Inside the Untold Drama: Crafting a Trump vs. Anti-Trump RomCom with Erik Bork
Ashley
Your pitch to them is that you’ll show up. You’ll do a Q and a like, what is your pitch? Like what’s in it for them? Just an interesting topic.
Erik Bork
The pitch is just a film that would speak to their students or their mission. Some of these are like centers for the study of politics and democracy, things like that, where it’s like this topic is mission related to what they do in some way. And so some of them are like, yeah, we do film screenings. This looks like a good film. It’s pretty cheap to get basically a license to screen it. And they have to pay the lecture if they want me to come. They don’t always have me come. Sometimes I can show up virtually, sometimes in person. And so, I’m just offering it. And if it fits the kind of content they’re interested in, they think will be a benefit to their community or their students. Because also other non-campus organizations, like Braver Angels has all these chapters. And they are into the movie because it’s exactly what they’re all about. But they tend to not always have funding to do screenings, but we have had some. And we’ll probably have some more through their chapters too. So yeah, it’s hit miss. But the ones that like it like it, and usually colleges have funding for events like this. So, we’re able to figure out a deal.
