There's been a second round of Heart Machine layoffs
Outlets are beginning to report on this, but there was a second round of layoffs yesterday which affected many of my peers from Heart Machine who were still working there when I was laid off two weeks ago.
Everyone who's been let go is fantastic and I'd be glad to work with them again in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I don't have a clean list to share of affected people, partially because we're also interested in helping out folks who were laid off in a previous layoff last year and are still job-searching or moving between freelance gigs. The best list I can offer of people affected is this older one from Possessors producer Myriame Lachapelle, which contains a lot of the people who were also affected yesterday... but there's others involved who are not in that list. I'll post a good one here when I have it.
The industry is extremely crazy right now, but absolutely no matter what happens, I'm confident that you will see cool stuff from ex-HM people someday. They're a fantastic bunch of artists, incredibly experienced and talented and resilient beyond the norm. There is absolutely nobody who can stop us from making art, no matter what the future looks like.