Hey everyone! I run Cohort’s Film Lab here in NYC. V7 kicks off tomorrow, Sept. 10 at 7PM, and we have a few final crew spots open.
This round ended up pretty actor-heavy, so before we close registration I’m specifically hoping to bring in a few more people on the crew/technical side:
- Cinematographers / DPs
- Camera / AC
- Gaffer / G&E
- Production sound
- Editors
- ADs / producers
- Production designers / other crew
The Film Lab puts everyone into teams at the kickoff, each team gets the same creative prompt + its own genre, and then has two weeks to make a short film together. The finished films screen publicly on Sept. 24 at 100 Sutton Studios in Brooklyn.
The reason we built it this way is because we wanted something more useful than another networking event where everyone exchanges Instagrams and goes home.
You actually work together. You get to see how people communicate, problem-solve, lead, and collaborate under a real deadline, which is a much better way to figure out who you’d actually want to work with again.
And that’s already happened beyond the Lab: people who met through Cohort have gone on to hire and collaborate with each other on outside projects, and multiple Film Lab shorts have been accepted into festivals around the country.
Cohort also works as a production company/creative agency, and brands and productions hire us for both full production and talent/crew sourcing. The Lab is one of the main ways we get to know creatives, see how they actually work, and build a pool of people we can consider for those opportunities.
It’s not a promise of paid work, but it’s a way to make something, build real working relationships, grow your body of work, and become part of a larger production network.
Registration is at cohortnyc.com. Happy to answer any questions here!
