{"id":2156556,"date":"2025-11-14T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2156556"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:56:16","slug":"inside-the-first-square-peg-social-a-quietly-radical-gathering-for-rising-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/inside-the-first-square-peg-social-a-quietly-radical-gathering-for-rising-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the First Square Peg Social: A Quietly Radical Gathering for Rising Filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">When filmmaker <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12054077\/\">Alex Bush<\/a> received their acceptance to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4170048\/\">Ari Aster<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1185381\/\">Lars Knudsen<\/a>\u2019s Square Peg Social (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0948245\/\">Sps<\/a>), something shifted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust being accepted felt like a huge weight of confidence,\u201d said Bush, whose short film \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35114524\/\">Thaw<\/a>\u201d premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. \u201cIt was really affirming to be spoken to by these people in this way of, \u2018Yeah, so you as someone who\u2019s going to be doing this and who\u2019s already doing this.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re already doing this is the shift from feeling adjacent to the industry to being recognized as part of it. That can make Sps sound like ruby slippers \u2014 You\u2019ve always had the power, my dear!<\/p>\n<p>To the naked eye, they did and do; the 35 selected Sps filmmakers are uncommonly accomplished. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8006238\/\">Eli Raskin<\/a> produced <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13677320\/\">Doechii<\/a>\u2019s Grammy-winning world tour. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13611239\/\">Haley Johnson<\/a> recently produced \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt37287335\/\">Obsession<\/a>,\u201d the horror pic that premiered at TIFF and was acquired by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0042399\/\">Focus Features<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When filmmaker Alex Bush received their acceptance to Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen\u2019s Square Peg Social (Sps), something shifted. \u201cJust being accepted felt like a huge weight of confidence,\u201d said Bush, whose short film \u201cThaw\u201d premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. \u201cIt was really affirming to be spoken to by these people in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2156557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2156556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Inside-the-First-Square-Peg-Social-A-Quietly-Radical-Gathering.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156558,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156556\/revisions\/2156558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}