I’m a straight, white Christian male author/director in Los Angeles County. I simply disqualified myself for 97 % of the writing and directing jobs in Hollywood.
You’ll be able to name me cowardly for scripting this anonymously, and that’s truthful. I ought to stand by my phrases as a result of I’m an American who values his freedom of speech. Why disguise what so many courageous women and men have fought for?
Right here’s why…
- I’ve two screenplays in preproduction with two separate studios based mostly within the L.A. space. Contracts haven’t been signed but, so issues may disintegrate at any second. And contemplating the leisure trade is in flames proper now, I don’t need “this author’s MAGAin’ me really feel uncomfortable,” to be the rationale anybody pulls the plug on both venture.
- It’s easy: I. By no means. Wished. To. Be. Political. I simply wished to be a great storyteller. I need to inform tales of the working man, spectacle over boredom, preserving life over searching for dying, persistence over victimhood and comedies that roast everybody over comedies that mock Democrat-approved targets. That used to simply be “regular.” Now, it’s apparently far Proper.
Perhaps down the highway when I’ve cash and affect, I’ll be extra open about being a non-Left storyteller, but it surely helps nobody presently.
Just lately, Deadline introduced that Tyler Perry launched The Dream Collective for Aspiring Filmmakers. Let me provide the gist: producer and billionaire Tyler Perry simply introduced he’s going to provide 5 budding filmmakers $30,000 to make quick movies in Atlanta with Perry’s crew and sources.
EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Perry Studios is about to kick off the Dream Collective, a program designed to determine and domesticate the subsequent wave of filmmakers, notably with under-recognized and under-represented voices https://t.co/vSZv0GuwwO pic.twitter.com/mjRIXJjdjp
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) March 27, 2025
And that’s an amazing factor! Giving growing filmmakers a possibility to shoot their tales is a noble approach for Perry to share his wealth and experience. Right here’s the issue: the aspiring filmmakers that The Dream Collective need in query? “Underrecognized (sic) and underrepresented voices.”
Oh, the variety!
Right here’s what range truly seems like in a Hollywood or Sundance room: the feminine Democrat, the black Democrat, the Latinx Democrat and Hamas. If you happen to’re a multi-hyphenate Democrat, your probabilities of program entry go up.
And if (a BIG if) there’s a white man, he’s waving the flag on the Pleasure parade.
I’ll eat my phrases if The Dream Collective truly offers filmmakers a shot based mostly on their advantage and arduous work, however everyone knows precisely what they imply by “underrepresented voices.” I’ve been laughed out of each filmmaking fellowship, lab and alternative since 2015 as a result of I don’t come from an underrepresented demographic.
However okay, I’m deceptive you a bit.
You CAN completely get right into a Wokedance Lab or Kathleen Kennedy’s TV Writing Incubator when you’re a straight white man. However your STORY should be about “underrepresented voices.”
The Oscars has “inclusivity guidelines” to be able to qualify for Greatest Image 2024
Movies should make “underrepresented” teams 30% of the solid, the primary actors, or the plot of the whole storyline pic.twitter.com/00FtFeJ7fU
— Finish Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 18, 2023
After strenuously apologizing to your privilege within the utility, your story needs to be a few transgender unlawful immigrant who crosses the U.S. border to get an abortion whereas fleeing from white moms who need to burn porn in class libraries.
Additionally, throw in an Elon Musk or Ben Shapiro caricature someplace.
RELATED: FOUR TIMES CONSERVATIVE ART GOT UN-CANCELED
Conservatives are the champions of complaining about (il)liberal films, documentaries, tv, award exhibits and artwork. However are you aware what liberals try this we don’t?
FUND artwork.
They assist the subsequent technology of artists and storytellers. Who cares if the content material they/them make is rubbish? Liberals assist out different liberals.
Whilst you’re studying this, Netflix has already greenlit a live-action “Pokémon: Rings of Energy.” And are you aware who’s writing and directing it? The identical progressives who made the 2027 $250 million-budgeted “Soiled Harry” reboot flop (star Chloë Grace Moretz refused to carry a gun).
The place’s our Tyler Perry? The place’s our Dream Collective? The place’s our non-woke Sundance Lab?
Who does the Proper have? Mel Gibson? He’s only one man, and nobody ought to trouble him whereas he’s making “The Resurrection of the Christ.”
Zachary Levi? He’s a cool dude, and I need him to succeed, however he’s not a billionaire producer.
The Day by day Wire? They’re only one firm and most of their stuff is behind a paywall (facet observe: put your films up for lease on Amazon; folks pays to see “Run Cover Combat” and “Terror on the Prairie” if made obtainable to them).
The one factor that comes near a conservative cultivation program is the Palladium Footage Incubator, but it surely’s for brief documentaries, not narrative movie.
Additionally… have you ever even heard of this program earlier than I advised you? Has a single conservative influencer promoted it?
As a filmmaker who desires to inform conventional tales with heartland folks, I really feel s*** out of luck.
There are such a lot of gifted people who find themselves handed over as a result of we don’t need to inform cheesy and exhausting Lefty tales. We don’t need to make crap like “Velma” or “Snow Shite” or “Shout Your Abortion: Electrical Boogaloo.”
We need to entertain and enlighten.
However we’d like you conservative and reasonable higher-ups to assist the true underrepresented voices. We want non-diversity contingent fellowships, labs, movie festivals and alternatives for conventional storytellers.
Liberal billionaires really feel glad after they know they’ve made a distinction on the planet for his or her like-minded artists, I’ll guess you of us will, too.
Now when you’ll excuse me, I’m on my approach to get turned down to put in writing “The Screwtape Letters” adaptation for Peacock.
