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Nemea Studios — At a Glance
Welcome back to the studio.
We make films because cinema, at its best, is not entertainment — it is an act of cultural memory.
Founder Brief
What needs your attention today.
Derived live from Action Items, IP Pipeline, Slate Tracker and Festival Tracker. Synced to Supabase.
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Action Items
Task tracking — stored locally
03 Operations
Team & Payroll
Annual compensation — stored in nemea-team
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04 Slate
IP / Script Pipeline
Scripts, adaptations & IP acquisitions — stored in
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05 Capital
Investor CRM
Track investor contacts, stages & pipeline — stored in nemea_investors
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Investor Inbox
Contact form submissions from the investor portal — nemea_contacts
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05 Slate
Slate Tracker
One place for every film — main info, documents, and Data Room visibility (storage:
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Festival Tracker
Submissions — stored in nemea-festivals
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Fund Burn
Monthly overhead & operational spend
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Option Deadlines
Color-coded by urgency — from IP Pipeline data
Red — < 30 days
Amber — < 90 days
Green — > 90 days
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SPV Status
Special purpose vehicle formation tracker — stored in nemea-spv
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Asset Inventory
Physical assets — stored in nemea-assets
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Document Library
Upload and manage studio documents — stored in browser
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16 Greenlight
Film Evaluation
The Voice filter — seven questions, one slate seat
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The Voice filter is not a rigid rubric — it is the seven questions Nemea asks of every project. If the majority cannot be answered with conviction, the film is not Nemea, even if it is good. Greenlight is not optimism — it is the moment script, voice, and timing are all right. Production fit (budget, incentives, package readiness) is checked separately, after the Voice filter.
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The Image
Can you imagine a specific scene that does not exist in any other film?
Not the concept, not the theme — a scene. A moment with people doing something in a place. If the film in your head resembles ten films you have already seen, it is not Nemea yet.
The Director
Does the director have a personal relationship with this material?
Not necessarily autobiographical — personal. Something only this person can make. If another director could direct it just as well, it is probably not worth making.
The Friction
Is there something that makes you productively uncomfortable about this project?
A difficult premise, an irredeemable character, a tone that resists categorization, an ending that offers no comfort. If everything feels comfortable from the start, it will not surprise the audience either.
The Identity
Can you articulate why this film is not another film?
If you can only describe it as "it's like X but with Y," it needs a third element you cannot explain through comparables. The well-executed unclassifiable is what lasts. A residue that cannot be explained.
The Characters
Are the characters smarter than the thesis?
If the script treats characters as mouthpieces for an idea, it fails. If the characters exceed any argument the film could be making, it works. This is the most important test against miserabilism, pamphlet, and thesis-cinema.
The Craft
Is the craft equal to the ambition?
The vision can be large or small — but camera, sound, editing, and performance must be impeccable for the scale of the film. Zero tolerance for vision without craft.
The Library
In ten years, will this film still have a reason to exist?
Not: will it be a hit? Rather: will someone discover it, recommend it, revisit it? Nemea films do not live off their year of release — they live off their decade. Value lives in the library, not the box office.
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15 Brand
Brand Library
Internal brand documents — confidential
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The Voice
The sensibility, qualities, and filter that define what a Nemea film is — and what it is not
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The Talent
We do not hire filmmakers. We build careers — and a filmmaker's second film matters more than their first
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The Image
A film is not finished when the cut is locked — it is finished when its image has reached the audience waiting for it
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The Contract
How we negotiate, what we protect, and what we never ask a filmmaker to give up
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The Festival
How we choose where to premiere — the most underrated financing decision in independent film
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The Company
How Nemea operates internally — how we hire, decide, give feedback, and grow
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17 Doctrine
Nemea Compass
Who we are · what we believe · what we avoid · what we look for
The Contract
A Nemea moves you without mistreating you.
Craft that calms. Content that destabilizes. The audience leaves changed — but never condescended to.
We believe
- Craft and unease belong together. The first calms. The second moves.
- A film is not its theme. A film is people doing things in places.
- Characters must always be smarter than the thesis that tries to contain them.
- Chance is not a plot problem. Chance is the proof that the film is alive.
- Every frame is a decision. Nothing is ever incidental.
- Budget is a discipline that generates creativity.
- Geography is a container. The voice is the content.
- We are not building a slate. We are building a library.
We reject
- The film as thesis.
- The film as lecture.
- The film that confuses importance with weight.
- The film that treats its audience as a demographic to convert.
- The film that announces itself before it has earned the right to.
- Yes-culture. Niceness that swallows the note that needed to be given.
