Congrats to my guy - #TheSmashingMachine writer & director Benny Safdie bowedtie! Benny’s singular & very unique vision as a filmmaker has become an invaluable artistic anchor ⚓️ for me. To rip the guts up and embrace self discovery through our art. Painful discoveries too. All of it. I’m grateful. The art will always reflect the artist and a Benny Safdie film, is a mirrored reflection of Benny himself — full of heart, radically empathetic, deeply soulful and beautifully flawed with humanity. In one word, Benny Safdie’s films have MANA. You can FEEL it. That’s who Benny is. Congrats on this award brother and hopefully a few more down the road 🥃 variety #TheSmashingMachine