24 Days to New Year's

Your time is still running out. 24 days until New Year’s. That’s 576 hours.

Around 192 you’ll sleep through. The rest decides who you walk into next year

as. Filmmaker Maya Leon gave herself twenty-four days to turn an

idea into a finished short film. Day one: empty notebook. Then casting,

locations, long nights shooting, and editing until the timeline was full.

On day twenty-four the film was finished, uploaded, and strangers were

already reacting to a story that didn’t even exist a month ago.

Twenty-four days. From ‘ I should make something’ to ‘ it’s out and people can