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Consider this our podcast soft launch…

The entertainment industry is changing. The traditional studio system still has power, but more and more creators are realizing they don’t have to wait for permission to build.

They can develop their own projects. They can find their own collaborators. They can build their own audiences. They can create their own infrastructure.

In this conversation, we sit down with Fassa Sar, founder and CEO of Callo, a media development platform built to help creators and producers take projects from idea to market. Through Callo, Fassa is helping independent filmmakers, writers, producers, and storytellers access some of the tools that have traditionally only existed inside larger studio systems: development support, collaborators, project organization, financing pathways, and marketplace visibility.

What made this conversation exciting for us is that Callo and Coffeehouse Cinema are both responding to the same shift from different sides of the industry.

Callo is helping creators build like studios.

Coffeehouse Cinema is helping creators reach audiences in new ways.

And somewhere between those two ideas is a much bigger question: what happens when the next generation of filmmakers stops waiting for the old system to open the door and starts building new doors of their own?

We talked with Fassa about the future of independent filmmaking, why “if you build it, they will come” is not enough, what creators actually need to move their projects forward, and why audience, IP, and capital may be the three pieces that define the next era of entertainment.

If you don’t know Callo, now you know.