starts in NYC
one film a quarter

A micro-studio for the next generation of filmmakers

Permission not required.
A room is.

A clubhouse by day, a cinema by night. One film a quarter, made with the whole room watching — then premiered to an audience that votes with its wallet.

Reserve a founding seat · $99
50 founding seats · Lower Manhattan · Online everywhere
Scroll through the room

1 — The floor

Work here. Any hour.

A 24/7 workspace with free coffee and 149 other filmmakers on the same path.

2 — The screening room

A cinema by night.

Nightly screenings and film breakdowns. Edit reviews for the quarter's film happen here, in front of the room.

3 — The bays

Cut it. Record it.

Edit bays and a podcast bay at member rates, plus a gear library.

4 — The table

The Academy.

Writers' room and shot-listing, open to every member. Mentored by Harrison Allen, Oscar-winning shorts producer. Education by making.

5 — Greenlight Night

The audience is the greenlight.

Every quarter the film premieres in public, and the room pledges real dollars toward the bigger version.

1
Work, Uninterrupted!The Floor

24/7 workspace, free coffee, and a community of filmmakers. Think Verci, but for film.

Included
2
Watch, Together!The Screening Room

Nightly screenings and breakdowns. Where the quarter's film gets reviewed — and premiered.

Included
3
Cut, Recorded!The Bays

Edit bays, a podcast bay, and a gear library.

Member rate
4
Learn, by Making!The Academy

The writers' room, shot-listing, and edit reviews for the film in development. Notes attack the film, never the filmmaker.

Included
5
Proof, Demonstrated!Greenlight Night

One film a quarter, ~$20K, premiered to a paying audience who pledge toward the bigger version. Productions livestreamed.

Watch the livestream · soon

To the filmmakers,

Between you and your audience stand two gates. Festivals want taste, so you make festival films. Studios want proof, so they wait for someone else to take the risk. Nobody in the chain is making films for the people who actually buy tickets.

Film school's best part was never the lectures. It was the room — the people making things next to you, the argument in the edit, the screening where strangers laughed in the right place.

We're building that room, with a studio attached. You bring the work. We bring the people, the tools, and one funded film a quarter — made in the open, premiered in public, proven with real money, and taken to the buyers with the receipts.

This is for you.

— Thomas Percy Kim & Callaway Stivers, The Vandalist

Membership

Fifty founding seats at a rate locked for life.

Founding member

$99 reservation

  • Founding rate locked for life
  • Your name in the space
  • First to pitch for the slate
  • A seat in the room while the first film gets made
Reserve a seat

Member

~$125 / month at opening

  • 24/7 workspace, free coffee, nightly screenings
  • The Academy and the film in development
  • Fridays + Greenlight Night
  • Gear, bays, and rooms at member rates
Not ready? Join the waitlist

Patron

Inquire

  • First-look window on every breakout
  • Credits and a seat at every premiere
  • Underwrite a scholarship membership
Write to us

Reservations are credited to your first month and refunded in full if we don't open.

FAQs

Questions

need help? thevandalistshow@gmail.com

What does membership cost?

Around $125 a month at opening. Founding members lock their rate for life.

I'm not in New York. Can I join?

Yes. The room opens in New York first, but productions and edit reviews are livestreamed, and a virtual membership is coming. Los Angeles is next. Join the waitlist from anywhere.

Do I have to be a member to get a film funded?

No. But members get first access to apply, and a seat in the room for every film we make.

What is the $99 reservation?

A founding-member reservation. It's credited to your first month, and refunded in full if we don't open.

Where is it?

Lower Manhattan. The address goes to the waitlist first.