I’d like to see a film explaining “pro-life”, while ignoring the sky-high maternal mortality rate in America (which could be eased by health care, if the right actually believed in protecting the unborn), the poisonous air causing 1,000,000 miscarriages a year, gun violence against children, and countless other hypocrisies that don’t give the far-wrong the “opportunities” that being anti-abortion provides.

Maybe a film to show how good lives could be if “pro-life” was real, and not just a power, control and money grab.

Thank you.

1.The cooperations that drive the Homeless Industrial complex. 2. How about the algorithms that are controlling rents, setting rents sky-high being employed landlords. 3 What about Libraries and librarians under attack by the ignorant misinformed folks, and the how and why of what actual organizations are driving this agenda to those very people.

I am an amateur film maker and I want to see a documentary about wealth inequality and how we got to this point. Specifically looking at the roaring 20’s, the tax rates then … the tax rates during the 30’s, 40’s, 50-70’s and then Reagan’s tax cuts and how wealth inequality has changed decade by decade… let’s also explore social security and Reagan’s “stealing” of it and making it a “general obligation “ of our government. Let’s look at the bush tax cuts on passive income and how that has transferred a massive amount of wealth into a tiny fraction of the population.. let’s suggest repealing a few of these tax cuts and attempt to save our democracy. I would love to see what happens if we tax earnings over a million with social security taxes. Instead of potentially cutting everyone’s SS payouts, let’s work to increase them !! Help create a better economy by increasing social security payouts and using a trickle up strategy. Let’s address all the dark money in politics by creating a “political tax” on all dark money contributions of say 30%.. and use that money to directly fund education… I have the bulk of the documentary script written. I need some council making it into a film . Please feel free to contact me!

The value of academic freedom to higher learning at both public and private colleges and universities and the unintended negative consequences of the latest version of Title IX. https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2024/04/16/the-baffling-bull-behind-title-ix/

The value of academic freedom to higher learning at both public and private colleges and universities and the unintended negative consequences of the latest version of Title IX. https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2024/04/16/the-baffling-bull-behind-title-ix/

The importance of academic freedom to higher learning at both private and public colleges and universities and the extent to which it is threatened by the latest version of Title IX: https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2024/04/16/the-baffling-bull-behind-title-ix/

Please expose how Wall Street wants energy consumption to continue to be monopolized by corporations which of course generates the trading of stocks, instead of each home/ranch/business generating what they need. Home ownership is so much more affordable in Holland and Germany where my relatives still reside due to their “Solar on Every Roof” projects where homeowners earn money sending their excess energy into THEIR grids.

Title: Unite and Fight, End the Divide and Conquer Strategy of the Corrupt Duopoly That Runs Our Country. We have an increase of conflict and rage, from anti immigrant hate to a pro tyranny fever that has blinded we the people. The parties that brought you high drug prices, tax breaks and subsidies for the rich don’t want you to examine their performance, they want you to believe the “other side” is more corrupt and immoral than their own brand of corruption to justify continuing to support the lesser of two evils. We need a documentary about how our country was taken away from we the people and how understanding that differences in people are not an existential threat. We need to learn techniques for playing nice with each other, how that is at the core of who we are. The Unite and Fight strategy will create a larger tribe, it will be essential in developing a strategy to really drain the swamp, to really make America great for all will scare the shit out of the ruling class and give the majority of Americans a constructive outlet to direct their frustration. I see an app coming out of Unite and Fight since everything seems to be based on apps these days (old guy commentary).

I believe income disparity is the biggest threat to our economy and society. Before Covid, wealth inequality had reached a level last seen in the 1890’s. And although being an existential threat, it is hardly ever addressed by politicians or media.

Develop a documentary on the emergence of a new social movement: The Survivors Movement. This movement is akin to two other great social movements from recent times, the Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Movement. The survivors of sexual abuse are creating, organizing, and leading this great social movement. Survivors are making history. We live in a historic, revolutionary time of monumental social change.


Survivors’ activism awakened public outrage. Their truth and passion change the language and culture; they continue to transform society in how we interact. Survivors stood up, spoke out, and now dominate the conversation about sexual abuse.


I note the powerful impact of previous documentaries, Deliver Us from Evil and The Keepers. Popular movies also inform through drama, such as Sleepers, Doubt, and Spotlight. It is a topic of public interest.


In the recent period, we can point to an expanding collection of 200 survivor organizations created in the previous 25 years. These allies and the thousands of social media entities coalesce into a Survivor Movement.


One parent of this new Movement is the Women’s Movement and its conscious raising groups of the 1960s and 1970s, which created rape crisis centers. These centers later coalesced into statewide coalitions against sexual abuse. This in turn has lead 35 states reforming or eliminating Statue of Limitation laws.


Survivor-led organizations formed, exemplified by these organizations: the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests formed in 1988, RAINN and Male Survivor began in the mid-1990s. The year 2000 saw the formation of Darkness to Light and GRACE. By 2018, many more organizations had formed: End Rape on Campus, 1in6, CHILDUSA, Into Account, Times Up, Protect Our Defenders, The Army of Survivors, MeToo Movement, Voices in Action, Together We Heal, Ending Clergy Abuse, Enough is Enough, PAVE, and dozens of other national organizations.


