Vasant Salcedo
@vasantsalcedo.bsky.social
Filmmaker and writer. I make movies, pancakes, all sorts of things. Stowe Story Labs // Washington Filmworks Above the Line alum.
https://tallfirscinema.com
https://tallfirscinema.com
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Remember, Tolkien didn't start working on "The Hobbit" until he was 41 years old. It started as tales for his children that took over 4 years to complete, and he finally published it at the age of 45.
It is never too late to start working on something that truly calls to you.
Embrace your passion.
It is never too late to start working on something that truly calls to you.
Embrace your passion.
August 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Remember, Tolkien didn't start working on "The Hobbit" until he was 41 years old. It started as tales for his children that took over 4 years to complete, and he finally published it at the age of 45.
It is never too late to start working on something that truly calls to you.
Embrace your passion.
It is never too late to start working on something that truly calls to you.
Embrace your passion.
Like, the system is "supposed" to get better. But what if it just doesn't and we're stuck with president Trome until 2431?
I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
August 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Like, the system is "supposed" to get better. But what if it just doesn't and we're stuck with president Trome until 2431?
I'm attending @scbwi.bsky.social's Summer Conference this week and this panel on #UnBanningBooks was excellent. Libraries are our frontline of free speech and democracy and need to be protected.
And we're underway with our UNBanning Books: Bold Creators Take a Stand panel about the plight of children's book creators and their books amid the bans. Go to scbwi.org to register and join this free panel that's open to the public. This panel will be available for free on SCBWI's YouTube site.
August 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I'm attending @scbwi.bsky.social's Summer Conference this week and this panel on #UnBanningBooks was excellent. Libraries are our frontline of free speech and democracy and need to be protected.
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Fantastic Four is so good, Jess is gonna have to chisel this goofy grin off my face. When all the AICN guys were screaming for Peyton Reed to make an FF movie with a 60s aesthetic, this was the movie we were daydreaming about. FF, Kirby, and hell, retrofuturism fans, are all gonna lose their minds.
July 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Fantastic Four is so good, Jess is gonna have to chisel this goofy grin off my face. When all the AICN guys were screaming for Peyton Reed to make an FF movie with a 60s aesthetic, this was the movie we were daydreaming about. FF, Kirby, and hell, retrofuturism fans, are all gonna lose their minds.
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If it feels overwhelming to choose individuals to help in Gaza while not being able to help others, I am a regular donor to the Sameer Project and really vouch for the on the ground mutual aid work they have been doing.
July 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If it feels overwhelming to choose individuals to help in Gaza while not being able to help others, I am a regular donor to the Sameer Project and really vouch for the on the ground mutual aid work they have been doing.
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Those of us who survive this dark era will carry stories, songs, and the fight forward. Disability justice is an unending movement. Caring for each other will never stop being part of our base instinct, our reason for being, no matter how much their greed tries to stamp it out.
July 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Those of us who survive this dark era will carry stories, songs, and the fight forward. Disability justice is an unending movement. Caring for each other will never stop being part of our base instinct, our reason for being, no matter how much their greed tries to stamp it out.
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Happy 5th birthday to this thread and happy 6th birthday to the only cat in the world who could tame a dogs-only person like me.
We don’t know her exact bday—the vet estimated from her scar that she was caught, spayed and released as a kitten spring/summer 2019, so we picked April 1 as a birthday.
We don’t know her exact bday—the vet estimated from her scar that she was caught, spayed and released as a kitten spring/summer 2019, so we picked April 1 as a birthday.
This is Cinder. I’m not a cat person. It’s taken months for us to get this close to each other.
She shows up for breakfast and dinner now (which I started providing for her?) and meows at me in the afternoon until I come to watch her roll.
I’m not sure how she’s doing this.
She shows up for breakfast and dinner now (which I started providing for her?) and meows at me in the afternoon until I come to watch her roll.
I’m not sure how she’s doing this.
April 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Happy 5th birthday to this thread and happy 6th birthday to the only cat in the world who could tame a dogs-only person like me.
We don’t know her exact bday—the vet estimated from her scar that she was caught, spayed and released as a kitten spring/summer 2019, so we picked April 1 as a birthday.
We don’t know her exact bday—the vet estimated from her scar that she was caught, spayed and released as a kitten spring/summer 2019, so we picked April 1 as a birthday.
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Ping-pong paddle signage won’t beat back the techno-fascist revolution. To fight Musk’s vision, we need something deeper—solidarity, mutual aid, and a refusal to abandon each other. My latest:
The Anti-Empathy Revolution of Elon Musk
Musk views empathy as a “bug” that threatens his political agenda. This framing is instructive.
organizingmythoughts.org
March 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ping-pong paddle signage won’t beat back the techno-fascist revolution. To fight Musk’s vision, we need something deeper—solidarity, mutual aid, and a refusal to abandon each other. My latest:
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Another *massive* blow to science if this happens—not just in the U.S., but worldwide. NASA-funded scientists in the U.S. collaborate with researchers around the world. (1/2)
March 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Another *massive* blow to science if this happens—not just in the U.S., but worldwide. NASA-funded scientists in the U.S. collaborate with researchers around the world. (1/2)
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For those supporting this obscene violation of due process and expansion of governmental overreach to detain and deport legal residents without due process, please research authoritarian regimes.
Today they'll use it against a group you don't like, but it will be turned on you tomorrow.
Today they'll use it against a group you don't like, but it will be turned on you tomorrow.
March 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
For those supporting this obscene violation of due process and expansion of governmental overreach to detain and deport legal residents without due process, please research authoritarian regimes.
Today they'll use it against a group you don't like, but it will be turned on you tomorrow.
