(IN) FOCUS: Where The Next Hollywood Is Coming From w. Lucas Ford + Ben Odell
Producer / Open Gardens Substacker Ben Odell sits down with Lucas Ford to discuss:
How Ford discovered Backrooms—and how he is finding storytellers beyond Hollywood’s traditional pathways and developing their creator-built worlds and established audiences for film and television.
The next generation of filmmakers isn’t waiting for Hollywood to discover them. They’re making work on YouTube, TikTok and across the internet, building audiences and proving ideas long before the traditional industry gets involved.
Producer Lucas Ford saw that shift early. While at 21 Laps, he discovered 16-year-old Kane Parsons through his Backrooms videos on YouTube and helped identify the viral series as a feature opportunity. Today, through Ford Films, he continues to find and champion filmmakers emerging outside traditional pathways.
Join Lucas and Ben Odell, Open Gardens Substacker and CEO of 3Pas Studios, for an IN FOCUS conversation about what this means for the future of entertainment: where the next generation of storytellers is coming from, how creators are turning audiences into leverage, what Hollywood gets right and wrong about digital-native talent, and what happens when creator-built worlds collide with the scale and infrastructure of the traditional film business.
Run of Show:
5:00pm: Doors
5:30pm: Conversation begins in Theater
6:30pm: Mingling
8:00pm: Event Ends
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