{"podcast":{"title":"Films Not Made","slug":"films-not-made-7685317","podcast_index_feed_id":7685317,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/76FtDTAe.rss","website_url":"https://filmsnotmade.com/","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/f81aa5c8-0f9e-404b-aedc-bd903d778fee/logos/6190ee73-c897-490e-ae5a-f51eae62a7a5.png","author":"Films Not Made","episode_count":10,"summary":"From analog rejection to digital resurrection. Films Not Made unearths both Hollywood and indie film projects too wild, weird, or ambitious to ever hit the big screen. Hosts Avi Zev Weider and Amy Hobby invite writers, directors, and producers to join them in ripping open old wounds by pulling out abandoned scripts, impossible casting lists, and brutal rejection letters. Honest conversations with creators and AI resurrections of the movies that got away.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/films-not-made-7685317"},"episode":{"title":"The Sisterhood: The Conspiracy Thriller That Was 15 Years Ahead of Hollywood","slug":"the-sisterhood-the-conspiracy-thriller-that-was-15-years-ahead-of-hollywood","published_at":"2026-04-14T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/films-not-made-7685317/the-sisterhood-the-conspiracy-thriller-that-was-15-years-ahead-of-hollywood","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/films-not-made-7685317","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/b47ef6606ba1777504fcae80c7e94daf0fbb43d2624b94aaa57e986c62122fcf/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI0OThhY2JjNi0yNWNkLTRmYjItYTQ1OC0wM2QwN2Q1NThhMGMiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmODFhYTVjOC0wZjllLTQwNGItYWVkYy1iZDkwM2Q3NzhmZWUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NjllNzc0NzViOTljZTdjMTUwMTU4ZjIiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNjlkYWIyYTY0M2IxZjEwYTVmMjM1N2Y4L2F2aS13ZWlkZXJzLXN0dWRpby1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTQtMTFfXzIyLTQ0LTIyLm1wMyJ9.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/b47ef6606ba1777504fcae80c7e94daf0fbb43d2624b94aaa57e986c62122fcf/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI0OThhY2JjNi0yNWNkLTRmYjItYTQ1OC0wM2QwN2Q1NThhMGMiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmODFhYTVjOC0wZjllLTQwNGItYWVkYy1iZDkwM2Q3NzhmZWUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NjllNzc0NzViOTljZTdjMTUwMTU4ZjIiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNjlkYWIyYTY0M2IxZjEwYTVmMjM1N2Y4L2F2aS13ZWlkZXJzLXN0dWRpby1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTQtMTFfXzIyLTQ0LTIyLm1wMyJ9.mp3","summary":"In 2007, producer Effie Brown and novelist Nichol Bradford put together a 40-page pitch deck for The Sisterhood — a global conspiracy thriller about a secret network of women of color who build an alternative system of wealth, protection, and care, and get targeted for it. The deck built an entire world around the project — a transmedia universe of community, content, and activism — before that phrase existed. Hollywood still said no. In this episode of Films Not Made, Effie Brown (producer of Dear White People and Real Women Have Curves , CEO of Gamechanger Films, Academy Board of Governors) and Nichol Bradford (author, technologist, Singularity University faculty, Executive in Residence for AI and the Future of Work at SHRM) join Amy and Avi to finally open the drawer on The Sisterhood — a project that hasn't been pitched in over a decade and somehow feels more urgent right now than ever. Effie's pitch: \" Bourne Ultimatum meets House of Cards — but with sisters.\" A vaccine that could collapse the global drug economy. A murder. A reckoning. And the question underneath all of it: who actually runs the world, and what happens when someone tries to build outside the system? We run the full project through our AI pipeline: pitch deck, casting board (Angela Bassett, Danielle Deadwyler, Regina King, Lashana Lynch, Mads Mikkelsen with a satellite phone in a museum), a full trailer — and a live pitch to our AI film executive, who has opinions. Effie's verdict on whether this could be made now: 1,000%. Guests: Effie Brown Gamechanger Films Nichol Bradford Films Not Made resurrects Hollywood's wildest unmade films. Subscribe: YouTube@filmsnotmade filmsnotmade.com Substack@filmsnotmade Letterboxd@filmsnotmade #EffieBrown #NicholBradford #AIFilmmaking #TheSisterhood #FilmsNotMade…","meta_description":"In 2007, producer Effie Brown and novelist Nichol Bradford put together a 40-page pitch deck for The Sisterhood — a global conspiracy thriller about a sec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4186,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/films-not-made-7685317/episodes/the-sisterhood-the-conspiracy-thriller-that-was-15-years-ahead-of-hollywood/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/films-not-made-7685317/the-sisterhood-the-conspiracy-thriller-that-was-15-years-ahead-of-hollywood.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}