Today they'll use it against a group you don't like, but it will be turned on you tomorrow.
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Whoa. I mean seriously, whoa. One of the greats and how they got there, a kind of story that isn’t written any more.
March 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Whoa. I mean seriously, whoa. One of the greats and how they got there, a kind of story that isn’t written any more.
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A meaningful powerful speech a most needed speech.
congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.
The Most Relevant Movie in Theaters Is Poised to Make Oscar History. It Would Be a Shameful First.
It swept the critics’ awards and seems like an Oscars lock, yet it still doesn’t have a distributor.
slate.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
A meaningful powerful speech a most needed speech.
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Now let’s get more films shot in VistaVision.
March 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Now let’s get more films shot in VistaVision.
Finishing our Oscars watch through today before the awards show tomorrow, A Complete Unknown is a masterful piece of filmmaking. James Mangold really put together a special film here.
March 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Finishing our Oscars watch through today before the awards show tomorrow, A Complete Unknown is a masterful piece of filmmaking. James Mangold really put together a special film here.
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For the @latimes.com, I wrote about an aspect of NICKEL BOYS that hasn't received nearly enough attention: its terrific screenplay. I sat down with RaMell Ross to break down three key scenes, discussing how each evolved from script to screen. (He also shared some cool behind-the-scenes tidbits.)
RaMell Ross takes us inside the pages of the 'Nickel Boys' script
Much has been made of the film's first-person POV. But let's not overlook the dazzling, emotional and now Oscar-nominated script.
www.latimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
For the @latimes.com, I wrote about an aspect of NICKEL BOYS that hasn't received nearly enough attention: its terrific screenplay. I sat down with RaMell Ross to break down three key scenes, discussing how each evolved from script to screen. (He also shared some cool behind-the-scenes tidbits.)
While there are a lot of trade rumors going around.
It seems that #Seahawks DK Metcalf is being human and having fun at the Great American Baking Show.
Looks like DK couldn't care less about y'all trade rumors and just doing his thing.
[📷: DK Metcalf/IG Story]
It seems that #Seahawks DK Metcalf is being human and having fun at the Great American Baking Show.
Looks like DK couldn't care less about y'all trade rumors and just doing his thing.
[📷: DK Metcalf/IG Story]
February 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Feel pretty proud of my sandwich skills:
I spent one of our snow days earlier this week cooking a ton of soup for the next few weeks (tomato, butternut squash, and leek) and this afternoon, as more snow fell, Vasant warmed some up and made a grilled sweet onion, chèvre, and comté sandwich to split. Coziest afternoon work session ever.
February 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Feel pretty proud of my sandwich skills:
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I didn’t just predict the evisceration of diversity initiatives; I also wrote the counter-narrative. If the end of DEI is making you mad, then the revival of integration will make you fight.
The Evisceration of Diversity Programs Is Upon Us | Dame Magazine
There is a child in America—a worker, a dreamer—whose hard work will never be recognized. They will struggle and toil for little or no end. At best, their labors will be co-opted and stolen; at worst,...
www.damemagazine.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I didn’t just predict the evisceration of diversity initiatives; I also wrote the counter-narrative. If the end of DEI is making you mad, then the revival of integration will make you fight.
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So @sarah-salcedo.com and I have watched KNEECAP several times in the last month and I just can't stop talking about it. There are a lot of movies I loved in 2024 but only a handful I'm pushing on everyone I run into and this is one of them: www.netflix.com/title/81956594
Watch Kneecap | Netflix
Fighting against the constant threat of censorship, a rowdy Irish rap trio become the unexpected faces of a movement to save their native language.
www.netflix.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
So @sarah-salcedo.com and I have watched KNEECAP several times in the last month and I just can't stop talking about it. There are a lot of movies I loved in 2024 but only a handful I'm pushing on everyone I run into and this is one of them: www.netflix.com/title/81956594
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"The future of cinema lies in rekindling the necessity of discovery."
For this @ebertvoices.bsky.social future of the movies, I wrote about the need to find some way to write about small films and new filmmakers.
For this @ebertvoices.bsky.social future of the movies, I wrote about the need to find some way to write about small films and new filmmakers.
The Future of the Movies, Part 4: The Necessity of Discovery | Features | Roger Ebert
On how critics and film lovers need to look off the beaten path to ensure the future of the form.
www.rogerebert.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"The future of cinema lies in rekindling the necessity of discovery."
For this @ebertvoices.bsky.social future of the movies, I wrote about the need to find some way to write about small films and new filmmakers.
For this @ebertvoices.bsky.social future of the movies, I wrote about the need to find some way to write about small films and new filmmakers.
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A great way to combat (legitimate) feelings of dread is to do something to show up for those who are most immediately impacted by all that’s going on. 🧵
Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
January 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A great way to combat (legitimate) feelings of dread is to do something to show up for those who are most immediately impacted by all that’s going on. 🧵
So @sarah-salcedo.com and I have watched KNEECAP several times in the last month and I just can't stop talking about it. There are a lot of movies I loved in 2024 but only a handful I'm pushing on everyone I run into and this is one of them: www.netflix.com/title/81956594
Watch Kneecap | Netflix
Fighting against the constant threat of censorship, a rowdy Irish rap trio become the unexpected faces of a movement to save their native language.
www.netflix.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
So @sarah-salcedo.com and I have watched KNEECAP several times in the last month and I just can't stop talking about it. There are a lot of movies I loved in 2024 but only a handful I'm pushing on everyone I run into and this is one of them: www.netflix.com/title/81956594
Every Seahawks fan is a Cardinals fan tonight! Go Cardinals (kind of)!
December 29, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Every Seahawks fan is a Cardinals fan tonight! Go Cardinals (kind of)!