Films For Action: The Story So Far. Or, How We Plan to Help Catalyze a Global Paradigm Shift
Several years ago, like so many others, we got tired of the most influential news outlets failing to inform the public about so many critical issues. But rather than wait for these media conglomerates to reform, we decided: better to just become the media ourselves. We don't need to wait on anyone or any thing; each one of us can become a micro distribution network for the news that matters.
It took us a couple years to get to this point. In 2004 a group of friends and I watched a documentary called The Corporation, which quite frankly blew our minds. This was information we had never heard about from the media, from school, from our friends or families. It was information which felt lucid and profound, conveying a truth about how the world worked that unraveled many of the problems in our society and pointed to a deep-root strategy to solve them.
"This should be front page news!" We said to ourselves. "They should be teaching these fundamentals in school, broadcasting this information all over the news." But they weren't, and this made us question why.
The corporate media we learned, with its 24/7 coverage and its dizzying array of channels, reaching into the thousands on satellite TV, was not as diverse as it first appeared. The major news networks, publishing companies, movie studios and other entertainment properties were are all owned by just a handful of conglomerates.
