work before the event, reviews it before the event, comes into the event and is the first to respond.
    • Others at the event will be able to respond either orally or by writing their answers to the questions the WRITER poses. Whichever they feel most comfortable doing.
  • This process is about creating both volume of feedback and quality of feedback for the WRITER, focused on their needs.
  • This is a community process and we can iterate/make changes to the process as we go.

SIGN UP TO PARTICIPATE HERE:

NonDē Creative Development: Projects in Motion