At the end of my daughter’s school term, just before summer break, the teacher asked her and her class to write a letter to themselves as if they were writing to their younger selves on the first day of that past school year. The idea was to be able to give advice to themselves based on what they had learned that year. I love that idea, and I thought, as my first feature is set in a kind of near future, I would do the same to myself, only I will be sending my letter to the Will Bridges about to start out on production of his first feature, All Of You — two years ago.

Hey Will, it’s me here, you, from the future, I wanted to send you some advice as I’ve just been through what you’re about to go through, and I learned a few things that I think may help you.

At the end of my daughter’

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