Occupation: Filmmaker
The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or she has raised. The network….
A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously..
The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets ar….
In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's baseball. But there is ….
I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the li….
Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few..
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation..
The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack..
It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it..