CITIZEN KOCH, Koch Brothers Documentary with Filmmaker Carl Deal

BYOD: Bring Your Own Doc

Episode 163

Episode Synopsis

CITIZEN KOCH, the Koch Brothers documentary that exposed corruption at the highest levels, is shared with the trailer, footage from the film, and explanation courtesy of filmmaker Car Deal. How Fox News, the Tea Party, Citizens United and Hurricane Katrina inspired the movie are all shared in this uncensored interview for BYOD.

Guest Bio

Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, directors and producers, are Academy Award® nominated filmmakers who also produced and directed TROUBLE THE WATER, winner of the Gotham Independent Film Award, the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, and the Full Frame Documentary Festival Grand Jury Prize. Deal and Lessin were, respectively, archival and supervising producers of Michael Moore’s FAHRENHEIT 9/11, winner of the Palme d’Or, Academy Award®-winning BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and co-producers of his most recent film

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY. Tia and Carl were nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a Producers Guild Award for TROUBLE THE WATER.Carl has contributed to many other documentary films, and previously worked as an international news producer and a writer, reporting from natural disasters and conflict zones throughout the U.S., Latin America, and in Iraq. He and Tia are both Sundance Institute Fellows and lab advisors, Creative Capital artists, and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.