Paul Gandersman
@paulgandersman.bsky.social
Co-Writer/Co-Director of MAN FINDS TAPE (out now on VOD!), Co-Author of THE DEAD FRIENDS SOCIETY (Shirley Jackson Award Nominated).
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Honored to be among these great films!
Our Favorites of 2025 continues with a look at @sdrebit.bsky.social’s favorite movies from this past year, including HEART EYES, MAN FINDS TAPE, and THE TOXIC AVENGER!
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Scott Drebit's Favorites of 2025 - Daily Dead
Hello, fellow horror lovers. Another year behind us and are you any wiser? Me neither. That’s okay; I think "survival" is a noble trait and we’re still here. So is horror. It’s as big as ever, and th...
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January 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Honored to be among these great films!
Happy New Year
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
January 1, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Happy New Year
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📼 NEW EPISODE! 📼
From writer/directors @peterhallhuman.bsky.social and @paulgandersman.bsky.social, our review of the latest Rustic Films release MAN FINDS TAPE (2025) is now available. The movie is available on all major vod platforms, and our new episode is out wherever you get your pods!
From writer/directors @peterhallhuman.bsky.social and @paulgandersman.bsky.social, our review of the latest Rustic Films release MAN FINDS TAPE (2025) is now available. The movie is available on all major vod platforms, and our new episode is out wherever you get your pods!
December 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
📼 NEW EPISODE! 📼
From writer/directors @peterhallhuman.bsky.social and @paulgandersman.bsky.social, our review of the latest Rustic Films release MAN FINDS TAPE (2025) is now available. The movie is available on all major vod platforms, and our new episode is out wherever you get your pods!
From writer/directors @peterhallhuman.bsky.social and @paulgandersman.bsky.social, our review of the latest Rustic Films release MAN FINDS TAPE (2025) is now available. The movie is available on all major vod platforms, and our new episode is out wherever you get your pods!
Phenomenal year. Lifelong dream came true. Eternally thankful to all involved that brought it to life. And now on to 2026 where we will start up on the next film (and many more things).
January 1, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Phenomenal year. Lifelong dream came true. Eternally thankful to all involved that brought it to life. And now on to 2026 where we will start up on the next film (and many more things).
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Man Finds Tape is a fun, inventive exercise in low budget first person POV/faux documentary narrative. It demonstrates the filmmakers have a strong grasp on using our current media environment to craft a story, as well as how to use genre to create surprises. Free.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Man Finds Tape is a fun, inventive exercise in low budget first person POV/faux documentary narrative. It demonstrates the filmmakers have a strong grasp on using our current media environment to craft a story, as well as how to use genre to create surprises. Free.
www.patreon.com/posts/man-fi...
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Loved this chat with Michelle!
I love indie horror and discovering new filmmakers is always exciting. I really love MAN FINDS TAPE and truly enjoyed my conversation with writers/directors Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman.
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‘Man Finds Tape’ Filmmakers Embraced Practical Effects For Occult Found Footage Feature Debut [Interview]
Found footage horror film Man Finds Tape weaves together paranormal and occult themes with a small-town setting and the fractured bond between a brother and sister to tell an unsettling story that goe...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Loved this chat with Michelle!
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Been too under the weather these last few days to catch Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, It Was No Accident, or No Other Choice. But out of 83 US releases seen in 2025 these are my top 30 favorite films. #Best2025movies #BestFilmsOf2025 #BestMoviesOf2025 #Best2025films #FilmSky #moviesky #horrorsky
December 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Been too under the weather these last few days to catch Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, It Was No Accident, or No Other Choice. But out of 83 US releases seen in 2025 these are my top 30 favorite films. #Best2025movies #BestFilmsOf2025 #BestMoviesOf2025 #Best2025films #FilmSky #moviesky #horrorsky
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If you’re interested here’s my top ten horror films for 2025. Still far too many ‘grief is the monster’ movies but they seem to be thankfully declining. Happy New Year.
December 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If you’re interested here’s my top ten horror films for 2025. Still far too many ‘grief is the monster’ movies but they seem to be thankfully declining. Happy New Year.
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2025 was a wild one career wise. I put out 3 films (THE GORGE, BLACK PHONE 2, MAN FINDS TAPE), a novella (ALL THE ASH WE LEAVE BEHIND), appeared in 2 anthologies (HAUNTED REELS 2, THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT), appeared on THE LAST DRIVE-IN, in X-MEN #17, and joined the Masters of Horror.
December 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
2025 was a wild one career wise. I put out 3 films (THE GORGE, BLACK PHONE 2, MAN FINDS TAPE), a novella (ALL THE ASH WE LEAVE BEHIND), appeared in 2 anthologies (HAUNTED REELS 2, THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT), appeared on THE LAST DRIVE-IN, in X-MEN #17, and joined the Masters of Horror.
This really cool film project is *SO CLOSE* to their goal, please do what you can to help support (I just did). @terms-n-cons.bsky.social @gholson.bsky.social
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Terms & Conditions - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark
A douchey techbro gets more than he bargained for when he uses AI to summon a demon to fix all his problems.
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December 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This really cool film project is *SO CLOSE* to their goal, please do what you can to help support (I just did). @terms-n-cons.bsky.social @gholson.bsky.social
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Man, this was a really cool one to listen to. We made this movie for weirdos like us, so seeing it connect with other weirdos (complimentary) is exciting.
