You Can’t Win the Culture War Without Making Movies -Michael and Thomas Pack
In the United States just four networks: Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, and HBOMax spend almost $75 billion every year on film, TV and streaming content. And most of this spending goes toward woke, progressive-themed entertainment.
The progressive Left has come to dominate our institutions and our culture and they’ve been remarkably successful in using the art of narrative storytelling to promote their agenda.
Conservatives complain that they are losing the culture wars And they are. But that won’t change until they actually begin producing cultural content that embodies their values and commit real money to the business of storytelling.
You can’t win unless you are in the Game.
Joining me in this episode to talk about how we can reclaim our culture through film is my friend Michael Pack, a documentary filmmaker and the former CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
I'm also joined by his son, Thomas Pack, who is heading up their exciting new adventure, Palladium Pictures, which aims to fight back in the culture war by producing feature length films, documentary shorts, and training a next generation of filmmakers through an incubator film training program.
Michael brings a powerful resume to this, having produced over 15 award winning documentaries for public television, most recently Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.
“You can't win a culture war when only one side is fighting,” says Michael. “Imagine if we had a real battle where one side had an army in the field and the other side just complained about what that army was doing, wrote articles and denounced it. Who would win the war? It's a no contest. We on the sort of conservative libertarian right side of the spectrum have to start producing culture. We can't blame the left for fighting for their ideas. We have to fight for our own.”
This episode is chock full of information about the business of film-making, storytelling, documentary funding, how film makers learn their craft - and lines of action about how to get in the Game. It’s a fun business.
Listen in on Spotify.