Summary

Talent labs and mentorship programs are plentiful for aspiring filmmakers — but where do you turn when your career has already started, after your first movie or on the precipice of one, and especially when filmmaking can be such a lonely enterprise? Enter Square Peg Social, the Austin, Texas-based filmmaking summit launched by Lars and Amy Knudsen and Ari Aster that offers four days of singular community-building: brutally honest advice, commiseration, and idea exchange shared among 35 participants, with the program now in its second year.

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