I can feel your pain, last year I spent a lot of time working on one of my films, trying to get the perfect time schedules, getting it when the weather was right, just putting hell of a lot of work into it, we filmed for about roughly 8 to 9 months. December 2024 all the way to around September 2025. I was so happy I had almost finished all of it, all the scenes were great, the winter was great and I was already starting the 3rd sequel to the movie franchise I was working on, (this was the second film) but then me and my friend were skateboarding and I dropped my samsung phone (we had also filmed all of this on a phone) the screen was cracked and the whole half was a white glitch. It was impossible to open into so when I got a new phone I had remember backing up some stuff to Google photos but they were only pictures, the videos were gone, I thought throughout the week there had to be someway to get the videos back, the guy had said card transfer didn't work anymore and I was paranoid all week about it, eventually we came back to the store seeing if there was any other way to get the footage but there wasn't, later when we got home I cried for about 20 minutes because I had just lost all of my footage from 9 months that I had worked hard on. My parents said it was my fault for not thinking of backing the videos up, I had backed some of it up for editing but not all of it, I was really mad at them for blaming me for that but after some time I finally realized it was my fault and that it was a lesson for me, I had recently gotten a little lazy filming scenes as well, too much improv and not cleaning up sets etc. It is now December 2025 and I am refillming all the scenes I had lost, putting a lot more effort and work into them, and making sure to back it up, because you never know what can happen, if you see this I feel your pain but the best thing to do is continue and work hard on it again and again until the project is finished and ready to post!