All Hope is (yeah, it really almost was) Lost

Alden Olmsted
4 min readMar 23, 2024

Chapter Nine of my Indie-Film Journal A Virus Ate My Movie!

“Hey, uh Alden, we need to talk.”

As I write this now, I can look back and see the answer so clearly. At the time, however, it wasn’t looking good. My job was gone. We were out of leads. And I would have to move.

And the brothers and I had to have another “talk.”

I had found myself squarely in my ‘All is Lost’ moment.

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Alden Olmsted

I was born in a small town in Northern California just another latch-key kid obsessed with BMX and Tom Petty. Now I make films and travel and write when I can.