The 15 Year Project (2026)

The 15 Year Project is a feature-length documentary that follows a close group of friends across fifteen years, from adolescence through young adulthood. Filmmaker Will Hopson began recording the group when they were teenagers and continued filming until they reached their late twenties, creating an unusually long-form record of friendship and personal change.

The documentary has been described as a playful spiritual cousin to Richard Linklater's Boyhood, but its focus is entirely on a real friendship and the passage of time. The result is a personal time capsule that observes how relationships, ambitions, and identities develop as people move through school, college, and adulthood.

• Will Hopson directed, produced, and edited the film.
• Hopson filmed the project from ages 13 to 27.
• Jonathan Stritch and Sayed Gilani appear as themselves and are central members of the documented friend group.
• The film has a reported runtime of 82 minutes.
• Its listed production budget is approximately US$1, emphasizing the project's highly personal independent origins.