There has been a ‘sea-change’ everywhere in survivor advocacy. In addition to the dozens of national organizations, there are hundreds of regional coalitions and maybe thousands of local organizations.

The exposure of sexual predators is constant front-page news. Recent headlines point to horrifying abuse in all sectors of society: Bill Cosby, Dr. Larry Nassar, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, the Boy Scouts, the Catholic Church, politicians, the Baptist Churches, athletic teams, universities, and the home. The hidden crime of sexual abuse is now public, which fuels both awareness and outrage.


Survivor organizations and their allies continue to move toward greater cooperation and collaboration. The next step making a call for an assembly to announce the Survivors’ Movement for Respect and Dignity as a movement, just as the Women’s Movement did in Seneca Falls in 1848, and the Civil Rights Movement did in Washington, DC, in 1963.

This a historic moment.


This social movement is not going away—survivors are not going away. Document it.

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In 2010, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom changed the medallion system in San Francisco to monetize taxi permits, balance budget deficits and supposedly improve service. The Medallion Sales Program he brought forward – charging cab drivers $250,000 for the privilege of operating a taxi – clashed with the unregulated rise of Uber and Lyft, San Francisco-born companies embraced by City Hall and not subjected to paying into the system cab drivers had to. As a result, the Program failed trapping hundreds of medallion buyers with unpayable loans and holding the taxi industry hostage to this date.


Neither Newsom nor his successors ever addressed the taxi medallion crisis; taxi drivers have been left hanging out to dry for years.


The Medallion Sales Program is a human tragedy that can only be blamed on San Francisco. The decisions made leading up to it, the positions taken while it was being carried out, and the lack of action since it failed are nothing short of sleazy, immoral, unethical, careless and possibly illegal.


I’ve been a San Francisco cab driver for 35 years; I wrote a 30-minute narrative – storytelling – about this for a possible documentary film; I strongly believe this is a story that must be told.


I hope Brave New Films would consider my narrative as a basis for a documentary film.

We need to call attention to the fact that our public schools are not succeeding. We need high standards and well-paid teachers as well as enough tutoring to help the kids who are in need of it. We also need provisions for kids who have to get to school early or stay late because of working parents. There should be homework help and mental health support. We must build the workforce that we need and we are neglecting to do that and it is at the peril of our kids’ mental health as they spend too much time raising themselves when parents are spread to thin by work.

Hello, I retrieved from my files a “film treatment”, copyrighted in 2004 which was not acted upon because it was ahead of its time. In my ninth decade of life, I would like to have something done with it. It refers to a 20th century woman modeling herself on Anne Bonny and Mary Reade, fearless pirates in the Caribbean in the 18th century—transcending sex, power and motherhood roles in the process.

Continue to drive home the importance of gun safety and the gun violence epidemic that is unique to this country. My brother was kidnapped and murdered by a man that had just been released from a mental hospital, only to have easy access to a gun. This case went all the way to the Alabama State Supreme Court for immunity of state employees. Immunity of guilty staff of a state run mental institution. They admitted they were guilty, but it is ok, because they have immunity. This was the most trying and horrific time of my life, so I wrote a book about it. Immunity is a bad technical law that allows criminals to not be held accountable. Please consider this.

How about an expose’ on Private Equity firms and the damage they do as well as how they expand the wealth gap tremendously.

A film on POC activist Davis & his aproach to finding common ground with White Supremisists.

A film based on Robert Kagan’s new book, Rebellion.

Adult estrangement from parents – where adult children refuse contact with their parents, but also do not allow their children to have a relationship with the grandparents – and that research shows there is damage to the family and extended family.

A film about the important ways in which immigrants have, and continue to, contribute to America, and how much they are needed going forward 1) “Poisoning our Blood”? well, if our blood means great contributions to science, note that the “wretched refuse” immigrants of 1880-1924, so hated that our immigration laws were changed to keep people like them out (this year is the 100th anniversary of the Reed Johnson Law, which trapped millions in Europe in time for the Holocaust) I can share with you my research, which found that at least 50 Nobel laureates in science are the children and grandchildren of the 1880-1924 wretched refuse, so disparaged that our immigration laws were changed to keep people like them out of the country. 2) the Dreamers and other immigrants continue to build businesses, help with medical care, and the Comptroller of NYC has reported that in spite of all the news about the “burdens” of the new immigrants, they are in fact contributing to our economy and 3) we need more! from lowering the costs of food by their work, to alleviating the shortage of home care workers who value the elderly, to more workers contributing to Social Security…..I have so much more to say! We should be highlighting them and treating them as a gift!!

Why is there no research on the effects of EMF’s on micro-organisms i.e. in our soil and guts?

Are we killing life on earth and censuring any information about this potential huge threat?

a look at the attacks on public education

I wrote a science fiction story about climate change, called “Global Warning”