Young People Say No to Big Media in New Film
When Sami Kubo, an 18-year-old filmmaker in Seattle, testified at the FCC hearing on media ownership last November, she wanted to tell the commissioners “something that only a young person could tell them.” Kubo told the panel that the FCC cannot further consolidate media ownership, and that young people in particular are being hurt by Big Media.
But young people don’t want others speaking for them, so I won’t do that here. Instead, watch the great new documentary produced by teen filmmakers Sami Muilenburg and Brooke Noel, which features Kubo’s testimony. The short film, “A Generation of Consolidation” explores the impact that media consolidation has on youth as both media consumers and media makers.
Kudos to Reel Grrls, a Seattle-based non-profit media literacy and filmmaking program for teenage girls, which produced the film. Not only does the documentary speak to our disastrous U.S. media system, it highlights youth to tell the story.
Watch the video:
