Jason Charnick
@charnick.online
Director/Producer of Getting Over (SXSW 2018). Post Supervisor with the Happy Madison family. Next film is @absence.movie. @stowestorylabs // @sidewalkfilm.bsky.social 2024
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Jason Charnick
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The development of The Absence is Always Present continues unabated. My second feature film, focusing on themes of grief, loss, purpose and meaning is INEVITABLE.
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Today is World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness and supporting the individuals, families, and communities impacted by HIV.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Today is World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness and supporting the individuals, families, and communities impacted by HIV.
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Bilge Ebiri asks Jim Jarmusch a question we've always wondered about when it comes to indie filmmakers: “How do you pay the bills?”
September 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Bilge Ebiri asks Jim Jarmusch a question we've always wondered about when it comes to indie filmmakers: “How do you pay the bills?”
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Go see this film this coming weekend. These dramatic, intellectual films must be commercially successful, or else they will go the way of the unicorn.
Stand behind this amazing film and its stellar actors.
Stand behind this amazing film and its stellar actors.
One Battle After Another, a Thomas Pynchon adaptation that Paul Thomas Anderson has dreamed of making for decades, is his first real action movie, a raunchy, funny, pulse-pounding thriller w/ Leo DiCaprio as a burnout revolutionary in a fascist dystopia that's all too real.
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
The Movie of the Year Is Here
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie is a masterpiece years in the making that’s somehow arrived right on time.
slate.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Go see this film this coming weekend. These dramatic, intellectual films must be commercially successful, or else they will go the way of the unicorn.
Stand behind this amazing film and its stellar actors.
Stand behind this amazing film and its stellar actors.
mr. marbles in his mouth is a national treasure?
What can you even say?
September 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
mr. marbles in his mouth is a national treasure?
it’s been clear for a while that Christianity in America had been corrupted beyond repair, but the mass psychosis of the last week or so shows just how deep the rot goes.
September 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
it’s been clear for a while that Christianity in America had been corrupted beyond repair, but the mass psychosis of the last week or so shows just how deep the rot goes.
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This is my friend Devin’s film. I worked on it a little but you should see it to support her amazing story:
people.com/love-daniell...
people.com/love-daniell...
An Actress Learned She Had a BRCA Mutation. She Had a Double Mastectomy — Now She's Telling Her Story (Exclusive)
Devin Sidell wanted to make a movie about her experience having a preventative double mastectomy after her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and her sister with breast cancer. The film 'Love, D...
people.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This is my friend Devin’s film. I worked on it a little but you should see it to support her amazing story:
people.com/love-daniell...
people.com/love-daniell...
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To celebrate my old old movie coming out on Blu-Ray and streaming, I wrote this:
blynch.substack.com/p/big-helium...
blynch.substack.com/p/big-helium...
BIG HELIUM DOG Continues
Kinda sorta.
blynch.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
To celebrate my old old movie coming out on Blu-Ray and streaming, I wrote this:
blynch.substack.com/p/big-helium...
blynch.substack.com/p/big-helium...
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Donald Trump is the most corrupt person to ever be President of the United States.
September 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Donald Trump is the most corrupt person to ever be President of the United States.
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If you want the proof that Climate Activism is alive and kicking...
THIS IS NOT A DRILL is coming soon.
This inspiring doc - directed by Oren Jacoby produced by Betsy West - tells the stories of @justinjpearson.bsky.social and 2 other rock star activists.
PREMIERES AT TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL is coming soon.
This inspiring doc - directed by Oren Jacoby produced by Betsy West - tells the stories of @justinjpearson.bsky.social and 2 other rock star activists.
PREMIERES AT TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL.
August 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
If you want the proof that Climate Activism is alive and kicking...
THIS IS NOT A DRILL is coming soon.
This inspiring doc - directed by Oren Jacoby produced by Betsy West - tells the stories of @justinjpearson.bsky.social and 2 other rock star activists.
PREMIERES AT TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL is coming soon.
This inspiring doc - directed by Oren Jacoby produced by Betsy West - tells the stories of @justinjpearson.bsky.social and 2 other rock star activists.
PREMIERES AT TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL.
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Want to read my comics but don't know where to start? Check out free previews of ALL of my original series right here!
bindings.app/shelf/xreDIR9C
bindings.app/shelf/xreDIR9C
Rich's Comics
Read a short preview of all of my original series!
bindings.app
August 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Want to read my comics but don't know where to start? Check out free previews of ALL of my original series right here!
bindings.app/shelf/xreDIR9C
bindings.app/shelf/xreDIR9C
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The FULL SCHEDULE for the 27th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival presented by Regions Bank HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED! Get ready for over 250 films August 18 - 24, including our Opening Night Film: STOLEN KINGDOM.
27th Sidewalk Fest Announces Full Schedule, Including Opening Night Film "Stolen Kingdom" - Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema
The schedule for the 27th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival presented by Regions Bank (Aug. 18 – 24) has been announced, including the much-anticipated reveal of our Opening Night film, Stolen Kingdom, sp...
sidewalkfest.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The FULL SCHEDULE for the 27th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival presented by Regions Bank HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED! Get ready for over 250 films August 18 - 24, including our Opening Night Film: STOLEN KINGDOM.
Am I the only one who thought Martin Scorsese's acting in the Studio was awful? You can see him looking at the cards off camera almost the entire time. Really bottom of the list considering what he's done in the past.
