Most people use ‘film’ and ‘movie’ interchangeably. I don’t.
Films are prestigious, awarded, world-expanding. Movies are diversion - fun, profitable, and gone by Monday. The work I care about lives in the space between. Accessible enough to fill seats. Substantial enough to stay with you.
That tension is how I think about everything.
The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.
It feels like something worth paying attention to - a story with stakes, a point of view, a reason to care. Not a banner ad. Not a viral moment that forgets itself by Thursday. Something that moves people and measures the movement.
I’ve spent my career at that intersection - writing screenplays, running global marketing for major brands, building businesses. The tools change. The question doesn't: how do you make something that actually matters to someone, without losing them in the first six seconds?
Films and movies. Art and commerce. Substance and access. Pick both. Always.