- Volume over voice. Ten variations of the same model is not a slate.
We look for
- Intelligence without condescension — the viewer is up to it.
- Humor that unsettles — never emotionally monochrome.
- Characters with real agency — they exceed their circumstance.
- Form with intention — framing, tempo, sound, all decided.
- Chance as an ally — life leaks into the screenplay.
- A specific texture — a smell, a color, a weight.
- An ending that stays a few days longer than expected.
How decisions should feel
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Slow on the slate
A greenlight is a 2-year commitment of capital, team, and reputation. It deserves the deliberation.
Fast on the decisions
Deliberation happens before commitment, not after. Once decided, we move.
Honest, not brutal
Specificity is respect. Notes name what isn't working — they don't prescribe what should replace it.
Curatorial, not extractive
If two projects feel too similar, one is dropped. The slate is composed, not accumulated.
Disagreement is data
A working disagreement that makes it into the room makes the decision better. Silent disagreement becomes sabotage.
Doctrine reread every January. Editorial source · The Voice · The Manifesto · The Company.
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Operating Principles
How the studio actually works — not the handbook
Daily
Async Updates
Short written standups in a shared channel. What each person is working on, what is blocked, what needs another pair of eyes. Respects time zones across CDMX, Vancouver, LA.
Weekly · Monday
Slate Review
Every project — one sentence of status, one of next-action. If a project has nothing new for four weeks in a row: is this still alive?
Weekly · Thursday
Creative Conversation
90 minutes. One project, deep focus. Script read, cut review, treatment. Working session, not status.
Monthly · 1st Friday
All-Hands
State of the business, slate, open questions, wins and losses. No filtering. If it is true internally, it is said internally.
Monthly · 3rd Wed
Financial Review
Actuals vs. budget, incentives per film, SPV cash positions. No surprises at quarter-end.
Quarterly
Greenlight Committee
Three founders. Slow by design. A greenlight is a 2-year commitment.
Quarterly
LP Update
Honest, specific, no spin. What happened. What is happening. What is worrying us.
Annually
Document Review
Every editorial document re-read, marked up, revised every January. Doctrine that doesn't evolve becomes dogma.
Bad decision-making corrodes trust even when outcomes happen to be good. Good decision-making builds trust even when outcomes are bad. Process maps below.
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Creative
Owner · Head of Development
Who to develop with, which script to option, which director to sign. Decision maker is clear; input is wide.
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Greenlight
Owner · Three founders unanimous
Whether to commit capital. No unilateral greenlights. If one founder blocks, we either answer their concern or we don't proceed.
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Financial
Owner · CLO · CEO co-signs material
SPV structure, incentive strategy, deal terms. Speed matters. Decided quickly within a structured framework.
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Operational
Owner · Closest to the work
Hiring, tools, vendors. Whoever is closest decides. We do not turn operational choices into group debates.
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Reputational
Owner · CEO · founders consulted
When to comment, when to stay silent. Slow, deliberate. We respond to questions, not news cycles.
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Partnership
Owner · Three founders + advisors
Major co-productions, long-term partnerships. These shape what Nemea becomes.
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2Frame the alternatives
3Owner decides
4Write it down
5Quarterly review
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Notes are specific or they are not notes.
"I didn't love the second act" is not a note. "Around page 47, I stopped caring — and I think it's because the stakes the first act established got dropped" is a note.
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Separate observation from prescription.
Surface what isn't working. Step back. The writer's job is the solution.
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Honesty without cruelty.
We do not soften a note so much that the recipient cannot hear it. We do not dress an opinion as a fact.
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Public praise. Private criticism.
If public criticism feels necessary, the private conversation should have happened sooner.
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Disagreement is data, not disloyalty.
Yes-culture kills companies. A working disagreement in a meeting makes the decision better.
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When we're wrong, we say so.
Admitting error costs much less than pretending it didn't happen.
A Nemea project is ready to advance when these checks all answer yes. The meter shows how many gates are met for a sample project — interactive.
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When the answer is unclear, we do not pretend it is. We label the bet, name what would change our mind, and document it.
Name the bet
"We are betting that…" — written in one sentence so anyone can challenge it later.
Name the falsifier
"We will know we were wrong if…" — the observation that would change the bet.
Set the review
A date — usually 90 days — to revisit. Not a deadline, a checkpoint.
Cap the downside
Budget exposure, time exposure, reputational exposure. If any cap is breached, we stop.
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Decision Log
Major decisions — written down, reviewed quarterly · stored in nemea-decisions
A company that reviews its decisions gets smarter. A company that doesn't, repeats its mistakes.