UnRepresented, an award-winning documentary that reveals the mechanics that drive the cycle of corruption in Congress and the growing movement to unrig the US political process, will soon reach millions of viewers when it airs on local PBS stations across the country.
The widespread release of the film comes at a critical time in the United States as voters are becoming much more aware of how the current political system was not designed with their best interests in mind, but rather private gain-seeking interests of the major parties, their allies, and a special interest and lobbying class that spends billions to influence how public officials legislate.
Jonathan Bydlak, R Street Institute
UnRepresented is an award-winning documentary that explores the mechanisms that drive corruption in the political system, and in particular, Congress. The film explores how special interests bankroll political campaigns and lobby to structure the system in their favor, all while following the letter of the law.
The film was an official selection at the Rome Film Festival, the Alexandria International Film Festival, the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival and the Anthem Film Festival, and was named best documentary at the Real to Reel Film Festival. It will air nationally on PBS stations in 2021, and we’re fortunate to have filmmaker Andrew Rodney join us for a discussion of the documentary and to share his perspective on recent political events.
going to improve the life of the poor by building housing projects. this was another one of their grand schemes. ones like the brewster douglas housing project. what happened? exactly what happens when federal officials try and plan housing projects. it falls to pieces. in no time at all. thank you, andrew and charlie. next, detroit s mayor, he took 50 trips, went to nightclubs, taxpayers paid for it. what s up for detroit? it s unethical, illegal, lynch mob mentality has to stop!
0 would use imminent domain to kick people out of their homes and make it worse. yes. that happened many times. it happened with the building of i-75, it happened with the pole town plant. there was a neighborhood called pole town where lots of people lived. politicians said we ll put an auto plant in there. uh-huh. and they kicked out thousands of people to make space for that plant. the politician s visual. what makes detroit worse than other cities? detroit is just the first. it s the first city to experience a lot of the planning that went into a lot of cities. the federal home loan bank board was a national program, but it was first in detroit where they started to build up neighborhoods around these federal subsidies, which sprawled them out and racially segregated them. detroit has the third highest income tax of any major city. and yet there s no money. how can that be? where does it go? i would love to know where the money went, but better, where did the people g
of firebomb. a lot of the antisocial behavior and violence is because communities a broken down three people on interactive one another. in many cases they don t see themselves as a community even though they live next door to one another. is bad for other people. tess is just regular. it ain t nothing else. john: the documentary was made by andrew rodney who grew up in a suburb of detroit. you titled the film deforest. why? it means to take property from its rightful owner by force. we title did that because i cannot think of a more accurate word to describe what is at the bill last 50 years in detroit. john: the politicians would say today, we have a plan. we can build these clean new buildings with our friends here and use eminent domain to kick people out of their homes.