The Future of Documentary Filmmaking is here, and the opportunity is immense. We can speak across borders, build communities of curiosity, and reimagine how memory and truth circulate. But the work demands a routine, a sustainable practice, and a kind of faith—the same faith composers once needed when creating music that might never be performed.

What I'm offering starts with six Italian brothers who carved the American Dream into stone—the seated Lincoln, the NYPL lions, hundreds of monuments that became part of our collective visual vocabulary. The Piccirilli Factor has found its audience at The Met and in academic circles, but can it translate across Europe and the Middle East? That's what I'm here to test.

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