All three of my films have aired on PBS. It’s where my first documentary La Americana found a national audience, and where both Not Going Quietly and Minted broadcast to over 97% of American households. It’s one of the few places where stories that matter still get shown to audiences that would otherwise never know about them.
Today, Congress voted to eliminate all federal funding for public media, including PBS and NPR. This isn’t about my films, or the super passionate friends I’ve worked with at PBS who believe in this mission. It’s about whether we want to live in a country that still supports the arts. Where storytellers have a platform to tell meaningful stories. That gives audiences something outside the profit-driven algorithm of the streamers.
We can still support public media, with our dollars – and votes.