The shared working document across films. Every transcript, the nine Beauty chapters, the April 2 Fellows Dinner with inline clip playback, and exports for the editor. The film catalog is at conru.com/film/.
What's New · May 20, 2026
Fellows Dinner (April 2, 2026) is now ingested. 19 cut clips, 51 minutes of candid conversation at the Occidental Fine Arts Center, with Andrew, Nick, Troy, and the fellows. The dinner gave us rehumanism defined on camera, Nick's conversion to painting from life, the enough principle, and Year 2 announced. New ninth Take: Rehumanism, In Their Own Words (12 min). New Big Picture section: Rehumanism, Crystallized. Nick's promo gets a fifth section. Direction tab opens with a May 2026 update.
DO NOT USE: Vivian. Vivian Tanga is no longer in the Seattle Prize program as of May 2026. Her segments in the "Nick & Vivian — San Miguel" transcript are flagged with ⚠ in the sidebar. Nick's material from that interview remains usable. Do not pull Vivian quotes into any cut, promo, or social clip.
New home. Portal lives at conru.com/film/portal/ (the umbrella film hub is at conru.com/film/). Single shareable URLs for the whole film team.
Kelly —
This is now the canonical working portal for the film. I ran all 16 transcripts (~94K words including the April 2 dinner) through AI to cross-reference everything and organize it by story beats. It pulled the strongest quotes, mapped them to themes, and took swings at paper-edits.
Some will be obvious to you. Some will be wrong. Some might connect dots we haven't had time to connect because we've been busy filming. Think of it as a research assistant that read everything and organized it for us to work from together.
Start with the Takes — nine cuts from the same footage, each telling a different story. The new ninth, built from the April dinner, is where I'd start.
— Andrew
Takes — Nine paper-edits, same footage, different angles and audiences. Export buttons on every take: shot-list markdown + teleprompter. Promos — Website intro scripts for each fellow. Kelly's 3 + AI drafts for the rest. Big Picture — Interviews organized by story beat. Strongest quotes. Cultural context. Direction — What to film next, what to ask, the honest questions. Transcripts — Full searchable text. Click any quote to jump to source. Dinner quotes now have an inline clip player.