July 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Am I the only one who thought Martin Scorsese's acting in the Studio was awful? You can see him looking at the cards off camera almost the entire time. Really bottom of the list considering what he's done in the past.
"i'm not yours to silence" is such a great line
🔥 Rosie O’Donnell, an American, responds to Trump threatening to revoke her citizenship — showing he is coming for anyone who opposes him eventually: “You are everything that is wrong with 🇺🇸… King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
July 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"i'm not yours to silence" is such a great line
who tf makes Royal Match/Royal Kingdom? i don’t know anyone who’s played them, let alone downloaded them, they look like total ass and yet somehow they get Fallon and LeBron to be in their commercials? this has to be a money laundering operation, right?
June 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
who tf makes Royal Match/Royal Kingdom? i don’t know anyone who’s played them, let alone downloaded them, they look like total ass and yet somehow they get Fallon and LeBron to be in their commercials? this has to be a money laundering operation, right?
if these people commit to their manifesto, it's an absolute insult and affront to every low budge/no budge filmmaker who's been toiling away for years that their budgets are 1.5 million dollars each.
30 years after Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg launched Dogme 95, a group of Danish filmmakers have unveiled Dogma 25.
Read the nine rules of their new filmmaking manifesto:
Read the nine rules of their new filmmaking manifesto:
Dogma 25 Movement Launches 30 Years After Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95
It's now been 30 years since Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg launched the Dogme 95 movement, featuring a set of stripped-down filmmaking rules to put power back in the hands of directors. While f...
thefilmstage.com
May 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
if these people commit to their manifesto, it's an absolute insult and affront to every low budge/no budge filmmaker who's been toiling away for years that their budgets are 1.5 million dollars each.
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Just completed member survey for the motion picture Academy, of which I'm a proud member. The final question: What are some things the Academy could do to enhance your experience as a member?
My answer: FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE AUTHORITARIAN REGIME TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY, THREATENING, ART, FREE
My answer: FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE AUTHORITARIAN REGIME TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY, THREATENING, ART, FREE
a woman holding an oscar statue with the words thank you behind her
ALT: a woman holding an oscar statue with the words thank you behind her
media.tenor.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just completed member survey for the motion picture Academy, of which I'm a proud member. The final question: What are some things the Academy could do to enhance your experience as a member?
My answer: FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE AUTHORITARIAN REGIME TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY, THREATENING, ART, FREE
My answer: FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE AUTHORITARIAN REGIME TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY, THREATENING, ART, FREE
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Thanks for this good list @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Thanks for this good list @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social
maybe with Coverfly shuttering, all these writers will realize the only path forward is to make the damn movies yourself.
May 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
maybe with Coverfly shuttering, all these writers will realize the only path forward is to make the damn movies yourself.
April 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
gimme The Studio, but make Matt Remick Ryan Coogler.
April 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
gimme The Studio, but make Matt Remick Ryan Coogler.
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📹 Thinking about applying to the Doc Producing Lab? #Ontheblog, last year’s #Fellows share the challenges and joys of documentary producing, and how the Lab has helped them on their journey: www.filmindependent.org/blog/truth-t...
✍️ Apply by May 5th to be a part of the 2025 cohort: bit.ly/DocLab25
✍️ Apply by May 5th to be a part of the 2025 cohort: bit.ly/DocLab25
Truth Tellers: Our Fellows Spill on Their Doc Producing Lab Journey - Film Independent
The role of a film producer involves a lot more than raising money and making calls and speadsheets, as ourDocumentary Producing Lab Fellows will tell
www.filmindependent.org
April 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
📹 Thinking about applying to the Doc Producing Lab? #Ontheblog, last year’s #Fellows share the challenges and joys of documentary producing, and how the Lab has helped them on their journey: www.filmindependent.org/blog/truth-t...
✍️ Apply by May 5th to be a part of the 2025 cohort: bit.ly/DocLab25
✍️ Apply by May 5th to be a part of the 2025 cohort: bit.ly/DocLab25
The development of The Absence is Always Present continues unabated. My second feature film, focusing on themes of grief, loss, purpose and meaning is INEVITABLE.
For more frequent and consistent updates, please join our free Patreon at www.patreon.com/charnick.
For more frequent and consistent updates, please join our free Patreon at www.patreon.com/charnick.
Get more from charnick on Patreon
Support independent film!
www.patreon.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The development of The Absence is Always Present continues unabated. My second feature film, focusing on themes of grief, loss, purpose and meaning is INEVITABLE.
For more frequent and consistent updates, please join our free Patreon at www.patreon.com/charnick.
For more frequent and consistent updates, please join our free Patreon at www.patreon.com/charnick.
i guess this answers the question once and for all for filmmakers who thought fundraising on the blockchain was a viable alternative
April 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
i guess this answers the question once and for all for filmmakers who thought fundraising on the blockchain was a viable alternative
catch this one if you can!
Last night, #FiMembers caught the ‘Secret Mall Apartment’ LA premiere with #FiPresents! 🎬🍿
Director Jeremy Workman shared with Film Independent’s Senior Programmer, Jenn Wilson how he convinced the artists to be in the documentary.
Director Jeremy Workman shared with Film Independent’s Senior Programmer, Jenn Wilson how he convinced the artists to be in the documentary.
April 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
catch this one if you can!