KHAKI PIXLEY - YOU’VE MADE IT! YOU HIT THE BIRTHDAY JACKPOT!
KHAKI IS SO MANY THINGS BUT ABOVE ALL, SHE’S THE BEST. She’s a co-worker and team-mate, producer, director, stylist, makeup artist, emotional anchor, slap-happy yes-ander, Michigander, queen, jester, captain & clown!
We’ve celebrated and navigated so many things together! Birthdays, premieres, milestones, actual births, trend-shifts, time-rifts, funerals, last-minute location changes, on-the-fly switch-ups, thousands of sessions, day-to-day whimsical chaos, cats, the best and worst of each other, powering-through and upwards-onwards from truly insane circumstances.
ALSO! WE BUILT A STUDIO TOGETHER! THANK YOU for being the person with which to build such a thing. I’m so grateful.
Our business partnership has taught me so much about how to communicate in a way to feel understood. It’s a such a valuable lesson I’ve taken from our business and thank you for the patience you’ve shown me along the journey.
There’s more to say, but until we’re in-person, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KHAKI! I LOVE YOU!!
ALLIE!!! WHAT A MILESTONE! WHAT A BENCHMARK! WHAT A POINT IN TIME, FROZEN BY THE IMPORTANCE OF BIRTH, DESTINED, FORETOLD, AND COALESCED INTO THE CHAMPION OF LIFE YOU ARE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND ENJOY THESE MANY MANY MANY GLIMPSES OF FRIENDSHIP!!!
Love you, Allie! You’re the tops in all categories: confidant, truth-teller, cheerleader, bridge-builder, director, friend, mother, producer, all of them! No one out-pizzas the Hut, and no one out Allie’s the YOU. Have the happiest of birthdays, and most joyous of celebrations!!!
ROSS COMPTON. SO MANY ROSS COMPTONS. ROSSES COMPTON. I’ve known a bunch of ‘em and I’ve loved them all. Our friendship has turned 21 this year; our friendship is now an adult. And in honor of this truth, I want to document what that looks like. Here is only a fraction of what I found in the archives.
Midnight pie + FRED IS DYING + Stuedelhaus + Bubble wrangler + Bark bark I’m a dog + When you fell out of a hammock for a solid minute + We made a movie you wrote + COUNTLESS EVERYTHINGS, TO 94 MORE YEARS!
Love you, Ross! Happy birthday to us all!
If you didn’t get a chance to see “I Agree With You” yet, well now is your chance! You can own it on Blu-ray. You’ll be able to see the movie AND it has a Q&A from our premiere as a bonus feature.
Link to purchase in the bio.
Day 3 - we’ll always have Paris ❤️
This day, we slept in, made use of the TOOTBUS (the name really sold it for us) hop on hop off tour, and waved to a few more sights we didn’t have time to explore. Tyler found a brewery while I shopped for skincare at Citypharma, and we visited the most exquisite museum- the Musée de l’Orangerie. I was so moved by the two rooms designed in partnership with Monet to display his water lilies. We put some Debussy in our ears and let ourselves be enveloped in all the beauty. It was transcendent. I wish I could live in there. Then we trotted along the Seine (which is flooded right now) over to the Eiffel Tower. We had a snack with some familiar characters, and later we met up with Lopa for dinner. Then back to the park under the tower to watch the light display. Paris, je t’aime!
Day 2 à Paris!
My eyes popped open at 3:30 in the morning… and once the sun was up, we took the Metro to Saint Sulpice to hear the organ, made a little offering, sat down to some bread and butter across the street, followed our feet to the Luxembourg gardens, made our way to the Musée d’Orsay, drank in the impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, met up with Tyler’s expat college friends, said hi to the Louvre, and made our way to Le Marais for some food and atmosphere. Our friends went home, and Tyler, Lopa, and I grabbed a tea (mine was an iced jasmine coconut latte- omg), and enjoyed some wine in a bookshop/wine bar that caught our eye. On the way out, our server caught me looking for chartreuse on the back bar, and when I asked about it he said they had their own homemade version! I couldn’t leave without tasting that so we sat at the bar and sipped on what tasted like a delightful cross of moonshine and sweet herbs reminiscent of the stuff the monks make. It made our eyes burn when we put the snifter to our faces but we all agreed that we liked it! Feeling warm, we caught our metros back to our hotels. Tomorrow is our final full day here… for now. I hope I get to return sooner than later. This city has swept me off my feet.
First day in Paris!
Landed at Charles de Gaulle, dropped off our bags, wandered around Montmartre, caffeinated, ate bread, met up with Lopa, had a bite on a patio in the Pigalle neighborhood, marched up to Sacre Coeur, and ended the evening several steps down from the church at a restaurant recommended by Rick Steves 🥖🥐🇫🇷
Happy ol Christmas from the Sprengers! 🎄
Had an amazing photoshoot with @tylercore . He really captured our natural essence for the holidays.
Now go enjoy some cookies and presents!
The “I Agree With You” Poster: Award Edition
2025 was the year that we took this film out and showed it to people. We kicked it off with the Professor O screening at the Music Box before heading to festivals in Michigan and Georgia, premiered in Chicago, and went back to Michigan (a few times) for more festivals, and finally Sheboygan.
Along the way, we picked up a few awards and also met some incredible filmmakers. There is an incredible amount of talent in the independent film world. As talented as they are, they are even better people.
As we close out this year and look ahead to 2026, we have more screenings either planned or in the process of planning them. Including a screening on 12/17/25 at The Davis (link in my bio)
2025 Tree Lighting, here we come 🎄 Join us in downtown Chicago on Friday, November 21st at 4PM as we celebrate the holiday season at the iconic Wrigley Building.
I’m excited to sing some new tunes and live my pop star dreams on Michigan Avenue to officially kickoff the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival once again. I’m so honored to be back for the 7th time 🥰 Thank you @bradleyborowiec !
#biginsheboygan #sheboyganfilmfestival #chicagofilm
“I Agree With You” was named “Best Feature Film” at the inaugural Sheboygan Film Festival this weekend. We are very grateful to the festival for this honor. It means a great deal in no small part because this was an INCREDIBLE film festival. Every minute of it felt like it was a festival put together by filmmakers for filmmakers. It was an absolute joy to spend a few days walking through that beautiful town with fellow filmmakers, seeing one another’s films, and just celebrating this craft that we all love so much.
Any filmmaker currently eyeing the festival circuit for their film should add the Sheboygan Film Festival to the top of their list.
Very Big in Sheboygan
