From small beginnings to worldwide impact. 🤞🏽✨ Your starting point doesn’t define your finish line, your vision does. You just need vision, consistency, and the courage to keep going. #micheauxfilmfest #micheaux7 #m7 #oscarmicheaux #inspirational #growthmindset #filmmaking

💭 THINGS FILMMAKERS SAY "We’re almost ready." WHAT THEY ACTUALLY MEAN "We need another 3 hours." 🤣🤣🤣 Who can agree?

Award speeches remind us: it’s not about the trophy, it’s about the journey. Which speech lives in your head rent-free? 👇

Remember when Niecy Nash-Betts said, “I want to thank me, for doing the damn thing”? That wasn’t arrogance. That was liberation. ✨

No excuses, just submit the film. Feature Film Deadline 7/30

If you look at the areas of your life that are probably really stressful, more than likely they also lack no form of structure. The more structured you are as a creative, as a business, as a visionary, the better you will be. #micheauxmentality #micheauxfilmfest #oscarmicheaux

"There’s no safe job… you might as well do what you really want to do.” — Jim Carrey, 1995 with Barbara Walters This is the mindset creatives should carry: betting on themselves long before the budgets, press, or accolades ever show up.

12 days until the next deadline (July 30) #NoPressure ✨

Ballin’ on a budget 😎

Might submit a film just to prove my younger self right ✨😏

We’d be completely ‘gutted’ if you missed another deadline 😫 Upcoming Final Deadline for Feature Films — July 30 Climate Pitch Competition Deadline extended until August 1st

As entrepreneurs, we owe it to ourselves to understand the tools we’re adopting, question the systems behind them, and use innovation wisely to build our businesses. Yes, there are risks but the biggest risk is missing out on the future.

Jordan Peele said: “If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right.” Serious question for filmmakers and writers: What’s the scene you wrote that felt the MOST fun—like you were just playing on the page? #Micheaux #Micheaux7 #MicheauxFilmFest #M7 #ThingsToDoInLA

AI in film — Yay or Nay?

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t submit — Short Films Regular Dealine is tonight at 11:59pm https://t.co/Bng4FxbYxZ

I see what you did there 😏

🎇 Happy Indie-pendence Day filmmakers! Remember, there’s just 5 days left until the Regular Deadline for Short Film submissions. (July 9) #micheauxfilmfest #micheaux7 #m7 #oscarmicheaux #fourthofjuly #independeceday #indiependence #thingstodoinla #indiefilm #shortfilm

What’s up, fam! Pulling up tomorrow to speak at @essencefest ! Catch Noel at the Hollywood House Stage in the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center at 12 PM for “A.I. in Action: The Next Era of Jobs in Film.” Don’t miss the blessing 🙏🏾 see you in NOLA! #ESSENCEFest25

Being a creative means you’ll look at your old work and cringe but through humility and discomfort, you step out your comfort zone. It’s a necessary part of your journey. Without that awkward beginning there’s no evolution and definitely no success.

Early Bird Passes have been extended until August 1 by popular demand! Don’t let this be you fam 😆