The Hunger Games (in real life)

My experiences of being insulted, then practically forced to make a movie, have taught me that most people in power don't really care about the issues of minority groups, but want to be seen to care. They don't want a gritty, real piece where a trans character faces the fairly mild discrimination that I've faced: they want an idealised, perfect trans person that doesn't make them complicit in the murkier waters of violence, assault, sex work, drug use and drug abuse. Another one of those bullshit feel-good NZ movies that RNZ gives a good review to, and then there's three weeks of 'feel-good drama breaks $1 million at box office' when the reason it did well at the box office was a marketing coup that played on sympathies for topical issues rather than because people thought the movie itself was anything other than a pleasant, innocuous romcom. Ironically, the opera tackles several of those themes, and nobody from the left has told me that I shouldn't produce it. They prefer it when it's dressed up in exotic clothes rather than acknowledging what's really happening next door or down the street. - According to the straights and the assimilationist queers, those things aren't happening. Plus they only want one trans person. I realise that people are weighing up whether they'll talk about their story in an interview, but at least the documentary will likely have a dozen or so subjects, archival footage of dead icons, some footage of people going about their day-to-day, and unlock a few paying jobs if the pitch is successful. AI is going to be part of the pitch, so that'll probably prick up some ears. - Yes, when I made it clear that Weeded Out was my script and that copyright is inherent, the suits changed their tune slightly and pretended like they'd let me make whatever, but that's only because Tory and her cadre of producers failed to secure the contract. Even in NZ, the same rules apply: don't trust what an executive says unless it's in writing. SPADA were pretty fucking annoying during this process, literally taking to DeviantArt to tell me to make that film. My brother thinks they're a bunch of tossers. It felt like a conspiracy, and that's why I'm calling it out.