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November 6, 2026 · 7 min readWhy We Self-Distribute Our Films on Our Own WebsiteDistributors offered to take $100,000 off the top before we saw a dollar. Amazon locked us out. So we put our films…Read the article →
October 30, 2026 · 8 min readRosebud: Writing a Film About the Girl Mother Teresa Was Before the World Knew HerBefore Calcutta, Mother Teresa was Gonxhe, an Albanian girl in Skopje. Why I spent two years writing a film about her childhood,…Read the article →
October 23, 2026 · 6 min readGoing Home to Film April 2, 1991: How We Made Shqipe/Eagle in ShkodërOn April 2, 1991, four young men were killed in Shkodër. Twenty-one years later, we went home to film it, with our…Read the article →
October 16, 2026 · 6 min readMovies About the Rapture: Why We Made a Film Where Millions VanishFrom A Thief in the Night to Left Behind and The Leftovers, the films that imagined millions disappearing, and why Residuum leaves…Read the article →
October 9, 2026 · 10 min readHow to Make a Movie With No Budget: What Four Films Taught UsWhere we saved money, where we lost it, and what we would do again: the story of four independent films, from a…Read the article →
October 2, 2026 · 5 min readWe Grew Up in a Real DystopiaCurfews, food rations and one TV channel from six to ten at night. How growing up in communist Albania shaped Residuum and…Read the article →