📼 NEW EPISODE! 📼
From writer/directors @peterhallhuman.bsky.social and @paulgandersman.bsky.social, our review of the latest Rustic Films release MAN FINDS TAPE (2025) is now available. The movie is available on all major vod platforms, and our new episode is out wherever you get your pods!
From writer/directors @peterhallhuman.bsky.social and @paulgandersman.bsky.social, our review of the latest Rustic Films release MAN FINDS TAPE (2025) is now available. The movie is available on all major vod platforms, and our new episode is out wherever you get your pods!
December 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Man, this was a really cool one to listen to. We made this movie for weirdos like us, so seeing it connect with other weirdos (complimentary) is exciting.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Y'all already met Gholson a couple weeks ago, but he's back with an incredibly important public service announcement!
Want to become a patron of the arts? Support our film campaign at terms andcons.com
#Filmsky #Scriptsky #IndieFilm #Horror #Campy #QueerFilm
Want to become a patron of the arts? Support our film campaign at terms andcons.com
#Filmsky #Scriptsky #IndieFilm #Horror #Campy #QueerFilm
December 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Y'all already met Gholson a couple weeks ago, but he's back with an incredibly important public service announcement!
Want to become a patron of the arts? Support our film campaign at terms andcons.com
#Filmsky #Scriptsky #IndieFilm #Horror #Campy #QueerFilm
Want to become a patron of the arts? Support our film campaign at terms andcons.com
#Filmsky #Scriptsky #IndieFilm #Horror #Campy #QueerFilm
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Watched Man Finds Tape last night - excellent new found footage horror movie. You could use it as the basis for a Delta Green campaign. Have your players watch it and then say "this movie was handed to your agents. You need to find out what's really going on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN9g...
Man Finds Tape - Official Trailer | Available Everywhere December 5
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December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Watched Man Finds Tape last night - excellent new found footage horror movie. You could use it as the basis for a Delta Green campaign. Have your players watch it and then say "this movie was handed to your agents. You need to find out what's really going on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN9g...
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Yup. Seems like a glaring indictment of investment capitalism that by design it does not allow anything to be perfected. Things can be good enough!
Love how our tools are never allowed to be good enough the way they are. We still use hammers that haven’t changed in 200 years bc they already work, but if they were proprietary tech of HammerSoft they’d work like shit bc investors demanded growth so now HamR v200 uses AI to guess which nail to hit
I don't want new shit. I want Windows to announce they're rolling back like the last five years of crap and also I get to throw tomatoes at their executives.
December 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Yup. Seems like a glaring indictment of investment capitalism that by design it does not allow anything to be perfected. Things can be good enough!
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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
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December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
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I would very much like to see Benoit Blanc's episode of The View
December 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I would very much like to see Benoit Blanc's episode of The View
Cast. John. Gholson. In. Everything.
I needed to let this long-time passion (acting) turn from just a hobby or a dream into something that defines me. I think I did that.
December 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Cast. John. Gholson. In. Everything.
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I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT.
This is the winteriest one I could think of, some bookplate art for SHIVER that I drew in 2014.
This is the winteriest one I could think of, some bookplate art for SHIVER that I drew in 2014.
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT.
This is the winteriest one I could think of, some bookplate art for SHIVER that I drew in 2014.
This is the winteriest one I could think of, some bookplate art for SHIVER that I drew in 2014.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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MAN FINDS TAPE is a Christmas movie (if you watch it on Christmas) ((now available for rent/purchase on VOD platforms)) (((fun for the whole family!!!)))
December 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
MAN FINDS TAPE is a Christmas movie (if you watch it on Christmas) ((now available for rent/purchase on VOD platforms)) (((fun for the whole family!!!)))
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Merry Christmas Eve! Here is a thread of all the Christmas shorts @beckysayers.bsky.social and I have made over the years.
First up: "Up On The Rooftop"
A father is visited by Santa Claus on Christmas morning, but Santa is having trouble getting down the chimney...
First up: "Up On The Rooftop"
A father is visited by Santa Claus on Christmas morning, but Santa is having trouble getting down the chimney...
Up on the Rooftop | A Holiday Horror Short
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December 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Merry Christmas Eve! Here is a thread of all the Christmas shorts @beckysayers.bsky.social and I have made over the years.
First up: "Up On The Rooftop"
A father is visited by Santa Claus on Christmas morning, but Santa is having trouble getting down the chimney...
First up: "Up On The Rooftop"
A father is visited by Santa Claus on Christmas morning, but Santa is having trouble getting down the chimney...
Saw Avatar Fire and Ash at an AMC Dolby theater last night. It was not advertised as HFR in any way, but it was. Surprisingly, while distracting at first, I kinda dug the 48fps in that world. The real problem to me was constantly jumping back to 24fps.
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Saw Avatar Fire and Ash at an AMC Dolby theater last night. It was not advertised as HFR in any way, but it was. Surprisingly, while distracting at first, I kinda dug the 48fps in that world. The real problem to me was constantly jumping back to 24fps.
It’s incredibly exciting when the weird shit we were trying to do resonates with people.
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If You're A Millennial, This New Indie Horror Movie Will Make You Nostalgic
Man Finds Tape will make millennials nostalgic.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It’s incredibly exciting when the weird shit we were trying to do resonates with people.
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